Zombie Command

The guys the stage How To Survive A Zombie Apocalypse which we reviewed last year at the Edinburgh Fringe is on tour in 2010 around the UK.

The guys will be stopping off at Leicester, Bedworth, Pendle, Bath, Oxford, Brighton, Liverpool and Chorley in the first half of the year – check the site for more info on the dates.

We gave it 4 zombies out of 5 and recommend you go see it (multiple times to get the full experience/teachings) if you get the chance.

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Finally, a course that’s actually worth studying! The University of California’s Berkeley have a zombie class beginning on the 27th of this month for students to enrol in. Competition is fierce with over 100 applicants to fill just 25 spaces.

The program is run by DeCal –

a student-run democratic education program at the UC Berkeley – here, students create and facilitate their own classes on a variety of (often unorthodox) subjects.

Required reading for the course is The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks (of course) and they’ll be watching numerous zombie films throughout the course before discussing the themes such as ‘class warfare’ in Land of the Dead, ‘media’ in Diary of the Dead and more important topics like ‘zombie or not zombie’ in 28 Days Later.

The most interesting part though is the practical

Final Examination – You will be responsible for a practical final exam on the last day of instruction, the format of which will be determined by the facilitators. It will draw on your cumulative knowledge of the materials covered over the course of the semester.

Does this mean that UC Berkeley will be letting zombies loose on campus for the students to deal with? If so, I hope they’ve studied!

Full details and syllabus can be downloaded from the site and if you fancy enrolling you better be the biggest zombie enthusiast on the planet to still stand a chance of getting in.

Now… where’s our application form.

With the stated aim of ‘Zombiefying [sic] your childhood’ Undead Cosplay dressed up several people as Disney Zombies at the London Collectormania after a successful outing at the MCM Expo.

Click the source link to check out lots more pics.

Hollywood Inc & Savage Cycles are heading up the official Resident Evil Chopper project for Capcom Entertainment. The Resident Evil chopper is being built by Savage Cycles in Frostburg, MD and is set to commemorate the highly successful Resident Evil franchise which has spawned over 7 game titles and 4 feature films.

The Resident Evil Chopper will be featured in the Hollywood Inc production “Hollywood Choppers” and will be unveiled to the public at the Capcom’s CES event at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas NV on Jan 8th. The chopper will then embark on a spring 2010 nationwide tour of various events & appearances.

Now, while the bike will undoubtedly be a pretty cool ride, calling it a ‘Resident Evil’ bike is a bit of a stretch.

Sure, having health spray affixed to the side of the bike is what would probably happen in Resident Evil, but unless you’re going to give me a spray that works, it’s basically a cup holder.

At least this bike was used in the movies…

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This years awesome zombie marathon, gives you a 12 hour festival of brain eating treats featuring classics, foreign and a World First: A Preview screening of British Feature Film, Zombie Undead, which is being premiered in February of 2010, to quote George A. Romero, “Can’t wait for Zombie Undead.” The other features include Dawn of the Dead (Original) in Hi-Def, Pontypool, Dead Snow, La Horde and Zombieland…

Tickets for 12 hours (6 features) of Gore and More: Only £20

No Brainer Individual Tickets: £5.80 or £4.80 (conc)

Attempt to Kill the Most Zombies and Win a Nintendo Wii: FREE

1) Reserve your tickets NOW!!!

***Phone the Phoenix Square Box Office on 0116 242 2800 Monday to Friday from 10am to 4pm to reserve your tickets. (Tickets cannot be booked online yet). You will be able to book over the phone from 10am to 9pm from November 16th.

2) The Films of Day of the Undead…

Dawn of the Dead (Original) in Hi-Def, Pontypool, Dead Snow, La Horde and Zombieland. There are also two awesome zombie shorts: It Came From The West (Tor Fruergaard, Denmark, 2007, 17mins) and Le Quellone (Canada, 2008, 12mins). Plus a sneak preview of Zombie Undead!

Terror4fun is the UKs largest zombie organisation. Zombie Ed and the other members have been organising zombie events for over 5 years, and they have featured in a Channel 4 Documentary and BBC Documentary, articles in many genre magazines, SFX & Bizarre Magazine. Terror4fun also publishes ‘The Zombie Times’ Ezine which goes out regularly to over 8,000 UK zombie fans. The Terror4fun website (www.terror4fun.com) regularly gets over 30,000 unique visitors a month hunting down zombie film reviews, make up advice or details of worldwide zombie events. This year Terror4fun is holding it’s third zombie festival, The Day of the Undead, at the Phoenix Square, hoping for another record breaking event.

Confirmed Guest Stars:

Jasper Bark, author of the amazing ‘Way of the Barefoot Zombie’ from Abaddon Books, will be signing copies of his novel, chatting and should, if they are not biting too much, be bringing along his Zom-bunny birls…

Nick S. Thomas and Michael G. Thomas, authors of the indispensable ‘ZOMPOC – How to survive the Zombie Apocalypse’ released on October 31st, 2009, they will be signing, chatting, drinking and mingling, so have your zombie survival questions to hand…

FEATURES of The Day of the Undead 2009:

• BEST DRESSED ZOMBIE COMPETITION: Dress as a zombie and win one of a whole pile of prizes…
• MAKE UP ARTISTS: Come along, make a small donation to charity and be made up by one of our make up artists as a bloody horrific zombie…
• ZOMBIE-CADE: Slay the most digital undead and win a massive prize… All this on a cinema screen…
• ALL DAY BAR: Need I say more. Booze and food and gore all under the one roof… Sweet…
• CARICATURIST: A professional caricaturist and self confessed zombie-phile will be on hand to immortalise you for all eternity in the medium of zombie art…
• FAB PRESS Trade Stall: Once again there will be FAB Press, so come on down to get your bloody hands on rare films, books and T-shirts…
• LUCKY BAGS: First 250 people through the door will get a lucky bag with lots of zombie bits and pieces in, some will contain DVDS and signed books, prizes to be won all day long….

There’s a lot of red tape, permits and other requirements to get in place before you can have a 5000 strong zombie walk in the heart of a densely populated city and with only 3 weeks to go it looked like funding to make it happen wouldn’t appear.

Luckily Capcom stepped in to help out.

With the moratorium on La Horde now lifted following it’s official premiere at the Venice Film Festival, ZC Barry continues his write up of the zombies movies at 2009’s London Frightfest with this French cop/gangster/zombie mash-up.

Read his review after the jump.

Find out the best and worst of Frightfest 2009 from ZCBarry; what swag was to be had, what celebrities were to be seen and what cool people he met while he was there.

Last day of Frightfest has a relatively short day but starts with a zombie walk and sports day in the morning. We were expecting photos and a report but ZC Barry again managed to sleep in and miss the whole thing!

ZOMBIE WOMEN OF SATAN opens the day and with the world premiere of HEARTLESS and THE DESCENT: PART 2 to finish off the evening, it’s sure to be a star studded affair.

3 days in a darkened cinema screen isn’t doing ZC Barry any favours and with less than 6 hours sleep on each of the nights Day 4 is proving a struggle.

With hopes of actual zombies in SALVAGE and the prospect of messed up cinema from HUMAN CENTIPEDE he skips DEAD SNOW as the DVD would come out by the time Frightfest finished.