December 15, 2004

• The Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland released some useful information relating to this several months ago. Specifically, apropos Zombies: "The assailants can be stopped by removing the head or destroying the brain. Suitable tools you may find in your shed include shovels, cricket bats, and similar items." Other pertinent advice is contained therein.
• Run like hell, you stupid bastard / Run into a shed and lock it (Wolfman's going to kick the door down / Zombie's going to eat your brains)
• Vampires do not usually show any interest in bee hives. But zombies are a continual plague, thinking nothing of walking directly through a hive once headed in the right direction, and crushing nurseries and combs alike. Bee stings do not seem to bother zombies. It is at such trying times bees call upon neighboring bears to assist in zombie removals from the premises. Bears do the job with great efficiency and their standard fee is twenty pounds of honey per zombie decimated.
• What about zombie dinosaurs?
• I fucked a zombie once. She just laid there.
• this is ridiculous....I love it ;-)
• stop saying the 'Z' word...
• vampire sock monkey
• Nice link... as a former zombie I find the efforts of mortals to defeat us amusing.... we WILL win.... /apologies in advance for the self link to a few photos of me and the better half when we got to be zombies in last year's "Dawn of the Dead"...woohoo..!
• Impressive, HuronBob, most impressive.
• Oh, great, now I have to hate HuronBob for the rest of my life, the lucky bastard.
• /bows down to worship our very own Zombie Monkey
• crips... if i had known that zombie bit would get me this type of adoration I would have mentioned it a long time ago!!!! :-)
• HuronBob: Well of course, you should have known. Monkeys respect Zombies. Monkeys love Zombies. Monkeys want to grow up, die, and become Zombies. And eat brains. Don't forget the brains.
• I will admit that those pics seriously creeped me out. How do we KNOW that is was ONLY dress up?
• [spooky chord]
• GramMa, the dress-up is when they look normal. All they had to do for the zombie movie was remove their make-up. *ominous drum-roll*
• well, BlueHorse, I guess you just have to trust me... :-) getting "creeped out" was being on set and having one of these folks walk up to you when you weren't at the moment mindful of the fact that you were on a movie set and it was all pretend. Or, eating lunch with them.... Being amused was when the director would tell folks to take 10 while they changed the set and watching them all pull cell phones out and start talking...just something odd about that...
• Seriously, HuronBob, that's very cool. One of my very few ambitions in life is to eat or be eaten in a zombie apocalypse film. The only way it could have been any cooler is if you had actually been one of the celebrity look-alike zombies. Or the baby.
• As a zombie movie afficianado, I must too seethe with jealousy for HuronBob. Where/when are you on screen during the movie? The stills are inconclusive.
• Goddammit! I didn't even know I had that dream until I saw it could happen to mortal men and now the thirst consumes me. I MUST be a movie zombie!
• a couple of details for those that are interested... How... My son has been Zack Snyder's (director) assistant for a number of years (he's now a producer for Zack's production company). Since they were shooting in Toronto (I'm in Michigan), it was an easy drive to go spend a couple of weeks watching. Then Zack was gracious enough to invite us to the premier out in Hollywood (actually, in Beverly Hills at the Beverly Center mall theater, fitting eh?), we also went the next day while they shot some extra footage for the DVD. We got our few minutes of fame in Toronto.. The scene we were in was (for those that saw the movie) outside Andy's gun shop when the group went to rescue the dog and Nicole. 99.9% of the shot we were in got cut, and you'll never find me in the quick shots of running zombies, or shots of zombie feet just before they blew them up with a tank of propane. Shots we got to watch them film included the shots inside the vans (just before that nasty little chainsaw accident), the truck crashing into the loading dock, the huge explosion at the marina (not cgi, they shut down the main drag along the beach in toronto for about 45 minutes to film that), a lot of dialog in the mall, and most of the DVD extra footage stuff. fun things...sitting between takes talking to Kevin Zegers about when he was dating Christine Aguilera and what an airhead she is....pretty strange, not a conversation I thought I would have. Walking down the red carpet at the premier and having all these photographers take pictures of us and then turn to each other and ask who we were..hehehe.... And, going out to dinner with our son and Zack at the end of the day and listening to them talk about making movies... fascinating (a month into the shooting they were still doing pretty dull stuff, not much action yet, Zack had taken to calling the film "Dawn of the Drama". Another great part of this was rediscovering the whole zombie genre of movies (I hadn't watched them since I was a kid!), and connecting to some very neat people who are fans of the films... bottom line...we had a ball, met a lot of great, friendly people, and got a promise from Zack to get cast in his next film (got it in writing on a signed copy of the movie poster, he'll regret that! :-) Apologies for the long post, but it's always fun to talk about that experience.
• I was once digitized to appear as a NPC avatar in a computer game. Ultimately, I aspired to be decapitated by a ghoul in-game and have my gibbed, polygonal, still recognizable head bounce down a corridor. Sadly, the game never made it to market. Being a zombie is infinitely cooler, though.
• That is so cool, Bob. Did you get a chance to watch some of the footage in the neighborhood, that comes at the beginning of the movie? I thought those scenes, when the first touches of zombification were hitting the sedate suburban neighborhood, were some of the most entertaining zombie movie footage I've seen.
• Fes...nope, missed that part... they had filmed that before I was able to free up some time to go to Toronto...
• STILL cool! :)
• HuronBob, you rock. That is all.
• I deal with homeless people on a daily basis. Zombies are nothing! See someone after a three day crack binge. Now THAT'S scary.