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Fear the Walking Dead Returns With a Zombie Hurricane

Fear the Walking Dead resumes its fourth season this weekend and AMC has uploaded the exciting first four minutes. The clip starts with a segment you don’t need to be a Fear fan to enjoy. It’s a minute of zombies in what looks like a hurricane being flung this way and that. It’s quite lovely. … Continued

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The Walking Dead Says Goodbye to Andrew Lincoln in a Heartfelt Comic-Con Panel

There’s a lot of things in flux for AMC’s The Walking Dead, which premieres in October. Sure, on the show, Negan has been defeated, and it looks like the survivors will finally live in peace. Spoiler: As the new Comic-Con trailer reveals, they won’t. But the real drama is behind the scenes. “It seems there’s … Continued

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In Patient Zero, Matt Smith Has an Interview With a Zombie (and an American Accent)

Oh, and the zombie (or rather “Infected” rage-monster) just happens to be a worryingly smart Stanley Tucci. Yeah, humanity looks pretty boned. Set in a post-apocalyptic future where the remnants of humanity hold out against the angry, faux-zombie hordes created by a massively virulent disease, Patient Zero is an upcoming movie which stars Doctor Who’s … Continued

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Jim Jarmusch Is Making a Zombie Comedy With Bill Murray

Bill Murray, but also Adam Driver, Chloë Sevigny, Tilda Swinton, Steve Buscemi, and Selena Gomez. All in the same zombie movie. That’s the cast of latest film from Jim Jarmusch, director of Ghost Dog, Only Lovers Left Alive, and Stranger Than Paradise. It’s called The Dead Don’t Die and it just went into production in … Continued

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Zombieland 2 Is Officially Happening and Everyone’s Coming Back Except Bill Murray

After a nearly decade of waiting, it’s finally happening. Today, The Hollywood Reporter announced that Zombieland 2 is, in fact, a go with all four of the original movie’s stars returning to reprise their roles, along with director Ruben Fleischer and writers Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese. While the original film focused on the characters … Continued

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A Father’s Day Imagines a Gruesomely Sweet Zombie Family Reunion 

Most zombie tales are set just as the outbreak is happening, as desperate people—often families, as seen in recent films like Cargo and Train to Busan, but going all the way back to Night of the Living Dead—try to protect their loved ones. This short puts a refreshingly different perspective on the familiar. It’s called … Continued

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Cargo Might Be the Hardest Zombie Story You’ll Ever Watch

I almost didn’t finish Cargo. I was sure it was going to give me nightmares. It’s about fathers and daughters doing terrible things to keep each other alive. But its terrible events lay on top of a premise too tantalizing to turn away from. As in other zombie apocalypse entertainment, the extinction-level event in Cargo … Continued

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Florida City Has Been Accidentally Sending Out Zombie Alert Messages Since Hurricane Irma

No one should ever screw around on a public alert system. But considering it’s been a bad year for warning systems—from the Hawaii false emergency alert accidentally informing the public of an incoming missile that didn’t exist to the National Weather Service’s false tsunami warning to the Department of Justice’s Amber Alert site issues that … Continued

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One Study Finds ‘Zombie Deer’ Prion Disease May Not Infect Humans, but Risk Remains

Scientists’ worst fears over a so-called “zombie deer” prion disease currently spreading across the US and Canada are unlikely to come to pass, suggests a long-term study published Wednesday in the Journal of Virology. The fatal ailment, known as chronic wasting disease (CWD) and caused by a mysterious kind of protein called a prion, doesn’t … Continued

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The Walking Dead Didn’t Earn Its Season Finale in the Slightest

I don’t think I’ve ever watched a more self-satisfied, obnoxious episode of television in my life. But what’s even more obnoxious is that the season eight finale of The Walking Dead was still gratifying to me, too, if only because it looks like it finally got the AMC show back on the right track (…maybe). … Continued

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Important Announcement: The Walking Dead Was Actually Fine Last Night

No, seriously. I know it may sound impossible after this deeply troubled second-half of season eight, but The Walking Dead pulled off an episode that had no major issues and was pretty compelling because it actually advanced a lot of storylines while also setting up some major stakes for the season finale. See, Walking Dead … Continued

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Martin Freeman Braves the Zombie Apocalypse to Save His Daughter in the New Trailer for Cargo

Nearly five years ago, we had our hearts broken by Ben Howling and Yolanda Ramke’s touching take on the zombie genre in the short film Cargo. Now, it’s becoming a full-length film with Martin Freeman in the title role, and is set to get us all teary-eyed once more. The movie adaptation is once again … Continued

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Either Rick or The Walking Dead Needs to Die

After last week’s episode of silent zombies and fences that couldn’t be shot through, I was determined to go into this week’s episode of The Walking Dead with an open mind. I wanted to look for the good, I really did. Instead, I got a brutal, nihilistic reminder of the show’s most fundamental problem: Rick … Continued

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One Actor Chose to Get Bit by Zombies Rather Than Stay on The Walking Dead

There have been a lot of casualties on The Walking Dead. One of the earliest and most tragic fatalities was the surprising end met by Dale Horvath, everyone’s favorite fisherman hat-wearing grandpa figure. His death came as a shock for fans, but get ready for another shock—the actor himself was the one who pulled the … Continued

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Last Night’s The Walking Dead Was So Stupid I Can’t Stand It

This is why we can’t have nice things. Where to even begin? I’ll start with one tragic fact: I had to watch this episode twice. As a Super Important Walking Dead Reviewer, I get screeners of the show so I don’t necessarily have to write these recaps between 10:00 pm-1:00 am on Sunday nights. But … Continued

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This Spoilery Walking Dead Clip Shows a Surprising Turn in the War

io9 has an exclusive clip from Sunday’s episode of The Walking Dead, and it’s a good one. Given that it’s an official show promo, I would guess it takes place early in the episode, and so it’s probably not technically that much of a spoiler overall. But I was definitely surprised when I saw what … Continued

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A Miracle Happened on The Walking Dead, But Does It Matter?

If you felt The Walking Dead had been spinning its gore-covered wheels for the last several seasons, well, last night’s episode introduced something that is truly new. It’s arguably the most important moment since Negan and the Saviors swaggered onto the scene, if not before. But since this is The Walking Dead, I have to … Continued

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God Guest-Starred on a Very Special Episode of The Walking Dead

Now that we’ve been reminded yet again Rick is the worst, it’s time for The Walking Dead to start moving its game pieces in preparation for Protagonists vs. the Saviors round… oh, let’s say four. So “Dead or Alive or” is a bit of a check-in, a bit of re-arranging, and even a bit of … Continued

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That Was a Truly Infuriating Episode of The Walking Dead

Lessons are immediately forgotten. Trips are wasted. Obviously poor decisions are made. Hell, Jadis, Queen of the Garbage People, somehow became the episode’s most sympathetic character. When that happens, you know your Walking Dead episode has major, major problems. Ugh. Let’s just… let’s just get into it. The episode is divided into chapters based on … Continued

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The Walking Dead‘s Mid-Season Premiere Was Pretty Good Despite Itself

The world’s pre-eminent source of zombie entertainment has never exactly been afraid of shooting itself in the foot now and again. It’s like the show has some sort of crippling self-esteem issues, and can’t help sabotaging itself. But this episode in particular felt like The Walking Dead wanted to offer us a delicious cookie, but … Continued