Thanks to deadline entertainment, we now got confirmation that Greg Nicotero is returning to do the makeup/practical FX work on Twilight Of The Dead, which is a phenomenonal choice seeing how he worked on Day Of The Dead as well as Land, Diary and Survival of the Dead💀

They also confirmed that Milla Jovovich and Betty Gabriel have joined the cast for this final Romero chapter that concludes the universes narrative that originally started with NOTLD👌

Director Brad Anderson[The Machinist] explained: “I see this film in the same way as successful post-apocalyptic thrillers such as I Am Legend, A Quiet Place, The Road and The Last of Us — genre stories that are as emotional as they are intense. When I first read Twilight of The Dead, I teared up at the end. Which is weird for a film of this type. But it has that kind of pull, that combo of horror and heartbreak that I love.”

It is with great pleasure to work with my partners at Roundtable to finally get the last of George A. Romero’s The Dead canon out to the fans,” said Suzanne Desrocher-Romero, Romero’s widow and founder of the George A. Romero Foundation. “It’s what the fans have longed for, and with Brad Anderson at the helm it will be sensational.”

The team behind the project previously told us they haven’t closed the door on the possibility of additional movies in a new franchise, should this one go well.

The film will be produced alongside Desrocher-Romero, Bob Yari, Paolo Zelati, and co-financier Caliwood Pictures’ R. Wesley Sierk and Jina Panebianco. The treatment was penned by George A. Romero and Zelati, with the screenplay written by Joe Knetter, Zelati and Robert Lucas. Stephanie Holbrook is handling the casting

https://deadline.com/2024/11/milla-jovovich-betty-gabriel-george-a-romero-zombie-movie-twilight-of-the-dead-1236164891/?fbclid=IwY2xjawGSo2lleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHX5dHBF-nuy54zU7HAsT3UKj7MAXZDhCOqpHT4DS7FL16WeFdx5cY5sWTQ_aem_ylNEZEg5gZodxVziwW8u7A

Not sure if this is allowed… but I have a new comic series that shows the zombie origin story:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/beforethedawn/before-the-dawn 🧟‍♂️

Seriously this movie blew me away. I wasn't expecting anything, but it's incredibly well made. It's got fast zombies and tons of super intense moments. I watched it on watchseries . bar if anyone's curious. Though I'd share because I enjoyed it so much.

Again, somehow you know for sure that in exactly five years, a zombie outbreak is coming... But you have no way to prove it to anyone. What do you do? How do you prepare, especially knowing you have no definitive proof?

Hi guys, a while back I saw a zombie novel on Amazon that I was going to eventually buy (I even read the entire sample of it), but apparently my cart's "saved for later" filled up and it's no longer in there 😭

The novel was a standalone, not a series, and I remember in the sample that a woman was paying an ex? military guy to go into a quarantine area that was full of zombies, but I can't remember what the reason was for. I think the cover had a lot of the color blue on it. I'm going crazy trying to find out what the name of it was and have already spent an hour and a half looking, thanks OCD 😭

What’s the best zombie movie, it will be perfect for day of the dead tomorrow. I was thinking about watching day of the dead on day of the dead. But then I realized there’s dawn of the dead. And then there’s a day of the dead remake. And Shaun of the dead parody! Which one? Are there others rated well?

So I was rewatching scenes from World War Z and it made me realize that I rarely get to see people transform into Zombies onscreen. Usually in most Zombie media I’ve seen (which isn’t much unfortunately), they either transform off-screen and reappear when they’re full on Zombies or they die and then go from corpse to Zombie. Is there any media where they visually show the Transformation from Human to Zombie onscreen? I don’t think it counts if they do clever camera tricks to hide it either. I’ll take Video Games, Movies, and TV Shows as suggestions. Sorry if this is a dumb question but I’m relatively new to the Zombie sub-genre since I only recently started watching Zombie movies and my only other exposure to Zombie horror was the resident evil games which I’m still working on finishing. Thanks in advance and sorry for the long post!

But not ice age fauna, or dinosaurs. Things from before.

A dunkleosteus, bits of its armor visible past gaping wounds, teeth capable of shearing through steel, harpoons jutting from its backside as its tattered fins slice through the water.

A zombie gorgonopsid, stalking silently through the desert, fangs seeming longer as the flesh on the snout is gone. It creeps among the dunes, waiting to strike.

Zombie arthropleura, a colossal centipede the size of an alligator, or at least the front half, skittering through the forest, the once herbivore now hungry for flesh.

Or Jaekelopterus, an ancient titan waiting beneath the sandy seafloor to grab things in its decaying claws.

Just an idea :)

If you had these two books in front of you, related to the zombie apocalypse, which one would you choose based on the title?

1. "Golden Blood: Life between death"

2. "The last drop of blood: Immunity in times of death"

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Does anyone have a floor plan or blueprint for the farm house from The Night of The Living Dead? The remake version? I can find a TON of floor plans and stuff for the 60's version but there is very little for the remake. I did my yearly halloween rewatch and decided I wanted to recreate it as a horde base in a zombie game I play (7 days to die) and just going by the movie its kind of hard to map out the second floor and a few other areas.

I'll probably scrub through the movie and take some screen caps to try and figure out the ruff layout but i'm going to ask here and see if anyone else already has a relatively good floor plan of the farm house because google didn't give me anything lol.

I’ve been looking at something different for a Halloween post. Following up on a moderately flamed post, I’ll be looking at what entities do or don’t qualify as zombies. Here is a top 10 list of some of the most problematic entities on record, organized by escalating deviation from “standard” Romero-style undead. Which ones do you say are zombies? Zombie-like? Zombie-adjacent??? General undead???

10. Andy, Dead of Night aka Deathdream (1974)- At his mother’s wish, soldier Andy returns home after dying in the Vietnam War, seemingly with his intelligence and original personality intact. It turns out he is feeding on the living as his condition deteriorates, without spreading it to anyone else.

11. The Totten Korps, Shock Waves (1977)- The subjects of a Nazi experiment, unhelpfully described as “not dead, not alive”, emerge from the ocean decades later to kill Peter Cushing and various idiots. They aren’t exactly fast, but they are well-coordinated and show far more intelligence than the living human cast, as well as a surprising degree of emotion when their prey manage to evade them.

12. The Meat Puppets, Shanks (1974)- The disabled assistant of a mad-ish scientist uses his master’s technology to turn his deceased friends and enemies into puppets to entertain his teen-ish lady friend. In the name of the Logos of the Omniverse, don’t watch Shanks.

13. Skeleton Warriors, Jason And The Argonauts (1964)- A monster’s teeth cause living skeletons to rise from the earth and attack a king’s enemies. Per stop motion animator Ray Harryhausen, the skeletons replaced less kid- and censor-friendly reanimated corpses in the source mythology.

14. Possessed Hand, Idle Hands (1999)- A demon takes control of a slacker’s hand, which sets off on its own when severed. If you don’t accept disembodied hands as a category of undead, there are still the slacker’s two reanimated friends, who prove far more helpful and proactive as mobile corpses than they were in life.

15. The TV Crazies, The Signal (2007/ 2008)- A mysterious broadcast turns those who see it into homicidal psychotics. But all of them are sure it’s everyone else who is crazy.

16. Jack, An American Werewolf In London (1981)- The survivor of a mysterious assault is haunted by the decaying apparition of his dead friend, who insists that he will turn into a werewolf. Though his corporeal body is confirmed buried elsewhere, the specter can still steal his friend’s breakfast and play with a Mickey Mouse doll.

17. The Maniac, The Oily Maniac (1976)- A downtrodden man fights back against the mob with a spell that gives him the powers of an oil slick, and proves that the meek are not always deserving of inheriting the Earth. Okay, this is not remotely a zombie, but can anyone say this doesn’t look like the Tar Man from Return of the Living Dead?

18. The Pale Guy and Friends, Carnival of Souls (1962, yeah, I mixed up)- A woman tries to start a new life after a narrow escape from death, but she is stalked by a grinning man nobody else seems to see. While the stalker seems to be a non-corporeal entity (as evidenced by his ability to look through the window of a moving car), it’s harder to say the same of his companions in the finale, who rise dripping from the water and leave a fateful trail of footprints on the shore… and there’s the mystery of the heroine herself. If you think you know what the Hell is going on, you can safely assume you don’t understand the film.

19. The Mannequins, Tourist Trap (1979)- The victims of a serial killer are turned into mannequins at a roadside museum. At the command of their master, they come alive to menace the latest victims, but the dummies might still have minds of their own!

Is it worth a read or listen? What did you think about it?

There’s this early ish 2000s maybe 2010s Movie, it starts with a sorority ambushing another house with squirt guns- lots of nudity lol, but from what I remember it’s a lower quality movie! Kinda like Detention of the Dead, But it also somewhat follows military? I remember there’s a main woman character apart of the team- and they end up finding out it’s like one of the professors from the school turning people into zombies. HELP PLEASE ITS DRIVING ME NUTS

I know it seems obvious that faster zombies would be harder to fight/kill/avoid on an individual level, but what if we looked at a zombie outbreak from a macroscopic view? Slower zombies would ironically spread faster and kill off humanity quicker. This is because slower zombies have two main advantages over faster zombies. The first is that they are more likely to infect you than outright kill you. A faster zombie is more likely to kill a human (and eat it a bit) before they are revived. That recently brought back corpse will be damaged and missing some pieces, and be essentially be pretty terrible at attacking and converting other people. If a zombie is a little slower though, the human is more likely to be able to escape with just a bite and will eventually turn into a 100% healthy intact zombie that can better convert others. This actually captures what happens in real life with the tranmission-virulence trade off in epidemiology. Essentially viruses will become less deadly or symptomatic to allow the host to be more active and better spread the disease through the population. The second advantage is that overtime, zombies will spread out more as they randomly walk around. The slower zombies will spread apart slower though, so their strength as a horde will last longer.

I built a simulation changing the zombie speed and how often humans fight, with special scenarios like "living" zombies compared to undead or situations where the infected humans kill themselves before turning. Below is a video I made going over the results.

https://youtu.be/3dUoqx4Hjd4?si=VISZnPclOwg8z78f

Here's a followup to an earlier post on my videos on zombie movies. First, my list of top-tier zombie movies, based on both quality and budget, in chronological order. I have excluded Romero movies, and I also cut off at the 2000s, in part because there are a few (inc Shaun of the Dead and Train to Busan) that I prefer to count separately.

1. The Walking Dead (1936)
2. I Walked With A Zombie (1943)
3. The Crawling Eye aka The Trollenberg Terror (1958)
4. Carnival of Souls (1961)
5. Jason And The Argonauts (1963)
6. The Last Man On Earth (1964)
7. Shock Waves (1977)
8. Re-Animator (1985)
9. Return of the Living Dead (1985)
10. Night of the Creeps (1986)
11. Army of Darkness (1993)
12. Idle Hands (1999)

And here's my worst zombie movie list. I divide these mostly into Harmlessly Bad and Offensively Stupid, with the second to last easily leading the last category.

1. Zombies on Broadway (1945)
2. The Frozen Dead (1966)
3. The Child (1977)
4. Hell of the Living Dead (1980)
5. The Burial Ground (1981)
6. Bloodsuckers From Outer Space (1984)
7. Hard Rock Zombies (1985)
8. The Chilling (1989)
9. Deadgirl (2008)
10. Contracted (2013)