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The Walking Dead: The Complete First Season is on sale today for just $8.00 on DVD and $18.99 on Blu-ray.
The Walking Dead: The Complete First Season (3-Disc Special Edition) on Blu-ray is ons sale for just $16.99.
The Walking Dead: The Complete Second Season is on sale for $18.99 on DVD and $24.99 on Blu-ray.
The Walking Dead: The Complete Second Season (Limited Edition) on Blu-ray is $64.98.
It's a very special Thanksgiving episode of Zombie Go Boom, showing what a frozen turkey can do to a zombie skull in the hands of a motivated survivor.
As Rick Grimes says in 'Guts', we're just "dark meat and white meat" now. Happy Thanksgiving!
New this week, Image Comics collects THE WALKING DEAD issues 97-102 into Volume 17: Something To Fear with story by Robert Kirkman and art by Charlie Adlard and Cliff Rathburn.
"In this volume of the NYT bestselling survival horror, Rick and his band of survivors work to build a larger network of thriving communities, and soon discover that Negan's "Saviors" prove to be a larger threat than they could have fathomed. Crossing Negan will lead to serious, dire consequences for the group; it seems that for the first time since the Governor's reign of terror that Rick may have Something to Fear."
THE WALKING DEAD, Vol. 17: Something To Fear is available now.
"Rick questions his sanity, Andrea and the Governor grow closer, while Glenn and Maggie are captured in Episode 306."
KOLO reports that a 'PhD Student Uses Zombies to get Students Excited About Learning'
RESIDENT EVIL: RETRIBUTION is now available for pre-order!
"The Umbrella Corporation’s deadly T-virus is spreading across the globe, transforming ordinary people into legions of undead. Headed for extinction, the human race has just one hope: Alice (Milla Jovovich). She’s on a mission, fighting her way through cities and across continents, all inside Umbrella's prime research facility. Old friends become new enemies as she battles to escape and discovers that everything that she believes may not even be true."
RESIDENT EVIL: RETRIBUTION will be released Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray and DVD on December 21, 2012.
New on DVD this week from Synapse Films is The Definitive Document of the Dead, a revamped and expanded version of this aply named definitive George Romero documentary.
"George A. Romero, director of the original Night Of The Living Dead, is one of the horror genres most celebrated filmmakers. Roy Frumkes' amazing 1978 documentary Document Of The Dead was an intimate look at Romero's creative process, with an outstanding collection of interviews, effects demonstrations (courtesy of make-up artist, Tom Savini) and behind-the-scenes footage from the classic horror film, Dawn Of The Dead.
This newly re-edited and re-mastered 2012 version of the award-winning documentary contains all-new exclusive material including additional interviews with Romero's family and friends, candid on-set footage from Two Evil Eyes, Land Of The Dead, Diary Of The Dead, Survival Of The Dead and many more surprises! The Definitive Document Of The Dead is a loving portrait of a horror legend, and a must-see for any hardcore horror fan!"
In addition to all the new content added to the re-mastered and re-edited Document of the Dead, the DVD also features an all new commentary by writer/director/producer Roy Frumkes.
"Many urge Rick to shoot the girl as if they were collectively yelling at the screen via Twitter".
New from BOOM! Studios - Fanboys vs. Zombies #8 - by writer Sam Humphries and artists Jerry Gaylord.
"The zombies ruined Comic-Con. They overtook the entire city of San Diego, ate J-Mac and Drake, and left Rob and Burger MIA. But after last issue’s shocking twist, the Wrecking Crew has had enough... and they’re about to live up to their namesake."
Yeah, you knew it was coming - the Bath Salt Zombies movie.
"The bath salts epidemic facing the southern and mid-western US has been stifled by an unprecedented government crackdown. This has led to a tremendous amount of surplus stock hidden by black market dealers, and a migration of those dealers to the northeast. In New York City, potent strands have surfaced and have attracted the most devoted bath salt junkies. A young aspiring chemist has developed an even stronger batch... but something has gone horribly wrong. The new ultra potent bath salt batch has revealed a major side effect: It turns users into violent flesh seeking ZOMBIES!"
New in comic stores today, issue #104 of The Walking Dead...
"If you won't handle this... I will"
Featuring a story by Robert Kirkman and art by Charlie Adlard and Cliff Rathburn
The trailer for WARM BODIES, the film adaptation of Isaac Marion's zombie romance novel of the same name, is now live.
"A funny new twist on a classic love story, WARM BODIES is a poignant tale about the power of human connection. After a zombie epidemic, R (a highly unusual zombie) encounters Julie (a human survivor), and rescues her from a zombie attack. Julie sees that R is different from the other zombies, and as the two form a special relationship in their struggle for survival, R becomes increasingly more human -- setting off an exciting, romantic, and often comical chain of events that begins to transform the other zombies and maybe even the whole lifeless world."
WARM BODIES hits theaters on February 1, 2013.
Brand new on DVD this week is the third installment of the REC series - [REC] 3 Genesis - directed by Paco Plaza and starring Leticia Dolero, Javier Botet and Diego Martin.
Clara and Koldo's wedding unfolds through the lens of a video camera that captures their beautiful ceremony and the festive reception that follows. But the camera also bears unblinking witness to the shocking reality of chaos and horror that ensues after a virus spreads through the reception, transforming the wedding guests into something inhuman, and forcing the newlywed couple into a terrifying fight for their lives. Separated amid the mayhem, the newlywed couple discover the true meaning of the vow, "'til death do us part."
[REC] 3 is available now on DVD and Amazon Instant Video.
The first official trailer for the fim adaptation of Max Brooks' WORLD WAR Z, directed by Marc Forster and starring Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos, Eric West, Matthew Fox and David Morse:
How ready are you for the zombie apocalypse?
13 Essential Tools for Surviving a Zombie Outbreak by REI.
If country metal and the living dead are your thing, then "When The Zombies Come" by the Redneck Zombie Killers just might be your thing.