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The Nerdist Channel is having a WALKING DEAD WEEKEND:
"Leading up to the premiere of Walking Dead on Sunday, October 14th Nerdist Channel will release some awesome flesh eating programming gearing Walking Dead fans up to what will be a ridiculous premiere. Be sure to tune into see Chris on Talking Dead following every episode of Walking Dead."
It's not all doom and gloom in the new Rolling Stones song, there's also some good old fashioned zombie killing...
"I had a dream last night that I was piloting a plane
and all the passengers were drunk and insane.
I crash landed in a Louisiana swamp
shot up a horde of zombies
but I come out on top."
The New Solling Stones album GRRR! will be out on November 13th and is available for pre-order now on Amazon and iTunes.
FearNet caught up with the cast and crew of The Walking Dead on the red carpet at the premiere for their third season:
From Canada's Heart & Stroke Foundation comes The Undeading, an epic mini-zombie movie masquerading as a Public Service Announcement that shows how CPR makes you undead.
The attempt at the Shocktober Fest Scream Park at Tulleys Farm in England broke the UK record for most zombies in one place but, unfortunately, it fell short of breaking the world record.
"Showing tremendous dead-ication a total of 2113 zombies from around the UK massed at the Tulleys Farm Shocktober Fest Scream Park, near Crawley on Saturday 6th October. Despite a fantastic turnout from the living dead, Guinness World Records adjudicators announced that the world record had not been broken and that the current record of 4093 zombies set in New Jersey USA on 30 Oct 2010 still stands," reported the Crawley Observer.
Even without the world record, it was a great effort. Congratulations to all who participated.
From the official press release:
NEW YORK, Oct. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- What does audience engagement mean in the age of social media? Researchers at the Harmony Institute (HI) collaborated with neuroscientists at Columbia University and City College New York to develop a new method for studying neural and social engagement with entertainment in real-time.
Measuring audience response to an episode of the popular AMC zombie series The Walking Dead, researchers found that moments that produced high levels of brain activity also produced high volumes of social response, suggesting a link between compelling content and social media engagement. Yet there were clear points of divergence, indicating that there may be types of content that people respond to, but refrain from sharing or discussing online.
The Harmony Institute worked with online analytics company Crimson Hexagon and Twitter to obtain and query all 19,000 tweets referencing the show during its original airing in 2010. The tweets were sorted in a customized coding scheme that took into account indications of sentiment, humor, and "immersion" or engagement with the subject matter. They were then pegged to 194 narrative units within the episode.
Together with HI, bioengineering faculty and researchers recruited 20 subjects to watch the show while hooked to electroencephalogram (EEG) monitors to measure neural activity. Since measurements were calculated for every second of the show, researchers were able to identify specific moments in the episode that were associated with high levels of activity for three corresponding brain waves, which have previously been linked to attention, affect, and memory encoding.
HI took an innovative, design-centered approach to analyzing and combining the data from each of these sources and developed a custom, interactive data visualization tool to compare brain and social media data with the content of the episode.
Preliminary findings from the study will be publicly released on Harmony Institute's blog, The Ripple Effect on Friday, October 12, 2012, to correspond with the show's third season launch.
The Harmony Institute, a New York City-based research center dedicated to studying the influence of entertainment, looks beyond traditional indicators (such as box office and audience size) to reveal entertainment's social return on investment.
Press contact: Joanna Raczkiewicz
T. 212.966.0606
E. Joanna@harmony-institute.org
SOURCE Harmony Institute
Steven Yuen sat down with Attack of the Show to disucss the upcoming third season of AMC's zombie hit The Walking Dead.
Have some free time tonight in Corpus Christi? Then bike on over to the Drive-In Ride-In Theater for a showing of the original Night of the Living Dead to kick-off Halloween season.
"October! A time for crisp weather, fall colors....and zombies!
Join CC Ride-In Theater as we screen the very film that created the modern zombie: George A. Romero's original Night of the Living Dead.
We are excited to have Fright Night and the CC Zombie Walk's support this month, so we'll be accepting cash donations for CASA of the Coastal Bend.
Showtime for NOTLD is 9:30 but there's more fun to be add beforehand so RSVP on Facebook and check out their timeline of events for tonight.
And the best of a ride-in movie theater... you'll have your bike with you in case you need to make a fast getaway of the zombie apocalypse hits.
Available in print this week is Luke Duffy's sequel to When There's No More Room In Hell.
"The Dead have conquered the Earth, devouring and destroying everything in their path as mankind is brought to the edge of extinction. After battling their way out of Baghdad, across the Middle East and in to Europe, Marcus and what is left of his team, are close to reaching their final objective. Now, they must continue their struggle against the hordes of rotting corpses that stand in their way as they travel the wasteland that had once been their home. As Marcus and his men press on, his brother, Steve, continues to hold together the band of survivors within the walls of the Safari Park. With danger all around, he soon discovers that they are fighting against more than just the un-dead."
When There's No More Room In Hell II is available in paperback and for the Kindle now.
Tim Burton's Frankenweenie is in theaters now!
Anthrax's Scott Ian spends the day with Greg Nicotero at the KNB EFX studio for Fangoria's Blood and Guts show on the Nerdist Channel.
Coming on October 25th from Foursaken Media - N.Y. Zombies 2
Game features include:
INTENSE ACTION
- Co-op multiplayer with up to 3 players, powered by GameCenter!
- Battle huge hordes of zombies, up to 20-30 at once!
- Explore a broken down New York city - from Times Square, to Central Park, to Holland Tunnel and more!
- Gear up with over 25 upgradable weapons and items!
- Easy to learn shooting mechanics - tap to shoot from the hip, or use iron sights for greater accuracy!
DEEP GAMEPLAY
- Learn a variety of skills!
- 3 different skill paths: Survivor, Close Combat, and Marksman!
- 18 unique enemy types, including mutant crows, giant zombies, rabid dogs, diseased zombies, and many more!
- Discover an epic story of survival!
- 2 game modes: story and endless!
- Awesome items like Bear Traps, Molotav Cocktails, a Riot Shield, Land Mines, Grenades, Auto Turrets and more!
LATEST TECHNOLOGY
- Stunning graphics with advanced lighting!
- Full iPhone/iPod Touch 5 widescreen support!
- Retina display enabled for the new iPad!
Brand new on Blu-ray this week is Stephen King's Pet Sematary. The 1989 film stars Dale Midkiff, Denise Crosby and Fred Gwynne. The Paramount disc features a commentary by director Mary Lambert along with three featurettes: "Stephen King Territory", "The Characters" and "Filming the Horror".
"After moving to an idyllic home in the countryside, life seems perfect for the Creed family...but not for long. Louis and Rachel Creed and their two young children settle in to a house that sits next door to a pet cemetery - built on an ancient Indian burial ground. Their mysterious new neighbor, Jud Crandall (Fred Gwynne), hides the cemetery's secret...until a family tragedy brings the secret to life. Now, an unthinkable evil is about to be resurrected."
A new trailer is out for the third season of The Walking Dead, premiering October 14th at 9pm on AMC.
What do you do when your political opinions disagree with those of your opponent? You invoke animal sacrifice and the zombie apocalypse, of course.
So here is "Night of the Living Pelosi" from her Republican challenger John Dennis:
From the official press release:
Product Studios Releases Professor Zombie! for iOS, Android, and Kindle Fire
Today Producto Studios released their newest game for iOS, Android and Kindle Fire: Professor Zombie Unscramble!
Just in time for Halloween - a sequel to the hit iOS game Professor Palindromes! (also released for the first time on Kindle Fire Today), Professor Zombie! Challenges you to unscramble the words before the Zombie eats the professor’s brain!
The Professor has left his brain out, and now zombies want to eat it! The only way you can stop the zombies is by unscrambling the words from the zombie lexicon.
The play is simple: press two letters to swap their places.
The action is frantic: can you make the correct moves before the time runs out?
You get 40 seconds on each level to unscramble the words. Be sure to read the clues, as they will help you figure out the puzzle.
Any time left over from the last level is applied to the next. The faster you work on the earlier levels, the better chance you have when things get more complicated.
Earn or buy (iOs only) “Instant Solves” to help you get to higher and higher levels!
Fun, and addictive. Download it now! For iOS and Android, and Kindle Fire.
Can you use extra money for Halloween? Enter HGTV's FrontDoor.com Trick-or-Treat Sweepstakes for your chance to win $3,000. Entry form and official rules are located right here.
The contents of trick 'r treat bags are going to look a little different this Halloween if PopCap, the American Dental Association and your local dentist get their way. They are all teaming up this October to Stop Zombie Mouth by offering up free Plants vs. Zombies game downloads for Halloween as a sugar-free alternative to candy.
"This Halloween, the Putrid Posse is coming after the mouths of kids everywhere. We need your help to stop them — and Stop Zombie Mouth! Team up with PopCap — makers of Plants vs. Zombies — and the American Dental Association to help teach kids of all ages about good oral hygiene. You can help by giving FUN instead of candy on Halloween — for free!"
Limited edition Plants vs. Zombies collectible trading cards with free download codes are available at your local dentist's office (if they are participating in this program) and free game coupons are available online at the Stop Zombie Mouth website so you can give them out to trick 'r treaters too.
New this week from Serena Valentino, the author of How To Be a Zombie: The Essential Guide for Anyone Who Craves Brains, as well as the Young Adult fantasy novel Fairest of All and the graphic novel Nightmare & Fairy Tales: 1140 Rue Royale, comes another title in the realm of the living dead - Undead: Everything The Modern Zombie Needs To Know.
"Written for the zombie-loving teen (or the aspiring zombie-killer), this quirky, fast-paced, visually compelling guide has it all—fashion, make-up, movies, dating, rotting gracefully, and more. Fast-paced, funny, colorful, and gloriously gruesome."
Undead: EverythingThe Modern Zombie Needs To Know is available in paperback now.
Call of Duty and Treyarch Studios are back with two minutes of zombie killing carnage in the Black Ops 2 Zombies trailer.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Zombies is available for pre-order now for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii U, PC and PC Download.
And if you pre-order the Hardened Edition or Care Package now, they will also give you the exclusive Nuketown Zombies map!