Zombie Awareness Month: Day 5 - Plants VS Zombies

I'm at day 5 and already thinking.. why am I doing a post everyday? it's killing me.... well not literally but damn.

Plants VS Zombies

I'm sure everyone has heard of this game by now and it's many other versions. PVZ was made in 2009 and you can download it for most things for free now if I recall. I know PVZ2 is free on phones and is a great time killer if not as fun as the first lot.

PVZ is a fun, cute, tower defence game by POPCAP. It's fun, simple, colourful and at some points it can be tough and annoying. The aim of the game is to grow a garden with full attack and defence against the hordes of zombies.

Zombies and plants and different powers alike and you collect them as the game goes on. You have to really thing which plants are the best for certain jobs as once the game gets going you have more plants then you have slots.

First game had day time, night time, water, water fog , night fog and the roof. Along the main game you also have fun side games that break the main game up such as wallnut bowling, and little challenges.

There are puzzle games too which again is wallnut bowling, vasebreaker and a few other little things as well as a zen garden where you can collect plants and they grow and give you money.

PVZ has a few games out now too. 

It's a fun game and great for kids too. So if you have been living under a fucking rock and never heard of it... get on it!

Jigsaw

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Zombie Awareness Month: Day 4 - NAMCO Dark Escape 4D

Me and a galpal went to THORPE PARK on Saturday and hit up the arcade when I saw an arcade game I'd never seen before. It had a longish line to get onto it but I saw it was horror and I was all on that shit. Sadly my phone was dead and I could not take my own pics or get any footage which sucked.

It's by NAMCO and I think it came out in 2012 I've never seen it before either and I go to a fair few arcades. I think a 4D one would be reallllly pricey for most arcades to own but I think it would draw in a crowd since there's not alot of horror games in the arcades.

Only ones I can think of are the House Of The Dead ones, Silent Hill and ancient old ass Jurassic Park ones where you get shit on by dinos..

Anywho..

Dark Escape 

Face your fears with NAMCO's newest horror shooter, Dark Escape 4D. This new 3D game is in a class of its own. Wearing anti-bacterial coated 3D glasses, players try to escape from a mad man's sick and twisted game by shooting their way out with weapons that he provides. Experimental creatures and the undead leap from the game cabinet's 46" high definition screen.

Players can choose to play any of the four fear-themed stages. A bonus fifth stage is available once all four stages are completed.

THE GAME KNOWS WHEN YOU ARE SCARED
Panic sensors display each player's heart rate on the screen and records every panic attack.

YOU DON'T JUST SEE THE MONSTERS, YOU FEEL THEM TOO!
With built-in air blowers in the front and back, players feel the breath of a chasing zombie on the back of their necks or a blast of air on their face when a monster lunges at them. Heavy recoil guns and a rumble seat provide additional terrifying elements that complement the game's immersive game play.

Each player has their own 5.1 channel surround sound speakers (a total of seven + a woofer) so they can truly experience the terror coming from all around.

All of these intense features combine to create one of the most unique and frightening arcade gaming experiences ever!

The gun is alot like that of LETS GO JUNGLE in which is like a mounted machine gun which is hard to aim as the gun is awkward to get the feel of, but this is more then likely due to myself being so used to aiming with an xbox control or a gun you can move like in all the HOUSE OF THE DEAD games I've played.

So it provides you a cloth to clean the 3D glasses but it also allows you to play it in 2D if you so wish but what's the point in that huh? Each game costs £2 a shot but only an extra £1 if you want to continue once you have died.

It has options on what level you want to play based on your fears. I picked fear of the dark and it was alot of odd long necked pukey creatures and not so many zombies. It feels alot like House Of The Dead as it's zombies and other nasty mutated creatures, the graphics are good but do remind me of HOUSE 4.

The seat vibrates, you get wind blowing at the back of your neck and the controller can tell if it's made you shit yourself and trust me, I jumped alot and let out some very child like cries of fear when certain things just go RAAWR at you. The 3D is awesome and it really does look like it's coming for you.

My eyes are fucked and normally 3D does nothing for me but this one worked for me.

If anyone gets a chance to play this game... DO IT.

Scares: 5/5

Gore: 3/5

Cost: 3/5

Enjoyment: 5/5

Much love

Jigsaw

Zombie Awareness Month: Day 3 - Zombie Cocktail + Shots

Zombie Cocktail + Shots

A nice fun one for you all now. I intend to make one of these myself one day and more then likely ruin it and it'll taste like crap. But here's how we make zombie cocktails and shots!

Zombie Cocktail

A history into the Zombie Cocktail

Legend has it that Donn Beach originally concocted the Zombie to help a hung-over customer get through a business meeting.^[2] He returned several days later to complain that he had been turned into a zombie for his entire trip. Its smooth, fruity taste works to conceal its extremely high alcoholic content. Don the Beachcomber restaurants limit their customers to two Zombies apiece.^[3]

The Zombie was originally served heated, as outlined by CIE "Catering Industry Employee" who is more commonly known today as the I.B.A. HOT ZOMBIE "Juice of 1 lime, unsweetened pineapple juice, bitters, 1 ounce heavily bodied rum, 2 ounces of Gold Label rum, 1 ounce of White Label rum, 1 ounce of apricot-flavored brandy, 1 ounce of papaya juice"^[4]

According to the original recipe, the Zombie cocktail included three different kinds of rum, lime juice, falernum, Angostura bitters, Pernod, grenadine, and “Don’s Mix,” a combination of cinnamon syrup and grapefruit juice.^[5]

Beach was very cautious with the recipes of his original cocktails. His instructions for his bartenders contained coded references to ingredients, the contents of which were only known to him. Beach's original recipes for the Zombie and other Tiki drink have been published in Sippin' Safari by Jeff "Beachbum" Berry. Berry researched the origins of many Tiki cocktails, interviewing bartenders from Don the Beachcomber's and other original Tiki places and digging up other original sources. Mostly notably, Sippin' Safari details Beach's development of the Zombie with three different recipes dating from 1934 to 1956.

Due to the popularity of the cocktail during the Tiki craze and the fact that Beach both kept his recipe secret and occasionally altered it, today there are many variations of the Zombie made at many restaurants and bars, some showing few similarities to the original cocktail.

How it can be made

Prep Time: 3 minutes

Total Time: 3 minutes

Yield: 1 Cocktail

Ingredients:

• 1 ounce light rum
• 1 ounce dark rum
• 1 ounce 151-proof dark rum (optional)
• 1 ounce orange curacao liqueur
• 1/2 ounce lemon juice
• 1/2 ounce lime juice
• 1 1/2 ounces orange juice
• 1 1/2 ounces passion fruit puree (or syrup)
• 1/4 ounce grenadine
• 2 dashes Angostura bitters

Preparation:

1. Pour the ingredients into a cocktail shaker with ice.
2. Shake well.
3. Strain into a highball glass with crushed ice.
4. Optionally, float the high-proof rum on top of the 

1/2 oz Bacardi® 151 rum

1 oz pineapple juice

1 oz orange juice

1/2 oz apricot brandy

1 tsp sugar

2 oz light rum

1 oz dark rum

1 oz lime juice

Blend all ingredients with ice except Bacardi 151 proof rum. Pour into a collins glass. Float Bacardi 151 proof rum on top. Garnish with a fruit slice, sprig of mint and a cherry.

Zombie Shot

Ingredients

1 part Irish Cream

1 part Peach Schnapps

1 dash Blue Curacao

1 dash Grenadine

Glass

Shot

Instructions

1. Pour the Peach Schnapps into the glass.
2. Gently layer the Irish Cream on top.
3. Drip the Blue Curacao and Grenadine into the shot.
4. The finished product should look like a zombie's bloody brain after you have just slain it.

Enjoy all!

Much love

Jigsaw

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Zombie Awareness Month: Day 2 - My Top Zombie Movies

I'm a pretty big fan of zombie movies, least creative ones or older ones [I'm not an expert I just like what I like] and looking along my DVD collection I decided to pick out the very best ones that I own and really suggest to anyone.

[2008]

[British] 

I know the zombies are more 'infected' then actual zombies but I bet alot of people will have this on their top zombie movie list. It's amazing, it's gory, scary and well done. There isn't anything bad I can say about this movie really.... other then the shitty 28 weeks later which was a big crappy pile of shitty shit. 

Animal activists invade a laboratory with the intention of releasing chimpanzees that are undergoing experimentation, infected by a virus -a virus that causes rage. The naive activists ignore the pleas of a scientist to keep the cages locked, with disastrous results. Twenty-eight days later, our protagonist, Jim, wakes up from a coma, alone, in an abandoned hospital. He begins to seek out anyone else to find London is deserted, apparently without a living soul. After finding a church, which had become inhabited by zombie like humans intent on his demise, he runs for his life. Selena and Mark rescue him from the horde and bring him up to date on the mass carnage and horror as all of London tore itself apart. This is a tale of survival and ultimately, heroics, with nice subtext about mankind's savage nature. 

Acting: 5/5

Plot: 5/5

Gore: 5/5

Pacing: 5/5

Scares: 4/5

Overall Enjoyment: 5/5

[2009]

[Norwegian]

I know this is a silly and a total gore fest but I enjoyed it, it's a nice balance of retarded and enjoyable. I love the fun side of it and try to ignore how it's trying to be different with it's Nazi zombies...

Several friends take to the mountains and shack-up in the wilderness of back-of-beyond to enjoy a little R & R together, their peace is soon interrupted by a mysterious old man, warning them of a local curse that during the German occupation of the local area that these Nazi invaders were brutal and harsh in their methods of control. Telling of the legend of the villager's revolt that drove them up into the cold, dark mountains where they perished, that is until rumour of their return in the form of zombies, evil Nazi zombies. 

Acting: 3/5

Plot: 3/5

Gore: 4/5

Pacing: 5/5

Scares: 3/5

Overall Enjoyment: 4/5

[2004]

[USA]

One of my favourite horror movies of all time. I have seen both and the remake is my preferred one, I like the story, the sound track is freaking amazing, Johnny Cash, Disturbed and Richard Cheese? this is awesome. One of the first horror movies I ever took a massive shine to, awesome stuff.

A nurse, a policeman, a young married couple, a salesman, and other survivors of a worldwide plague that is producing aggressive, flesh-eating zombies, take refuge in a mega Midwestern shopping mall.

Acting: 4/5

Plot: 3/5

Gore: 5/5

Pacing: 5/5

Scares: 4/5

Overall Enjoyment: 5/5

[2008]

[USA]

This is such a guilty pleasure of mine but hot women, Robert Englund ... and pure silliness. It's a fun movie with enough gore and humour to make it bearable. I know many people might hate it but damn it's a funny silly flick.

In the not too distant future a secret government re-animation chemo-virus gets released into conservative Sartre, Nebraska and lands in an underground strip club. As the virus begins to spread, turning the strippers into "Super Zombie Strippers" the girls struggle with whether or not to conform to the new "fad" even if it means there's no turning back. 

Acting: 2/5

Plot: 2/5

Gore: 3/5

Pacing: 3/5

Scares: 2/5

Overall Enjoyment: 4/5

[2007]

[Spanish]

Another one you could debate is 'zombie' or not as it has alot of religious undertones so it could be zombie, infected or a possession or something. First Spanish movie I have seen and it's one of the best horror movies I've seen. I could gush about this one forever.

A television reporter and cameraman follow emergency workers into a dark apartment building and are quickly locked inside with something terrifying.

Acting: 5/5

Plot: 3/5

Gore: 4/5

Pacing: 4/5

Scares: 4/5

Overall Enjoyment: 4.5/5

[2009]

[British]

I love my Brit horrors and this is the second one on my top zombie movie list. Yes it beats SHAUN OF THE DEAD for me, I think this one is even better. It was corny and funny enough cringe worthy gore to last you a life time.

A group of men head to a remote village to help one of their friends get over his divorce; when they get there, though, they discover that all the women have been infected with a virus that makes them man-hating cannibals.

Acting: 3/5

Plot: 2/5

Gore: 3/5

Pacing: 3/5

Scares: 0/5

Overall Enjoyment: 4/5

Much love

Jigsaw

Zombie Awareness Month - Day 1

Because no nerd or even normal person now hasn't heard of zombies, or seen enough zombie media to not know about them or how to deal with them so lets see this more as a celebration to all things undead and zombie like [Or infected if you want to be mega assholes about it]

Zombies have been big for years now and I think it's mostly due to the sheer explosion of things like The Walking Dead, Left 4 Dead and having zombie add ons to popular games such as COD and RED DEAD REDEMPTION - UNDEAD NIGHTMARE.

People who like zombies have always been into them I think, like before it was cool to wear or carry your 'This is my zombie killing ____' around with you proudly to show your all hip and with the kids. Liking zombies has become so mainstream now that you can get a zombie movie about everything where as back in the day [I'm not that fucking old I know] it used to be Zombies were the lame B movie type gorefest but now they are often the nasty things that lurk while having to endure with human struggle and all that crap.

Some of us just like shooting zombies and don't care for the person's inner struggle. Thank god for stuff like L4D, House Of The Dead and other such pewpew bangbang games. Saying that I'm not a total meathead I do enjoy the whole 'It's humans who are the worst' but sometimes I want someone to get eaten by a zombie not watch a whole ep of The Walking Dead just to see a cameo by a zombie doing nothing but minding it's own business.

I think my issue with how big zombies have gotten is no one bothers to make a good zombie movie any more. I am tired of seeing _____ VS zombies, clown zombies, zombie strippers, zombie sheep or any other 'hurhur' spin on zombies.

That's why I am bigging up the good zombie things.

The Walking Dead Game by Telltale

This game is one of the best games I have ever played and this is coming from an FPS meathead who likes to explode stuff. The plot is heavy, hard hitting, soft, sweet and tragic and the fact you can pick things and your story goes with what you did? it's amazing but also makes you realise how bad of a person you are.

I've never been so drawn into a game before and really feel things. I cried like a bitch when I saw the ending. Tears of manliness flowed like waterfalls. 

Some countries even use it to teach etihics in school.

Norwegian teacher Tobias Staaby is getting a fair bit of good press today for playing Telltale's The Walking Dead with his students at Nordahl Grieg Upper Secondary School in Bergen, Norway.

Staaby incorporates the game into his religious studies curriculum to help spur discussion about morality and ethical choices.

"The Walking Dead presents some dilemmas [the students] would not have thought of otherwise," Staaby told a reporter from Norwegian media outlet NRK. "That makes their answers to a greater extent their own."

You can watch the full report from NRK in the video above, though it's probably wise to enable subtitles if you don't speak Norwegian.

Though The Walking Dead is likely the grisliest game ever used in a classroom, is hardly the first -- sandbox games like Kerbal Space Program and Minecraft have been used as teaching tools for years

See full story HERE

In The Flesh

Due to the fact I never watch TV this one slipped me by for awhile until a work mate pointed it out so I started to watch and.. it's good.

In The Flesh is a BBC three part drama in which the dead came back to life and all hell broke lose.. after the events of the zombie take over alot of zombies were rounded up and 'cured' thanks to injections which give their brains the thing that being dead took away and now they walk amongst us but with all memories of their past lives in tact.

These people are called PDS 'Partally Dead Syndrome' and they try and fit back into our world. Our story is about a boy who had killed himself and there are alot of unresolved issues in the family due to how he died.

Where he lives sadly is a very god loving, low tolerance northern community that hate 'rotters' and who lead the HVF [Human Volunteer Force] which includes our main guys sister. It shows the northern lot in a very 'nice' light but as someone from the south.. oh well.

Anyway it's about zombies who came back, got cured and have to deal with 'living' their lives again and dealing with the guilt of what they have done and also dealing with the true livings feelings towards them.

A new, fresh look on the overly done to ahem.. death zombie story.

Three parts which doesn't feel rushed as you see him coming home, the struggles he gets from a conflicted family, a community who hate him and also meeting people along the way. It's powerful and compelling and  a damn good watch.

I can't say a bad thing about it other then the fuck ugly guy called 'Dean'...

Plot: 5/5
Acting: 4/5
Gore: 4/5
Scares: 1/5
Overall enjoyment: 5/5

These two stick in my mind as some freaking amazing recent zombie things. I suggest them to anyone.

Enjoy your merry month of zombie and expect a zombie related post everyday!

Much love

Jigsaw

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POP - Cute and Creepy

I've been collecting these myself and so far I have 7.... great collection I know haha but I am sure if you've been online, forbidden planet, comic shops, conventions etc, etc you'll have seen them. They are called POP vinyl figures from FUNKO and here are some of the ones you can get.

They range from £9.99 to £15.99 I don't think any of mine have cost more then £9.99 if you want to see what they are like I did a small review on my Rick and Daryl ones awhile ago which can be found HERE

Looks stoned

I do want even if he looks like he has pizza face.

COME FOR YOUR FREE HUG

Cus the normal one wasn't enough...

GOT

Want

Vag face!

GOT

GOT

Ugly but I feel I must own it being 'Jigsaw' and all.

Fucking creepy...

All my want

I also want

cute~

Got

SOOOO MUCH WANT

Pretty pic heavy update but hey. Seems most of the POP stuff is The Walking Dead and alot are cop outs like random zombies or the same ones with flecks of blood on them. I guess someone had to be paid to unbox them.. flick red on them then pack them again for an extra £2 to the price I'm sure.

They look awesome but I keep mine in the box as they have minor cosmetic damages, all of mine seem to have some flaw. If your taking them out the boxs you might be disappointed but they look ace in their own box.

I'd say worth about a tenner but not too much more.

You can find them on AMAZON. EBAY and FORBIDDEN PLANET.

Much love

Jigsaw

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