The Zombie Apocalypse is a Family Affair in Santa Clarita Diet
Oh, Netflix, how you love to create short seasons of incredible shows that must be binge watched and reviewed. Season 3 of Santa Clarita Diet is available to stream on Netflix now and it's everything we've been waiting for since the season 2 finale last year. Sheila (Drew Barrymore) and Joel (Timothy Olyphant) continue to get themselves in way over their heads in a series of murders, lies, and deceptive schemes that continue to spiral wildly out of control. Add to this the w
The Living Dead Return to Music City with the Nashville Zombie Walk
October 12, 2018 Nashville, TN - The Nashville Zombie Walk is returning to downtown Nashville on Sunday, October 21st at 3 P.M. (Central). The annual zombie themed parade is returning with its ongoing mission to support the Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee through the use of the zombie as a metaphor for battling hunger in our community. Volunteers will be collecting non-perishable food item donations from participants for the Second Harvest. Participants will gath
Southern Discomfort - The South Rises to this Horror Challenge
The regional block of films at Women in Horror Film Festival was titled “Southern Discomfort” and it was so aptly named that it's scary. A series of shorts from the Southeastern U.S. this grouping was expertly curated and delivered. Grueling, dark, and horrific with a touch of twisted humor, it was easy to see why these films were selected. Teaser This short was visually stunning and told a twisted tale with almost no dialogue at all. In a strange speakeasy a burlesque dancer
Zombie Comics (That Aren't The Walking Dead)
Graphic novels and comic books have some of the best artists and writers in the field creating beautiful, intricate worlds for readers to immerse themselves in. Telling a visually stunning story with intense dramatic and cultural value, comic artists and authors are some of the most underrated and overlooked creators in the genre. There have been some phenomenal adaptations of horror comics into film and television shows in the last fifteen years and The Walking Dead has rule
Start October with These 13 Zombie Classics
The first week of October this year is majorly significant. For me, it marks the official announcement of the return of the Nashville Zombie Walk (more about that later). But, in a much broader sense is marks the 50th anniversary of George A. Romero and John Russo’s Night of the Living Dead. This low budget independent film became the gold standard of grueling gore and terror in the late 60’s-early 70’s and created and entire movement within horror and pop culture that refuse
Board to Death- The (Almost) Occult Power of the Zombie Tarot
Card games date back into the 9th century in the Middle East, and Europe. When anything survives millennia, crosses continents, cultures, and socio-economic boundaries while growing and changing to meet the times, it’s bound to pick up a reputation, right? The Tarot is predated by several other decks and styles of cards, including the commonly used suited decks you’ll find literally everywhere. While the name and timelessly mystifying designs of a Tarot deck have a distinctly
Z For Zombie : An Exclusive Interview With Andreas Rønning
Christmas is still quite a ways away and, for most of us, the last thing we’re thinking of is powdery snow, warm coco, and a jolly fat man squeezing himself down the chimney to deliver cheer. For the Andreas Rønning and the creative team of Z for Zombie, though, it’s always Christmas. I first came across an ad for the ambitious graphic novel a few days before New Year’s Eve and, while the title itself didn’t immediately grab my attention, the artwork slapped me across the fac
Bring Out Your Dead: Resurrecting the Nashville Zombie Walk. Part Two: Insuring the Dead
Dawn of the Dead is one of my favorite zombie movies. The original, not the 2004 remake with Ving Rhames. I love the cheesy, campy, blue painted zombies, the phenomenal quotables that lend some insight into the chaos of the apocalypse, and that late 70’s charm as survivors make a new life for themselves in the heart of a shopping mall. Romero’s zombies became the perfect analogy for the overbearing consumerism and materialism swallowing an entire nation. If you haven’t watche
Bring Out Your Dead: Resurrecting the Nashville Zombie Walk. Part One: Digging Up the Bones
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. I never really understood that until I took over the Nashville Zombie Walk. See, back in 2007 I took my family to our first zombie walk downtown along Riverfront Park and it was one of the best outings we’ve ever had. Dressed up like monsters we ran around Music Row freaking out tourists in cowboy hats to a sound track provided by the various street performers lining Broadway. It became an annual tradition for us as important as
Santa Clarita Diet : Review *Spoilers*
Sheila Hammond isn’t the sort of woman who has an adventure. With her button down, nine to five life as a realtor in a cookie cutter home in the unremarkable suburbs of Santa Clarita, she’s about as far away from excitement as anyone could possibly be. But that milquetoast life comes to an end one afternoon while showing a home to potential buyers alongside her equally banal husband Joel. As a torrent of projectile vomit -including an unfamiliar red organ- splatters across th
