It’s that time of year again! Time to celebrate the Resurrection with a weeklong plunge into all things zombie! Here’s the history: In 2008, Dr. Girlfriend and I decided to spend a week or so each year marathoning through zombie films that we’d never seen before, and I would blog short reviews. And simple as that, the Easter Zombie Movie Marathon was born.
For the curious, here are links to 2008, 2009 (a bad year), 2010, 2011, 2012 (when we left the blog behind), 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021.
This year we decided to kick it off with some classic Italian heavy hitters that somehow never made it into the marathon, despite being favorites that we’ve seen before, along with some contemporary Korean films and television, plus we’ve thrown in the latest from the Resident Evil franchise, and the classic Return of the Living Dead 3, which has also miraculously never been included in the EZMM.
Here’s the programming schedule in case anybody wants to watch along! Reviews will go up on the following days (although I will be saving up the All of Us are Dead reviews for six episode drops)!
April 10 – Palm Sunday
All of Us are Dead Ep. 1-2 (2 hours)
City of the Living Dead (Gates of Hell) (93 min) – 1980
April 11 – Monday
All of Us are Dead Ep. 3 (1 hour)
The Beyond (80 min) – 1981
April 12 – Tuesday
All of Us are Dead Ep. 4 (1 hour)
The House by the Cemetery (82 min) – 1981
April 13 – Wednesday
All of Us are Dead Ep. 5-6 (2 hours)
April 14 – Holy Thursday
Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness Ep. 1-4 (2 hours)
Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (107 min) – 2021
April 15 – Good Friday
All of Us are Dead Ep. 7 (1 hour)
Kingdom: Ashin of the North (93 min) – 2021
April 16 – Saturday
All of Us are Dead Ep. 8-9 (2 hours)
I Am a Hero (2 hours)
April 17 – Easter Sunday
All of Us are Dead Ep. 10 (1 hour)
Return of the Living Dead 3 (93 min) – 1993
April 18 – Monday
All of Us are Dead Ep. 11-12 (2 hours)