Vincent Z's Blog – February 2011 Archive (2)

The upcoming zombie video game Dead Island released its trailer yesterday.  And I have to admit, it reached into my heart and squeezed.



Check it out here.

Nice job, huh? The backward narrative structure leads us resoundingly to the final frames, an extra little shudder for parents who sometimes reflect that the worse day of our lives might begin with a laugh at the breakfast table or an…

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You probably remember the first zombie movie you ever saw.



Mine was Return of the Living Dead, and wow, I haven't been the same since. My first encounter came during the summer between seventh and eighth grade, on a suitably dark and stormy night in New Jersey, at a meager strip-mall movie theater with a lax policy for barring 12-year-old boys from R-rated films. Whoever the usher was that night, I thank you, sir.



Hunkered down in my seat, I was transfixed,… Continue