Best Geeky Finds – Zombies, Zombies Everywhere: A Review of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Blog-BGF“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.”

 

As beautifully stated in Jane Austen’s original masterpiece “Pride and Prejudice,” Seth Grahame-Smith explained the state of zombies in his parody piece. Not only did this reproduction spam a prequel and sequel novel (not written by him), but a feature film. In the film, “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,” the zombie virus (brought to England by the French, as Mr. Bennett explains) has stricken London to the point that both an inner wall around London and an outer wall around England have been build, leaving a majority of the zombie hordes swarming the land in the middle—the in-between. This doesn’t stop the virus from spreading through London however. Thankfully Col. Darcy has arrived in London with his friend Mr. Bingley to investigate these occurrences. Continue reading Best Geeky Finds – Zombies, Zombies Everywhere: A Review of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Miss Dawn’s Musings – Rebooting the Busters

Blog-MDMNot surprisingly, I saw Ghostbusters over the weekend. I’m not going to make this a full on review or anything, but I will say it’s the most fun I’ve had at the movies in a long time (and that’s saying a lot, considering the kind of movies I typically see). One of the best aspects was the mix of old and new. Continue reading Miss Dawn’s Musings – Rebooting the Busters

Best Geeky Finds – A New Bite of an Old Classic

Blog-BGFTwilight – sparkly vampires and werewolves + Nightvale = Carmilla

This seems like a strange pop culture equation for a YouTube series based on a 17th century short story collection (especially one that includes Twilight, but don’t worry, it’s not very much like that, so you won’t want to kill any characters yourself), but the common supernatural tropes concerning vampires Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu created in a pre-Dracula world have survived for centuries in horror and supernatural fiction and film. Continue reading Best Geeky Finds – A New Bite of an Old Classic