But somehow zombie movies are more fun

Posted by Amanda Marcotte May 11, 2008 in Uncategorized, Asides

Hat tip.

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  1. Todd
    May 11, 2008 at 1:53 pm

    Zombie Jesus.


  2. KMTBERRY, Empress of Eggplant Parmeson
    May 11, 2008 at 2:03 pm

    I am glad someone else is noticing that what passes for spiritual devotion in most churches contains the words “Eating Flesh and Drinking Blood”!!

    As an eleven year old I was APPALLED! ANd I felt like I was the only one who was noticing that our Jesus religion had a VERY large component of Cannibalism. I mean, we didn’t ACTUALLY kill people and eat their flesh and drink their blood, yet CLEARLY there was a stated longing to do it and the substitution of a perfect and imaginary blood sacrifice. You know, to tide us over, or something.

    ALL Christian churches have the eat his flesh and drink his blood thing, do they not? In the Church of CHrist (that I VISITED ONCE) they had crackers and grape juice, but they still were symbolically eating flesh and drinking blood


  3. Eric, Rejector of Memes
    May 11, 2008 at 2:16 pm

    Did you notice that the replays of “Futurama” censors the phrase “Zombie Jesus”?


  4. MikeEss
    May 11, 2008 at 2:18 pm

    I wonder if it’s possible to work up enough faux outrage over this diagram to start something.

    But then again, if you’re looking for ourage, you’ll surely find it…

    BTW, zombie movies are one of my favorite genres. Of the two Grindhouse movies, Planet Terror is definitely the best, in no small part due to the flesh-eating presence of the zombies.

    28 Days Later (didn’t like 28 Weeks Later as much), the Resident Evil trilogy, let alone the Night of…, Dawn of…, Day of… movies and their prequels/sequels/remakes, Omega Man, etc. - all great ways to waste a Sunday afternoon. I didn’t even think I am Legend was too bad…


  5. mnemosyne
    May 11, 2008 at 2:25 pm

    MikeEss, you haven’t seen Shaun of the Dead? Dude!

    They kept talking about it as a “parody,” but it’s really not. It’s very funny, but it takes the zombie stuff seriously, and the character deaths are genuinely jarring and moving.


  6. MikeEss
    May 11, 2008 at 2:32 pm

    I forgot about Shaun of the Dead, which is indeed a blast Thanks for reminding me!

    My favorite line out of the whole flick is when he’s talking to his mom on the phone. He asks her if the other people are causing her any trouble, and she says, “Well, they are a bit bitey…” Cracks me up every time…

    :)


  7. louise
    May 11, 2008 at 3:27 pm

    Zombie Jesus even has his own website where you can order T’s.


  8. Todd
    May 11, 2008 at 3:40 pm

    No mention of Lucio Fulci? Shame.


  9. Auguste
    May 11, 2008 at 4:51 pm

    My favorite line out of the whole flick is when he’s talking to his mom on the phone. He asks her if the other people are causing her any trouble, and she says, “Well, they are a bit bitey…” Cracks me up every time…

    “We’re coming to get you Barbara!”

    Which, by the way - when Pegg and Wright showed the movie to George Romero, and they were beamingly proud of working that line into the film; according to the DVD commentary Romero had to have it pointed out to him, because the homage worked so seamlessly into the plot of the film.

    Whoops.


  10. The Dark Avenger and Guardian of 10 Gold Chow Mein
    May 11, 2008 at 7:22 pm

    I found this interesting, if not outright Lovecraftian:

    The most terrifying physical inquisitors in aboriginal Australia are the little known Red Ochre Men… It is astonishing how little is known by outsiders of the Red Ochre Men. Many whites who have learned about everything else of aboriginal life have not even heard of them, so well enforced is the omerta among even those of the aborigines who wish the whole organisation ended… The cult is nearly universal in aboriginal Australia… In the deserts the Red Ochre cult moves right across the land in the course of a year, carrying its own ceremonies and myths, touching all tribes in its path, and working as a kind of ecclesiastical circuit court embodying all processes of the religious judiciary.

    The function of the court is to punish law-breakers — not so much the perpetrators of everyday misdemeanours like spear fights and wife-beating, but those felons who blaspheme the laws incorporated in the myths. If, for example, the young man on trial in Meekatharra had really shown the tjurunga [the law sticks] to women, his only chance to escape the Red Ochre Men would have been to flee from his tribal jurisdiction and live in a city or large well-policed town among other fugitives from their honour and their heritage.

    The punishments involved do include the death penalty — but that is not the worst. Far worse is when the Red Ochre Men destroy the offender’s soul, so that it is of little consequence if he goes on living physically. Sometimes death is readily accepted by the offender as the price for leaving his or her soul intact.

    Mother Avenger used to play communion with Haw flakes when she was a child.


  11. The Dark Avenger and Guardian of 10 Gold Chow Mein
    May 11, 2008 at 7:24 pm

    I found this interesting, if not outright Lovecraftian:

    The most terrifying physical inquisitors in aboriginal Australia are the little known Red Ochre Men… It is astonishing how little is known by outsiders of the Red Ochre Men. Many whites who have learned about everything else of aboriginal life have not even heard of them, so well enforced is the omerta among even those of the aborigines who wish the whole organisation ended… The cult is nearly universal in aboriginal Australia… In the deserts the Red Ochre cult moves right across the land in the course of a year, carrying its own ceremonies and myths, touching all tribes in its path, and working as a kind of ecclesiastical circuit court embodying all processes of the religious judiciary.

    The function of the court is to punish law-breakers — not so much the perpetrators of everyday misdemeanours like spear fights and wife-beating, but those felons who blaspheme the laws incorporated in the myths. If, for example, the young man on trial in Meekatharra had really shown the tjurunga [the law sticks] to women, his only chance to escape the Red Ochre Men would have been to flee from his tribal jurisdiction and live in a city or large well-policed town among other fugitives from their honour and their heritage.

    The punishments involved do include the death penalty — but that is not the worst. Far worse is when the Red Ochre Men destroy the offender’s soul, so that it is of little consequence if he goes on living physically. Sometimes death is readily accepted by the offender as the price for leaving his or her soul intact.

    Mother Avenger used to play communion with Haw flakes when she was a child.


  12. The Dark Avenger and Guardian of 10 Gold Chow Mein
    May 11, 2008 at 7:25 pm

    I found this interesting, if not outright Lovecraftian:

    The most terrifying physical inquisitors in aboriginal Australia are the little known Red Ochre Men… It is astonishing how little is known by outsiders of the Red Ochre Men. Many whites who have learned about everything else of aboriginal life have not even heard of them, so well enforced is the omerta among even those of the aborigines who wish the whole organisation ended… The cult is nearly universal in aboriginal Australia… In the deserts the Red Ochre cult moves right across the land in the course of a year, carrying its own ceremonies and myths, touching all tribes in its path, and working as a kind of ecclesiastical circuit court embodying all processes of the religious judiciary.

    The function of the court is to punish law-breakers — not so much the perpetrators of everyday misdemeanours like spear fights and wife-beating, but those felons who blaspheme the laws incorporated in the myths. If, for example, the young man on trial in Meekatharra had really shown the tjurunga [the law sticks] to women, his only chance to escape the Red Ochre Men would have been to flee from his tribal jurisdiction and live in a city or large well-policed town among other fugitives from their honour and their heritage.

    The punishments involved do include the death penalty — but that is not the worst. Far worse is when the Red Ochre Men destroy the offender’s soul, so that it is of little consequence if he goes on living physically. Sometimes death is readily accepted by the offender as the price for leaving his or her soul intact.

    Mother Avenger used to play communion with Haw flakes when she was a child.


  13. The Dark Avenger and Guardian of 10 Gold Chow Mein
    May 11, 2008 at 7:26 pm

    I found this interesting, if not outright Lovecraftian:

    The most terrifying physical inquisitors in aboriginal Australia are the little known Red Ochre Men… It is astonishing how little is known by outsiders of the Red Ochre Men. Many whites who have learned about everything else of aboriginal life have not even heard of them, so well enforced is the omerta among even those of the aborigines who wish the whole organisation ended… The cult is nearly universal in aboriginal Australia… In the deserts the Red Ochre cult moves right across the land in the course of a year, carrying its own ceremonies and myths, touching all tribes in its path, and working as a kind of ecclesiastical circuit court embodying all processes of the religious judiciary.

    The function of the court is to punish law-breakers — not so much the perpetrators of everyday misdemeanours like spear fights and wife-beating, but those felons who blaspheme the laws incorporated in the myths. If, for example, the young man on trial in Meekatharra had really shown the tjurunga [the law sticks] to women, his only chance to escape the Red Ochre Men would have been to flee from his tribal jurisdiction and live in a city or large well-policed town among other fugitives from their honour and their heritage.

    The punishments involved do include the death penalty — but that is not the worst. Far worse is when the Red Ochre Men destroy the offender’s soul, so that it is of little consequence if he goes on living physically. Sometimes death is readily accepted by the offender as the price for leaving his or her soul intact.

    Mother Avenger used to play communion with Haw flakes when she was a child.


  14. The Dark Avenger and Guardian of 10 Gold Chow Mein
    May 11, 2008 at 7:27 pm

    I found this interesting, if not outright Lovecraftian:

    The most terrifying physical inquisitors in aboriginal Australia are the little known Red Ochre Men… It is astonishing how little is known by outsiders of the Red Ochre Men. Many whites who have learned about everything else of aboriginal life have not even heard of them, so well enforced is the omerta among even those of the aborigines who wish the whole organisation ended… The cult is nearly universal in aboriginal Australia… In the deserts the Red Ochre cult moves right across the land in the course of a year, carrying its own ceremonies and myths, touching all tribes in its path, and working as a kind of ecclesiastical circuit court embodying all processes of the religious judiciary.

    The function of the court is to punish law-breakers — not so much the perpetrators of everyday misdemeanours like spear fights and wife-beating, but those felons who blaspheme the laws incorporated in the myths. If, for example, the young man on trial in Meekatharra had really shown the tjurunga [the law sticks] to women, his only chance to escape the Red Ochre Men would have been to flee from his tribal jurisdiction and live in a city or large well-policed town among other fugitives from their honour and their heritage.

    The punishments involved do include the death penalty — but that is not the worst. Far worse is when the Red Ochre Men destroy the offender’s soul, so that it is of little consequence if he goes on living physically. Sometimes death is readily accepted by the offender as the price for leaving his or her soul intact.

    Mother Avenger used to play communion with Haw flakes when she was a child.


  15. The Dark Avenger and Guardian of 10 Gold Chow Mein
    May 11, 2008 at 7:29 pm

    I found this interesting, if not outright Lovecraftian:

    The most terrifying physical inquisitors in aboriginal Australia are the little known Red Ochre Men… It is astonishing how little is known by outsiders of the Red Ochre Men. Many whites who have learned about everything else of aboriginal life have not even heard of them, so well enforced is the omerta among even those of the aborigines who wish the whole organisation ended… The cult is nearly universal in aboriginal Australia… In the deserts the Red Ochre cult moves right across the land in the course of a year, carrying its own ceremonies and myths, touching all tribes in its path, and working as a kind of ecclesiastical circuit court embodying all processes of the religious judiciary.

    The function of the court is to punish law-breakers — not so much the perpetrators of everyday misdemeanours like spear fights and wife-beating, but those felons who blaspheme the laws incorporated in the myths. If, for example, the young man on trial in Meekatharra had really shown the tjurunga [the law sticks] to women, his only chance to escape the Red Ochre Men would have been to flee from his tribal jurisdiction and live in a city or large well-policed town among other fugitives from their honour and their heritage.

    The punishments involved do include the death penalty — but that is not the worst. Far worse is when the Red Ochre Men destroy the offender’s soul, so that it is of little consequence if he goes on living physically. Sometimes death is readily accepted by the offender as the price for leaving his or her soul intact.

    Mother Avenger used to play communion with Haw flakes when she was a child.


  16. The Dark Avenger and Guardian of 10 Gold Chow Mein
    May 11, 2008 at 7:30 pm

    I found this interesting, if not outright Lovecraftian:

    The most terrifying physical inquisitors in aboriginal Australia are the little known Red Ochre Men… It is astonishing how little is known by outsiders of the Red Ochre Men. Many whites who have learned about everything else of aboriginal life have not even heard of them, so well enforced is the omerta among even those of the aborigines who wish the whole organisation ended… The cult is nearly universal in aboriginal Australia… In the deserts the Red Ochre cult moves right across the land in the course of a year, carrying its own ceremonies and myths, touching all tribes in its path, and working as a kind of ecclesiastical circuit court embodying all processes of the religious judiciary.

    The function of the court is to punish law-breakers — not so much the perpetrators of everyday misdemeanours like spear fights and wife-beating, but those felons who blaspheme the laws incorporated in the myths. If, for example, the young man on trial in Meekatharra had really shown the tjurunga [the law sticks] to women, his only chance to escape the Red Ochre Men would have been to flee from his tribal jurisdiction and live in a city or large well-policed town among other fugitives from their honour and their heritage.

    The punishments involved do include the death penalty — but that is not the worst. Far worse is when the Red Ochre Men destroy the offender’s soul, so that it is of little consequence if he goes on living physically. Sometimes death is readily accepted by the offender as the price for leaving his or her soul intact.

    Mother Avenger used to play communion with Haw flakes when she was a child.


  17. The Dark Avenger and Guardian of 10 Gold Chow Mein
    May 11, 2008 at 7:30 pm

    I found this interesting, if not outright Lovecraftian:

    The most terrifying physical inquisitors in aboriginal Australia are the little known Red Ochre Men… It is astonishing how little is known by outsiders of the Red Ochre Men. Many whites who have learned about everything else of aboriginal life have not even heard of them, so well enforced is the omerta among even those of the aborigines who wish the whole organisation ended… The cult is nearly universal in aboriginal Australia… In the deserts the Red Ochre cult moves right across the land in the course of a year, carrying its own ceremonies and myths, touching all tribes in its path, and working as a kind of ecclesiastical circuit court embodying all processes of the religious judiciary.

    The function of the court is to punish law-breakers — not so much the perpetrators of everyday misdemeanours like spear fights and wife-beating, but those felons who blaspheme the laws incorporated in the myths. If, for example, the young man on trial in Meekatharra had really shown the tjurunga [the law sticks] to women, his only chance to escape the Red Ochre Men would have been to flee from his tribal jurisdiction and live in a city or large well-policed town among other fugitives from their honour and their heritage.

    The punishments involved do include the death penalty — but that is not the worst. Far worse is when the Red Ochre Men destroy the offender’s soul, so that it is of little consequence if he goes on living physically. Sometimes death is readily accepted by the offender as the price for leaving his or her soul intact.

    Mother Avenger used to play communion with Haw flakes when she was a child.


  18. The Dark Avenger and Guardian of 10 Gold Chow Mein
    May 11, 2008 at 8:02 pm

    I found this interesting, if not outright Lovecraftian:

    The most terrifying physical inquisitors in aboriginal Australia are the little known Red Ochre Men… It is astonishing how little is known by outsiders of the Red Ochre Men. Many whites who have learned about everything else of aboriginal life have not even heard of them, so well enforced is the omerta among even those of the aborigines who wish the whole organisation ended… The cult is nearly universal in aboriginal Australia… In the deserts the Red Ochre cult moves right across the land in the course of a year, carrying its own ceremonies and myths, touching all tribes in its path, and working as a kind of ecclesiastical circuit court embodying all processes of the religious judiciary.

    The function of the court is to punish law-breakers — not so much the perpetrators of everyday misdemeanours like spear fights and wife-beating, but those felons who blaspheme the laws incorporated in the myths. If, for example, the young man on trial in Meekatharra had really shown the tjurunga [the law sticks] to women, his only chance to escape the Red Ochre Men would have been to flee from his tribal jurisdiction and live in a city or large well-policed town among other fugitives from their honour and their heritage.

    The punishments involved do include the death penalty — but that is not the worst. Far worse is when the Red Ochre Men destroy the offender’s soul, so that it is of little consequence if he goes on living physically. Sometimes death is readily accepted by the offender as the price for leaving his or her soul intact.

    Mother Avenger used to play communion with Haw flakes when she was a child.


  19. The Dark Avenger and Guardian of 10 Gold Chow Mein
    May 11, 2008 at 8:03 pm

    I found this interesting, if not outright Lovecraftian:

    The most terrifying physical inquisitors in aboriginal Australia are the little known Red Ochre Men… It is astonishing how little is known by outsiders of the Red Ochre Men. Many whites who have learned about everything else of aboriginal life have not even heard of them, so well enforced is the omerta among even those of the aborigines who wish the whole organisation ended… The cult is nearly universal in aboriginal Australia… In the deserts the Red Ochre cult moves right across the land in the course of a year, carrying its own ceremonies and myths, touching all tribes in its path, and working as a kind of ecclesiastical circuit court embodying all processes of the religious judiciary.

    The function of the court is to punish law-breakers — not so much the perpetrators of everyday misdemeanours like spear fights and wife-beating, but those felons who blaspheme the laws incorporated in the myths. If, for example, the young man on trial in Meekatharra had really shown the tjurunga [the law sticks] to women, his only chance to escape the Red Ochre Men would have been to flee from his tribal jurisdiction and live in a city or large well-policed town among other fugitives from their honour and their heritage.

    The punishments involved do include the death penalty — but that is not the worst. Far worse is when the Red Ochre Men destroy the offender’s soul, so that it is of little consequence if he goes on living physically. Sometimes death is readily accepted by the offender as the price for leaving his or her soul intact.

    Mother Avenger used to play communion with Haw flakes when she was a child.


  20. The Dark Avenger and Guardian of 10 Gold Chow Mein
    May 11, 2008 at 8:04 pm

    I found this interesting, if not outright Lovecraftian:

    The most terrifying physical inquisitors in aboriginal Australia are the little known Red Ochre Men… It is astonishing how little is known by outsiders of the Red Ochre Men. Many whites who have learned about everything else of aboriginal life have not even heard of them, so well enforced is the omerta among even those of the aborigines who wish the whole organisation ended… The cult is nearly universal in aboriginal Australia… In the deserts the Red Ochre cult moves right across the land in the course of a year, carrying its own ceremonies and myths, touching all tribes in its path, and working as a kind of ecclesiastical circuit court embodying all processes of the religious judiciary.

    The function of the court is to punish law-breakers — not so much the perpetrators of everyday misdemeanours like spear fights and wife-beating, but those felons who blaspheme the laws incorporated in the myths. If, for example, the young man on trial in Meekatharra had really shown the tjurunga [the law sticks] to women, his only chance to escape the Red Ochre Men would have been to flee from his tribal jurisdiction and live in a city or large well-policed town among other fugitives from their honour and their heritage.

    The punishments involved do include the death penalty — but that is not the worst. Far worse is when the Red Ochre Men destroy the offender’s soul, so that it is of little consequence if he goes on living physically. Sometimes death is readily accepted by the offender as the price for leaving his or her soul intact.

    Mother Avenger used to play communion with Haw flakes when she was a child.


  21. The Dark Avenger and Guardian of 10 Gold Chow Mein
    May 11, 2008 at 8:05 pm

    I found this interesting, if not outright Lovecraftian:

    The most terrifying physical inquisitors in aboriginal Australia are the little known Red Ochre Men… It is astonishing how little is known by outsiders of the Red Ochre Men. Many whites who have learned about everything else of aboriginal life have not even heard of them, so well enforced is the omerta among even those of the aborigines who wish the whole organisation ended… The cult is nearly universal in aboriginal Australia… In the deserts the Red Ochre cult moves right across the land in the course of a year, carrying its own ceremonies and myths, touching all tribes in its path, and working as a kind of ecclesiastical circuit court embodying all processes of the religious judiciary.

    The function of the court is to punish law-breakers — not so much the perpetrators of everyday misdemeanours like spear fights and wife-beating, but those felons who blaspheme the laws incorporated in the myths. If, for example, the young man on trial in Meekatharra had really shown the tjurunga [the law sticks] to women, his only chance to escape the Red Ochre Men would have been to flee from his tribal jurisdiction and live in a city or large well-policed town among other fugitives from their honour and their heritage.

    The punishments involved do include the death penalty — but that is not the worst. Far worse is when the Red Ochre Men destroy the offender’s soul, so that it is of little consequence if he goes on living physically. Sometimes death is readily accepted by the offender as the price for leaving his or her soul intact.

    Mother Avenger used to play communion with Haw flakes when she was a child.


  22. The Dark Avenger and Guardian of 10 Gold Chow Mein
    May 11, 2008 at 8:06 pm

    I found this interesting, if not outright Lovecraftian:

    The most terrifying physical inquisitors in aboriginal Australia are the little known Red Ochre Men… It is astonishing how little is known by outsiders of the Red Ochre Men. Many whites who have learned about everything else of aboriginal life have not even heard of them, so well enforced is the omerta among even those of the aborigines who wish the whole organisation ended… The cult is nearly universal in aboriginal Australia… In the deserts the Red Ochre cult moves right across the land in the course of a year, carrying its own ceremonies and myths, touching all tribes in its path, and working as a kind of ecclesiastical circuit court embodying all processes of the religious judiciary.

    The function of the court is to punish law-breakers — not so much the perpetrators of everyday misdemeanours like spear fights and wife-beating, but those felons who blaspheme the laws incorporated in the myths. If, for example, the young man on trial in Meekatharra had really shown the tjurunga [the law sticks] to women, his only chance to escape the Red Ochre Men would have been to flee from his tribal jurisdiction and live in a city or large well-policed town among other fugitives from their honour and their heritage.

    The punishments involved do include the death penalty — but that is not the worst. Far worse is when the Red Ochre Men destroy the offender’s soul, so that it is of little consequence if he goes on living physically. Sometimes death is readily accepted by the offender as the price for leaving his or her soul intact.

    Mother Avenger used to play communion with Haw flakes when she was a child.


  23. The Dark Avenger and Guardian of 10 Gold Chow Mein
    May 11, 2008 at 8:07 pm

    I found this interesting, if not outright Lovecraftian:

    The most terrifying physical inquisitors in aboriginal Australia are the little known Red Ochre Men… It is astonishing how little is known by outsiders of the Red Ochre Men. Many whites who have learned about everything else of aboriginal life have not even heard of them, so well enforced is the omerta among even those of the aborigines who wish the whole organisation ended… The cult is nearly universal in aboriginal Australia… In the deserts the Red Ochre cult moves right across the land in the course of a year, carrying its own ceremonies and myths, touching all tribes in its path, and working as a kind of ecclesiastical circuit court embodying all processes of the religious judiciary.

    The function of the court is to punish law-breakers — not so much the perpetrators of everyday misdemeanours like spear fights and wife-beating, but those felons who blaspheme the laws incorporated in the myths. If, for example, the young man on trial in Meekatharra had really shown the tjurunga [the law sticks] to women, his only chance to escape the Red Ochre Men would have been to flee from his tribal jurisdiction and live in a city or large well-policed town among other fugitives from their honour and their heritage.

    The punishments involved do include the death penalty — but that is not the worst. Far worse is when the Red Ochre Men destroy the offender’s soul, so that it is of little consequence if he goes on living physically. Sometimes death is readily accepted by the offender as the price for leaving his or her soul intact.

    Mother Avenger used to play communion with Haw flakes when she was a child.


  24. The Dark Avenger and Guardian of 10 Gold Chow Mein
    May 11, 2008 at 8:08 pm

    I found this interesting, if not outright Lovecraftian:

    The most terrifying physical inquisitors in aboriginal Australia are the little known Red Ochre Men… It is astonishing how little is known by outsiders of the Red Ochre Men. Many whites who have learned about everything else of aboriginal life have not even heard of them, so well enforced is the omerta among even those of the aborigines who wish the whole organisation ended… The cult is nearly universal in aboriginal Australia… In the deserts the Red Ochre cult moves right across the land in the course of a year, carrying its own ceremonies and myths, touching all tribes in its path, and working as a kind of ecclesiastical circuit court embodying all processes of the religious judiciary.

    The function of the court is to punish law-breakers — not so much the perpetrators of everyday misdemeanours like spear fights and wife-beating, but those felons who blaspheme the laws incorporated in the myths. If, for example, the young man on trial in Meekatharra had really shown the tjurunga [the law sticks] to women, his only chance to escape the Red Ochre Men would have been to flee from his tribal jurisdiction and live in a city or large well-policed town among other fugitives from their honour and their heritage.

    The punishments involved do include the death penalty — but that is not the worst. Far worse is when the Red Ochre Men destroy the offender’s soul, so that it is of little consequence if he goes on living physically. Sometimes death is readily accepted by the offender as the price for leaving his or her soul intact.

    Mother Avenger used to play communion with Haw flakes when she was a child.


  25. mnemosyne
    May 11, 2008 at 8:09 pm

    No mention of Lucio Fulci? Shame.

    That’s because Fulci sucks. I’ve never seen anything funnier than the zombie-attacks-shark sequence of Zombie. And I love Mario Bava, so I have a pretty high tolerance for the special weirdnesses of Italian horror.


  26. The Dark Avenger and Guardian of 10 Gold Chow Mein
    May 11, 2008 at 8:10 pm

    I found this interesting, if not outright Lovecraftian:

    The most terrifying physical inquisitors in aboriginal Australia are the little known Red Ochre Men… It is astonishing how little is known by outsiders of the Red Ochre Men. Many whites who have learned about everything else of aboriginal life have not even heard of them, so well enforced is the omerta among even those of the aborigines who wish the whole organisation ended… The cult is nearly universal in aboriginal Australia… In the deserts the Red Ochre cult moves right across the land in the course of a year, carrying its own ceremonies and myths, touching all tribes in its path, and working as a kind of ecclesiastical circuit court embodying all processes of the religious judiciary.

    The function of the court is to punish law-breakers — not so much the perpetrators of everyday misdemeanours like spear fights and wife-beating, but those felons who blaspheme the laws incorporated in the myths. If, for example, the young man on trial in Meekatharra had really shown the tjurunga [the law sticks] to women, his only chance to escape the Red Ochre Men would have been to flee from his tribal jurisdiction and live in a city or large well-policed town among other fugitives from their honour and their heritage.

    The punishments involved do include the death penalty — but that is not the worst. Far worse is when the Red Ochre Men destroy the offender’s soul, so that it is of little consequence if he goes on living physically. Sometimes death is readily accepted by the offender as the price for leaving his or her soul intact.

    Mother Avenger used to play communion with Haw flakes when she was a child.


  27. The Dark Avenger and Guardian of 10 Gold Chow Mein
    May 11, 2008 at 8:11 pm

    I found this interesting, if not outright Lovecraftian:

    The most terrifying physical inquisitors in aboriginal Australia are the little known Red Ochre Men… It is astonishing how little is known by outsiders of the Red Ochre Men. Many whites who have learned about everything else of aboriginal life have not even heard of them, so well enforced is the omerta among even those of the aborigines who wish the whole organisation ended… The cult is nearly universal in aboriginal Australia… In the deserts the Red Ochre cult moves right across the land in the course of a year, carrying its own ceremonies and myths, touching all tribes in its path, and working as a kind of ecclesiastical circuit court embodying all processes of the religious judiciary.

    The function of the court is to punish law-breakers — not so much the perpetrators of everyday misdemeanours like spear fights and wife-beating, but those felons who blaspheme the laws incorporated in the myths. If, for example, the young man on trial in Meekatharra had really shown the tjurunga [the law sticks] to women, his only chance to escape the Red Ochre Men would have been to flee from his tribal jurisdiction and live in a city or large well-policed town among other fugitives from their honour and their heritage.

    The punishments involved do include the death penalty — but that is not the worst. Far worse is when the Red Ochre Men destroy the offender’s soul, so that it is of little consequence if he goes on living physically. Sometimes death is readily accepted by the offender as the price for leaving his or her soul intact.

    Mother Avenger used to play communion with Haw flakes when she was a child.


  28. The Dark Avenger and Guardian of 10 Gold Chow Mein
    May 11, 2008 at 8:11 pm

    I found this interesting, if not outright Lovecraftian:

    The most terrifying physical inquisitors in aboriginal Australia are the little known Red Ochre Men… It is astonishing how little is known by outsiders of the Red Ochre Men. Many whites who have learned about everything else of aboriginal life have not even heard of them, so well enforced is the omerta among even those of the aborigines who wish the whole organisation ended… The cult is nearly universal in aboriginal Australia… In the deserts the Red Ochre cult moves right across the land in the course of a year, carrying its own ceremonies and myths, touching all tribes in its path, and working as a kind of ecclesiastical circuit court embodying all processes of the religious judiciary.

    The function of the court is to punish law-breakers — not so much the perpetrators of everyday misdemeanours like spear fights and wife-beating, but those felons who blaspheme the laws incorporated in the myths. If, for example, the young man on trial in Meekatharra had really shown the tjurunga [the law sticks] to women, his only chance to escape the Red Ochre Men would have been to flee from his tribal jurisdiction and live in a city or large well-policed town among other fugitives from their honour and their heritage.

    The punishments involved do include the death penalty — but that is not the worst. Far worse is when the Red Ochre Men destroy the offender’s soul, so that it is of little consequence if he goes on living physically. Sometimes death is readily accepted by the offender as the price for leaving his or her soul intact.

    Mother Avenger used to play communion with Haw flakes when she was a child.


  29. The Dark Avenger and Guardian of 10 Gold Chow Mein
    May 11, 2008 at 8:12 pm

    I found this interesting, if not outright Lovecraftian:

    The most terrifying physical inquisitors in aboriginal Australia are the little known Red Ochre Men… It is astonishing how little is known by outsiders of the Red Ochre Men. Many whites who have learned about everything else of aboriginal life have not even heard of them, so well enforced is the omerta among even those of the aborigines who wish the whole organisation ended… The cult is nearly universal in aboriginal Australia… In the deserts the Red Ochre cult moves right across the land in the course of a year, carrying its own ceremonies and myths, touching all tribes in its path, and working as a kind of ecclesiastical circuit court embodying all processes of the religious judiciary.

    The function of the court is to punish law-breakers — not so much the perpetrators of everyday misdemeanours like spear fights and wife-beating, but those felons who blaspheme the laws incorporated in the myths. If, for example, the young man on trial in Meekatharra had really shown the tjurunga [the law sticks] to women, his only chance to escape the Red Ochre Men would have been to flee from his tribal jurisdiction and live in a city or large well-policed town among other fugitives from their honour and their heritage.

    The punishments involved do include the death penalty — but that is not the worst. Far worse is when the Red Ochre Men destroy the offender’s soul, so that it is of little consequence if he goes on living physically. Sometimes death is readily accepted by the offender as the price for leaving his or her soul intact.

    Mother Avenger used to play communion with Haw flakes when she was a child.


  30. RepubAnon
    May 11, 2008 at 8:19 pm

    Brain-eating Zombies: one imaginary threat George Bush doesn’t worry about.


  31. karpad
    May 11, 2008 at 9:03 pm

    Brain-eating Zombies: one imaginary threat George Bush doesn’t worry about.

    pfft, no. it’s just that the standing plans for normal war white house plan (snipers on the roof, fallout shelter in the basement, and heavy metal barracade a huge distance away from the structure) is so good for working on Zack, he doesn’t need to worry.


  32. The Dark Avenger and Guardian of 10 Gold Chow Mein
    May 11, 2008 at 9:12 pm

    I found this interesting, if not outright Lovecraftian:

    The most terrifying physical inquisitors in aboriginal Australia are the little known Red Ochre Men… It is astonishing how little is known by outsiders of the Red Ochre Men. Many whites who have learned about everything else of aboriginal life have not even heard of them, so well enforced is the omerta among even those of the aborigines who wish the whole organisation ended… The cult is nearly universal in aboriginal Australia… In the deserts the Red Ochre cult moves right across the land in the course of a year, carrying its own ceremonies and myths, touching all tribes in its path, and working as a kind of ecclesiastical circuit court embodying all processes of the religious judiciary.

    The function of the court is to punish law-breakers — not so much the perpetrators of everyday misdemeanours like spear fights and wife-beating, but those felons who blaspheme the laws incorporated in the myths. If, for example, the young man on trial in Meekatharra had really shown the tjurunga [the law sticks] to women, his only chance to escape the Red Ochre Men would have been to flee from his tribal jurisdiction and live in a city or large well-policed town among other fugitives from their honour and their heritage.

    The punishments involved do include the death penalty — but that is not the worst. Far worse is when the Red Ochre Men destroy the offender’s soul, so that it is of little consequence if he goes on living physically. Sometimes death is readily accepted by the offender as the price for leaving his or her soul intact.

    Mother Avenger used to play communion with Haw flakes when she was a child.


  33. Ms Kate
    May 11, 2008 at 9:45 pm

    I think we need a Department of Live Land Security. This heavy plastic and duct tape ain’t gonna keep the bitey undead bastards out of the trailer.


  34. inkybrain
    May 11, 2008 at 11:15 pm

    Not a movie, but I really enjoy The Walking Dead. I mean, it’s not perfect or anything, but still interesting to see these kinds of stories in longform.


  35. Caren, Creator of Animorphic Pancakes
    May 12, 2008 at 10:06 am

    Dark Avenger–are you a zombie? ya keep banging the same post on the window! ;^)

    and KMTBERRY, in the Catholic Church there’s nothing symbolic about Communion. The bread and wine don’t symbolize anything. They are transmuted to become the actual body and blood of Christ.

    Even though they still appear to be bread and wine, they aren’t. They are the actual blood and body of Jesus. It’s a big distinction between Catholics and Protestants who think it’s just symbolic.

    “Jesus is a ZOMBIE!!!???!!” was my son’s reply to my MIL telling him the Easter story. She was pissed, but we still laugh about it. Just try telling the kid that rising from the dead doesn’t make you a zombie!


  36. Jae Walker
    May 12, 2008 at 12:34 pm

    Let me recommend “Fido” to aficionados of zombie humor. It’s wickedly subversive, and Billy Connolly, as Fido, steals every scene with no more lines than “nnnuuugggghhh”!


  37. millsapian87
    May 12, 2008 at 12:51 pm

    KMTBERRY, Heinlein remarked decades ago on Chrisitanity’s “ritual cannibalism” in Stranger in a Strange Land.


  38. millsapian87
    May 12, 2008 at 1:01 pm

    Chrisitanity ==> Christianity


  39. Ismone
    May 12, 2008 at 2:12 pm

    Ooooh, you guys should check out the little known Rupert Everett zombie movie, “Dellamorte Dellamore” (which is also known as “Cemetary Man.”) It is a pretty decent black comedy, but not as fun as “Eating Raoul” with Robert Beltran (Star Trek voyager’s Chakotay). Which is not a zombie movie.


  40. The Dark Avenger and Guardian of 10 Gold Chow Mein
    May 12, 2008 at 2:29 pm

    Yeah, I fell victim to “it didn’t post” syndrome, sorry about that………………..


  41. Ismone
    May 12, 2008 at 5:22 pm

    I don’t believe you. You are a zombie. Nice try, undead-person.


  42. Phoenician in a time of Romans
    May 12, 2008 at 6:42 pm

    Get serious, Ismone, a zombie wouldn’t post here.

    They’d be on scienceblogs or something looking for braiiiiins.


  43. ginmar
    May 13, 2008 at 12:41 am

    Oh, dudes, you have to see Diary of the Dead, Romero’s newest flick. It’s got a Blair Witch Project vibe but with better camera work, a kick ass Amish guy, and well, George Romero.

    If only they could work in something about a giant monster, too, I’d die happy.


  44. Phoenician in a time of Romans
    May 13, 2008 at 10:04 pm

    Okay, now the zombie movies are getting pathetic


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