World War Z is my favorite book of the last couple years. It’s not really about zombies, though they play a big part of it. I think they started talking about this movie 3 or 4 years ago. I am excite. It looks like they’ve had to rework the plot to make it an action movie, but I’m into it.
Zombies
Part of the military spent Halloween in zombie apocalypse war game
Marine and Navy special-ops soldiers are preparing for everything, including a zombie apocalypse situation.
It will play out Wednesday and Thursday at Halo’s annual Counter-Terrorism Summit security conference, which will be attended by, among other people, former Central Intelligence Agency director Michael Hayden.
Zombies will invade Paradise Point Resort, which covers 44 acres on an island that will be transformed with Hollywood-style sets, including a Middle Eastern village and a pirate cove. Some 1,000 US military personnel, police, and state and federal government officials will be charged with responding.
Via @Sclizott
Zombie flies killing honeybees
DAMN IT. Come on, zombies, leave the bees alone.
The parasitic fly lays eggs in a bee’s abdomen. Several days later, the parasitized bee bumbles out of the hives—often at night—on a solo mission to nowhere. These bees often fly toward light and wind up unable to control their own bodies. After a bee dies, as many as 13 fly larvae crawl out from the bee’s neck. The bees’ behavior seems similar to that of ants that are parasitized—and then decapitated from within—by other fly larvae from the Apocephalus genus.
Zombie bees via ebertchicago.
The Atlantic has an article about a parasite found in cat poop that might be doing something along the same lines to humans, and then a good rundown of other similar parasites.
What’s more, many experts think T. gondii may be far from the only microscopic puppeteer capable of pulling our strings. “My guess is that there are scads more examples of this going on in mammals, with parasites we’ve never even heard of,†says Sapolsky.
Zombies in Haiti
I read almost 10K words about zombies, you’re damn right I’m going to share the link. This 2 year old article explores Haiti’s real life zombie culture and could either be a great work of fiction or a sad piece of nonfiction. Check it out.
Can Zombies run?
Simon Pegg doesn’t think so.
I know it is absurd to debate the rules of a reality that does not exist, but this genuinely irks me. You cannot kill a vampire with an MDF stake; werewolves can’t fly; zombies do not run. It’s a misconception, a bastardisation that diminishes a classic movie monster. The best phantasmagoria uses reality to render the inconceivable conceivable. The speedy zombie seems implausible to me, even within the fantastic realm it inhabits. A biological agent, I’ll buy. Some sort of super-virus? Sure, why not. But death? Death is a disability, not a superpower. It’s hard to run with a cold, let alone the most debilitating malady of them all.
Via Folkinz
World War Z is coming
The movie, based on Max Brooks’ book, is finally getting going. I loved the book and am excited for the movie. Robert Richardson, who was the cinematographer on Kill Bill and Natural Born Killers, has begun work in London. Imagining how grisly Richardson will make this movie, based on his previous work, kind of makes me nervous.
Haven’t Posted About Zombies in a While
This chart not only has zombies, but ninjas and pirates, as well. How could I not?
By le loup-garou via woosk.
This Sounds About Right
Executively Produced by Elton John, Pride and Predator is “a fresh and funny way to blow apart the done-to-death Jane Austen genre by literally dropping this alien into the middle of a costume drama, where he stalks and slashes to horrific effect.” (Via)
What Does a Zombie Look For in a Woman?
Stupid zombie, you should have just applied to ZombieHarmony first.
Inspired by this Barstool Sports post and this tweet with graphical assistance from Shawn.
DOT Is Prepared For The Zombie Apocalypse
I, for one, am happy to find out that when the Zombie war starts, the DOT is ready with informative road signs.