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The ever vigilant Patrick Sauriol sent me this:

I did this video for a Russian Metal Band called ANJ. It is pretty crazy. When I saw the lyrics it seemed to be an earnest tribute to Mikael Gorbachov (that’s how the Russians spell it), so I was a bit confounded about what the video concept should be, but then I had a brainstorm to take it way over the top and I think it was just the thing. Suffice to say it’s half Russian History allegory as told through an old zombie movie made in the Soviet Union, and half animated Soviet Propaganda posters… - by Tom Stern (Beware: Creepy chimp picture ahead). More about the video and an HD version at vimeo.

A Russian heavy metal video with a giant Gorbachov with frickin’ laser beams coming from his eyes saving the day from the Communist menace represented by a zombiefied Stalin and his minions - what more could a ZombieFreak ask for? Thanks Patrick. You rock.

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A Hard Day’s Night of the Living Dead! Happy Halloween.

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Wee. A catchy tune.

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An older video by DanceFloor Tragedy helmed by Automaton Transfusion director Steven C Miller and Through the Heart Pictures. Love it!

Hey, Steven I need a job… overweight, bearded, long haired actor/producer available to eat the flesh of the unwilling, to run screaming from the undead or to field some phone calls or arrange a travel schedule.

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The Beatles and zombies… Cool! Yeah, yeah, yeah!

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As NOTLD is public domain Wednesday 13 has made good use of some of the footage in their cool assed Horror Punk video, “I Walked with a Zombie”:

Holy shit! Alice Cooper influenced these guys for sure. It sure does take one back. Good stuff.

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All My Friends are Zombies by The Priscillas. Rockin’ tune! I think I’ll watch it again.

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Creepy zombie girls washing cars. One of them even has a little zombie chihuahua. Eek! Here’s ‘Fashion Freak’:

Well done. A fun little video produced by Zombie Duck films to a catchy electronic tune by Swedish group Naked Ape.

Wait. There’s more. Zombies are a theme for Naked Ape. Check out ‘Undo Redo’:

Pole dancing zombies? Why not?

You can listen to more on the band’s myspace page.

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Yes, Michael Jackson was cool at one time. We had no idea what he was going to develop into. Yikes. He’s scarier looking now than his zombie self in the above video directed by John Landis. I like the energy of this shortened version of the video edited by Drewske1984 with the RunDMC mix of the song dubbed in.

I wonder what Jackson’s next incarnation will be…

Just a bit of an aside - I sure do miss Vincent Price. Here are the lyrics of Vincent Price’s rap in the song:

Darkness falls across the land
The midnite hour is close at hand
Creatures crawl in search of blood
To terrorize yawls neighbourhood
And whosoever shall be found
Without the soul for getting down
Must stand and face the hounds of hell
And rot inside a corpses shell
The foulest stench is in the air
The funk of forty thousand years
And grizzy ghouls from every tomb
Are closing in to seal your doom
And though you fight to stay alive
Your body starts to shiver
For no mere mortal can resist
The evil of the thriller

Man, he was too cool for school.

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While surfing the boards over at All Things Zombie I happened across a link this two year old little Finnish zombie flick aptly called Winter of the Dead:

An epic story about a battle between three survivors and the living dead altered by nuclear radiation. In the ravaged landscape of Eastern Finland, Toni, Marika and Risto are getting prepared for the last attack of the mutants. The fate of the survivors is uncertain.

Well that sounds like some ultra-chilly zombie goodness. Let’s have a look at the trailer:

Yikes! Although the zombies are fast it looks well done. I wonder if the soundtrack is any good. Here’s the opening theme, Kuolleiden Talvi (Winter of the Dead for those who don’t read Finnish):

If you like that the entire soundtrack, composed and produced by Matias Puumala, is available for free download. Get it now!

The soundtrack is not the only thing that’s free. You can download the entire movie right from the Winter of the Dead website free of charge… for nothing… gratis. I did. With FlashGet it only took 12 minutes.

The movie comes as a 342mb WMV file and doesn’t look too bad from a quality standpoint. I watched it at fullscreen on my monitor at a resolution of 1280×1024. I don’t think it would make the jump to my widescreen HD TV as there were compression related artifacts on the screen throughout. However it was more than watchable. There were a few glitches in the file toward the end but it really didn’t take away from the overall experience.

I’m lazy and don’t always enjoy reading movie subtitles. These were necessary as I don’t understand Finnish, even though Sami Salo is one of my favourite hockey players. At times the translation was obviously slightly off but that added to the entertainment.

Inexpensively made, but well shot, this movie entertained me. I was impressed. The story, acting and effects are all pretty decent as far a no-budget film goes. A great back story with a mix of humour and buckets of gore kept me watching. Sadly the film only last for a bit over 35 minutes and I wanted to see more. As like with most good shorts I’ve seen they leave you wondering why it couldn’t have been stretched out to feature length. This one definitely could. Perhaps the right folks will see Winter of the Dead and the filmmakers can have enough cash to see the story through some more.

I give Winter of the Dead a 7.5 out of 10.

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