Here’s a terrible thing to contemplate: for the past eight years, the B-Masters Cabal has sat silent and unprotesting as a blatant act of discrimination was committed in its midst. For eight years, one of our number – there’s no need to mention names – has devoted one month a year to the Undead….but not just any Undead, ohhhhh no: zombies only need apply. No welcome at the country club for you, Mr Vampire! No seat on the bus for you, Ms Mummy! Well, it’s past time that we balanced the ledger; and that’s why the next Roundtable will be—
Month Of The ALTERNATIVE Living Dead
Join us all through November as the B-Masters pay belated tribute to – the other dead meat!
#1 by Blake Matthews on October 31, 2008 - 5:34 am
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Besides Frankenstein-ish monsters, vampires, and mummies, what else would count as the alternate dead? Those beautiful, ethereal Chinese ghosts that are capable of having children with the living? Keith Richards?
#2 by El Santo on October 31, 2008 - 7:39 am
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Oh, let’s see… You’ve got your witches and warlocks who sold their souls to the devil in exchange for resurrection powers, your mad scientist who bring themselves back to life to get back at all the people who scoffed at their work over the years, your resurrected small-time hoodlums who get pressed into service as instruments of divine justice against the mob, your Medieval serial killers brought back from death by the blood of twelve virgins… The list goes on and on, really.
#3 by Blake Matthews on October 31, 2008 - 8:29 am
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Hmm…Horror Hotel…The Resurrected…Friday the 13th 6 and 7…First Power (or something like that)…gotcha.
Oh, just for your information, the reference I made in my first comment was to the original ending of the Chinese Ghost Story book/novella/whatever, in which the character that Leslie Cheung played ends up marrying the ghost (that was played by Joey Wong in the movie) and together they have a child.
#4 by Blake Matthews on October 31, 2008 - 11:46 am
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Hmm…I wonder if we’ll get any Universal Soldier movie reviews this time around. hehehe
#5 by rjschwarz on October 31, 2008 - 2:35 pm
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Can’t get enough zombies. Vampires bore me and werewolves don’t qualify. It’ll be interesting to read the alterantive reviews though.
#6 by PCachu on November 3, 2008 - 2:59 pm
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The time has definitely come for a film about Moon Keith Moon, the drum-playing ash jar from Weebl’s On the Moon series.
#7 by Tom Meade on November 3, 2008 - 6:03 pm
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That’d go well with my idea for a sea-faring epic about Long John Bonham, undead captain of the Flying Oil Drum. He’ll not rest till he catches the whale that took his floor tom’s leg!
#8 by Nathan Shumate on November 5, 2008 - 3:51 pm
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See if I invite any of you to participate in any of my Months of the Living Dead ever again. So there.
#9 by lyzard on November 8, 2008 - 2:37 pm
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Fine! We’ll build our own Month Of The Living Dead! With blackjack! And hookers!
#10 by Nathan Shumate on November 8, 2008 - 3:41 pm
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Just for that, I’m going to track down a zombie movie with blackjack and hookers for next year.
#11 by Mark on November 10, 2008 - 8:52 am
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“Vampires bore me and werewolves don’t qualify” – what about undead/resurrected werewolves (Naschy comes to mind)?