Zombie Walk to End Hunger

  This past Saturday, something awesome, and terrifying if you didn't know what was going on, happened in Enfield Connecticut. On August 13th, a great thing happened, the zombie community came together for a greater cause other than eating people; to help other people eat.

   The First Annual Enfield Zombie Walk was created in order to help those in need at the Enfield Food Shelf, a local food shelter opened in 1968 offering free food to needy local families. In order to walk the 0.8 mile course, the entrance fee was $5 and 3 canned food items. The walk began at John F. Kennedy Middle School, where makeup artists were supplied for those not as sfx gifted as others, and ended at the Enfied Fire Department. Once they reached the firehouse the fun didn't stop there. They were greeted by tons of music, food, drinks, a costume contest with prizes, tons of zombie vendors, and a huge thriller dancer performed by the horde. The best part was, that all proceeds went straight to the food shelter.

   I have to say, it's great to see a community come together, have some fun, and do some good in the process. If you want more information on the walk as well as getting involved in next year's, visit the Zombie Walk Website HERE. This is a great program and I definitely would have gone if I had heard about it sooner. But, I promise all of you, that I will be there next year and I'll provide updates throughout the year on both this and similar local events.

Movie Review: Doghouse

Now, I know I haven't posted anything in a while but I've been quite busy with an actual job and haven't had time to post anything. Now with that said, lets get into it.

  Friday night I watched another zombie movie I've never seen before. Unlike the last one i watched, i chose to go to the top of the netflix: watch instantly playlist instead of the very bottom. The number one is The Return of the Living Dead (which I've seen) and in the number 2 spot was this movie: Doghouse.
This cleverly named movie is about a group of guys going out for a guys weekend to cheer-up their recently divorced buddy Vince (Stephen Graham [Snatch and Gangs of New York] ). The beginning opens with an introduction of each character, the majority f which piss-off their spouses, when they tell them about their weekend with the guys, who in turn put them "in the doghouse" (ha ha I see what they did there). Well, as it turns out, the town they're vacationing to has been experimented on with viral dish detergent and it's turned all the women (only) into man hating, weapon wielding, cannibalistic murders.

    As ridiculous as this concept sounds, it was actually a really good movie. I'm sure these actors are big over in England but I only recognized Graham. Now, the way I do things, I don't read the description of these movies, I just find one and go into it blindly. I find it more enjoyable to not know the plot and have everything about it be a surprise to me; and believe me, this one was. One of the most shocking moments of this movie was when the birthday girl zombie was introduced. Pictured right, this...sexy...zombie takes one of the main characters hostage, cuts off a pinkie finger, and then uses it to scrape frosting off of the cake and provocatively licked the frosting off the severed appendage. Gross! But, one thing that was nice was that all (or most) of the other women zombie were pretty sexy. At one point, the guys, being guys, talk about which one they'd do if they weren't all zom-b-fied.
   This movie is filled with action, comedy, T&A, and lots of gore! While the concept may be kinda weird, it doesn't change the fact that this is a great movie! But, guys, make sure not to watch this with a girlfriend because it boasts both independent male ideals as well as anti-feminism and the concept that all women are insane, blood-thirsty psychos.A true guy flick. I give it 4.5 Stars

Instant Zombie-Proof Shelter

So, this was sent to me this week and I have to say, it is one of the coolest things I've seen in a long time. Pictured above is a pop-up, concrete, fire-proof, weather-proof, sterile, bunker. This is a thing of the future because it requires 3 easy steps.
1) Unfold
2) Pop-up
3) JUST ADD WATER!

The canvas material used to make this shelter is infused with concrete so when you spray it down with water, just wait 24hrs for drying and hardening and you've got yourself one awesomely everything-proof shelter. Check out the video below for more details on how it actually works.

Zombie Nation

As promised, last night I watched the movie Zombie Nation.Also, as anticipated, it was ridiculously horrible. Who've thought that the title sequence would be so crucial to starting a movie off on the right foot. Well, apparently these guys didn't get the memo. How difficult is it to just put the title of the movie up on the screen in an interesting font, white text on a black background. Clearly very difficult because they decided to fill the screen with ZOM, then BIE, then NAT, then ION. I think they might have been trying to be creative but it just drew out the opening and bored me right from the start. Once i got past the ridiculous opening credits, we opened on a scene where 2 cops are in a cop car talking. Suddenly there was a loud, echo-y voice that i assume was meant to be the voice of one of the cops in the car. Now, i'm aware this is a low budget movie but there are ways of creating a good voice over with minimal, cheap supplies. From hearing this voice-over, i learned two things, just how low-budget this movie really was, and that the lead actor has a very thick accent and is going to be difficult to understand him throughout the movie.
   Eventually we zoom out and get to see the "police car." Personally, i would never pull over for a red, unmarked Mercury with a single red light on top. Now, if these cops were detectives, i'd understand the car choice, but normal, LA Blue who transport those who have been arrested in the back seat, should at least have a cage between the front and back of the vehicle. These are just a few of the big things i noticed but there were small problems throughout such as the voices and mouths not matching, extras going from standing up to sitting down, to standing up again, the main character weighing one of his victims and the scales not even moving, things like that. Well, by now, we're about 27 minutes in and I' checked to see ow long I've got left of the movie because it's going so slowly. Not long after, i start to fall asleep and paused the movie at 33 mins and went to sleep.
   This afternoon, i continued the movie where i left off, and continued to fight off being tired. At one point, the main character is telling his story to a fellow officer and references where he grew up and on the screen pops up random, incredibly blurry and pixelated, still photos of scenes from a generic small town. This really annoyed me because it completely ruined whatever flow this movie had going for it. Most of the stuff that, i assume, was character development just came across as boring and confusing.

   Oh wait, isn't this a zombie movie you're asking? Why yes, with a run time of 81 minutes, the zombies finally show up (50 MINUTES IN) after the main character has killed his 5th victim who, in fear that she may be killed, had a curse put on her by voodoo witch priestesses...ya. Now, maybe after enduring so much crap, their zombies will be cool...nope. The "zombies" are 5 women the cop killed and they come back looking like this. (see picture to the right) Oooo, what an aweinspiring special effects department these guys have. The worst part of these zombies is the fact that they're not mindless eating machines, they're just the women brought back. they can talk and reason and all that as well as eat real person food!!! WTF!!! The only destruction they end up doing is 1 girl kisses a guy and rips the tounge out of his mouth and eats it, another approaches a random hick and, so it seemed, yanked his penis through his pants, ripped it off, and ate it...ya no. Lastly, all of them got their revenge and "took a bite out of crime" (lol) Afterwords, the voodoo preistesses explained to them that what they bite becomes a zombie too and the dead, newly zombified, cop comes shambling onto screen. In the end, all 5 of the zombie girls end of getting jobs at the police station...i have no idea how, but why stop with the ridiculousness of this movie now. So the zombies became cops and the cop became a zombie; this might be the directors idea of ironic justice but by the time i got to the end, i just didn't care. All and all, this movie sucked, I give it one star.
  Be sure to comment with what you think i should watch next.

Zombie Movie Review Bi-Weekly

So, I've come up with a new sort of series. My day usually ends with me watching some sort of movie or tv show on Netflix or some form of stream. I figured, why not make use of this and review random zombie movies. I'll watch one every Monday and Wednesday night an then post a review of it on the following day. Each day you can submit suggestions on what I should watch next and on Thursday I'll post a poll and the top 2 poll answers (polling ended on Monday) will be the movies I watch the following week. Mostly, I'm looking forward to watching the ridiculous ones! I'll make sure to keep a list at the bottom of each review of the movies I've already reviewed so there's no repeats. I've already seen all of the George Romero dead movies and their remakes but feel free to suggest them; I love any excuse to re-watch them. I'll pick the first 2 and we'll go from there. Also, feel free to comment with your reviews of these movies as well!


Tonight I will be watching Zombie Nation. To choose this movie, i went on Netflix, found the movies tagged as Zombie Movies, and found the lowest rating on there. Netflix predicts that I'll give this movie 1.2 stars. It got an average of 1.8 from 37,000 Netflix users. I'm pumped! Lets Do This!!!

Zombie Nation: Psychopathic Los Angeles cop Joe Singer (Günther Ziegler) -- who has literally been getting away with murder -- meets his match in a 17-year-old girl named Romy (Martina Bottesch) in this gruesome gorefest from writer-director Ulli Lommel. Troubled by the wave of women vanishing from her neighborhood, Romy seeks help from some voodoo priestesses, who revive Joe's victims and turn them into zombies looking to exact more than a few pounds of flesh.