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The Ten Best Zombie Media to Feed Your Brain
By Great White Snark | August 20, 2007
I only recently realized that I’ve gone gah-gah for the zombie genre. It kind of snuck up on me.
As zombies are prone to do.
VIDEO GAME: Dead Rising
Resident Evil
It’s not wise to antagonize me while I’m wielding an electric guitar, dead man.
COMIC BOOK: The Walking Dead
Writer Robert Kirkland knows what Joss Whedon figured out a long time ago… the most fantastically absurd plot (a high school Valley girl is blessed with super-powers to save the world from vampires?) is rendered classic by compelling storytelling and characterization.
And so we have The Walking Dead
NOVEL: World War Z
You know all those books and documentaries that feature interviews with World War II veterans, recounting their memories of the war? Yeah, World War Z
The only thing I have against the premise and execution of this book is that I didn’t think of it first.
MOVIE, HORROR: 28 Days Later
Ok, so don’t eat my brains for this, but the best scary zombie movie isn’t one by George Romero. 28 Days Later
Plus, everything’s scarier in England. Just look at Posh Spice. For some reason, her anorexia is much less upsetting now that she lives here in the States. (Look at me, with my pop culture references.)
MOVIE, COMEDY: Shaun of the Dead
Don’t “Well, duh,” me. There’s actually another contender besides Shaun of the Dead
TV SHOW: Pushing Daisies
Saying that Pushing Daisies is about zombies is like saying Lost is about tropical island vacation spots. It’s true in definition, but not in spirit. Sure, there are people brought back from the dead, but generally the undead are pretty agreeable, and at no point do they attempt or want to eat brains. In fact, the show is so cutesy and cuddly, it might make an actual zombie curdle up and die. Again.
Sadly, though, there are no other contenders for the title of Best Zombie TV Show since CBS dumped Babylon Fields from its Fall premiere schedule.
PORNOGRAPHY: Re-Penetrator
Re-Penetrator (NSFW) is a, um, re-imagining of the 1980s horror flick, Re-Animator. This XXX feature was introduced on BurningAngel.com, which seems to feature a lot of goth-looking girls in its pornos… which I guess is considered pretty avant-garde for the creative geniuses of the porn world.
Whatever. I haven’t even seen this movie. (Not that a flick about the 20-years-dead body of a stripper being reanimated by a vaginally-injected serum doesn’t sound fascinating.) It wins the title based on being the only entry… after an extensive review of the first two Google results for a search on “zombie porn”.
SONG: Rob Zombie’s More Human Than Human
Tell me that you don’t feel like putting baseball bat to zombie skull when you hear this song
Or, at least, shaking your tiny, little fist defiantly at a zombie from behind safety glass and a barricaded door.
ANIMATION: Xombie
What, you thought I was going to suggest Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island
Check out the shovel-wielding zombie vigilante of Xombie.
MUSIC VIDEO: Michael Jackson’s Thriller
Also… worst zombie music video ever? Michael Jackson’s Thriller.
MJ wasn’t fully convincing as a reanimated corpse until the 1990s.
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Topics: Cartoons, Comics, Games, Movies, TV, Zombies |
August 20th, 2007 at 9:10 am
You saw Fido without me?
August 20th, 2007 at 9:58 pm
Hey Snark,
I really like your list but I gotta disagree with you on the movie (for one). The best zombie horror of all time is the original Dawn of the Dead (preferably the uncut version), and I would have to rank it probably the best film of all time. I definitely agree with you on the comic book, and World War Z is good, but my favorite zombie book(s) so far are the Book of All flesh series (they are short stories, some very bizarre). Also, the whole zombie thing snuck up on me too.. it’s just too cool.
August 20th, 2007 at 10:07 pm
Yeah, I knew there’d be debate on the movie front… but I’m going to stand behind 28 Days Later, even if it’s just to be contrarian.
So… there.
Thanks for the heads-up on the Book of All Flesh series… I’m definitely going to see what it’s all about.
August 22nd, 2007 at 8:31 am
Can I just add something? I like zombies.
August 22nd, 2007 at 9:20 am
I’m happy for you, Nickolai.
August 22nd, 2007 at 12:04 pm
Thank you! Let me expound on that. I like their hunger, their single-minded perseverance, their inability to use even the simplest of tools, and the fact that anyone can become one.
Would today’s problems of sexism, racism, religious over-zealousness and general non-tolerance disappear if zombies were part of the world? I think they would.
August 22nd, 2007 at 12:22 pm
I feel like we should break into song. Kum Ba Yah, anyone?
August 22nd, 2007 at 12:58 pm
Hey man, I like the list, and must say that I agree with the lot. I haven’t played Dead Rising yet, but in my defense, I actually saw Re-Penetrator. It’s…interesting, to be polite. I luaghed my arse off. As for 28 Days Later, an unconventional choice, but a good one, never the less.
Other than that, welcome to the world of zombies, my friend!
August 22nd, 2007 at 1:04 pm
Thanks, Rutger. It’s nice to be here. And I don’t mind the smell, at all.
August 22nd, 2007 at 1:54 pm
Nickolai, excuse me while I wipe away a tear. But GWS, I’d rather if you didn’t sing.
August 23rd, 2007 at 7:11 am
This is an amazing article. I’m actually working on something semi-similar right now, ironically. Keep up the good work!
p.s. The Walking Dead rocks!
August 23rd, 2007 at 11:26 am
GWS, is there any way for you to add “Email this post” functionality to the site? I went to send this to a friend, but had to do the old “cut-and-paste-the-URL” dance.
It would be so cool if we could easily share your brilliance with others.
August 23rd, 2007 at 4:43 pm
Paige: Thanks, yo! Glad to hear I’m not the only one fixating on the undead.
Cindi: Hush, and eat your greens. And cut-and-paste. (Ok, I’ll see what I can do.)
August 24th, 2007 at 12:00 pm
Did you read any of the Marvel Zombies series? Watching an zombified Spidey trying to eat Mary Jane and Aunt May is classic.
October 23rd, 2007 at 2:00 am
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February 1st, 2008 at 10:41 pm
the list has it’s ups and downs. but i must put my two cent as to the best “zombie, horror” pick you posted. the reason why it doesn’t sit with me is because, it is not a zombie movie. it is an infection movie. the scary running( i want to underline, running, cuz when you are walkdead, you are stiff, and seeing a stiff run, would look retarded) flesh eaters are not really dead. they are infected. they are stripped to basic savage animal needs. and it so happens that live flesh taste better than dead flesh. but they are not zombies…
but still it is a good infection flick…
thanks
March 7th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
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April 5th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
YEAH!…wait, 28 days/weeks later isn’t a zombie movie.
June 4th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
Best Zombie blog ever
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