AND THE DEAD SHALL WALK THE EARTH...
"When their is no room in Hell...." well, you know the rest. Zomibes. You know them, you love them. If your like me you've chased countless people around your house moaning "Brains" as you licked lips admired their cranium lovingly. BUT WHERE ARE OUR ZOMBIE TOYS!!!!
They put out some very weak Dawn of the Dead figures in Japan, and a theirs also a few diffrent video game lines with zombies. But where are the zombies we actually want? Where are the zombies who ripped the brains out of people in movies like Night of the Living Dead, or Return of the Living Dead? Or even The Dead Hate the Living? No where, they don't make them. But yah know what? We think they should. So here's a list of possible people we'd like to see appear in a zombie line. This is invisioned as it's own autonomous line completley seperate from the Movie Maniacs line. Still though i have followed the MM formula of 6 figures, a box set, and an 18 inch figure. Instead of Marquee's though, i've taken a cue from the Silent Screamers line of figures and have included my thoughts on a diorama like backdrop for each character.
So... Beware, the Dead will walk the earth....
Graveyard Zombie from Night of The Living dead : An easy choice this time but not a perfect choice. If I wanted a perfect choice I would have gone with the Karen Schow zombie, but we all know theirs no way that one could get made, I just don’t see any company willing to make little plastic dead kids. Plus that zombie as well as a few other zombies a lot of people ask for could constitute spoliers for the movie and give away bits to those who haven’t seen it. To me though, the graveyard zombie is one of the first and most recognizable zombies in the movie. He’d be posed in his shambling walk, infront of a small back drop designed to look like the graveyard from the beginning of the movie. He would also be painted in black and white to closer resemble the zombie in the film
Julie Walker from Return of the Living dead part 3: DO I really need to say more about Julie?Come on, it's Mindy Clarke when she was still a hottie! Our favorite fetish queen zombie in all her pierced and torn glory. She’d look amazing standing on our shelf staring out at us. I picture her coming in both PG and PG-13 versions. The PG version would tone down the breast piercing and probably cover up her chest a little more a la Eve. And the PG-13 version would show her in all her movie glory, completely with the shard of glass driven threw her breast and the nipple piercing.. Her back drop would be the front of the stove from the end of the movie, or an alternate back drop would be her infront of a bunch of canisters of the Zombie gas that turned her in the first place.
She from Dellamorte Dellarmore The very lovely Anna Falchi would make a perfect addition to any action figure line. The fact that in Dellamorte Dellamore, she is A, dead, and B, comes back to life, makes her perfect for a spot in a zombie line. Nary is found a more beautiful zombie. Where Julie from Return of the Living Dead part 3 oozes sex apeal out of every cut and wound, She, as she is known in the movie, oozes beauty and elgance grace. It would be from the Angel of Death sequence, where we see her rise out of the cemetary, the wind blowing in her hair and the dirt and the branches ripping threw her body. She would make a truly beautful figure, and her backdrop would parts of the cemetary that rebirthed her.
Dr. Eibon, Lead Zombie from The Dead Hate the Living : I don’t know how many of you guys have seen this flick, but this guy was cool. He was big dark and foreboding. While not your regular mindless “Brains” zombie, he was still the living dead. His look is awesome, very much akin to a Rob Zombie wanna be. There are actually a lot of zombies from this flick that I’d like to see in further upcoming lines, but we would have to start with the main baddy. His back drop would be the huge coffin like gate that transported the zombies from the other side, and part of the basement floor for him to stand on. If you havn't checked this movie out you should. It's the first zombie movie since the big ones to actually capture the feel of it's predicessors. That alone makes Dr. Eibon well worth a spot in the Zombies line.
Dr. Hill from Re-Animator or From Bride of Re-Animator I know what your thinking, how can we have a Dr. Hill without a Herbert West? Well this isn't a "Jeffrery Combs characters that we'd love to see immortalized in plastic", it's a "And The Dead Will Walk..." line. And who better then to come out last, then Dr. Hill himself holding his head in a disection tray. He would also come with an alternate winged head so that we could have the ultra cool character from Bride of the Re-Animator as well. Ideally It wold be from one of the end scene's of the movie and the backdrop would include Barbara Cramptons nude body on a gurney, but that ain't gonna happen. So there for the back drop diorama would include parts of Herbert West's lab where Dr. Hill was first re-animated. So it's not Herbert West, but he'd still be damn cool....
Orville from Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things : Okay, i love this film and think and Orville would make a wonderful little addition to this line. I don't know how many of you remember it, but it's one of my favorite Zombie films, it's dark it's funny, and it was made for T. V. Quality it is not, but Orville was pretty cool. His diorama would be the dirty old cornor of the house with part of the couch on which our hero Alan leaves him during the movie
BOXED SET
Michael
Jackson's Thriller: Okay, so this one is partially meant as a joke. But
only partially. How many horror fans where formed on that night long ago when
the monstrous video Thriller began to prowl across our television screen. I’m
not a Michael Jackson fan, I don’t like the man, and I don’t like his music.
That being said I can’t deny the absolute horrific power the Thriller Video had.
The Set would come with three figures, Michael in the middle in his signature
red leather V jacket, with the two lead zombies from the video to either side of
them. In Lieu of accessories this package would come with a small diorama of the
cemetery with two or three headstones, some fake grass and a tree. The two
zombies in the back would be posed in the infamous bent arm march that was so
familiar and oft repeated throughout the video. Ideally somehow the Michael
Zombie would have a Moon walk action base. Make fun of me if you like… But I
know I’m not the only freak who would buy it.
Thanks to www.rarevideos.com for the pic.
18 Inch Figure
Bub from Dawn of the Dead: I Know what you've been thinking. A zombie Line without Bub? Well, what do you think 18 inchers are for? My ideal choice for a Zombie 18 incher would have to be Bub from the movie Day of the dead. Just imagine him standing their on your shelf in all his 18 inch glory, a walkman in his hand, and a pair of headphones on his ears. In my opinion when it comes to 18 inch zombies... Their is no other choice. Bub is the man.... er... The Zombie.
Series Two
The Little Girl Zombie from Night
Of the Living Dead, complete with Trowel.
Gage Creed From Pet Sematary complete with Dead Cat.
A box set of the Zombies from Phantasm Three.
Just about Any Zombie in any movie where the directors last name is Fulci.
The Priest From Dead Alive
Cheryl from Evil Dead and Linda From Evil Dead.