It's no surprise that The Walking Dead remains one of the most popular series on TV. After all, it combines the best qualities of zombie fiction into a single package: an unsettling and plausible post-apocalyptic setting; badass survivors to love and root for; intimidating villains; and some of the goriest action, scariest moments, and most…
So you’ve read The Walking Dead graphic novels thus far, and every week you eagerly await the new episode of the television version. Perhaps you’ve even read Isaac Marion’s Warm Bodies. (No? According to Angie Barry, you should.) Naturally, you’ve read the classic World War Z by Max Brooks, and rolled your eyes at the…
The marketing campaign for the movie was unavoidable. With the preponderance of supernatural romance in the media today—Twilight, The Vampire Diaries, Beautiful Creatures, etc.—of course Warm Bodies would be advertised to appeal to that ready-made audience. But if the adaptation is anything like its source material, a lot of people are going to be surprised…
Say what you will about the undead, they’re versatile. We’re already preparing for a hunka hunka zombie love from Warm Bodies, an upcoming movie based on the 2011 book by Isaac Marion. In late June or thereabouts, we’ll be visited by zombie detectives in R.I.P.D. (aka the Rest in Peace Department) a feature film based…
