Monthly Archives: June 2012

Costume Supercenter’s Costume & Cash Giveaway Contest

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In honor of Comic-Con 2012, Costume Supercenter is giving away a $1,000.00 shopping spree and $500.00 in cash!

Important Note: Anyone can enter! You don’t have to be going to San Diego Comic-Con to be eligible.

Contest Dates: The contest started 6/18 at noon and ends at midnight on July 1st.

How to Enter: The contest is 100% free to enter and we provide different ways for you to gain multiple entries. You can enter by posting a tweet about the contest to twitter or liking the contest page on Facebook. You can enter with a tweet every day that the contest is open. You can also gain more entries by writing a blog post about what you would do if you won the contest.

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You can find out all the details on the official contest page or you can enter using the widget below.

Costume Supercenter provides a wide array of Walking Dead costumes and even has a great tutorial for how to apply Zombie Makeup.

This is a great chance for all Walking Dead fans to splurge on some amazing costumes and win some cash to spend on their hobby. I recommend you check out their Walking Dead costumes and let us know what you think. They even specialize in costumes for children and teens.

Get paid to be a zombie!

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Have you ever thought about working as a zombie and getting paid for it? Well, that is now a reality thanks to Wish.co.uk and their zombie experience days.

Work as a zombie

This could be you, all in a hard day’s work!

Wish.co.uk are currently looking for people who can act like zombies for their Zombie Manor House experience which takes place near Manchester in the UK.

Richard Kershaw, co-founder of Wish.co.uk, said: “Hundreds of zombie fans from around the world have contacted us begging for work.

“Given the huge demand for our Zombie Manor House, we’re inviting these people to audition in front of our expert panel to see if they have the right stuff.

“Why settle for a dead end job, when you can apply for an undead end job instead?”

Live auditions for would-be zombies will be held at London’s Pineapple Studios on Thursday, 28 June.

The company is promising competitive pay, and says successful applicants will receive movie-quality make-up and prosthetics to look the part.

Applicants will be assessed on their ability to look, walk and groan like a zombie. Previous experience as the walking dead isn’t essential.

If you are interested in applying for the job, then you can do so at Wish.co.uk/we-need-zombies

Zombie movie ‘World War Z’ is an undead disaster!

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World War Z MovieBrad Pitt’s feature film based off the amazing “zombie war oral history” book World War Z is allegedly in shambles. With a budget raising up to $170 million and five weeks of possible reshoots, what went wrong with this movie?

The Hollywood Reporter has a behind-the-scenes look at what went awry. Apparently Quantum of Solace director Marc Forster never found a voice for this “headless production”:

Trouble emerged early: Three weeks before shooting was to begin in June 2011, sources say Forster had not made critical decisions about what the zombies would look like and how they would move. “They just couldn’t get it right,” one insider says. “There was a lot of spinning of plates, a lot of talking. [But] they did not have a plan.” [...]

“The director was not empowered,” says one insider. “There was nobody that steered the ship [...] When you get [a director] who can’t do it all [...] you get a struggle as to whose is the singular voice.”

The production has been plagued with other unusual problems:

Then in October, proceedings were disrupted when a Hungarian anti-terrorism unit raided an airport warehouse and confiscated 85 fully functional automatic assault rifles that were to be used on the shoot. (The guns were not supposed to be operational, and it is illegal to transport such weapons into the country.) With the movie already behind schedule and over budget, Pitt was said to be livid at the mistake – and perhaps wearying of a project that was showing no sign of ending.

And word is there’s some consensus that Paramount really should have pulled the plug earlier on this project. Now that World War Z has tumbled down the rabbit hole of a Hollywood disaster, will the film be shelved entirely?

First look at Merle Dixon in Season 3

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AMC have finally gave us an answer today to confirm once and for all that Merle Dixon will be back for Season 3 of The Walking Dead.

Walking Dead Merle Dixon Season 3The Walking Dead will return in October, and it can’t get here soon enough. This latest picture makes the wait even harder.

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Beyond Exile: Day by Day Armageddon

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Day By Day Armageddon Beyond ExileThe first book of Day by Day Armageddon took us deep into the mind of a military officer and survivor as he made a New Year’s resolution to start keeping a journal. The man kept his resolution and brought to us the fall of humanity, day by day. We see the man transition from the life that you and I live to the prospect of fighting for his very survival against the overwhelming hordes of the dead. We see him bleed, we see him make mistakes, we witness him evolve. The highly anticipated sequel to the best-selling underground cult classic, Day by Day Armageddon, begins where the first novel left off.

BEGIN INTERCEPT

Armies of undead have risen up across the U.S. and around the globe; there is no safe haven from the diseased corpses hungering for human flesh. But in the heat of a Texas wasteland, a small band of survivors attempt to counter the millions closing in around them.

INTERCEPT COMPLETED

Day by day, the handwritten journal entries of one man caught in a worldwide cataclysm capture the desperation–and the will to survive–as he joins forces with a handful of refugees to battle soulless enemies both human and inhuman from inside an abandoned strategic missile facility. But in the world of the undead, is mere survival enough?

You can listen to a sample of this Audiobook by checking it out on Audible.

Where to buy?

If you like to physically read the book yourself then buy if for cheap from Amazon. However, if you would prefer to listen to the book as it is narrated to you, then make sure you check it out on Audible. The advantage to getting it from Audible is that you can download it right away, and listen from your computer/MP3 or iPod.

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Day By Day Armageddon

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Day By Day Armageddon AudiobookStart intercept: Sporadic reports indicate chaos and violence spreading through U.S. cities. An unknown evil is sweeping the planet. The dead are rising to claim the Earth as the new dominant species in the food chain. Intercept complete.

In your hands is the handwritten journal depicting one man’s struggle for survival. Trapped in the midst of global disaster, he must make decisions; choices that ultimately mean life, or the eternal curse to walk as one of them. Enter, if you will, into the world of the undead.

You can listen to a sample of this book by checking it out on Audible.

What the Critics Say

“There is zombie fiction and then there is crawl-out-of-the-grave-and-drag-you-to-hell zombie fiction. Day by Day Armageddon is hands down the best zombie book I have ever read. Dawn of the Dead meets 28 Days Later doesn’t even come close to describing how fantastic this thriller is. It is so real, so terrifying, and so well written that I slept with not one, but two loaded Glocks under my pillow for weeks afterwards. J. L. Bourne is the new king of hardcore zombie action!” (Brad Thor, New York Times #1 best-selling author)

Where to buy?

If you like to physically read the book yourself then buy if for cheap from Amazon. However, if you would prefer to listen to the book as it is narrated to you, then make sure you check it out on Audible. The advantage to getting it from Audible is that you can download it right away, and listen from your computer/MP3 or iPod.

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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!

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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.” So begins Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, an expanded edition of the beloved Jane Austen novel featuring all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie mayhem.

As our story opens, a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton – and the dead are returning to life! Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the zombie menace, but she’s soon distracted by the arrival of the haughty and arrogant Mr. Darcy. What ensues is a delightful comedy of manners with plenty of civilized sparring between the two young lovers – and even more violent sparring on the blood-soaked battlefield as Elizabeth wages war against hordes of flesh-eating undead. Can she vanquish the spawn of Satan? And overcome the social prejudices of the class-conscious landed gentry?

Complete with romance, heartbreak, swordfights, cannibalism, and thousands of rotting corpses, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies transforms a masterpiece of world literature into something you’d actually want to read.

You can listen to a sample of this book by checking it out on Audible.

What the Critics Say

“[Seth Grahame-Smith] has taken the merry world established by a 19th-century literary lady, added a scourge of reanimated corpses, and created…well, a pop cultural phenomenon, certainly, and one that has stirred up a lot of excitement. But the greater achievement of the book may lie in the satisfying desire it awakens to read the remix and the original side by side.” (Entertainment Weekly)

Where to buy?

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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

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World War Z AudiobookThe Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of 30 million souls, to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet.

He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the living, or at least the undead, hell of that dreadful time. World War Z is the result. Never before have we had access to a document that so powerfully conveys the depth of fear and horror, and also the ineradicable spirit of resistance, that gripped human society through the plague years.

Ranging from the now infamous village of New Dachang in the United Federation of China, where the epidemiological trail began with the 12-year-old Patient Zero, to the unnamed northern forests where untold numbers sought a terrible and temporary refuge in the cold, to the United States of Southern Africa, where the Redeker Plan provided hope for humanity at an unspeakable price, to the west-of-the-Rockies redoubt where the North American tide finally started to turn, this invaluable chronicle reflects the full scope and duration of the Zombie War.

You can listen to a sample of the audiobook version of World War Z by following the link below. If you are new to audible you will also get the chance to download it for free.

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What the Critics Say

  • Winner of Audio Publishers Association 2007 Audie Award, Multi-Voiced Performance

  • Audie Award Finalist, Audiobook of the Year, 2007

“Hard to put down.” (Publishers Weekly)
“A literate, ironic, strangely tasty treat.” (Kirkus Reviews)
“Horror fans won’t be disappointed: like George Romero’s Dead trilogy, World War Z is another milestone in the zombie mythos.” (Booklist)

Where to buy?

This book is available from many places online such as Amazon and Audible. If you like to physically read the book yourself then buy if for cheap from Amazon. However, if you would prefer to listen to the book as it is narrated to you, then make sure you check it out on Audible. The advantage to getting it from Audible is that you can download it right away, and listen from your computer/MP3 or iPod.

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