Thu, 31 December 2009
100 episodes down, and we're a long way from being finished! This is Episode 101 of Mail Order Zombie, and this week, Brother D takes aim at two more zombie movies - 1981's Dead & Buried, directed by Gary Sherman, co-written by Dan O'Bannon; and 2009's Hillbilly Bob Zombie, written and directed by Ray Basham. The answers to this month's holiday-themed Zombie Aptitude Test are reviewed, and Miss Bren joins Brother D to dip into the emails and voicemails that have found their way to MOZ Central in this week's Feedback Discussion. (The Create-the-New-MOZ-Promo has been extended through January - listen to this episode for details on how you can win!)
Anthony Giangregorio - http://www.undeadpress.com/books.php Dawn of the Dead Board Game at Homepage of the Dead - http://www.homepageofthedead.com/games/dbg.html Ray Basham Productions - http://www.raybasham.com/ Zombie Ad Man - http://tinyurl.com/zombieadman First real trailer for La Horde - http://tinyurl.com/trailerhorde Shaun of the Dead - Decade's Best? - http://tinyurl.com/decadeshaun Uncle Romero and company at HorrorHound Weekend Indianapolis 2010 - http://tinyurl.com/romerohhw Pre-order The Living Dead: The Beginning here - http://tinyurl.com/romerobook |
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Thu, 24 December 2009
The Grindhouse Film Festival in Portland, OR, showed a 35mm print of Silent Night, Deadly Night to a near-full house at the Hollywood Theatre on December 22nd. Brother D and Zombie Hunter Tony were there.
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Wed, 23 December 2009
After 100 weeks in a row, Brother D and Miss Bren celebrate by presenting Mail Order Zombie #100, the Dawn of the Dead special! Brother D has seen both George A. Romero's original Dawn of the Dead and the Zach Snyder-directed remake more than once, but Miss Bren . . . ? She'd not seen either of them prior to watching them for this episode. What will happen when a zombie-movie-watching-veteran and a relative newcomer sit down for a discussion about one of the benchmarks of zombie cinema? Who will walk away alive? Who will walk away with divorce papers? Who will call in? We'll give you the answer to that last question; Mail Order Zombie received congratulatory phone calls, holiday wishes and thoughts on Dawn of the Dead from the MOZ Family and fellow podcasters, and you'll get to hear all this in MOZ #100. Brother D will also turn his critical ears toward the scores from both films, and in a special Post Script, he'll discuss the 1979 Dawn of the Dead novelization (written by George A. Romero and Susanna Sparrow). Where else are you going to hear discussion about Dawn of the Dead, taking over a shopping mall, Star Wars action figures, Stephen King, Darkman, Frank Lloyd Wright, The Evil Dead, Quarantine, Peter David, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and multiple personality disorder? Right here! (The Zombie Beat and the Feedback Discussion will be back next week.) |
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Fri, 18 December 2009
The Wagner/Cuban Companies' Magnet Releasing, genre arm of Magnolia Pictures, announced today that it has acquired US rights to George A. Romero's Survival of the Dead, the latest in the legendary and beloved series of zombie films which bowed at the Venice and Toronto Film Festivals earlier this year. Romero, one of the most influential and respected horror auteurs of all time, has created a new, terrifying vision that combines viscerally gory undead action with biting social commentary and a return to the black humor and playfulness of his seminal film, Dawn of the Dead. Magnet will release the film as part of its Ultra VOD program this spring, debuting it on VOD platforms nationwide a month before its theatrical release.
Like its predecessors, George A. Romero's Survival of the Dead takes place in a desperate, nightmarish world where the dead walk the earth, relentlessly attacking the living. It is the story of Plum Island – a beautiful refuge whose isolation allows two powerful families to maintain a semblance of order in the wake of the zombie holocaust. But as the inhabitants slowly die off, the two clans become sharply divided: the O’Flynns believe that the undead must be destroyed without exception, while the Muldoons insist that afflicted loved ones be kept “alive” until a cure is found. The result is an escalating showdown with echoes of a classic Western stand-off that erupts in brutality and violence. “George A. Romero is an undisputed cinematic legend, and we’re honored to be bringing another installment of this incredible series of films to horror fans,” said Magnolia President Eamonn Bowles. “Survival... is smart, extremely fun and a worthy addition to the ...of the Dead franchise.” Says Romero, “I’m a big admirer of the team at Magnolia. They’re creative and passionate, and I’m excited to put Survival... in their hands.”
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Thu, 17 December 2009
Another episode of Mail Order Zombie brought to you by the Letter D - Brother D reviews Demon Resurrection, written and directed by William Hopkins (2009); and Dead Men Walking, written by Mike Watt and directed by Peter Mervis. We're taking answers for December's Zombie Aptitude Test, and the Create-the-Next-MOZ-Promo Contest is in full swing. We've got news with Need-a-Nickname Scott, and the shows ends with a healthy, if explicit, dose of Feedback Discussion with Miss Bren.
The Gift of the Zombi at 19 Nocturne Boulevard - http://tinyurl.com/giftofthezombi Mail Order Zombie feed - http://feeds.feedburner.com/MailOrderZombie Mail Order Zombie forums - http://www.popsyndicate.com/forums/viewforum/86/ Email us at MailOrderZombie@gmail.com or call us at 206-202-2505! Vote for us at Podcast Alley at http://tinyurl.com/mozvote/
Eric D. Knapp, author of Cluck: Murder Most Fowl - http://www.ericdknapp.com/
Demon Resurrection - http://www.demonresurrection.com
Left 4 Dead 2 "The Passing " add-on - http://tinyurl.com/lfd2passing
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Thu, 10 December 2009
After weeks of pushing it back, Umberto Lenzi's Black Demons (aka Demoni 3) FINALLY gets its proper review here on Mail Order Zombie in Episode 98. Joining Black Demons is the 1961 Barry Mahon film The Dead One, aka Blood of the Zombie. Brother D dishes out the Headshot reviews, and also goes over the answers from last month's Zombie Aptitute Test (don't forget this month's ZAT!). Two contests - one MOZ-specific and one from one of our friends - are announced, and Miss Bren and Brother D hears from the MOZ Family in the Feedback Discussion.
Mail Order Zombie feed - http://feeds.feedburner.com/MailOrderZombie Mail Order Zombie forums - http://www.popsyndicate.com/forums/viewforum/86/ Email us at MailOrderZombie@gmail.com or call us at 206-202-2505! Vote for us at Podcast Alley at http://tinyurl.com/mozvote/ Help get The Video Dead on DVD - http://www.myspace.com/thevideodeadondvd Action Attaction - http://metalmikey.podomatic.com/ Panic Attack - http://tinyurl.com/pattack
Humans vs. Zombies, minus Nerf - http://tinyurl.com/nonerfzed
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Tue, 8 December 2009
This is Brenda's Mystery Doodle. To learn more about it, you'll have to listen to Episode 98 of Mail Order Zombie later this week!
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Tue, 8 December 2009
And
now a warning from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment: on February 2, 2010, this
land officially becomes Zombieland as the number one grossing zombie
movie in history takes over the nation on Blu-ray™, DVD and PSP. Woody
Harrelson (2012, Natural Born Killers), Jesse Eisenberg (Adventureland,
The Village), Emma Stone (The House Bunny, Superbad) and
Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine, Signs) star in this
action-packed horror comedy about an unlikely band of heroes who team up to
survive in a world overrun by ravenous zombies! Speaking of ravenous, Zombieland features enough outrageous laughs and terrifying thrills to satisfy the
most hungry horror and comedy fans. Plus, the Blu-ray and DVD come loaded with
killer bonus features fans will devour, including deleted scenes; commentary
with Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg, Director Ruben Fleischer and Writers
Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick; the making-of featurettes “In Search of Zombieland,”
and “Zombieland is Your Land;” visual effects progression scenes;
trailers and more!
Bonus features exclusive to the Blu-ray Disc include a Digital Copy of the film for PSP®, PC and iTunes, as well as the “Beyond the Graveyard” Picture-in-Picture Track - featuring behind-the-scenes footage, storyboards, animatics and more - and movieIQ, which allows viewers to immediately access continuously updated information on the cast & crew and explore relevant trivia such as production facts and soundtrack information all tied to scenes within the movie via BD-Live™. Don’t miss the horror comedy hit that’s had moviegoers screaming with laugher when ZOMBIELAND becomes available to own on Blu-ray for $39.95, DVD for $28.96 and UMD for $24.94. Synopsis Nerdy college student Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg)
has
survived the plague that has turned mankind into flesh-devouring
zombies
because he’s scared of just about everything. Gun-toting,
Twinkie-loving Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson) has no fears. Together,
they are about to stare down their
most horrifying challenge yet: each other’s company. Emma Stone and
Abigail
Breslin co-star in this double-hitting, head-smashing comedy. Get ready
to “nut
up or shut up!” Zombieland was directed by Ruben Fleischer from a script by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick (Tarzan 2, Cruel Intentions 3) and produced by Gavin Polone (Secret Window, Panic Room). It co-stars Amber Heard (The Stepfather, Pineapple Express). It was distributed by Columbia Pictures and has a run time of approximately eighty-eight minutes. It has been rated R for horror violence/gore and language. DVD and Blu-ray Bonus Material · Commentary with Actors Woody Harrelson & Jesse Eisenberg, Director Ruben Fleischer, Writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick · “In Search of Zombieland” – A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Zombieland · “Zombieland is Your Land” – Creating the world of Zombieland · Visual Effects Progression Scenes · Theatrical Promo Trailers Also, Only on Blu-ray High Def
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Thu, 3 December 2009
This is Mail Order Zombie's Thanksgiving Leftovers episode! Brother D reviews two poultry-themed zombie movies this week - Zombeak, written and directed by Sam Drog, and Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead from director Lloyd Kaufman who swings by the show for an interview in which he talks about Poultrygeist as well as the "giant conspiracy of devil-worshipping international media conglomerates." (And for the record, I HAVE read Mr. Kaufman's books! I may not enjoy all his movies, but I certainly respect the man and his fight for artistic independence . . .) The new Zombie Aptitude Test question is revealed to the MOZ Family (November's ZAT answers will be reviewed next week), and Miss Bren rounds out the show when she joins the Fedback Discussion. Mail Order Zombie feed - http://feeds.feedburner.com/MailOrderZombie Mail Order Zombie forums - http://www.popsyndicate.com/forums/viewforum/86/ Email us at MailOrderZombie@gmail.com or call us at 206-202-2505! Vote for us at Podcast Alley at http://tinyurl.com/mozvote/
J. Michael Straczynski talks World War Z (and other projects) - http://tinyurl.com/jmswwz
Dakon/Pendrill Chemicals - http://www.dpchemicals.com/
Silent Night, Zombie Night - http://www.snznmovie.com
Troma Entertainment - http://www.troma.com/
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Sat, 28 November 2009
This email just made its way to MOZ Central . . .
"Zombie Hunters" Rick, Mike, and Patrick will be interviewed LIVE on the air, MIDNIGHT tonight (EST), Sat. Nov 28th on Cult Radio A Go-Go! CRAGG will also be showing ALL of the ZH episodes back-to-back during that time! Check out all the details at http://www.cultradioagogo.com/thisweek.html, and follow the links for interview and the marathon!
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Fri, 27 November 2009
Over at The Zed Word: Zombie Blog, our friend Aaron lets us all know that Deadspeil, the short zombie movie combining zombies and curling, will be showing at the new Giggleshorts Theatre at 296 Brunswick Ave., 2nd Floor, Toronto, Canada. The short movie definitely earns the MOZ Stamp of Approval; Brother D was fortunate enough to see the movie at Zompire: The Undead Film Festival earlier this year.
Thanks to Aaron for the head's up! http://zedwordblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/deadspiel-giggleshorts-toronto-nov-26.html
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Thu, 26 November 2009
To those of you celebrating Thanksgiving today, Mail Order Zombie wishes you a happy and safe Thanksgiving. If you're not celebrating the holiday, Happy Thursday! In Episode 96 of Mail Order Zombie, Brother D recounts his experiences at HorrorHound Weekend Cincinnati (and he almost didn't come home!). While at the convention, Brother D met old and new friends, and collected several short interviews with filmmakers like Ray Basham, Cameron Scott and Corbin Bernsen, plus the Q&A session after the Night of the Creeps screening. He also picked up a number of movies that he'll be reviewing in upcoming episodes of MOZ. We're still taking answers for this month's Zombie Aptitude Test, and Need-a-Nickname Scott serves up yet another healthy dose of zombie news in the Zombie Beat, and of course Miss Bren swings by the end of the show to go over the weekly Feedback Discussion.
Mail Order Zombie feed - http://feeds.feedburner.com/MailOrderZombie Mail Order Zombie forums - http://www.popsyndicate.com/forums/viewforum/86/ Email us at MailOrderZombie@gmail.com or call us at 206-202-2505! Vote for us at Podcast Alley at http://tinyurl.com/mozvote/
Post Mortem, America 2021 - http://www.myspace.com/postmortemamerica2021
Deadspiel - http://www.deadspiel.com/main/
Zombieland 2 in 3D? - http://tinyurl.com/zland2-3d
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Wed, 25 November 2009
At HorrorHound Weekend, I was asked if the opening music that we use on the show can be used as a ring tone.
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Thu, 19 November 2009
Brother D is about to take to the air for HorrorHound Weekend Cincinnati November 20-22, but he couldn't leave the MOZ Family hangin' without another episode of Mail Order Zombie! In Episode 95, Brother D takes a good, hard look at the 1987 zombie movie The Video Dead writting and directed by Robert Shaw. Chris MacGibbon is such a huge fan of The Video Dead, he's trying to get MGM's attention and wants to see the movie receive a proper DVD release, so he's begun an Internet campaign to raise awareness about the 80s movie. He swings by the show this week to talk about the movie and the movement. Also, we don't know if you heard, but Left 4 Dead 2 came out this week, and Miss Bren joins Brother D for a review of the videogame. In the Feedback Discussion, Miss Bren talks Brother D into giving a Headshot rating to a short zombie movie that's NOT been released to DVD . . . after we go over a few belated birthday wishes from the MOZ Family.
(Please accept our apologies for pushing back our review of Black Demons. This movie will be reviewed next week in Episode 96.) Mail Order Zombie feed - http://feeds.feedburner.com/MailOrderZombie Mail Order Zombie forums - http://www.popsyndicate.com/forums/viewforum/86/ Email us at MailOrderZombie@gmail.com or call us at 206-202-2505! Vote for us at Podcast Alley at http://tinyurl.com/mozvote/
Support the show at http://www.tinyurl.com/mozsupport/
Help bring The Video Dead to DVD - http://www.myspace.com/thevideodeadondvd The 2009 CRAGGY Awards - http://www.cultradioagogo.com/awards.html Zombie Hunters: City of the Dead on Facebook - http://tinyurl.com/zhunterfacebook
The 20 Weirdest Zombie Movies Ever Made - http://tinyurl.com/weirdzed
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Thu, 12 November 2009
It's Miss Bren's birthday, and we're celebrating with another episode of Mail Order Zombie! The movies Doghouse (2009, directed by Jake West) and The Mad (2007, directed by John Kalangis) step into Brother D's sights for their Headshot reviews. (Special thanks to the MOZ Family Member that sent The Mad to Mail Order Zombie Central for us to review!) October's Zombie Aptitude Test answers are reviewed this week, and this month's ZAT question is presented to the Family. Winners are announced for two contests - someone will win Miss Bren's review copy of David P. Murphy's Zombies for Zombies: Advice and Etiquette for the Living Dead, and someone else will win another weekend pass to HorrorHound Weekend Cincinnati. The Feedback Discussion kicks off with nearly 20 minutes of birthday greetings for Miss Bren, but she doesn't get too choked up to finish out the show by going over everyone's voicemails and emails.
Mail Order Zombie feed - http://feeds.feedburner.com/MailOrderZombie Mail Order Zombie forums - http://www.popsyndicate.com/forums/viewforum/86/ Email us at MailOrderZombie@gmail.com or call us at 206-202-2505! Vote for us at Podcast Alley at http://tinyurl.com/mozvote/
Support the show at http://www.tinyurl.com/mozsupport/
Doghouse - http://www.doghousethemovie.com/
HorrorHound Weekend Cincinnati - http://horrorhoundweekend.com/shows/200911/default.aspx
Jose Gomez's Bled White - http://tinyurl.com/bledwhite
Zombies invade Leeds station - http://tinyurl.com/zombieleeds Image Comics scheduled - http://www.imagecomics.com/schedule.php Borderlands: The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned - http://tinyurl.com/drnedzed Detention of the Dead - http://tinyurl.com/detentiondead (Various production music produced by Kevin MacLeod) |
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Fri, 6 November 2009
Miss Bren and Wayne Kotke spoke for more than the 25-ish minutes it took to review Zombies for Zombies, and thge topics ranged from Disney princess to "Sex and the City." We thought the MOZ Family might get a kick out of hearing a bit of this conversation, and Brother D needed to apologize for a couple of things anyway, so here's a special Mail Order Zombie for y'all!
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Thu, 5 November 2009
Two movies, one book, one iPhone game - this is Episode 93 of Mail Order Zombie, and Brother D and company have Headshots, ratings and discussions for the MOZ Family this week. The movies? 2007's War of the Dead and Night of the Creeps. The iPhone game? Zombieland, reviewed by Need-a-Nickname Scott. The book? Zombies for Zombies: Advice and Etiquette for the Living Dead by David P. Murphy, reviewed by Miss Bren and Wayne Kotke. There is a new Zombie Aptitude Test question introduced at the beginning of this week's show (last month's ZAT answers will be reviewed in next week's show), and in the Feedback Discussion, Miss Bren reveals a dark and terrible secret about her and . . . Chinese Food?
There Will Be Spoilers!!! - http://spoilers.podbean.com/ Know Nothing Music Show - http://knownothingmusicshow.podomatic.com/ Blood 2: The Chosen - http://www.the-chosen.com/home.asp Maelstrom: The Zombie Opera DVD - http://zombieopera.net/Maelstrom_The_DVD.html Movies About Girls - http://www.moviesaboutgirls.com/ Z-Day: A Twitter-Based Zombie Outbreak Simulation - http://zday.zombiephiles.com/
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies prequel - http://tinyurl.com/prideprequel
Zombie-Nation.Net Short Zombie Story Competition - http://tinyurl.com/zedstorycontest Zombieland Mobile Game demo - http://www.sonypictures.com/mobile/zombieland/ (Various production music produced by Kevin MacLeod) |
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Tue, 3 November 2009
Phantasm Month would not have happened here on Mail Order Zombie if it wasn't for MOZ Family Member Richard from Witchita. He just called in his thoughts on Phantasm IV: Oblivion and the franchise overall, and while he has a somewhat different opinion than Brother D and Need-a-Nickname Scott, we still wanted to share his thoughts with the family. Enjoy! |
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Sun, 1 November 2009
A number of MOZ Family members have sent me the link to NPR's site spotlighting an almost 10-minute long interview with Uncle George Romero himself. He definitely talks zombies, but in a segment called Not My Job, he also talks Disney movies (which should make Need-a-Nickname Scott doubly happy!).
Head over to http://tinyurl.com/y9f87k8 to check it out . . .
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Thu, 29 October 2009
Need-a-Nickname Scott calls the antagonist of these movies the Soulsucker of the Universe! It's the end of Phantasm Month here at Mail Order Zombie, and we close out the franchise with a solid like at Phantasm IV: Oblivion, and then Scott joins Brother D for a discussion of the entire franchise (Phantasm Month was the first time Scott had watched these movies). Zombieland gets a little more attention when Chris Toohey, the man behing the upcoming Mail Order Zombie website relaunch, calls in his quick thoughts on the film; and Mathew from Shelbytownship, MI, reports in with another installment of his ABCs of Zombies, this one devoted to Zombieland. Evilution hits DVD on November 17th later this year, and Brother D preps the MOZ Family by reviewing it and giving it a Headshot rating. We've got a contest, we still have this month's Zombie Aptitude Test, or ZAT, question, and we've got Miss Bren joining the show for the week's Feedback Discussion.
Mail Order Zombie feed - http://feeds.feedburner.com/MailOrderZombie Mail Order Zombie forums - http://www.popsyndicate.com/forums/viewforum/86/ Email us at MailOrderZombie@gmail.com or call us at 206-202-2505! Vote for us at Podcast Alley at http://tinyurl.com/mozvote/ Support the show at http://www.tinyurl.com/mozsupport/ Visit our CafePress shops at http://tinyurl.com/mozcafe Slugcast's coverage of Maul of the Dead - http://slugcast.dontlookinthepodcast.com/?p=153 New Phantasm on the horizon? - http://tinyurl.com/newphantasm Exclusive Fangoria pics from River of Darkness - http://tinyurl.com/kurtzombie 400 Lonely Things - http://400lonelythings.com/ Feed cover - http://tinyurl.com/coverfeed i09 on Feed - http://tinyurl.com/io9feed Evilution and Basement Jack at Fangoria.com - http://tinyurl.com/eviljack
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Thu, 22 October 2009
Phantasm Month continues here on Mail Order Zombie when Brother D takes a critical look at Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead. Not only is reality reshaped by the Phantas films, but the podosphere itself is threatened with not one, but two podcast crossovers. Slug from the Slugcast interviewed Ron Magee and Mitch Brian, the director and writer of Maul of the Dead, the new play from The Coterie Theater. And in one of the strangest podcast crossovers, Brother D reviews the novel Indiana Jones and the Army of the Dead for Mail Order Zombie and the IndyCast. We're still taking answers for the current Zombie Aptitude Test question, and Need-a-Nickname Scott brings the week's select zombie news in the Zombie Beat. Miss Bren joins Brother D for the Feedback Discussion near the end of the show. (The scheduled review of Evilution has been pushed back a week and will appear in Episode 092.)
Mail Order Zombie feed - http://feeds.feedburner.com/MailOrderZombie Mail Order Zombie forums - http://www.popsyndicate.com/forums/viewforum/86/ Email us at MailOrderZombie@gmail.com or call us at 206-202-2505! Vote for us at Podcast Alley at http://tinyurl.com/mozvote/ Support the show at http://www.tinyurl.com/mozsupport/ Coterie Theatre - http://www.coterietheatre.org/maulofthedead.aspx Dominic Reyes, Professional 'Magic Circle' Magician - http://www.dominicreyes.co.uk/ 32 rules of Zombieland? - http://tinyurl.com/32rules Night of the Living Bread - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktD27xVIncg The IndyCast - http://www.forcecast.net/c-indycastnews.asp Slugcast - http://www.slugcast.net/
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Thu, 15 October 2009
Phantasm Month continues here on Mail Order Zombie as Brother D reviews the second film in the franchise, Phantasm II. Also, Paul Solet's feature length debut film Grace also takes it Headshots this week when Miss Bren joins Brother D for a review and brief discussion. Episode 90 of Mail Order Zombie also features two survival segments - O'Day is back with a new segment called S.O.S., and Zombie Hunter Tony brings a new installment of Fed in the Land of the Dead. The Feedback Discussion anchors the backhalf of the show, and of course, the show opens with the week's select zombie news in the Zombie Beat. (Will Zombie Beat Cub Reporter Need-a-Nickname Scott return to Mail Order Zombie?) All this, and a Zombie Somba . . . ?
Mail Order Zombie feed - http://feeds.feedburner.com/MailOrderZombie Mail Order Zombie forums - http://www.popsyndicate.com/forums/viewforum/86/ Email us at MailOrderZombie@gmail.com or call us at 206-202-2505! Vote for us at Podcast Alley at http://tinyurl.com/mozvote/ Support the show at http://www.tinyurl.com/mozsupport/ I Love Brains, by ALL CAPS - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95sNRqsGkxE Dan the Fan's review of Zombiemania - http://tinyurl.com/danzombania
Scream 2009 Awards - http://tinyurl.com/2009scream
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Sun, 11 October 2009
This is a few weeks old, but I just stumbled across this on YouTube.
The history-lesson aspect of this is a little light and oversimplistic, and the footage from Michael Jackson's "Thriller" does run a bit long (perhaps at the expense of any zombie movies that were released between the original Night of the Living Dead and the "Thriller" music video), but it was nice to see Hammer's Plague of the Zombies get a little attention.
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Thu, 8 October 2009
(Please excuse our mess at our homepage - the podcast is still up-and-running just fine!)
Phantasm Month begins in earnest this week in Episode 89 of Mail Order Zombie! Brother D cracks open his Phantasm box/sphere set to review the first film in the franchise. (Richard from Witchita called in his thoughts on the film, too!) Also in the review queue is the soon-to-be-released (October 27th, 2009) zombie movie Dead Air, directed by Corbin Bernsen and starring Bill Moseley and Patricia Tallman. Writer Glenn Kay - winner of the 2008 Dead Letter Award for Best Zombie Book, Non-fiction for his book Zombie Movies: The Ultimate Guide - swings by to talk zombie movies, compiling his "ultimate" guide and watching Survival of the Dead and [REC] 2. MOZ Family Member Aaron (from The Zed Word: Zombie Blog) also recently saw [REC] 2, and calls in with his thoughts as well.
Mail Order Zombie feed - http://feeds.feedburner.com/MailOrderZombie Mail Order Zombie forums - http://www.popsyndicate.com/forums/viewforum/86/ Email us at MailOrderZombie@gmail.com or call us at 206-202-2505! Vote for us at Podcast Alley at http://tinyurl.com/mozvote/ Support the show at http://www.tinyurl.com/mozsupport/ Dead Air - http://www.deadair-movie.com/ University of Florida zombie attack plan - http://tinyurl.com/zombieuf Left 4 Dead 2 $25 million marketing budget - http://tinyurl.com/25mil4d2 Plants vs. Zombies NYC Village Halloween Parade - http://tinyurl.com/pvzparade George A. Romero, novelist - http://tinyurl.com/romeronovel The Crazies go zombie - http://tinyurl.com/zombiecrazy Die-Ner (Get It?) festival screenings - http://tinyurl.com/die-nerfest 10 directors who should make a zombie movie - http://tinyurl.com/top10zed |
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Thu, 1 October 2009
Brother D and Miss Bren spent last Saturday at the 3rd Annual Revenant Film Festival, and they took the MOZ Family with them. Okay, not really. But they DID take their microphone, so you'll be able to hear their opening and introduction (and play along with the audience to see if you would have done compared to the Revenant crowd!), and reviews of the movies they watched - ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction, The Hell Patrol, Plague, Night of the Living Dead: Reanimated and Yesterday. Last month's Zombie Aptitude Test answers will be reviewed, and a new ZAT question will be posed to the Mail Order Zombie Family. The Feedback Discussion wraps up the show, and Need-a-Nickname Scott, who really should be in bed, heads up this week's zombie news in the Zombie Beat. (And not only should you stick around through the end of Yesterday for an after-end-credits surprise, but if you listen through the end of this episode, you'll hear Miss Bren's reaction to non-bee pest!)
Mail Order Zombie feed - http://feeds.feedburner.com/MailOrderZombie Mail Order Zombie forums - http://www.popsyndicate.com/forums/viewforum/86/ Email us at MailOrderZombie@gmail.com or call us at 206-202-2505! Vote for us at Podcast Alley at http://tinyurl.com/mozvote/ Support the show at http://www.tinyurl.com/mozsupport/ Yesterday - http://www.truehypeproductions.com/Yesterday.html
Zombies: When the Dead Walk screening - http://tinyurl.com/deadwalkscreening
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Fri, 25 September 2009
The Hills Run Red hits DVD September 29, 2009, and I think fans of modern and classic slasher films would be wise to check it out. David J. Schow (who's been a horror screenwriter since the late 80s having been involved with A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child and Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III, so he's no stranger to slasher films) is one of the writers, and he brings his familiar horror movie sensibility to the movie in a way that's one part nostalgic, one part familiar and yet still one part fresh. (Schow is joined by writer John Dombrow who both co-wrote the screenplay from a story by producer John Carchietta.)
Tad Hilgenbrink plays Tyler, a young filmmaker who's become obsessed with an 80s horror film that never quite made it to the theaters. The Hills Run Red is the name of the horror film within this horror film (and there's a quick bit of bright dialogue acknowledging that, yes, this is also the name of a Western from the 1960s). Tyler ropes his best friend and girlfriend, Lalo and Serina played by Alex Wyndham and Janet Montgomery respectively, into joining him on his quest, and eventually, they find Alexa, who acted in The Hills Run Red when she was a little girl; now she's grown up and is working at a strip club. Sophie Monk plays Alexa, and she's one to watch in the film. In fact, these four leads all sold their roles believably, and I enjoyed watching the four of them delve deeper into the mystery of this mysterious horror film. Their search brings them back to the film's original shooting locations, and along the way, we go through a few twists and turns before the final plot point spools onto the screen. There are some surprises I'd like to keep from spoiling; I found most of them to be quite effective. Babyface is the slasher/subject of The Hills Have Red, both the film within the film and the film itself. He seems to be cut from the Jason Voorhees cloth - he's a hulking figure, stomping through the woods and wearing part of a babydoll's face as a mask. The character's back story is revealed in the opening credits through a creepy and grimy sequence that left me surprised. Surprise is perhaps the theme of my review of The Hills Run Red. This is a straight-to-DVD offering, and it's a modern day slasher, so if I'm being completely honest, my hopes weren't very high. However, I found myself really enjoying this movie, and I know it's something I'll be going back to for repeat viewings. Director Dave Parker has crafted a movie that's well-conceived, well-paced, and as far as I'm concerned, should be well-received.
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Thu, 24 September 2009
Blame the zombies or blame Cthulhu. Whatever the reason, Brother D swapped two voicemails sent in to MOZ Central from the Don't Look in the Podcast crew, and played the wrong one yesterday. Remember in Episode 087 when Brother D and Miss Bren refer to a review of Zone of the Dead? Yeah, THIS is the ACTUAL review! Enjoy the review (and a small Zombie Beat update!) |
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Thu, 24 September 2009
Something that hasn't happened in a long time here at Mail Order Zombie happens in this week's episode - you'll have to listen to the four movie reviews to find out what it is! In order, Miss Bren and Brother D review the Jeff Heimbuch movie The Ties That Bind, a short zombie movie based on a Brian Keene short story. Upcoming MOZ webmaster Chris Toohey brings us the first installment of his Couch of the Dead, in which he presents an informal review of the David Decoteau movie Ring of Darkness. Brother D flies solo to review Blood of the Beast, a Georg Koszulinski-directed movie from 2003 featuring clones, zombies and the fall-out of World War III. The big review this week is a review of the movie Zombieland; Brother D and Miss Bren were joined by Zombie Hunter Tony and Headshot Heather for this review and discussion of the upcoming theatrical release. (And if you count the call-in from the Don't Look in the Podcast crew from Horror Realm in which they talk about the movie Zone of the Dead, that gives us a FIFTH review this week!) We still need your answers for the current Zombie Aptitude Test, and in the Feedback Discussion, not only is listener feedback highlighted, but the winners to two contests are announced! Of course, no episode would be complete without the week's select zombie news in the Zombie Beat.Mail Order Zombie feed - http://feeds.feedburner.com/MailOrderZombie Mail Order Zombie forums - http://www.popsyndicate.com/forums/viewforum/86/ Email us at MailOrderZombie@gmail.com or call us at 206-202-2505! Vote for us at Podcast Alley at http://tinyurl.com/mozvote/ Support the show at http://www.tinyurl.com/mozsupport/ Family Movie Night - http://blog.fmnpodcast.com/ Don't Look in the Podcast - http://www.dontlookinthepodcast.com The Ties That Bind - http://www.thetiesthatbindmovie.com Patrick Swayze in Zombieland - http://tinyurl.com/swayzeland Zombieland 2 and DVD news - http://tinyurl.com/zland2 We Will Bury You comic written by Brea Grant - http://tinyurl.com/breaburyyou Left 4 Dead 2 banned - http://tinyurl.com/l4d2ban LOLCats and Zombie Apocalypse - http://tinyurl.com/lolzombie 12 gadgets to survive the apocalypse - http://tinyurl.com/12gadget Tom Savini's Death Island - http://tinyurl.com/saviniisland Zombie Ammo Targets - http://tinyurl.com/zombietargets Paul McCartney, Woody Harrelson and zombies - http://tinyurl.com/woodypaul (Various production music produced by Kevin MacLeod) |
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Thu, 17 September 2009
Episode 86 of Mail Order Zombie has not one, not two, but THREE zombie movie reviews! Brother D reviews Eat Me! from director Katie Carman and O.C. Babes and the Slasher of Zombietown from director Creep Creepersin, and Aaron from the Zedword Zombie Blog brings us a near-exclusive review of Survival of the Dead! Also, Trent Haaga, a writer/producer/actor whose movies have appeared on Mail Order Zombie six times since our launch, swings by for an interview in which he talks about his start with Troma, his time at Full Moon, writing Feeding the Masses and Deadgirl, as well as his experiences attending an Eastern European zombie walk. The answers from last month's Zombie Aptitude Test are reviewed (and remember, we're still accepting answers for this month's ZAT as well!), and Miss Bren joins Brother D during the backhalf of the show for this week's Feedback Discussion. Brother D rocks the Zombie Beat this week, but not without his MOZ news team Need-a-Nickname Scott and his wife Tracey picking out the best of this week's select zombie news.Mail Order Zombie forums - http://www.popsyndicate.com/forums/viewforum/86/ Email us at MailOrderZombie@gmail.com or call us at 206-202-2505! Vote for us at Podcast Alley at http://tinyurl.com/mozvote/ Support the show at http://www.tinyurl.com/mozsupport/ Eat Me! - http://www.coldhandsproductions.com/eatmefilm.html Maelstrom: The Zombie Opera on DVD - http://zombieopera.net/Maelstrom_The_DVD.html Zombie Encounter & Film Festival - http://tinyurl.com/sfsnnj 5 Popular Zombie Survival Tactics That Will Get You Killed - http://tinyurl.com/5killed Night of the Living Dead: Origins in 3D - http://tinyurl.com/origins3d Zombies wanted for paintball targets - http://tinyurl.com/targetzombies Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Deluxe Heirloom Edition - http://tinyurl.com/ppzdeluxe RiffTrax: Plan 9 from Outer Space ENCORE - http://tinyurl.com/plan9encore Ron Jeremy in Blood Moon Rising - http://tinyurl.com/rjbloodmoon Zombies invade Firestorm Cafe and Books - http://tinyurl.com/firestormzombie Firestorm Cafe and Books - http://www.firestormcafe.com/ Left 4 Dead 2 boycott leaders fly to Valve - http://tinyurl.com/l4d2boycott1 Left 4 Dead 2 boycott leaders visit Valve HQ - http://tinyurl.com/l4d2boycott2 The Wildclaw Theater sponsors Zombie Bowling II - http://tinyurl.com/wildclaw2 My Zombie Pin-up - http://www.myzombiepinup.com/ (Various production music produced by Kevin MacLeod) |
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Mon, 14 September 2009
Steve and Gord from the Bonebat Show have been great friends of Mail Order Zombie, and we're definitely looking forward for to their milestone 2nd Anniversary Show on September 20th!
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Thu, 10 September 2009
We've gathered movie reviews, interviews and zombie news for Episode 85 of Mail Order Zombie, the only zombie and horror movie podcast based out of the Pacific Northwest! Tempe Entertainment's The Brass Ring, directed by William Schotten, and Zombie Abomination: The Italian Zombie Movie Part 1, directed by Thomas Berdinski, are lined up for their Headshot reviews. Brother D interviews Revenant Magazine's Geoff Bough, and Miss Bren chats with Eric S. Brown, author of Season of Rot and World War of the Dead. We're still accepting answers for the current Zombie Aptitude Test, or ZAT (and last month's ZAT answers will be reviewed next week in Episode 86). We had some very interesting questions posed, and Bren and D spend some time going over everyone's emails and voicemails in the Feedback Discussion in the backhalf of the episode. And pay special attention to the Beat this week - there's a contest or two nestled amongst the week's select zombie news!Mail Order Zombie forums - http://www.popsyndicate.com/forums/viewforum/86/ Email us at MailOrderZombie@gmail.com or call us at 206-202-2505! Vote for us at Podcast Alley at http://tinyurl.com/mozvote/ Support the show at http://www.tinyurl.com/mozsupport/ Eric S. Brown - http://www.myspace.com/esbrown4 Zombie Abomination - The Italian Zombie Movie - http://italianzombiemovie.com/ George Romero on MySpace - http://www.myspace.com/OfficialGeorgeRomero James Cheetham - http://www.myspace.com/jamescheetham Horror Realm - http://www.horrorrealmcon.com/ Hollywood Horror Film Festival - http://hollywoodawards.com/horror.html Will It Kill a Zombie? - http://www.zombiecommand.com/news/kill-zombie/ 13 Most Bad Ass Zombie Killers - http://tinyurl.com/13badass The 20 Weirdest Zombies Movies Ever Made - http://tinyurl.com/20weird Resident Evil reboot? - http://tinyurl.com/rereboot Injectable brain gel - http://tinyurl.com/brainfertilizer Atlanta Zombie Symposium - http://tinyurl.com/atlzombie Robert Kirkman talks about The Walking Dead on TV - http://tinyurl.com/kirkmantv Fort Zombie announced - http://tinyurl.com/fortzombie Dragon*Con Thriller record attempt - http://tinyurl.com/thrillerattempt (Various production music produced by Kevin MacLeod) |
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Sat, 5 September 2009
The following are the entries from August's Zombie Aptitude Test Extra Credit contest. Please take the survey beneath the pics to help choose a winner! This survey will be open until September 21st, 2009. Good luck to all the entrants!
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Thu, 3 September 2009
The Post Script breaks format this week - instead of a book review, Miss Bren interviews Rhiannon Frater, author of the As the World Dies trilogy in this week's show. Brother D brings in two more movie reviews when he casts his Headshot-delivering critical eyes at Clint Keller's Road to Oblivion and the "animagic" special Mad Monster Party. Dr. J is back with a new installment of Med of the Dead, and because it's a new month, there's a new question-of-the-month with the Zombie Aptitude Test. The Feedback Discussion holds down the backhalf of the show (where Wayne Kotke has a special brief message for Brother D), and the Zombie Beat brings in the beginning of the show with the week's selected zombie news courtesy of MOZ Cub Reporter Need-a-Nickname Scott and a special guest.Mail Order Zombie forums - http://www.popsyndicate.com/forums/viewforum/86/ Email us at MailOrderZombie@gmail.com or call us at 206-202-2505! Vote for us at Podcast Alley at http://tinyurl.com/mozvote/ Support the show at http://www.tinyurl.com/mozsupport/ Killer Keller Pictures - http://www.killerkeller.webs.com TWSS Productions - http://www.twssproductions.webs.com Rhiannon Frater - http://rhiannonfrater.blogspot.com/ Zombies demand healthcare - http://tinyurl.com/zedhealth Steven Schlozman, zombie expert - http://tinyurl.com/Schlozman Left 4 Dead 2 'Dark Carnival' campaign at PAX - http://tinyurl.com/l4d2carnival Revenant: The Premiere Zombie Magazine, Issue #0 - http://www.revenantmagazine.com/Issuezero.htm Robert R. Best, author of Lakewood Memorial - http://www.robertrbest.com The real reasons Pittsburgh is the most livable city - http://tinyurl.com/zpittsburgh Haunting Kira - http://www.hauntingkira.com/ Zombie Cop appears on "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" - http://tinyurl.com/zcopCSI Dead Air - http://www.deadair-movie.com/ The Walking Dead Google map - http://tinyurl.com/wdgmap Zombies to attack Sherman Oaks wedding - http://tinyurl.com/zedwedding (Various production music produced by Kevin MacLeod) |
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Mon, 31 August 2009
On Monday, August 31, Episode #105 of Dread Media hit the podosphere at http://www.dreadmedia.net. In addition to some guy named Brian Keene appearing on that show, Brother D joins Desmond Reddick for Part Two of the Summer Knights wrap-up/roundtable!
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Sun, 30 August 2009
During the Feedback Discussion of Episode 83, we heard from Zombie Farmer and Timmy. In their message, Timmy mentioned swinging by MOZ Central, and we have a picture of what he looked like when he got here!
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Wed, 26 August 2009
It all comes down to this - the final week in the Summer Knights event! In Episode 83 of Mail Order Zombie, Brother D reviews the fourth Blind Dead film, Night of the Seagulls. In Episode 104 of Dread Media, Desmond Reddick also reviewed the film, and together, Brother D and Des discuss the franchise as a whole. Part 1 of this discussion takes place in MOZ #83, and Part 2 will take place in Dread Media #105 (you are listening to Dread Media at http://www.dreadmedia.net/, aren't you?). Also this week, Mark E. Poole's Dead Moon Rising gets the Headshot Review treatment when Brother D reviews a movie that was donated to the show by a generous member of the Mail Order Zombie Family (you can donate movies to the show, too, by visiting http://tinyurl.com/mozwish/!). Answers for the current Zombie Aptitude Test are still being collected (and remember - there is a contest attached to the ZAT this week, and you could win a Mail Order Zombie prize pack!). Emails and voicemails from the MOZ Family bring Miss Bren to the table for the Feedback Discussion (and one voicemail left by long-time-listener-first-time-caller Zombart made its way into this week's select zombie news in the Zombie Beat!).Mail Order Zombie forums - http://www.popsyndicate.com/forums/viewforum/86/ Email us at MailOrderZombie@gmail.com or call us at 206-202-2505! Vote for us at Podcast Alley at http://tinyurl.com/mozvote/ Support the show at http://www.tinyurl.com/mozsupport/ Fan Kids: The Podcast - http://www.fankidspodcast.com/ Deadwalkers - http://www.deadwalkersmovie.com/ The Law Offices of Hardov, Fletch, Heders & Cooper - http://zombielawcenter.com/ Zombie Will - http://zombiewill.com/ Thriller @ Dragon*Con - http://www.dragonconthriller.com/ Spooky Empire - http://www.spookyempire.com/ Shreveport Zombie Walk - http://www.myspace.com/shreveportzombiewalk/ Night of the Living Dead in 3D at 5th Annual Johnny Ramone Tribute - http://www.johnnyramone.com/ Zombie Prom on the stage October 29-31, Newnan, GA - http://newnantheatre.org/auditions.html/ Annee Pocalypse! - http://www.hubrisproductions.com/annee.htm/ Zombie Outbreak Film Festival - http://www.horrorsociety.com/festivals/ Zombie Tycoon - http://tinyurl.com/zombietycoon/ "I Hate This" by Chickenhawk - http://tinyurl.com/chawkhate/ Day of the Dead: Epidemic - http://tinyurl.com/dayepidemic/ Bad news for Carriers release - http://tinyurl.com/carriersclose/ The 4th Reich - http://tinyurl.com/4thnazi/ Zombies in St. Florian - http://tinyurl.com/zombiechurch/ Zombie Boot Camp - http://tinyurl.com/zombiebootcamp/ |
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Wed, 26 August 2009
MOZ Family Member Richard from Witchita sent this graphic to MOZ Central not too long ago.
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Wed, 26 August 2009
No matter your political view, it's always nice to see zombies mentioned in the mainstream, and when Max Brooks is brought to the table, it's even better.
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
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Fri, 21 August 2009
Big Man Japan, also known as Dai-Nipponjin, is an overly long near-mockumentary following Daisatô, a lonely superhero who's fallen out of favor with the general public. Directed by Hitoshi Matsumoto, who also stars in the film as Daisatô, the superhero with a low publicity rating, Big Man Japan presents its story in a fashion similar to the television show "The Office." A shoulder-mounted camera follows Daisatô through his routine-filled life, and occasionally, monsters show up to threaten the country. When this happens, Daisatô nonchalantly reports to one of a handful of facilities scattered throughout Japan, has electricity pumped into his body through some clips attached to his chest, and grows to Godzilla-like stature to battle the offending and similarly-sized monster.
And afterward? He spends some time cooling down/moping until he shrinks back down to normal size and continues with his mundane existence until the next monster comes along. Matsumoto co-wrote the movie with Mitsuyoshi Takasu, and while some of the storytelling style has an improved “that-just-happened” feel, the story is quite tight and at times, poignant. Daisatô comes from a line of heroes who have, throughout history, called themselves “Big Man Japan” and done battle against various kaiju threats over the years. At one point, the hero was worshipped, but these days, the people of Japan don’t look upon their national hero with any sense of hero worship. The budget’s been cut, and even the government doesn’t give their hero the support or respect once reserved for Big Man Japan. The scene in which the customary ceremony that takes place before Daisatô’s transformation into Big Man Japan is particularly telling – it takes place in a cluttered government office of some sort, and even the documentary crew seem a bit disrespectful as they have no problem interrupting the ritual and asking them to start over so they can get a better camera shot. As for Big Man Japan himself, he’s a CG creation. Every monster in the movie is. Sometimes they look okay; sometimes they look like something out of a video game cut scene. I understand not wanting to rely on having an actor wear a rubber suit or creating a miniature city for actors to destroy, and most of the monsters Big Man Japan fights are just un-humanoid enough that it would have been difficult to create a prosthetic make-up effect/suit that would not have blown the credibility and the reality presented in the rest of the movie. Overall, the movie runs a bit long. While the scenes featuring Daisatô do serve their purpose, they sometimes threaten to bore the audience. Additionally, the monster-fighting scenes do run a bit short, but the focus of this movie is not on kaiju-fighting; it is on Daisatô’s dreary existence as a government superhero whose country would rather forget about him.
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Thu, 20 August 2009
There's art house and then there's art school, and Severed Ways: The Norse Discovery of America is neither. Tony Stone is the writer/director behind the movie, and I have to be completely honest – I don’t quite understand what his point was. I mean, it’s not like the movie’s incomprehensible. I get it. It’s not hard to follow. Vikings show up on the shores of Greenland, a couple of them get left behind, and . . . heavy metal plays in the background. Severed Ways isn’t necessarily an experimental movie – there’s a semblance of narrative here. And it’s easy to follow, especially since we have Chapter title cards guiding us through the film. Why we have Chapter marks in the movie itself I don’t quite understand, but in case you’re having trouble following along, or if you a writer/director who’s having a hard time connecting story sequences, I suppose they’re helpful. I'd like to mention what I liked about the movie. It looks great. The minimalist production design succeeds in making the woods and coast of modern-day Just turn down the volume. The movie’s gimmick . . . er, soundtrack is made up of songs from Popol Vuh, Judas Priest and Burzum. I understand the connection between Vikings and Norwegian death metal, as tenuous as the connection might be, but to drop Morbid Angel’s 'Desolate Ways' into a movie that the filmmakers are obviously trying to present in a somewhat realistic sense didn’t seem to make sense. Stone takes great care in presenting how real, or as the DVD cover tells us, how “gritty” the Vikings’ reality was, but the inclusion of this music made the movie feel like a long experimental music video. Whether Severed Ways: The Norse Discovery of America is a long music video or a gritty historical epic, including a scene in which one of the characters defecates and then wipes himself with the available foliage does nothing to make the movie interesting or worth your time.
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Thu, 20 August 2009
Week 82 of Mail Order Zombie brings you Week Three of Summer Knights, the crossover event between Mail Order Zombie and Dread Media during which each of Amando de Ossorio's Blind Dead films are reviewed on both shows. This week, Brother D reviews the third film of the series, The Ghost Galleon. Also, Brother D takes a look at the upcoming anthology horror movie Grave Mistakes, coming soon from direct Chris LaMartina. The current Zombie Aptitude Test has a contest attached to it, and the winner will receive a Mail Order Zombie prize pack. You want more reviews? How about a review of the videogame Onechanbara: Bikini Samurai Squad, courtesy of Saint Nasty? And how about this? The Post Script is back; Miss Bren reviews the book The Estuary by Derek Gunn. Mathew from Shelbytownship, Michigan, hits the MOZ Family with another installment of his ABCs of Zombies, and the Feedback Discussion takes up the backhalf of the show (and during the discussion, Miss Bren learns something about her buzzing nemeses!). And before all this, we get a report from the Zombie Walk from Gen Con 2009! (And check out Need-a-Nickname Scott and Tracey at the Zombie Walk here - http://tinyurl.com/naov4n . . . !)Mail Order Zombie forums - http://www.popsyndicate.com/forums/viewforum/86/ Email us at MailOrderZombie@gmail.com or call us at 206-202-2505! Vote for us at Podcast Alley at http://tinyurl.com/mozvote Support the show at http://www.tinyurl.com/mozsupport Dread Media - http://www.dreadmedia.net Grave Mistakes - http://www.myspace.com/gravemistakesmovie Know Nothing Music Show - http://knownothingmusicshow.podomatic.com/ Don't Be a Zombie at Work - http://www.dontbeazombieatwork.org 28 Days Later comic - http://tinyurl.com/28dayslatercomic Third Left 4 Dead 2 campaign revealed - http://tinyurl.com/thirdl4d2 When Zombies Attack!: Mathematical Modelling of an Outbreak of Zombie Infection - http://tinyurl.com/zombiemath Zombie Ants Controlled by fungus - http://tinyurl.com/antzombie Donny Dirk's Zombie Den - http://tinyurl.com/donnydirk Resident Evil 4 moved up three weeks - http://tinyurl.com/re4update New pics from Survival of the Dead - http://tinyurl.com/newsurvpics (Various production music produced by Kevin MacLeod) |
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Tue, 18 August 2009
It's been awhile since we've done one of these! In this episode of MOZ Presents: The Munchies, Brother D goes over a number of movies in a series of quick reviews (House, Eden Lake, The Alphabet Killer, Bled, Gothkill, Frankenhood and Stuck). Miss Bren joins him for two more in depth reviews of the movies Eden Log and The Mutant Chronicles, and then a special guest drops by to announce the winners of the Anacondas: Trails of Blood DVD contest. |
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Mon, 17 August 2009
Dexter: The Third Season hits DVD tomorrow (8/18/09), and Mail Order Zombie wants to help you keep on your toes! Sure, you may watch a lot of zombie movies, but will that help you against a run of the mill serial killer? Not that Dexter is "run of the mill," of course!
To enter this contest, email your name and mailing address to MailOrderZombie@gmail.com. Winners will be determined next week on August 24th! We have three copies of Dexter: The Third Season to give away - good luck!
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Thu, 13 August 2009
Recorded in the Pacific Northwest and available for download around the world, Episode 81 of Mail Order Zombie is filled with zombies, undead Templar knights, guest appearances and . . . food? This is the second week of Summer Knights, which means Brother D is reviewing the second film in Amando de Ossorio's Blind Dead series, Return of the Evil Dead (along with Desmond Reddick at Dread Media at http://www.dreadmedia.net). Illwy Productions' Of the Living Dead is also reviewed this week. The answers from July's Zombie Aptitude Test question are finally shared with the Mail Order Zombie Family, and remember, this month's ZAT question has an opportunity to earn you extra credit with a contest! Zombie Hunter Tony's new segment Staying Fed in the Land of the Dead makes its debut this week, and Corey Graham from the Midnight Podcast joins Brother D for the first part of a two-part mini-roundtable in which they answer questions from the MOZ Family and listeners of the Midnight Podcast. Miss Bren and Brother D end the episode with another healthy round of Feedback Discussion.Mail Order Zombie forums - http://www.popsyndicate.com/forums/viewforum/86/ Email us at MailOrderZombie@gmail.com or call us at 206-202-2505! Vote for us at Podcast Alley at http://tinyurl.com/mozvote Support the show at http://www.tinyurl.com/mozsupport Dread Media - http://www.dreadmedia.net Internet connects zombies for Salt Lake City Zombie Walk - http://tinyurl.com/slczwalk Busy Milla Jovovich's wedding and zombies - http://tinyurl.com/millawedding Survival of the Dead at Fantastic Fest - http://tinyurl.com/romerofest Toronto Zombie Walk: Special Director's Cut Edition - http://www.torontozombiewalk.ca/ Newmarket Recreation Department summer camp performs "Thriller" - http://tinyurl.com/thrillernewmarket Dana Stow & Christopher Noon mention zombies in their wedding vows - http://tinyurl.com/zombievow Barack Obama, zombie killer - http://tinyurl.com/evilpres My Rotten Life - http://tinyurl.com/rottenlife Record-Setting I Spit on Your Rave - http://tinyurl.com/spitrave Zombies on Smallville - http://tinyurl.com/smallvillezed Zombies on Medium - http://tinyurl.com/mediumzed The Walking Dead coming to TV - http://tinyurl.com/walkingdeadtv Shaun of the Dead crashes Universal Studios' Hollywood Horror Nights 2009 - http://tinyurl.com/universalzed Bruce La Bruce's LA Zombie - http://tinyurl.com/LAZombie Star Wars: Death Troopers - http://tinyurl.com/swdeath Death Troopers in Star Wars Galaxies - http://tinyurl.com/galaxyzed RiffTrax LIVE: Plan 9 From Outer Space - http://tinyurl.com/plan9live |
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Thu, 6 August 2009
Episode 80 kicks off with Summer Knights, Mail Order Zombie's month-long look at Amando de Ossorio's Blind Dead films (along with Dread Media); Brother D tries a bit of Spanish when reviewing the first film in the franchise, Tombs of the Blind Dead from 1971. He'll also review the 1980 Bruno Mattei film Hell of the Living Dead. After the Introduction and the news in the Zombie Beat (special thanks to Need-a-Nickname Scott and Jay Emmitt for their hard work this week!), Brother D and Miss Bren are joined by Aaron from Zed Word: The Zombie Blog for a lengthy discussion of the upcoming Steven Rumbelow adaptation of the David Moody novel Autumn. A new Zombie Aptitude Test question is also announced, and this time, a contest is worked into the ZAT - score! Mail Order Zombie forums - http://www.popsyndicate.com/forums/viewforum/86/ Email us at MailOrderZombie@gmail.com or call us at 206-202-2505! Vote for us at Podcast Alley at http://tinyurl.com/mozvote Support the show at http://www.tinyurl.com/mozsupport Dread Media - http://www.dreadmedia.net Autumn - http://www.autumnthemovie.com [REC] 2 Teaser - http://tinyurl.com/teaserrec2 |
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Sun, 2 August 2009
We live in a wonderful technological age. The Internet can help put movie enthusiasts in contact with movie makers and movie suppliers; nearly every cinematic craving can be met be filled with a bit of time, research, patience and communication. Except for Siege of the Dead. Brother D heard about this movie from a friend at a film festival a few years ago, and has since then been trying to find it for himself. He's been told it's a great no-budget independent movie, but the moviemakers are no longer selling it online. The production company's website is no more, and the only clip Brother D has seen of the movie is the trailer on YouTube. Initial attempts at contacting anyone involved in the movie have not been productive, but we're not giving up! Mail Order Zombie family - do any of YOU have this movie? Brother D would really like to see it - not necessarily to review on the show (although that would probably happen!), but to finally see it for himself! Can you help hook a Brother up?
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Sat, 1 August 2009
The Video Dead is a zombie movie that's never had a proper DVD release, and in this day and age of distributors finally starting to release the films that have been gathering dust in their vaults, someone's trying to make sure The Video Dead doesn't continue to gather that dust! Head over to http://www.myspace.com/thevideodeadondvd to learn more about this fan's efforts to make this DVD available.
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Thu, 30 July 2009
It's Zombie Movie Veterans' Week here at Mail Order Zombie Central! Larry Purtell, veteran zombie movie actor (Zombie Campout, Die-Ner (Get It?), Dozers, Zombie Ed), drops by for an interview with Brother D and answers the question: "How does one go from acting in church plays to wrangling zombies?" (Mr. Purtell was very generous with his time, and has sent Mail Order Zombie several photos from his time working on Zombie Campout as well as at the Silo X Haunted Attraction, and throughout the week, these pics will turn up on MailOrderZombie.com.) Another zombie movie veteran - Trent Haaga - also gets a little love this week when Brother D reviews 2002's Dead & Rotting (he appears in front of the camera in this one!) and the upcoming release Deadgirl (he wrote this one!). Miss Bren hits the backhalf of the show for a massive Feedback Discussion in which the [REC] vs. Quarantine conversation continues, we talk about Swan Song a bit more, and there's news about Phantasm II. (Brother D and Miss Bren also appeared on Dead Lantern's World Famous Splattercast this week in Episode 141 to discuss the Mad Max franchise. Brother D also joined Desmond Reddick to discuss the film scores of Clive Barker in Episode 100 of Dread Media.) Mail Order Zombie forums - http://www.popsyndicate.com/forums/viewforum/86/ Email us at MailOrderZombie@gmail.com or call us at 206-202-2505! Vote for us at Podcast Alley at http://tinyurl.com/mozvote Support the show at http://www.tinyurl.com/mozsupport Phantasm DVDs in the MOZ Marketplace - http://tinyurl.com/mozphantasm RIP Clayton Hill - http://tinyurl.com/ripclaytonhill Colin theatrical release - http://tinyurl.com/colinrelease Help support Zombie, Indiana - http://www.9401productions.com/donations_for_zombie_in.html - http://www.chicagohorror.com/?q=node/223 |
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Tue, 28 July 2009
Mail Order Zombie and the Midnight Podcast are teaming up for a crossover mini-roundtable Q&A, and while Corey and Brother D can certainly sit and just stare at each other for half an hour, it might be more fun for the listeners to participate by submitting their own questions to be bandied between the two of them! If you’ve ever wanted to know what these two titans of zombie movie knowledge think, email your questions now to MailOrderZombie@gmail.com. This recording is happening Saturday, August 1st, so we need your questions ASAP. Corey’s posting a similar call for questions at his website. Here’s the twist - Brother D isn’t going to see the questions Corey gathers and Corey isn’t going to see the questions Brother D gathers, so the answers will come as fast and furious as a 28 Days-style zombie. (That’s right. We called them zombies. What?) We can’t promise we’ll get to all the questions if we get a lot, but we’ll certainly try! This is gonna rock, y’all! |
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Thu, 23 July 2009
Where else are you going to go to hear about a zombie opera? No where but Episode 78 of Mail Order Zombie. Brother D and Miss Bren attended Maelstrom: The Zombie Opera last weekend, and they bring you a review of the production as well as interviews with the cast and crew. (Mail Order Zombie would like to thank Reed Reimer, Ben Larson, Nico Izambard, Viktor Maddok, Damien Brooksbank, Claire Craig-Sheets, Anna Viemester, Jeremy Griffin, Bryan Coover and the staff of the Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center for hosting us and giving us a moment of their time.) Maelstrom: The Zombie Opera runs through July 25th, 2009. Also this week, in Miss Bren's Post Script, she reviews the short zombie novel Dead Earth: The Green Dawn by Mark Justice and David T. Wilbanks. Movie-wise, Brother D reviews the Joseph D. Smith zombie movie Zombie Campout from 2003. Answers for the July Zombie Aptitude Test are still due, and in the Feedback Discussion, the movies [REC] and Quarantine get a little more discussion . . . among other things. Mail Order Zombie forums - http://www.popsyndicate.com/forums/viewforum/86/ Email us at MailOrderZombie@gmail.com or call us at 206-202-2505! Vote for us at Podcast Alley at http://tinyurl.com/mozvote Support the show at http://www.tinyurl.com/mozsupport Viktor Maddock - http://www.myspace.com/maddok Dead Earth: The Green Dawn - http://tinyurl.com/deadearthps Survival of the Dead, [REC] 2 and Jennifer's Body at the Toronto International Film Festival - http://tinyurl.com/tiffannounce (Various production music produced by Kevin MacLeod) |
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Mon, 20 July 2009
If you're in the Pacific Northwest, and you're a zombie movie fan, you owe it to yourself to see Maelstrom: The Zombie Opera at the Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center in Portland, OR. We'll be covering this in Episode 78 (with interviews!), but the show only runs one more weekend - July 23rd, 24th and 25th - so if you're interested, and you're in the area, you need to see Maelstrom. You can learn more about Maelstrom: The Zombie Opera at http://www.zombieopera.net.
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Thu, 16 July 2009
Episode 77 marks a milestone for us here at Mail Order Zombie - can you guess what it is before Brother D fails to keep anyone in suspense and mentions what the milestone is less than one minute into this week's show? Speaking of suspense, Miss Bren and Brother D sat down to watch [REC] from directors Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza, and then Brother D reviewed the Blaine Cade and Jason Horton directed upcoming zombie apocalypse movie Edges of Darkness. One of these two movies made Brother D jump. You'll have to listen to the reviews to find out which one. O'Day is back with Part Two of his Undead Combat series in MOZ's Survival Tips, and this time around, he goes over the use of firearms in a world overrun by the undead. After Need-a-Nickname Scott joins Jay Emmitt for this week's Zombie Beat, he poses a question to the MOZ Family; Brother D has a question of his own; and of course, there's the Zombie Aptitude Test question as well! The show runs a bit long this week because Miss Bren and Brother D tried to squeeze in as many emails and voicemails as possible in this week's Feedback Discussion, and Wayne Kotke does it again - we'll just leave it at that. Mail Order Zombie forums - http://www.popsyndicate.com/forums/viewforum/86/ Email us at MailOrderZombie@gmail.com or call us at 206-202-2505! Vote for us at Podcast Alley at http://tinyurl.com/mozvote Support the show at http://www.tinyurl.com/mozsupport Gunfighter Cast - http://www.gunfightercast.com/ Plants VS Zombies coming to consoles - http://tinyurl.com/pvzconsole (Various production music produced by Kevin MacLeod) |
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Sat, 11 July 2009
Head Shot from the May ZAT (Undead Karaoke)! |
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Thu, 9 July 2009
It's finally happened! Mail Order Zombie tackles an Asian zombie movie! Versus, directed by Ryûhei Kitamura, gets more than the review treatment - both Brother D and Miss Bren watched the film and discuss it at length in this episode. And because Brother D couldn't get enough samurai sword action, he also reviews Ninjas vs. Zombies from writer/director Justin Timpane. This month's Zombie Aptitude Test question, the weekly Feedback Discussion and a chunk of zombie news in the Zombie Beat round out this episode. Hang on! Email us at MailOrderZombie@gmail.com or call us at 206-202-2505! Vote for us at Podcast Alley at http://tinyurl.com/mozvote Support the show at http://www.tinyurl.com/mozsupport Resident Evil 4 coming? - http://tinyurl.com/res4coming Zombies, Blazers book series - http://tinyurl.com/blazerszombies |
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Sun, 5 July 2009
(There's also been a request to release Episode 075 without the Roundtable attached, and since we aim to please . . . Here it is!) Episode 75 of Mail Order Zombie is our most bedazzled yet! To celebrate Independence Day in the US, Brother D reviews the movie Uncle Sam, directed by William Lustig, and he's only reviewing one movie this week so that there's room for the jam-packed Feedback Discussion and the Zombie Aptitude Test answers from last month's ZAT question. This episode runs a bit longer than normal, and that's because in addition to the hefty Feedback, we've got a first here at Mail Order Zombie - we've got the First MOZ Roundtable featuring Brother D and a handful of regular Mail Order Zombie contributors. (Truth be told, there were some audio issues with the recording, so the Roundtable has been moved to the end of the episode. There's some great discussion and content here, but Skype and the other powers that be seemed to be interested in contribution their own hissy two cents worth as well, so please be patient with the audio quality!) The episode starts with a mini-tribute to Michael Jackson's Thriller music video, and this runs about 15 minutes, and then the show is off and running! Email us at MailOrderZombie@gmail.com or call us at 206-202-2505! Vote for us at Podcast Alley at http://tinyurl.com/mozvote Support the show at http://www.tinyurl.com/mozsupport Breaking News: Zombie Attack! - http://tinyurl.com/zprepare Trailer for Yoroi: Samurai Zombie - http://www.yoroi-zombie.com |
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Sun, 5 July 2009
There's been a request to make the first MOZ Roundtable available by itself, so here it is!
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Mon, 29 June 2009
How's this for a contest? Send your name and mailing address to MailOrderZombie@gmail.com, and we'll put your name in a drawing for one of three copies of Anaconda: Trail of Blood! Entries due by July 10th!
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Sun, 28 June 2009
Baby Got Brains from the May 2009 ZAT (Undead Karaoke)! (With apologies to Mix!)
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Sun, 28 June 2009
Special Announcement and a Programming Change for Mail Order Zombie: Episode 075. |
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Sat, 27 June 2009
This gives me some ideas, especially since Miss Bren and I never had a proper wedding cake . . .
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Wed, 24 June 2009
Brother D fought the internet while Miss Bren fought a wasp to bring you Episode 74 of Mail Order Zombie, the show devoted to zombie movies . . . and a little bit more! Events outside of Mail Order Zombie Central's control threatened to keep you from getting your MOZ fix, but a little help from the Mail Order Zombie Family helped to make this show one you can't miss! O'Day returns with the first installment in a series of MOZ Survival Tips instructing us on personal combat and the undead. Mathew from Shelbytownship, Michigan, brings two new installments of The ABCs of Zombies (and he's thrilled to be able to talk about a movie Brother D once called "not-a-zombie-movie"). And Jay Emmitt and Need-a-Nickname Scott step up to handle the news chores in this week's Zombie Beat. Of course, there are reviews this week as well - Brother D looks at the ultra independent movies Doomed to Consume, directed by Jason Stephenson, and Fast Zombies With Guns, directed by Bennie Woodell; and Miss Bren takes a break from her zombies to dive into the post-apocalyptic world of Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road in Miss Bren's Post Script. We're still taking answers for the June Zombie Aptitude Test; we need to know what you'd do if the zombie apocalypse was Return of the Living Dead-flavored, so call or write us to take part in this ZAT question. Remember Brother D mentioning the upcoming Summer Knights event this August? In this week's episode, a few more details are spilled for the Family. As always, the Feedback Discussion holds down the backhalf of the show. Email us at MailOrderZombie@gmail.com or call us at 206-202-2505! Vote for us at Podcast Alley at http://tinyurl.com/mozvote Support the show at http://www.tinyurl.com/mozsupport Fast Zombies With Guns - http://www.fastzombieswithguns.com The Zed Word: Zombie Blog - http://zedwordblog.blogspot.com Indie Fest USA - http://www.indiefestusa.com Kevlar Hoodie - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxwoSxXxCU8 Marvel Zombies with Literate Roots - http://tinyurl.com/mzliterate Join Need-a-Nickname Scott at Disneyland for Friends of the Magic - July 24-27, 2009 - http://www.friendsofthemagic.com (Various production music produced by Kevin MacLeod) |
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Thu, 18 June 2009
There are two zombie movies floating around right now that have zombie movies fans waiting and wondering, and Mail Order Zombie has them both right here this week in Episode 73. Brother D reviews Dead Snow, directed by Tommy Wirkola, and he and Miss Bren sit down to watch Pontypool, directed by Bruce McDonald. Brother D crashes Miss Bren's Post Script with a book review of his own when he reviews the book Zombie Holocaust: How the Living Dead Devoured Pop Culture, written by David Flint and released by Plexus Publishing Limited, and two Mail Order Zombie Family members have contributions this week: Chris Toohey reviews Scott Sigler's audio story Passenger, and Mathew from Shelbytownship, Michigan, gives us another installment in his ABCs of Zombies series. Two contests have winners announced this week, and we're still accepting answers for the current Zombie Aptitude Test. The Feedback Discussion is filled with old friends, new MOZ Family Members and funny words. Email us at MailOrderZombie@gmail.com or call us at 206-202-2505! Vote for us at Podcast Alley at http://tinyurl.com/mozvote Support the show at http://www.tinyurl.com/mozsupport Pole dancing for Dead Snow - http://tinyurl.com/snowpole Seattle Geekly - http://www.seattle-geekly.com Red, White & Dead Zombie Party - http://tinyurl.com/zombiewalkseattle Revenant Magazine - http://www.revenantmagazine.com/ Scott Sigler's Bloodcast: Season II - http://www.scottsigler.com/bloodcast-season-ii Buy Rifftrax: Night of the Living Dead - http://tinyurl.com/riffnotld (Various production music produced by Kevin MacLeod) |
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Tue, 16 June 2009
The screams of horror movie fans have finally been heard as Sony Pictures Home Entertainment unleashes the eagerly awaited 80’s horror comedy Night of the Creeps on DVD for the first time ever this October 20, 2009, featuring the Director’s Cut of this camp classic. Fans can now relive this chillingly entertaining cult classic about a small college town ravaged by killer slugs from outer space as Writer/Director Fred Dekker intended, with the original ending and loaded with killer bonus features including over sixty minutes of all-new Behind-the-Scenes featurettes. In this campy chiller, a college couple in 1959, see an object plummet to Earth like a meteor. The boy accidentally swallows a space-slug that shoots out. In 1986, two freshmen roam the campus and stumble across the corpse of the boy who swallowed the space-slug. Once thawed out, the corpse comes to life. Tune in to Episode 73 of Mail Order Zombie to hear more details about this DVD release in the Zombie Beat!
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Mon, 15 June 2009
Focus Features has released the official one-sheet for the upcoming movie 9. Click below for the full-size image.
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Sun, 14 June 2009
Crazy Lawnmower Guy sent a picture along in his email last week, telling us what would happen the next time we confuse an email from him with an email from somebody else!
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Thu, 11 June 2009
Episode 72 of Mail Order Zombie is another super-sized episode of straight-to-DVD-zombie-movie-goodness . . . and a little bit more. Brother D takes a look two zombie movies this week: Melvin, from director Henry Weintraub; and RetarDEAD, from the team of Rick Popko and Dan West, are reviewed. In the middle of the movie reviews, Brother D sits in with Miss Bren during the Post Script to talk about the post-apocalyptic novel Swan Song by Robert McCammon. Dr. J presents the next installment of his Med of the Dead series, and Zombie Hunter Tony submits another Zombie Squad report, this time covering an game store event that was crashed by zombies. Also, Miss Bren and Brother D attended the 2009 Crypticon Horror Convention in Seattle, WA, this past weekend, so in this episode, you'll get to drop in on the Phantasm panel, as well as hear from folks like Ken Foree, Adrienne King and Reggie Bannister. He didn't get a chance to do so last week, so Brother D met with Platoon of the Dead special make-up effects artist Rob Merickel at Crypticon, and this interview makes its way into this week's episode as well. You'll hear all this, plus the Zombie Aptitude Test, the Feedback Discussion, another contest and two birthday greetings in this week's episode of Mail Order Zombie. Email us at MailOrderZombie@gmail.com or call us at 206-202-2505! Vote for us at Podcast Alley at http://tinyurl.com/mozvote Support the show at http://www.tinyurl.com/mozsupport Melvin, from 531 Productions - http://www.531productions.com/melvin.html Crypticon Horror Convention 2009 - http://www.crypticonseattle.com/2009index.html Zombie Apocalypse comic news - http://www.zombieapocalypsemovie.com |
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Tue, 9 June 2009
Because the MOZ Family has demanded it, here's the song Shamblin' Back from the May 2009 ZAT (Undead Karaoke)!
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Thu, 4 June 2009
Episode 71 of Mail Order Zombie is filled with pudding! And zombie movies! And a book! And undead karaoke? In this week's episode, Brother D reviews the zombie movie DVDs Dead Summer, directed by Eddie Benevich (courtesy of SRS Cinema), and the upcoming Destined to be Ingested, directed by Sofian Khan. And how often do you get to watch a straight-to-DVD zombie movie on the big screen? Brother D did just that at the World Premiere of John Bowker's Platoon of the Dead. He also interviewed the director as well as producer Joe Sherlock. In Miss Bren's Post Script, Miss Bren reviews the short novel Deadlands by Scott A. Johnson. Throughout the entire episode, the Zombie Aptitude Test submissions are reviewed (ah, THAT'S where the undead karaoke came from!), and a new ZAT question is laid out before the class (this ZAT question was suggested by MOZ Family Member Harold Jennett, whose work you can check out at http://www.mimescomic.com/). And if you listen closely, you might hear about a contest somewhere in the episode . . . Special thanks to everyone who submitted a ZAT answer last month. Y'all know who you are . . . Scott, Tracey, Steve, Julie, Gord, Patrick, Slug, Wayne, Terror Haute Kent, Jay and Third Coast Zed . . . ! Email us at MailOrderZombie@gmail.com or call us at 206-202-2505! Vote for us at Podcast Alley at http://tinyurl.com/mozvote Support the show at http://www.tinyurl.com/mozsupport Platoon of the Dead Premiere Pictures - http://tinyurl.com/platoonpics Evil II: In the Time of Heroes trailer - http://tinyurl.com/evil2trailer (Various production music produced by Kevin MacLeod)
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Sun, 31 May 2009
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Fri, 29 May 2009
From writer/podcaster Mark Justice's website: David Wilbanks and I have sold Dead Earth: The Vengeance Road to Permuted Press. The novel is a sequel to Dead Earth: The Green Dawn, and should be out in 2010. "They crossed over from another world, bringing death and domination to Earth. With demonic technology they can raise the dead into an unholy conquering army. The "necros" destroyed Jubal Slate’s home and everyone he loved. Now the only thing that matters to Slate is payback. No matter how far he has to go or how many undead warriors he must slaughter, Slate and his motley band of followers will stop at nothing to end the reign of the aliens. Even if it costs them their lives. When you’ve lost everything, the only thing left is vengeance." (From The Department of Justice - http://markjustice.blogspot.com/2009/05/dead-earth-vengeance-road.html)
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Thu, 28 May 2009
Where can you go every May to watch zombie (and vampire) movies? Zompire: The Undead Film Festival. Where can you go to hear about the festival if you missed the event? Mail Order Zombie. In Episode 70 of MOZ, Brother D covers the event, reviewing some of the zombie movies shown (The Revenant and Morgue Story: Blood, Blowfish & Comics and a number of zombie short movies), interviewing filmmaker Kerry Prior, festival director Andrew Migliore and game designer Scott Glancy, and hanging with Mail Order Zombie Family Member O'Day. Additionally, Zombie Hunter Tony calls in a report from a local Zombie Prom. Zombie events aside, we can't let a week go by without a DVD or book review; Brother D reviews Zombiegeddon, directed by Chris Watson; and in Miss Bren's Post Script, David Wellington's Monster Island gets a little critical attention. You've got until next week to submit your answers to the current Zombie Aptitude Test which was inspired by the mockumentary The Zombeatles: All You Need is Brains, so get singing, y'all! The backhalf of the episode is set aside for the weekly Feedback Discussion, where not only do we talk about zombie movies and answer listener emails and voicemails, but Brother D questions . . . Canadian gangs? And Miss Bren finally puts her foot down; Brother D's zombie books have no place in the bathroom. Email us at MailOrderZombie@gmail.com or call us at 206-202-2505! Vote for us at Podcast Alley - http://tinyurl.com/mozvote Zombies in Teen Lit - http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09146/972132-44.stm The Revenant - http://www.therevenantmovie.com/ (Various production music produced by Kevin MacLeod) |
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Thu, 21 May 2009
Focus Features just sent this over to MOZ Central: A new era in animated storytelling begins on 9.9.09. Visionary filmmakers Tim Burton (The Corpse Bride, Charlie and The Chocolate Factory) and Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted, Nightwatch) join forces to produce wunderkind director Shane Acker’s distinctively original and thrilling tale. 9 stars Elijah Wood, John C. Reilly, Jennifer Connelly, Martin Landau, Christopher Plummer and Crispin Glover and features the music of Danny Elfman. When 9 (The Lord of the Ring’s Elijah Wood) first comes to life, he finds himself in a post-apocalyptic world. All humans are gone, and it is only by chance that he discovers a small community of others like him taking refuge from fearsome machines that roam the earth intent on their extinction. Despite being the neophyte of the group, 9 convinces the others that hiding will do them no good. They must take the offensive if they are to survive, and they must discover why the machines want to destroy them in the first place. As they'll soon come to learn, the very future of civilization may depend on them. Become a fan of the official 9 Facebook Page here:
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Thu, 21 May 2009
What better way to celebrate Episode 69 of Mail Order Zombie than to review the movies Erotic Nights of the Living Dead and Orgy of the Dead? That not enough for you? Miss Bren's Post Script tackles the naughty bits (and the non-naughty-bits) of the vampire/zombie novel Roses of Blood on Barbwire Vines. We don't spend the entire episode in the gutter; Mathew from Shelbytownship, Michigan, shares another installment of the ABC's of Zombies, and there's a sneak preview (courtesy of Third Coast Zed) of some of the answers we've received so far for May's Zombie Aptitude Test. And did somebody say, "pickles?" Email us at MailOrderZombie@gmail.com or call us at 206-202-2505! Vote for us at Podcast Alley - http://tinyurl.com/mozvote Be part of the special features for the upcoming Night of the Creeps DVD - http://tinyurl.com/alamocreeps - http://www.originalalamo.com/Show.aspx?id=6479 |
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Mon, 18 May 2009
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Thu, 14 May 2009
It's Zombie Girl week here at Mail Order Zombie as Brother D and Miss Bren are reviewing the movies Pathogen, directed by Emily Hagins (this is the only zombie movie to be directed by a twelve-year-old girl); and Zombie Girl: The Movie, directed by Justin Johnson, Aaron Marshall and Erik Mauck (the documentary following the production of Pathogen). Brother D is also reviewing the Christopher Thomas score from Zombie Girl: The Movie. In Miss Bren's Post Script, Jake's Wake, written by John Skipp and Cody Goodfellow, gets a little attention, and Mathew from Shelbytownship, Michigan, drops a few more ABCs of Zombies. We're still taking answers for the current Zombie Aptitude Test as well. The backhalf of the show is devoted to the weekly Feedback Discussion, so you'll want to check that out for this week's emails and voicemails, as well as a slip of the tongue that has given Brother D a few interesting ideas for a t-shirt design (or not!) (And remember, Brother D will be attending the Zompire Film Festival May 15-17 here in Portland, OR, where he's most excited about seeing Day of the Dead on the big screen! Check out that film festival at http://www.zompire.com.) Email us at MailOrderZombie@gmail.com or call us at 206-202-2505! Vote for us at Podcast Alley - http://tinyurl.com/mozvote Brendan O'Brien on Rising Up: The Story of the Zombie Rights Movement - http://tinyurl.com/brendanrising Cheesy Nuggets Productions - http://www.cheesynuggets.com |
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Thu, 7 May 2009
Episode 67 of Mail Order Zombie is packed and stacked with over 3 hours of zombie goodness! Brother D reviews the mockumentary The Zombeatles: All You Need is Brains, as well as the upcoming zombie feature Deadlands 2: Trapped. Gary Ugarek, the writer/director of Deadlands 2: Trapped also joins Brother D for an information-filled interview in which he discusses his zombie extra experiences on the set of two big budget zombie movies, his reasoning behind directing two independent zombie movies of his own, his thoughts on film music in zombie movies, and if you stick around to the end of the show, he'll even talk about . . . food(?). In Miss Bren's Post Script, she sits down with Brother D to talk about the Margaret Atwood post-apocalyptic/dystopian future novels The Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake. Mathew from Shelbytownship, Michigan, launches his new series, the ABCs of Zombies, and the answers from the April Zombie Aptitude are reviewed before the new monthly ZAT question is introduced for May. All this, plus a smattering of Feedback makes this episode of Mail Order Zombie one of the most content-heavy to date, so strap in and make sure you pack a lunch! Email us at MailOrderZombie@gmail.com or call us at 206-202-2505! Vote for us at Podcast Alley - http://tinyurl.com/mozvote Help produce Invasion of the Not Quite Dead - http://tinyurl.com/antonylane |
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Mon, 4 May 2009
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment will release [REC], the international smash hit that inspired the Screen Gems film Quarantine, on DVD July 14, 2009. Winner of multiple awards including two Goya Awards (Spain’s Movie Awards) including Best New Actress for Manuela Velasco (Law of Desire), [REC] includes “REC: Making-Of” Featurette and both English and original Spanish language versions of the film. A beautiful TV reporter and her cameraman are doing a routine interview at a local fire station when an emergency call comes in. Accompanying the firefighters to a nearby apartment, the news team begins recording the bloodcurdling screams coming from inside an elderly woman's unit. After authorities seal off the building to contain the threat, the news crew, firefighters and residents are trapped to face a lethal terror inside. With the camera running, nothing may survive but the film itself.
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Thu, 30 April 2009
Now THIS is Episode 66 of the podcast devoted to straight-to-DVD zombie movies and a little bit more - Mail Order Zombie. This week, Brother D reviews two movies - Beneath the Surface, directed by Blake Reigle, and Die-Ner (Get It?), directed by Patrick Horvath - and Miss Bren reviews the post-apocalyptic novel On the Beach by Nevil Shute. Also, Dr. J makes Brother D's skin crawl with a new installment of Med of the Dead, and the Gary Ugarek and Brian Wright score from the upcoming zombie movie Deadlands 2: Trapped gets a good listen when Brother D reviews it (before reviewing the movie Deadlands 2: Trapped next week in Episode 067). Experience Zombies and Infected on XBox LIVE - http://tinyurl.com/xboxinfected What Does Your Doctor Think? - Dr. J's Blog - http://doctorthoughts.blogspot.com/ Die-Ner (Get It?) - http://www.die-nermovie.com/ (Miss Bren's Post Script music by Kevin MacLeod) |
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Thu, 23 April 2009
Circumstances have led to this week's show being shorter than normal. As I've mentioned in a previous episode, my stepfather recently passed away, and his memorial is taking place in Cheyenne, WY, later this week. As Miss Bren and I will be flying from the Pacific Northwest to Colorado, and then drive from Colorado to Wyoming, and then driving/flying back again a few days later, we've not been able to produce a regular episode of Mail Order Zombie this week. Reviews of Beneath the Surface and Die-ner (Get It?) will appear next week, as will a review of the score to the upcoming zombie movie Deadlands 2: Trapped. Thanks for your support, and thanks for listening!
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Thu, 16 April 2009
Miss Bren's Post Script is back in this week's episode of Mail Order Zombie, and Brother D joins her as they look at two different zombie novels - Miss Bren reviews The Rising: Selected Scenes from the End of the World by Brian Keene, and Brother D reviews Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth-Grahame-Smith. As for this week's movie reviews, Brother D fires a few more Headshots when he looks at the movies Livelihood, directed by Ryan Graham, and Black Swarm, directed by David Winning (It goes without saying that Miss Bren will not be watching Black Swarm any time soon!) A decision is made regarding whether or not the Headshot rating scale should be changed, and answers are still being collected for this month's Zombie Aptitude Test. Email us at MailOrderZombie@gmail.com or call us at 206-202-2505! Vote for us at Podcast Alley - http://tinyurl.com/mozvote The Zed Word - http://zedwordblog.blogspot.com/ Platoon of the Dead Production Diary - |
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Sun, 12 April 2009
Deadlands 2: Trapped will be playing in two different states the same Saturday, April 18th, at the following locations: Hagerstown, MD - Hagerstown 10 Cinemas (20135 Leitersburg Pike Denver, CO - HorrorFest 2009, part of the StarFest Entertainment Festival April 17-19
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Thu, 9 April 2009
Episode 063 of Mail Order Zombie is a bit longer than normal as Miss Bren and Brother D make it a point to get through the backlog of emails and voicemails in this week's Feedback Discussion, but Brother D can't let a week go by without two more movie reviews - the Ed Brisson short movie Graveyard and Doomed, directed by Michael Su, receive their headshots this week. The Zombie Beat returns to the show with Mail Order Zombie's top zombie news stories for the week, and last month's Zombie Aptitude Test question's answers are gone over in front of the class. The next installment of O'Day's Survival Tips gives us all even more information regarding how we might survive in the case of a real zombie apocalypse . . . or any other emergency, and stay tuned to the end of the show to hear a few more thoughts from the MOZ Family regarding the March 2009 HorrorHound Weekend, including thoughts from Slug! Email us at MailOrderZombie@gmail.com or call us at 206-202-2505! Vote for us at Podcast Alley - http://tinyurl.com/mozvote How to Survive (Almost) Anything: 14 Survival Skills by Laurence Gonzales - http://tinyurl.com/14skills Behind-the-scenes footage from La Horde - http://tinyurl.com/youtubehorde And no more eye trauma stories! |
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Wed, 8 April 2009
Frankenhood follows two ordinary guys, Motown and Darius, who dream about leaving behind their mundane and routine lives working at a morgue for a more exciting way of life. To their surprise, things quickly get interesting after they stumble upon their crazy co-worker attempting to bring a dead man back to life! Though strange and outrageous, the guys turn the unusual situation into an opportunity to win $25,000 by recruiting their “new” friend to enter a 3-on-3 basketball tournament. Frankenhood stars Charlie Murphy, DeRay Davis, Jasper Redd and Bob Sapp.
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Sun, 5 April 2009
Brother D reviews three DVDs this time around, taking a look at the movies Red Mist, Against the Dark and Blood, Boobs & Beast. After talking about this supernatrual thriller, this Steven Seagal (sort of) vehicle and this documentary about a regional filmmaker, Brother D also responds to a voicemail left regarding his previous review of the Friday the 13th remake. Also, the winners of the Dead in 3 Days DVD contest are announced.
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Sat, 4 April 2009
MOZ Family Member Need-a-Nickname Scott sent me the following link over at IGN: There is something funny, and something oh-so-terribly wrong about this.
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Thu, 2 April 2009
After some dramatic-traumatic travel experiences, Miss Bren and Brother D made it back from HorrorHound Weekend, and are ready to talk all about it! It was an amazing experience, despite the travel trouble getting to and from the event, and since their attending HorrorHound Weekend would not have happened without the support of the listeners and the MOZ Family, they want to share! Additionally, two more movies are reviewed this week - Graveyard Alive and Dark New World get their Headshots this episode. Also, we hear back from some of the 2008 Dead Letter Award Winners, and April's Zombie Aptitude Test question is announced. Links to HorrorHound Weekend pictures are forthcoming! Email us at MailOrderZombie@gmail.com or call us at 206-202-2505! Vote for us at Podcast Alley - http://tinyurl.com/mozvote Dark New World - http://www.darknewworld.com |
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Sun, 29 March 2009
The final day of HorrorHound Weekend has come to an end, and Brother D is supposed to be packing.
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Sat, 28 March 2009
After two days of HorrorHound Weekend, Brother D finally whips out the mic for a bit of impromptu recording from the event. |
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