Undead Updates: Zombie Miracle Diets and Zombie Holiday Fun




It's been a few weeks of multiple, consecutive technical difficulties, but I'm finally back to blogging here at Titans, Terrors and Toys. While I've been away, a new TV show that's set to premiere on Netflix on February 3 has caught my depraved attention: Santa Clarita Diet. The series will star Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant, who play a married couple that is faced with a significant change to their lifestyle choice when one of them (Barrymore) becomes a zombie. (Fun trivia fact: Barrymore and Olyphant are alumni from the Scream slasher film franchise.)

From all indications that I've seen, Santa Clarita Diet promises to be a dark horror-comedy show, something along the lines of iZombie. The show was created by Victor Fresco, the same guy who created Better Off Ted, so I have very high hopes for this. A teaser website for the show launched a few weeks ago, and it is structured like an ad for a new miracle weight loss plan; thus, I cannot wait for the many morbid satirical jabs at zombies, serial murder, cannibalism and modern suburban life that Santa Clarita Diet looks eager to provide.




Speaking of zombies ... someone got me for Christmas a book titled It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Zombies!: A Book of Zombie Christmas Carols. This book was written by Michael P. Spradlin and illustrated by Jeff Weigel, with an introduction penned by Christopher Moore. According to Moore, Spradlin inspired him to write his zombie-themed Christmas novel, The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror. That makes sense, since the new lyrics written by Spradlin for familiar holiday tunes show just how much he understands the undead and their dietary preferences. In between the lyric sheets for cannibal carols such as "A Jolly Zombie Christmas", "Deck the Halls with Parts of Wally" and "We Three Spleens" are zombie illustrations provided by Weigel, illustrations that would fit perfectly inside a vintage Christmas issue of Tales from the Crypt.

Spradlin and Weigel later collaborated on Every Zombie Eats Somebody Sometime: A Book of Zombie Love Songs and Jack and Jill Went Up to Kill: A Book of Zombie Nursery Rhymes, so I'll have to add those to my collection too.



Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Art of Tron: Uprising (Part 1 of 4): Characters

Image
This month marks the one year anniversary of the cancellation of Tron: Uprising , which aired on Disney XD for 19 episodes. Set between the events of Tron and Tron: Legacy , Uprising chronicled the events shortly after Clu’s rise to power within the stand-alone Grid created by Kevin Flynn. Personally, I think that Tron: Uprising got a raw deal from Disney. It’s a fantastic addition to the Tron saga that went on to win both Emmy and Annie Awards , yet Disney clearly had other priorities and was willing to toss Uprising aside without so much as an official cancellation notice. Even to this day, Uprising has yet to be released on DVD or Blu-ray and I’m wondering if it ever will. In honor of this amazing animated series that was cut down in its prime, I have decided to do something that Disney won’t. Since there will never be an official Tron: Uprising art book, I have searched across the Internet to find a selection of art from Uprising that I can share here on my blog with ...
Read more

FOUND: Mechanical Shark from Universal Jaws Theme Park Ride

Image
When the Universal Studios Theme Park in Florida shut down its Jaws ride back in January 2012, Jaws fans everywhere were devastated. Yet even though this part of the Jaws franchise is no longer operational, some of its sharks are swimming around out there … including places such as Frederick, Maryland. A few days ago, I was contacted by a fellow Jaws fan named John Ryan, asking me if I knew anything specific regarding the sharks from the Universal Jaws ride. He was asking because he thought he found one and is trying to verify its authenticity. We spoke on the phone and exchanged a few emails, and here’s what he told me about his find: “I've been collecting Jaws memorabilia for decades and when I found this incredibly rare gem sitting in a backyard in Frederick, Maryland, I wondered about its connection to the state. The current homeowners said the shark was already there when they purchased the property. They also told me it had been the subject of neighborhood rumor for y...
Read more

Machine Robo's Magnificent Robot Combiners

Image
I don't collect Transformers merchandise, but I see articles and advertisements about it when I browse through Japanese robot toy sites. From what I can gather, one of the latest product lines for Transformers is called "Combiner Wars" , a line that consists of five or six transforming robot toys that combine into one bigger robot. Combiner robot toys have been around for a long time, and Transformers had quite a few of them even back in the '80s. Yet of the many combiner robot toys I've seen over the years, the ones that have consistently impressed me were the ones released by Bandai under the Machine Robo line. Whereas other robot toy lines are stuck in the novelty of combining smaller toys into a bigger toy, Machine Robo has used the concept of combination to promote creative play. Read on for a review of how Machine Robo has built upon its combiner toys throughout the years.
Read more