Valve, the makers of some of the best video games of the last decade, are about to release Left 4 Dead, a first-person zombie apocalypse shooter. If this actual game play footage doesn't convince you how cool it's going to be, nothing will!
There's been a huge spike in the production of zombie movies lately, and many of them seem to be inspired by war. Everything from
28 Days Later to
Zombie Strippers make explicit reference to wartime, as did seminal 1968 zombie flick
Night of the Living Dead. Is there really a connection between zombie movies and social unrest? IO9.com decided to do some research and find out. Check out their results
HERE.
Simon "Shaun of the Dead" Pegg argues for a return to traditional zombie values in response to the UK's zombie miniseries "
Dead Set":
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/nov/04/television-simon-pegg-dead-setMeanwhile, the USA eagerly awaits the opportunity to check out the UK's zombie miniseries "
Dead Set"!