{"id":249,"date":"2008-02-26T09:17:54","date_gmt":"2008-02-25T23:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/02\/26\/new-american-zombie\/"},"modified":"2008-02-26T09:17:54","modified_gmt":"2008-02-25T23:17:54","slug":"new-american-zombie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/02\/26\/new-american-zombie\/","title":{"rendered":"New: American Zombie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>American Zombie<\/strong> (US-2007; dir. Grace Lee)<\/p>\n<p>This latest take on the zombie apocalypse genre is a mockumentary that examines the &#8220;lives&#8221; of four zombies as they attempt to fit into human society.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the official synopsis:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Filmmakers Grace Lee (The Grace Lee Project) and John Solomon (Nonsense Man) team up to shoot a documentary about high-functioning zombies living in Los Angeles and their struggles to gain acceptance in human society.<\/p>\n<p>Despite their wildly different working styles, the two manage to chronicle the hopes and dreams of four fascinating subjects: IVAN, a convenience-store clerk who longs for a career in publishing; LISA, a florist trying to recover her lost memories; JUDY, a hopeless romantic who learns to accept her true nature; and JOEL, a committed political activist striving for zombie rights.<\/p>\n<p>But as the film culminates in a three-day, zombies-only retreat called Live Dead, the filmmakers are forced to reevaluate their ideas about tolerance, identity politics, and the future of the human race.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/poster_poster_11.jpg\" title=\"American Zombie poster\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/poster_poster_11.jpg\" alt=\"American Zombie poster\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"> And if you want to see the trailer:<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.terrorfeed.com\/flvplayer.swf\" width=\"400\" height=\"360\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" flashvars=\"&#038;file=americanzombie.flv&#038;height=360&#038;width=400&#038;autostart=false\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"\/><br \/>Get More <a href=\"http:\/\/www.terrorfeed.com\/\">American Zombie (2007) Trailers<\/a> at TerrorFeed.com<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Zombie (US-2007; dir. Grace Lee) This latest take on the zombie apocalypse genre is a mockumentary that examines the &#8220;lives&#8221; of four zombies as they attempt to fit into human society. Here&#8217;s the official synopsis: Filmmakers Grace Lee (The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/02\/26\/new-american-zombie\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,3,41,50,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}