“& Teller” - When Las Vegas is hit by the epidemic, how will you tell the living from the dead?
March 4, 2008
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Diary of the Dead Video Competition Rules
January 29, 2008
Contest Begins: January 30, 2008
Contest Ends: February 29, 2008
CONTEST DESCRIPTION:
Visit www.myspace.com/diaryofthedead to register for the video competition. The aim of the contest is to produce a horror short video, of no more than three (3) minutes, that compliments, counterpoints, emulates, or parodies the film and then have your video voted as the best entry of all videos submitted during the competition.
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Diary of the Dead Release Date and Exclusive Trailer
January 11, 2008
As reported on the Diary of the Dead MySpace Page by George A. Romero the release date is FEBRUARY 15, 2008 - a great Valentines Day date movie! Here is the MySpace.com Diary of the Dead Exclusive Trailer. Enjoy!
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The Evolution of the Zombie in Film
December 18, 2007
Audiences have been watching zombie movies for nearly eighty years. Since the very beginning zombies have undergone many different conceptual evolutions. The progression of zombies by filmmakers has always been to make the zombie more frightening and believable for the audience. When it comes to making movies no theme stays the same forever or it would become stale and boring and there is nothing worse than stale zombies.
The very first zombie movie ever made was White Zombie released in 1932 staring horror master Bela Lugosi. The zombies in this movie are nothing like the zombies seen on screen today. These zombies follow the rules of Haitian voodoo practices. A master (voodoo priest, mad scientist, supernatural villain, etc.) used mind control to convert innocent people into mindless zombies. These zombies are manipulated by their master’s hypnotic spell making them emotionless slaves who are willing to do their masters bidding to the death. It was a simple and effective concept, but nevertheless, it was a concept destined for change by future filmmakers.
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Halloween Zombie Movies
October 31, 2007
Happy Halloween!
Do you like zombie movies? Of course you do. What’s Halloween without a bunch of zombies running around tearing the guts out of innocent people and scaring the bejesus out of us? Here in random order is a list of some of the top Zombie movies that can tear the guts out of your TV this holiday. Enjoy them and have a great Zombie Halloween!
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Escaping Upwards
October 10, 2007
Most of us don’t live in one story houses that are equipped with bars on the windows and fully- stocked fallout shelters. Instead, most of us live in homes that have at least one window for every room, a basement, and an upstairs. It’s a simple reality that zombies most often attack at ground level, and running away isn’t always an option. Escaping upwards or downwards becomes the second best thing if staying on the ground floor isn’t going to be the best for your survival. The problem with leaving ground level is that a person’s safe, feasible escape routes and methods are dramatically reduced. There are, however, a few ways, to make an escape to the upper levels of a home a very smart move.
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Zombie vs. Human: The Race For Survival
October 10, 2007
The most telling and unique sign of the walking dead is in the very way that they are walking. Variations in speed and motor skills are present in different kinds of zombies but overall there is one particular type of movement that is most closely associated with the common zombie. The common zombie’s walk is slow, persistent, and shuffling.
Zombies in the most famous of all zombie movies, The Night of the Living Dead, move this way. They most commonly walk in straight lines towards noise or something that they sense, smell, or see. There are some cases where they just walk in a seemingly random direction and it might be impossible to tell where or why they are walking that way. I believe that if there is no prospective food to eat, zombies go into a sort of state of wandering in which their steps in one direction or another will potentially lead them towards more noises, sights, or smells that indicate food.
They often move in packs, but it is anyone’s guess why they exhibit pack behavior. A leader of any given pack is not the leader because it displays leadership qualities, but simply because it is in the front. The “leader” may sense something up ahead and begin a determined walk or give a signaling moan or groan and so the rest of the pack follows. The most important thing to remember is that when there is one zombie there are probably more nearby. Their common goal, of finding human flesh and organs, brings them into a common understanding with one another. The motivations and activities of a hunting zombie or zombie pack will be covered in a later article, but I think it is important for those who wish to survive a zombie outbreak to understand as much about the living dead’s motives as they can.
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Welcome to StopZombies.com
October 10, 2007
Currently this website is in the very early stages of development. We are a small group of independent horror fans working to produce an interactive website based on the zombie fiction genre that we can be proud to call our own. Over the next few months this website will continue to grow, adapt and evolve into one of the largest, most interactive, zombie fan sites on the Internet. The subject matter will be bipolar - often being dark and cryptic but sometimes comical and sarcastic. The goal of stopzombies.com is to inform and entertain its audience with quality material. New sections of this website are always in beta testing. So please give us some time to get our place put together and assist us by providing constructive help and ideas on how to make the site better.
One of the major objectives of this website is to produce a fictional zombie infested world. This world will have its own set of exclusive zombie rules. The website will allow the owners of this website, (and visitors) to produce fun fictional stories, artwork and games based on this imaginary world, which can then be enjoyed and expanded on by others. This website will also have all the normal zombie/horror movie and video game reviews as well as a forum and WordPress blogging options.
We started this site because we love zombies, not because we expect to be the next Internet billionaires, so please be patient with us as we develop new and enjoyable content. At the end of the day we want this website to be about having fun, interacting and enjoying a world of zombies with other horror fans.
Wish us luck! ~the Stopzombies.com crew (Trent, Liz and Bill)
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Interrogation of a Female Zombie
October 9, 2007
Topic: Movie - Media Related
The following is a zombie interrogation that occurred in the 1985 movie The Return of the Living Dead. The zombie was torn in half and captured when it attacked a man through a window opening in a funeral parlor where a group of people had been trapped. The imprisoned zombie was strapped to a medical gurney and questioned by mortician Ernie Kaltenbrunner. 
Ernie: You can hear me?
Zombie Replies: Yesssss.
Ernie: Why do you eat people?
Zombie Replies: Not people, brains.
Ernie: Brains only?
Zombie Replies: Yessss.
Ernie: Why?
Zombie Groans Out: THE PAIN!
Ernie: What about the pain?
Zombie Replies: The pain of being dead.
Ernie speaks to Burt Wilson and “Spider” who are watching this interrogation.
Ernie: Hurts to be dead.
Zombie: I can feel myself rotting.
Ernie bends back over the zombie and continues his questioning.
Ernie: Eating brains, how does that make you feel?
Zombie Replies: It makes the pain go away.
The interrogation is over. Ernie, Burt and Spider move to the hallway to discuss how to kill the zombies. Burt’s conclusion is, “You can’t kill those mothers, they are already dead.” Later in the story the captive zombie’s hunger returns and she beings to yell out, “Brains! Brains! Brains! Brain! Brains!”
Written by StopZombies writer Trent.
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Interview with a Spirit
October 9, 2007
Topic: Sarcastic - Funny
The question I set out to answer was blunt: Will zombies rise up and destroy the world?
Answering this question would be no simple task. It was not a matter of gathering facts or reading material, but of actually predicting the future! For this task I chose Chasmodai, the spirit of the moon. Because who can divine the future better than the spirit of the moon?
I had the stage set. All my tools were ready. And after an oration that lasted nearly 5 hours, I began to see a faint outline of something foggy within the circle. The presence became very strong. At last, Chasmodai had arrived!
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