Posts Tagged ‘zombie resource’

The Walking Dead Episode 207, "Pretty Much Dead Already"

Posted 29 Nov 2011 — by Joseph R.
Category Catholicism

The Walking Dead Season 2, Episode 7: Pretty Much Dead Already

TV Rating
TV-14

ZPAA rating
Late teen and up

Gore level
7 out of 10–Some views of the zombies in the barn; wrangling zombies stuck in the mud; gun…

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The Walking Dead Episode 206, "Secrets"

Posted 23 Nov 2011 — by Joseph R.
Category Catholicism

The Walking Dead Season 2, Episode 6: Secrets

TV Rating
TV-14

ZPAA rating
Late teen and up

Gore level
7 out of 10–chicken leg broken (while it’s still alive); zombies eating a bunch of live chickens; zombies…

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The Walking Dead Episode 205, "Chupacabra"

Posted 22 Nov 2011 — by Joseph R.
Category Catholicism

The Walking Dead Season 2, Episode 5: Chupacabra

TV Rating
TV-14

ZPAA rating
Late teen and up

Gore level
7 out of 10–A couple of zombies who wind up with impaled heads; Daryl makes a necklace of zombie ears;…

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Zombie Tax Next!?!

Posted 10 Nov 2011 — by Joseph R.
Category Catholicism

While I have a natural (at least it seems natural to me) abhorrence of most thing political, I also have a love of things completely absurd. Imagine the quandary I found myself in when I read that the United States Federal Government is trying to imple…

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Review: The Walking Dead Episode 203, "Save the Last One"

Posted 02 Nov 2011 — by Joseph R.
Category Catholicism

The Walking Dead Season 2, Episode 3: Save the Last One

TV Rating
TV-14

ZPAA rating
Late teen and up

Gore level
9 out of 10–Lots of gunshots to zombie heads with the burst of blood; one character has an intense seizure; one…

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The Walking Dead Episode 204, "Cherokee Rose"

Posted 02 Nov 2011 — by Joseph R.
Category Catholicism

The Walking Dead Season 2, Episode 4: Cherokee Rose

TV Rating
TV-14

ZPAA rating
Late teen and up

Gore level
7 out of 10–A waterlogged zombie (i.e. more bloated than rotting); flashbacks of a zombie attack and character …

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Review: Night of the Living Dead (1968)

Posted 31 Oct 2011 — by Joseph R.
Category Catholicism

Night of the Living Dead (1968) directed by George A. Romero
Having recently listened to a commentary on Shaun of the Dead, I realized I’ve only seen this first movie of the Romero zombie canon. I plan on watching one a month for coming months with…

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Review: The Walking Dead Episode 202, "Bloodletting"

Posted 26 Oct 2011 — by Joseph R.
Category Catholicism

The Walking Dead Season 2, Episode 2: Bloodletting

 

TV rating
TV-14

ZPAA rating
Late teen and up

Gore level
6
out of 10–The zombie count is down a little bit, however, Rick’s son
Carl has been shot and we see some of the surgery…

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CDC at It Again

Posted 21 Oct 2011 — by Joseph R.
Category Catholicism

The CDC marches forward with new zombie apocalypse preparedness materials. Most people would call it a comic book, but they prefer the term graphic novella, which I believe is used by no one else in the comics industry, the publishing industry, or the …

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Review: The Walking Dead Episode 201, "What Lies Ahead"

Posted 20 Oct 2011 — by Joseph R.
Category Catholicism

The Walking Dead Season 2, Episode 1: What Lies Ahead

TV Rating
TV-14

ZPAA rating
Late teen and up

Gore level
8
out of 10–Whoa, a black and white comic book gets the full color, full
motion, "realistic" treatment. Lots of zombies and other dessicated
corpses who aren’t walking around populate the episode and are pretty
unpleasant to look at. Some of them are killed in especially

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Quick Review: Zombiefication: A Short Film

Posted 17 Oct 2011 — by Joseph R.
Category Catholicism

In case you are wondering why there hasn’t been some zombie apocalypse safety awareness campaign based on airplane safety demonstrations (and let’s face it, who hasn’t?), then you haven’t seen Zombiefication: A Short Film.

The short is set in a movie …

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Zombie Movie Updates

Posted 12 Oct 2011 — by Joseph R.
Category Catholicism

Resident Evil 5 chalks up 16 injuries, but how do you identify the real injuries from the zombie makeup? From JoBlo.com:

…though 16 people were hurt on the set of Resident Evil 5, no one was
killed fortunately, but it was a scary accident. A group …

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Making the Most of the Inevitable Zombie Apocalypse

Posted 10 Oct 2011 — by Joseph R.
Category Catholicism

Cracked.com has some tips for the zombies during the zombie apocalypse: 8 Zombie Apocalypse Survival Strategies (For Zombies) Most likely you’ll be one of the zombies, so why not prepare ahead of time? Some of the tips aren’t appropriate for the kids b…

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Shaun of the Dead Commentary…

Posted 08 Oct 2011 — by Joseph R.
Category Catholicism

…by those wonderful people at A Good Story is Hard to Find. I haven’t listened yet but I will very, very soon. They always give insightful and interesting commentaries. I just listened to them discuss Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, where…

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Quick Review: I Walked With a Zombie

Posted 16 Sep 2011 — by Joseph R.
Category Catholicism

I Walked With a Zombie, 1943, directed by Jacques Tourneur

I Walked with a Zombie is one of the earliest zombie movies, made in the 1940s by producer Val Lewton. Lewton is famous for taking a very different approach to horror films than Universal Pict…

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Le Zombie

Posted 14 Sep 2011 — by Joseph R.
Category Catholicism

Newly discovered: a zombie that existed before the voodoo magic craze in the Caribbean. How could I forget about this "some assembly required" model from the lierary past?

I almost skipped this book thinking it was about a hot dog and beer restaurant

Check out more like this (though some of the language in the titles is not for the kids or the feint of eyes) at Better Book Titles, where the

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Zombie Review: The Walking Dead Vol. 9, Here We Remain

Posted 08 Sep 2011 — by Joseph R.
Category Catholicism

The Walking Dead, Vol. 9: Here We Remain by Robert Kirkman

ZPAA rating
Mid-teen and up.

Gore level
8
out of 10–Mostly human on zombie violence that is highly graphic as is
normal for this series; one suicide by running into zombies;…

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Movie Review: Zombieland

Posted 20 Aug 2011 — by Joseph R.
Category Catholicism

Zombieland (2009) directed by Ruben FleischerMPAA ratingR-Restricted: Children under 17 require accompanying parent or adult guardian, for horror violence/gore and language
ZPAA rating17 and up

Gore level7 out of 10–Even though it was played for lau…

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Quick Review: Complete Guide to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse

Posted 09 Aug 2011 — by Joseph R.
Category Catholicism

The Complete Guide to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse is a blog dedicated to preparing humans for the coming end of civilization by zombie infestation, if the economy doesn’t take us down first.

The blog provides a lot of valuable information. It covers t…

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Ultimate Survival Shotgun

Posted 12 Jul 2011 — by Joseph R.
Category Catholicism

The Art of Manliness blog has a posting titled: Arming Yourself for the Zombie Apocalypse: How to Build the Ultimate Survival Shotgun. It’s a step-by-step guide to stocking a Mossberg 500 Pump Action shotgun with all the equipment you’ll need to rough …

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