R.I.P Bill Hinzman.....Maybe

Overview
Obit

I Am A Zombie

Are You?

The only answer is "I am a Zombie"

I Walked With a Zombie (Holiday Version)

King of the Zombies

Mantan steals the show! I saw this when I was a kid and never forgot the "when I was alive" line. I just watched it a few months ago. It also features the incredible Madame-Sul-te-Wan, a groundbreaking black actress who is barely remembered today, sadly.



Mantan, Madame Sul-te-Wan, and Willie Best are all buried near each other in Valhalla Cemetery, North Hollywood. Mantan's grave reads: "Beloved father and grandfather."

Take Your Vitamin B-Movie Monster

One of the best monster beach musicals ever ! Do the Zombie Stomp... Sing the melodic song "Elaine" and dance the "Wiggle Wobble"...or vacuum your carpet to a music box tune...but beware of zombies, voodoo, and blood thirsty Connecticut sea monsters.

Happy "Heathens" Rejoice

Hell in a hand basket?

The new American Religious Identification Survey shows that Americans identifying themselves as belonging to a religious group is down across the board, with self-identified Christians down 11% in the last 18 years. The change is the greatest in the Northeast and the West, but in all 50 states, Americans saying they have no particular religion are on the rise. Because the U.S. Census does not ask about religion, the ARIS survey was the first comprehensive study of how people identify their spiritual expression…

The ARIS research also led in quantifying and planting a label on the "Nones" — people who said "None" when asked the survey's basic question: "What is your religious identity?"

The survey itself may have contributed to a higher rate of reporting as sociologists began analyzing the newly identified Nones. "The Nones may have felt more free to step forward, less looked upon as outcasts" after the ARIS results were published, [ARIS co-researcher Ariela] Keysar says."

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There are several good non-theist subject films available on DVD:

Julia Sweeney's Letting Go of God
http://www.juliasweeney.com/letting_go_mini/index.html

Bill Maher's Religulous
http://www.lionsgate.com/religulous/

and BBC's Jonathan Miller's A Brief History of Disbelief
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/atheism.shtml

Stacy

I have no Zombie lexicon - all non-supernatural permutations of Zombie are acceptable to me. Stacy might be described as uneven, but the intent is to really jam a lot of emotional vignettes into an absurdist framework, and have it all come out in the end. It's for people who realize that movies are not life and not every one of them has to be a life-examining masterwork. Plus as they say on League of Gentlemen, it has "loadth o' killinth"

Dead Set

Just watched it. The imagery is painterly, the idea is clever, the violence appropriately disgusting - no boring gaps, limited preposterous, putting-oneself-in-danger moments- and like his Nathan Barley, atmospherically apt, like umami for the eyes.

Here's Charlie Brooker unnecessarily apologizing for it. Podcast.

Trailer:


Another (clearer) trailer here

Simon Pegg in a very complimentary review, centered on his disagreement with the concept of running zombies. Article.

The E4 site

BTW, zombies run.

Watusi Zombie

I have seen 3/4ths of this.......

......the rest? Tonight. The story evokes issues like immigration, AIDS, race, you name it, wherever two populations must coexist, with one being a minority. So far it's beautifully done, if the end sucks, I will atone tomorrow. But I don't think it will/

Dream Sequence From "The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies"

If your dreams start to bear any resemblance to this sequence, it's a sign that everythings going to be alright.

Sugar Hill

"When gangsters kill her boyfriend, a woman enlists a Voodoo queen to raise an army of the dead."

TCM showed this little gem the other nite. You can picture Pam Grier throwing the script back at whoever sent it to her, b/c it's a really low-rent mix of all that is AIP, Pam, Blaxploitation, and Horror.

TCM is showing some great stuff this month, esp "Screaming Mimi." I already blogged about it; read it here.

Trailer Park

It is rare that I get excited about a movie based on the trailer, but I can't wait for ZOMBIE STRIPPERS to be released. From the trailer, I can gather that it has two plot devices that I really enjoy in cinema:

1) Zombies

2) Strippers

I know that this movie will probably suck, but what a concept! You just know Ed Wood is smiling down from Heaven.

Popcorn for your Zombie Movie, Sir?

Mr. Lethal and I are sitting here and there's Orville Redenbacher on the tube. The clip looks old, but the microwave popcorn-shot isn't. "He's been dead for years," says Mr. L. I thought so, but I wasn't sure. He was right - Redenbacher croaked in '95! I guess the digital recreation ads creeped too many people out, so they've revered to old clips recut. Check out the postmortem, reanimator-Orville: