Shakespeare claims it’s April, psychologists say it’s December. But I think July is the cruellest month. It’s hot; it’s grossly humid; I never manage to swing a proper holiday. This year I have the added irritant of lacking air-conditioning both at home and at work. Argh.
The Center for Disease Control has some tips to help you survive a zombie apocalypse (or more prosaice emergency).
Horror movies are celebrating their hundredth year in 2010, with the anniversary of the 1910 Edison Lab’s production of Frankenstein. Bloody Disgusting catalogs “some of the biggest…genre snubs in Oscar history, in Part Four of B-D’s ‘100 Years in Horror’ series.”
Every zombie death in The Walking Dead. 42 deaths in 1:09. (via @SFSignal)
Meanwhile, Annalee Newitz presents, “A Brief History of Zombies in America.”
The Vault of Horror has an excellent piece examining Italian zombie movies and their subversion of Catholicism.
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The Cultural Gutter 