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NEWS ABOUT: zombie

zombie stories: 5 news summaries

 Gentlemen 
 Prefer Zombies 

Vampires are sensitive wimps

Oct 28, 09 3:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - Give a guy a good, old-fashioned zombie any day over a vampire. "Dudes don't dig bloodsuckers because vampires pretty much look like girls," writes John DeVore in The Frisky . "We prefer zombies, because we love chainsaws, flamethrowers, and samurai swords." But primarily, guys realize their "... More »

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horror flims • horror movies • vampires • zombie • True Blood • Monsters vs Aliens

Fast-Food Customer Punches Out 'Zombie'

Man's nose broken by attacker freaked out by living dead

Oct 26, 09 2:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - A man at a fast food restaurant in Iowa called another customer a zombie and punched him—twice. The victim was slugged in the eye as he stood at the counter to order food near the University of Iowa campus in Iowa City. As he called police on his cell... More »

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Iowa • crime • fast food • attack • assault • zombie • Zombieland

MOVIE REVIEW

 Zombieland a Gory 'Joyride' 

Woody Harrelson is great in one of the best new comedies, critics agree

Oct 2, 09 11:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - Zombieland is gory, but most critics think it's a rollicking good time. A sampling:
  • “Zombieland is a romance, a comedy, a road movie, and a freewheeling schlock horrorfest, all in one,” writes Stephanie Zacharek for Salon. “Its growling, groaning zombie villains aren't particularly menacing.
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entertainment • film • movie review • reviews • Woody Harrelson • zombie • Zombieland

A Zombie's Worst Enemy: Canadian Math Geeks

Scholars devise method to eliminate pesky Hollywood bugaboo

Aug 15, 09 3:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - Decades of terrorizing sleepy towns in grade-B horror flicks hasn't prepared zombies for their newest foe: Canadian math geeks. Scholars in Ottawa have formulated a mathematical model to combat a zombie outbreak, dismissing quarantines and cures: “The most effective way to contain the rise of the undead is to... More »

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Hollywood • Canada • outbreak • mathematicians • zombie

 Festival Aims to 
 Slay Zombie Record 

Moviemakers invite music fans to shamble along for record-breaking zombie walk

Jun 4, 09 2:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - A British music festival is planning the biggest night of the living dead in history, reports the Telegraph. Organizers of the Big Chill have invited all festival-goers to appear as zombie extras for a scene from the upcoming movie I Spit on Your Rave. They hope to send the existing... More »

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film • music festival • horror movies • zombie

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