Normally I am fairly in the know about whats coming up but I dropped the ball abit so here is a massive, massive update on horror related guests coming to you in the UK this year!
Trott the Zombie is an 8 part web story by Danny Albury & David Bispham.
'This is an epic 8 part WebSeries that follows the adventures of Trott The Zombie. As the world around him crumbles and burns, Trott struggles to adjust to his new role as a member of the Undead.'
As a fellow fan of horror and zombies I'm hoping this gets all the funding it needs not just as a horror fan but it is also amazing to see what a couple of people with a passion for horror can achieve and see their goals.
So visit their site and also give them a hand even if it's a quid or two!
Ugh.. watching Antiviral is like having sex with that one girl you have lusted after ever since you saw her just to get her home, have sex with her to find out she has a penis. That unhappy filthy and disappointed feeling you have wash over you and you can't even look at her again without cringing... Antiviral is my new 'Funny Games'
So aside from all that sexy mental imagery I just gave you'antivrial' as you can tell was.. poo. Like art student 'WHATS THE HIDDEN MEANING?' poo. Like poo poo.
Now the plot was fantastic and when I read it on the box I needed it in my life it sounded so fresh and new and a little mind fucky which horror has been lacking since like the first SAW so I bought it and settled down to watch what I thought was going to be awesome.
The plot is the world is so over obsessed with the world of the rich and famous that you can even buy the illnesses they have from a lab so you can feel closer to your target celeb. Would be cheaper and far easier if you really loved the slags from TOWIE a kebab and a pint will get you between their legs and infected with god knows what in one night of carelessness.
So people pay so much to get these viruses o feel what their favourite people feel. It's a gripping idea to think of people that obsessed with it that they want to do this to themselves but that's the madness of the media and what not.. again art student THE MEANING OF IT ALL but anyway. So this ugly as ass main guy who mumbles far too much for my liking and wished he came with subs is our main man.
(Funny enough no he doesn't live in his mothers basement)
He smuggles some viruses out in his body and sells them to a rival group. Oh this rival group also grows fake celeb meat that people can buy and eat and it's this horrid grey mush, so we have some cannibalism to be added to the plot.
He then gets sent to get a virus from this very hot very popular girl and he sneakily injects himself with it as it's brand new and no one has it. He then hears in the media that she has died and he is now infected with it and the rival group realises he has the 'Hannah' virus and basically steals his blood.
Alot of needle scenes a hell of allot of needle scenes and I really fucking hate needles so I think I watched about 1/4 of the movie that wasn't hiding behind my arm going 'IS IS OVER YET?!' yeah I am a massive wuss when it comes to needles.. I don't know what I expected to be honest.
(Arty!)
Classed as a horror but a horror it is not. Scenes of medical ickyness and possible cannibal scenes but not a horror. The only thing that was scary was the ginger main guy who looked about 12 and wearing one of his dads suits. I also have never seen someone eat and drink so much of the same sandwich an orange juice.. it was like the movie was sponsored by them or something..
It tried to be arty and gritty but lost any element of horror it ever could have had. Solely relying on it's lighting, closeups, art student faggery and the bases most people will cringe and be scared of needles. Yeah.... no.
That didn't sit in my horror collection for more then a day let me assure you. Now it haunts the shelves of CEX.
Holy crap a blast from the past and a big look into what my childhood was like. I think it was both Goosebumps and 'Are you afraid of the dark?' that helped me into the world of the super natural and a passion for horror.
It's odd as a few days ago I was thinking about the books.. and I went into a charity shop and bam! about ten copies for 29p each so I bought them all and I have decided I just need to collect them all because 1. I love to collect things and 2. I guess I just have too much space.. [yeah right, I'm a hoarder]
I really am bad when it comes to my love of collecting..
Anyway I remember having a few of these back when I was younger and really loving the show. I always remember the one with the gross evil sponge under the sink... kids being turned into dogs, the kid who bought a Halloween mask that glued itself to their face.. a camera that showed the future.. and of course.. Horrorland!
[Sadly thanks to the charity shop they had stickers all over them and thus some damage..]
For those of you who totally missed out on the awesome childhood/teen years of sitting in your garden reading one of these bad boys.. It's loads of small horror stories written by R.L Stine and spanned from 1992 to 1997 and not sure about the show but that was the books. There was 61 in total I believe with some spin off and collections.
I remember them being a little dark and sometimes as a kid genuinely scary. The series both TV and book did very well and was very popular.
I have no idea if I will enjoy them as an adult but I feel they will be great to read on bus journeys.
Well I still have lots of DVD's from my stash to give away as gifts [some good some....really bad] so every week until they are gone I will hold a contest!
You have until 14th of March till the 21st of March to enter.
Just email your reply to fucingzombiesblog@hotmail.co.uk. Add name and location also please!
Ok here we go..
What is this animated character 'Zaragoza' from The Road To EL Dorado tie with horror?
I totally didn't realise this was by the same man who did 'Don't be afraid of the dark' and 'Pans labyrinth' until I saw his name in the opening credits so my feelings towards the movie changed from 'this is more then likely going to be crap... ' to 'Oh! I don't hate that guy!'
Not many pictures mostly due to lack of them but also I didn't want to ruin it haha.
So movie starts with a new report that a man has killed two people he works with and also his wife who he is no longer seeing. Then we see two girls with a very panicked man pretty much kidnapping them. Their dad drives like a fucking asshole down an icy road and crashes and realises they are in the middle of no where.
They find a shack that just screams horror movie cliche so loud that your sitting there gripping the arms of the cinema seats bracing yourself for an obvious scare but still not sure when it will hit. The man is a blubbering mess and when he decides he's too pussy to kill himself... he decides he's the kind of man who could kill a child much easier.
The little girl looks out the window and while father of the year is blubbering she simply goes "Theres a women out there" not so scary... "Why aren't her feet touching the ground?" that one comment sent shivers down my spine and in the next second BANG dead dad.
Time skips and the uncle of crazy face dad is desperately trying to find the girls as there bodies have never been found and he is so sure they are alive and whats the best way to find your young relatives? two red necks and the dog from Lady and The Tramp. Good call.
But hey we can't judge him TOO much as his girlfriend is hot, I mean like rebel goth girl Avril Lavinie wishes she was all of that hot. Nom.
Anyway instead of me sat here drooling over fit women I will carry on.
Very different lifestyles it's hard to see how they could make a good couple, she's in a rock band and hates kids and he seems to have devoted all his time to finding kids.
Anyway the hicks while taking a piss find the crashed car and the shack and they find the two girls. Head to two in filth and holy shit the way they move, the way the scuttle across those floors and work tops, it's honestly terrifying. They are possibly the most creepy thing in the movie. ugggh!
So they get washed and cleaned up and the uncle is informed while they are being held by a child shrink. It turns out that they lived in that shack with a person they call Mama and can talk to and see where as no adults can. The oldest girl was already talking when she was lost but the youngest was only one and thus learned very little 'human' things so the oldest comes around and is very happy that her uncle is here for them.
The sister of their dead mother wants to have the kids and all things pointed to her getting them even the shrink wanted her to win but if the uncle was to give the shrink access to the crazy wilderness kids he would sway the vote and give them a huge house if he allowed it.. and so he did.
They live in the house but they don't realise that 'Mama' is a person, a being that followed the children and raised them out in the shack and saved them from their nutjob father and she's not happy that a new women is trying to take over her roll.
You see some creepy shit like you only see faint glimpses of Mama for ages, see a shape move or sneak into the walls or dart past a window. The girls aren't scared of her and we even see the youngish playing with a sheet tugging at it and having fun.. we then see her older sister walking down the hall..
It's the unseen touches like this that make the movie a very scary movie in allot of places. The tension and the fear of funnily seeing Mama. What you don't see is by far more scary then what you do. The tale unfolds of Mama's tragic past and the fight the new mother has to deal with to keep them and herself safe all the while the uncle is in a coma or just pretty much fucking useless.
It's a powerful female role movie as I've noticed most his works are.. always a strong enough main female charter who is thrown into a fucked up world.
Sadly once they start showing Mama.. alot she just looks like someone who smacked their face too hard against a concrete block and she stops being scary.. and when she looks like an angry wig running along the floor.. you get some chuckles.. some silly things like that could have been avoided to keep the scare factor.
But when you first fully see her... oh god it's scary and the way she moves.. nopenopenope fucking nope. The ending is sad and touching and I do think sad endings do have good places in horror.
Old school scares with a tragic air. More of this please and less of your fucking remakes horror world.
Well they have announced when this years WORLD ZOMBIE DAY in London will be and I am happy to pass this on to you.. it'll be Saturday the 12th of October with the start time of 1pm in London but nothing further has been announced.
Once again we will be taking the streets of London in our many blood dripping, brain eating numbers to raise money for a great cause! I hope to see ever more people there then last time!
It was fun, I met some awesome people who I talked to again at other conventions, everyone was in good spirits, some people were fantastic, so in character and I aim to be like that this year. I think I might be going alone this time sadly but gives me a chance for less natter and more ambling around and getting my zombie on!
I suggest to anyone who's never been.. dress warm, I was bloody cold and wear comfy footwear. Last year I went as zombie Bill from LEFT 4 DEAD and not sure about this year.. tempted to do zombie Dale from The Walking Dead... who knows but after seeing some of the amazing people last year I need to up my game haha.
To keep an eye out on more information on this awesome event please visit the WORLD ZOMBIE DAY page!
I know there are a few comics but this one is simply 'Dead Space' this first came out in issue format in 2008 and man if you wanted those bad boys you were looking at ALOT of money, as a big fan of the franchise but not so good at the games I had a look for them and about £50 an issue or something retarted.
But sadly for sellers/collecters and great for us cheap assholes it came out in trade back form just recently and retails for about £13.99 which is more then I pay for an average trade back but still better then £50 an issue... still.. fuck man.
So the trade back is nice and shiny and in it you get some nifty bios on the main people in the book.
Bram being a total bro and not believing in that major crazy ass Unitology and is full of 'I take no ones bullshit' so yeah he's my fav from the get go. Also I noticed when they are talking about one of the heads of Unitology they accidentally [or 'accidently'] called it Scientology hurhur I hope it was an added mistake I really do.
Anyway the story is pretty much... Unitology has been around awhile, it's before Issac's time. They find their first 'real' marker not one that they have been making. Causes allot of crazy shit like break downs, not sleeping, visions, all the good stuff you find in the novels.
So yeah Unitology and its people are fucking nuts... they beat the normal minded people.. mass suicides marker turns people into Necromorphs a load of shit goes down and the marker is moved to the Ishmara where poor ol Issac who is very very ignored and forgotten in anything else goes and has to sort some shit out.
Very basic plot, you don't find out much more of the back story but it's still enjoyable.
The art is a little odd for comics, I like mine to be more.. X-men then something different [change is scary and so are new things] but I started to like all the water colours and how they are different with the moods and actions of the comics. Sometimes the people will look ugly as ass though but it's a neat art style.
Another thing about the comic is whenever people bang on about 'Altman have mercy' or 'Altman be praised' if you have read the novel it kinda tugs at you, that poor fucker tried to bring them down, tried to stop it and warn everyone about the crazy fuckers and evil rocks and instead the bastards made him their 'leader' and killed him.
I think the comics would make more sense if you have read the novels but not important to enjoy.
Art: 4/5
Scares: 0/5
Gore: 3/5
Plot: 3/5
Overall enjoyment: 4/5
Should buy it for your Dead Space collection though, for sure.
