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Why George Romero rejected The Walking Dead to make The Zombie Autopsies. Well, to be honest, I don't know why Romero keeps turning down opportunities to work on some big and successful projects instead of the last few car crash efforts he's done in the last few years! OK, Diary of the dead wasn't too… Continue reading George Romero turned down The Walking Dead for the Zombie Autopsies
Latest sculpts from me, this time a set of 15mm scale mutant zombies, inspired by various video games, movies and so on, I like to call these: Dead 4 U. First up, a "not" Charger (inspired by Left 4 Dead video games) A "not" Tank mutant zombie, again inspired by the L4D franchise: My daughter… Continue reading Dead 4 U: 15mm “not” Charger and “not” Tank Mutant Zombies!
As you may know, here at the Grinning Skull, zombies figure heavily and I like to keep up to date with the latest news, trends and media. You may remember that I have published several news articles about the "Bath salts zombie effect" that drug users experience whilst high on these new designer drugs. Things… Continue reading Police warning on potent drugs ‘bath salts’ causing psychotic and naked rampages | The Courier-Mail
Zombies attack VIP in California | Fox News. Its about time the security forces got in on some zombie action! Well now they have! The participants in this anti terrorism training excercise had to storm this third world village where a wounded VIP was and save him from the clutches of fully kitted up… Continue reading Zombies attack VIP in California | Fox News
Zombie Neuroscientist Explains the Ant-Like Behavior of World War Z's Running Dead | Underwire | Wired.com. The recent new trailer of World war Z, has seemed to cause a fair bit of controversy in the zombie fan community, with everything from parrelels with the Israel/Gaza situation, to just plain crap. This article has a real… Continue reading Zombie Neuroscientist Explains the Ant-Like Behavior of World War Z’s Running Dead | Underwire | Wired.com
As promised, our friends at Learning never stops have a great article on Derren Brown‘s Apocolypse with both episodes attached so you can watch for yourselves!!
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One of the UK’s most famous magician/TV personality, Derren Brown has teamed up with Channel 4 to create one of the most entertaining two-part shows I have ever seen, named Derren Brown’s Apocalypse. In this series, Derren and his team led Steven Brosnan to believe that the world is about to end. Steven was fed false information about a meteor that was about to strike the world through tweets, news coverage and TV advertisements- all manufactured by Derren Brown and his team, with the help of Steven’s family (the show reminded me of The Truman Show- trailer below). Steven then rode a bus with his brother- also one of Brown’s accomplice- with the belief that he was going to a gig by The Killers. The bus stopped due to some problems and they witnessed explosion after explosion. After being hypnotized by Brown, Steven woke up in what looked like a…
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All I can say is....Wow! For those of you who follow the show, you know what I'm talking about. First ~Herschel getting bit by a walker, then having the infected leg amputated ad hoc in the prison cafeteria then surviving, then T-Dog getting bit on the shoulder (bye T-dog, just as you could have had… Continue reading The Walking Dead season 3, thoughts so far….
So, did you see the conclusion to the two part Apocolypse? I watched eager to laugh at this weeks episode, but alas there were not as many this week. Sure the poor lad was heartbroken when he failed to get airlifted out of the compound, call me cruel, but that was funny, it just was… Continue reading Derren Brown’s Anticlimactic Apocolypse…
Zombie Dawn Use Me 15mm rules Review Recently, I got hold of the zombie Dawn set of the Use Me rules by 15mm.co.uk. Up till then I had been using a homebrew ruleset based on the old Fighting fantasy system, but as we kept playing them I had to keep making up rules on the spot… Continue reading Zombie Dawn USE ME 15mm Rules Review
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