Zombie Movies

Horror is probably my favorite movie genre, and I have a special place in my heart for zombie movies. If you’re a zombie movie fan, here’s a list of movies I’ve seen, some are better than others, but hey, zombie entertainment!

My Top Five – In Order

  1. Dead Snow: This movie vaulted into first place for me. It doesn’t get any more over the top than this one. The sequel, Dead Snow 2: Red vs Dead,  may even be better. Hard to believe.
  2. Army of Darkness: I don’t think I would have passed the California Bar Exam without this movie. This movie is hilarious, and will kill whatever stress you have. Gimme some sugar, baby.
  3. Evil Dead 2: Wow. It was wonderful craziness when I first saw it, and it holds up 20+ years later.
  4. Reincarnation: Such an odd little film, very atmospheric, and one of the few movies about reincarnation that doesn’t suck, in my opinion. The only movie on this list that doesn’t include slapstick humor. It’s Japanese with subtitles, stick with it, you’ll be rewarded. It’s got a great twist ending – no peeking at spoilers!
  5. Dead Heat: This movie is just a hoot – it’s a buddy movie, with zombies.  It’s from the ’80s, so it might be hard to find, and Vincent Price and Darren McGavin have fun cameos.

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Zombie Board Games

This isn’t an exhaustive list, I’m only listing games I’ve played and liked for one reason or another.

Last Night On Earth (and expansions): This game is great. I love the adjustable board. Each time you start a new game, you place individual pieces of the board together to create a new playing board. And I’m partial to cooperative games. Each game has objectives that you must meet within a certain amount of time. If you don’t meet those objectives, the zombies win. Continue reading “Zombie Board Games”

14. Grotesque, Season Two, Episode Eight. Original Air Date = August 21, 2016

Nick, waking up. Definitely a call back to the very first episode when he woke up in the drug house/church.  He stretches, and looks around. He’s in a room with a couple of dead people. But of course.  I’m not sure where he is, somewhere on Celia’s estate that didn’t burn? Someplace nearby? The nurse from Celia’s walks inside the room. Nick looks out the open front door and sees a boy playing with a ball. Nick asks her where she’s going. She’s going south, and Nick should go with her, she says.  She sits down and asks him if he’s going to follow them. I think she means the walkers.  She says there is talk of other safer places, but there are bandits out there, and they’re dangerous. The nurse is looking for the boy’s father. “If he’s out there he (Juan, the boy) deserves to find him.” Nick gazes toward the corpses on the floor. Continue reading “14. Grotesque, Season Two, Episode Eight. Original Air Date = August 21, 2016”

About me and my interest in zombies

I’m a privacy maven. Always have been, probably always will be. I was one of those seven year old girls who had a diary complete with lock and key – and said diary was always kept locked and hidden, and the key kept in a separate location, and for good measure, also hidden.

I tried to get away from privacy by almost becoming a paleontologist, but dinosaurs and trilobites lost, and privacy won. I’ve worked in the privacy and civil liberties community for almost twenty years, writing and speaking about privacy. Even chaired a conference on the subject, and I’ll be co-chairing that conference again in June, 2017. Privacy and surveillance issues are topics that I’ve thought deeply about. Continue reading “About me and my interest in zombies”

Welcome to DeborahPierce.net

If you just found this blog — welcome!! Pull up a chair, grab your favorite beverage, and read and comment on the topics you find interesting.

This is a place to talk about law, privacy, surveillance, ethics, movies, books – with zombies. The shambling dead are always fun to watch or read about, and I like them even more when I look at them through a privacy and surveillance lens.  And that’s the lens I’ll use here, as I add in my two cents to zombie culture. It’s also the lens that I’m using for my first novel, which is a topic for another post. 🙂

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13. Shiva, Season Two, Episode Seven. Original Air Date = May 22, 2016

The episode opens in a jungle with the little boy from the last episode. He’s looking at the river and it is filled with bodies. The little boy is Daniel.

Daniel and Ofelia wake up when they hear the shot (Strand killing Thomas). Daniel tells Ofelia they have to go. Ofelia can’t keep up when they run outside. Daniel says she has to keep up and then she scratches off her face. Then Daniel wakes up for real. Ofelia is still asleep in her bed, and thankfully, her face intact.

The group all discover Thomas dead in his bed. Celia is very upset, slaps Strand and says his soul is empty. She asks why Madison is there, and Madison says she’s Strand’s friend. Continue reading “13. Shiva, Season Two, Episode Seven. Original Air Date = May 22, 2016”

12. Sicut Cervus, Season Two, Episode Six. Original Air Date = May 15, 2016

Inside a church in Mexico, with little alter boys singing – very Catholic. The background colors are all gold and brown, very religious. The priest is sitting by the alter, looking haggard. There are worried looking parishioners inside, listening to the service. In Spanish, the priest says the times we are living in are testing our belief. They all get communion. Where is our god and why would he test us like this? The priest says that he knows the answer. The god he knows wouldn’t do such a thing. This isn’t our god. This evil wants us to turn away from him and our faith. It feeds our doubt. Don’t give in to it. Do not feed it.  Everyone is getting communion while he gives his speech. They go outside and pick up weapons. Continue reading “12. Sicut Cervus, Season Two, Episode Six. Original Air Date = May 15, 2016”

11. Captive, Season Two, Episode Five. Original Air Date = May 8, 2016

We see someone cutting cilantro and shallots and garlic, salt, oil, peppers, and then he throws a chop of some sort into a hot pan. Connor, who is holding Alicia captive, is making food. He’s watching skiing on the TV. Pregnant woman walks in and observes. Connor says that his NY strips are what get people through the day. He made the NY strip for Alicia. Alicia wants to see Travis, but Connor wants to get to know her first. Connor thinks she would be happy here. Connor says that Jack has a sense about her. The TV and electricity go out. He tells her to stay put. Pregnant woman is watching her. Alicia looks at the food and begins to eat. She barely takes two bites and the pregnant woman takes it away from her and locks her inside. Alicia runs down the hall checking locked doors, and finally finds a porthole that leads her to the top of the boat.  She looks around. Their boat is sitting in a dock, but it’s not in the water, it’s on a platform – dry dock. The boat looks like it’s being worked on – maybe some kind of maintenance. Anyway, it’s not in the water, and it’s not going anywhere. Continue reading “11. Captive, Season Two, Episode Five. Original Air Date = May 8, 2016”

10. Blood in the Streets, Season Two, Episode Four. Original Air Date = May 1, 2016

It’s night time and we see waves crashing into a pier.  Someone is swimming in the dark, heading to shore. Nick? Yeah it’s Nick. He’s naked, or close to it. He has a plastic bag tied to his arm. Must have been a tough swim because he looks exhausted. He finally makes it to shore, evading the searchlights of a helicopter scanning the shoreline. A little ways from shore, we also see  boats with search lights too.

Nick puts his clothes on – kept dry by the plastic bag. Pretty brave of him to swim in the dark, when we’ve seen lots of walkers on the beach. Continue reading “10. Blood in the Streets, Season Two, Episode Four. Original Air Date = May 1, 2016”

9. Ouroboros, Season Two, Episode Three. Original Air Date = April 24, 2016

We hear muted screaming in the background, and see debris floating in the ocean water. As the camera pans back, we can see that it is the remains of a plane wreck. We see Alex from Flight 462 surface from underneath the water, then she dives looking for something, and she surfaces. She calls out for Jake and sees him floating with some wreckage. He’s severely burned on his head and face.  There are a few other survivors and they all end up on one of the yellow life rafts from the plane. Right off the bat one of the guys who joins them on the raft has a big bite on his ankle. They beat him in the head and over the side he goes. Sometime later Alex is trying to help Jake by putting alcohol on his wound to disinfect it. He screams. Night time, the survivor in the suit tries to kill Jake but Alex stops him by hitting him hard in what looks like the throat, and then tosses him over the side of the raft. That’s some guilt she’s carrying around from taking Jake’s mom’s seat on the plane. Continue reading “9. Ouroboros, Season Two, Episode Three. Original Air Date = April 24, 2016”