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Why You Absolutely Should Be Watching Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell.

Saturday (June 13th) was the premiere of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell on BBC America, and if you didn’t watch it, you definitely should have. Why? Because it’s awesome, and because I said so. . .what are you still doing here? Why aren’t you checking to see if it’s On-Demand or something? Oh fine, if you won’t just take my word for it I guess I’ll try and explain why it’s awesome, and why you should be watching it. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell is based on the Hugo Award-winning novel of the same name, written by Susanna Clarke. Never having read the book, I can’t speak to the television series’ quality as an adaptation, but as someone who does watch a butt-load of television, I can speak to its quality as an excellent TV show. The series is extremely original and innovative, exploring territory that is very rarely explored in either movies or television, alternate history. Hold on, before

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Capt McNeely
Jun 15, 2015
Horror Fuel

Video Game Review: Dying Light

How do you improve upon the zombie apocalypse? Add parkour! “Dying Light” released on January 27th 2015 is now available on Xbox One, Playstation 4 and PC computers is the newest installment in Tech Land’s open-world Role Playing zombie game. First we got “Dead Island” back in 2011, while that was mediocre it had potential. We later then got “Dead Island: Riptide” and “Escape Dead Island” both were poop, so of course my mind was going into this was expecting mediocrity when actually I was very surprised and honestly “Dying Light” has probably been the best game I’ve played this year! “Dying Light” has you playing as GRE Operative Kyle Crane who is sent into the overrun city of “Harran”. An unfortunate event has taken place resulting in the entire city being engulfed in flame and killer zombies with an extremely unpleasant mutation. Your mission? recover an important file that can lead to a cure and end the zombie virus

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Capt McNeely
Jun 6, 2015
Horror Fuel

Warning: This post contains spoilers, strong language, and general criticism of the Syfy show 12 Monkeys.

The first thing I was ever asked to write for the ZADF was a review of the Syfy show 12 Monkeys. It took me a while, but I finally got around to writing. . .well okay, so this isn’t actually a review so much as is a list of things about the show that really piss me off. Look I want to like 12 Monkeys, I really do. And I’m not even going to get into the peculiarities and paradoxes of time travel, the whole fate vs. freewill thing, or any of that jazz. No, my issues with this show are pretty specific, and they pretty much all have to do with scenes and stories that take place after the plague. It may seem like knit-picking, but there are just some things about this show that make me want to shout obscenities at my television. Starting with the fact that the future seems to be very cold and bleak place.

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Capt McNeely
Mar 29, 2015
Horror Fuel

My Review of Lust of The Dead (Yeah, it’s exactly what you think it is)

Hello fellow zombie apocalypse survivor wannabes, this is my first time providing content for the ZADF. I was recently contacted by a friend and asked if I would like to do the occasional review of foreign horror films for this site. Since the only thing I like better than sharing my opinion, is sharing my opinion over the internet (significantly less face-punching this way). I readily agreed. Only one problem. What would I review? You see, for my first outing I wasn’t assigned a specific film. It was left up to me to choose one. Being that the site is called Zombie Apocalypse Defense Force, I decided that my first review should definitely be a zombie movie. So, I started browsing Netflix for a selection. Oddly enough, Netflix had a recommendation all lined up for me. Due to my past viewing preferences, it seemed to think I would enjoy a Japanese “horror” film called Lust of The Dead. Apparently, if

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Capt McNeely
Mar 10, 2015

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Why You Absolutely Should Be Watching Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell.

Saturday (June 13th) was the premiere of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell on BBC America, and if you didn’t watch it, you definitely should have. Why? Because it’s awesome, and because I said so. . .what are you still doing here? Why aren’t you checking to see if it’s On-Demand or something? Oh fine, if you won’t just take my word for it I guess I’ll try and explain why it’s awesome, and why you should be watching it. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell is based on the Hugo Award-winning novel of the same name, written by Susanna Clarke. Never having read the book, I can’t speak to the television series’ quality as an adaptation, but as someone who does watch a butt-load of television, I can speak to its quality as an excellent TV show. The series is extremely original and innovative, exploring territory that is very rarely explored in either movies or television, alternate history. Hold on, before

Continue reading →
Capt McNeely
Jun 15, 2015
Horror Fuel

Video Game Review: Dying Light

How do you improve upon the zombie apocalypse? Add parkour! “Dying Light” released on January 27th 2015 is now available on Xbox One, Playstation 4 and PC computers is the newest installment in Tech Land’s open-world Role Playing zombie game. First we got “Dead Island” back in 2011, while that was mediocre it had potential. We later then got “Dead Island: Riptide” and “Escape Dead Island” both were poop, so of course my mind was going into this was expecting mediocrity when actually I was very surprised and honestly “Dying Light” has probably been the best game I’ve played this year! “Dying Light” has you playing as GRE Operative Kyle Crane who is sent into the overrun city of “Harran”. An unfortunate event has taken place resulting in the entire city being engulfed in flame and killer zombies with an extremely unpleasant mutation. Your mission? recover an important file that can lead to a cure and end the zombie virus

Continue reading →
Capt McNeely
Jun 6, 2015
Horror Fuel

Warning: This post contains spoilers, strong language, and general criticism of the Syfy show 12 Monkeys.

The first thing I was ever asked to write for the ZADF was a review of the Syfy show 12 Monkeys. It took me a while, but I finally got around to writing. . .well okay, so this isn’t actually a review so much as is a list of things about the show that really piss me off. Look I want to like 12 Monkeys, I really do. And I’m not even going to get into the peculiarities and paradoxes of time travel, the whole fate vs. freewill thing, or any of that jazz. No, my issues with this show are pretty specific, and they pretty much all have to do with scenes and stories that take place after the plague. It may seem like knit-picking, but there are just some things about this show that make me want to shout obscenities at my television. Starting with the fact that the future seems to be very cold and bleak place.

Continue reading →
Capt McNeely
Mar 29, 2015
Horror Fuel

My Review of Lust of The Dead (Yeah, it’s exactly what you think it is)

Hello fellow zombie apocalypse survivor wannabes, this is my first time providing content for the ZADF. I was recently contacted by a friend and asked if I would like to do the occasional review of foreign horror films for this site. Since the only thing I like better than sharing my opinion, is sharing my opinion over the internet (significantly less face-punching this way). I readily agreed. Only one problem. What would I review? You see, for my first outing I wasn’t assigned a specific film. It was left up to me to choose one. Being that the site is called Zombie Apocalypse Defense Force, I decided that my first review should definitely be a zombie movie. So, I started browsing Netflix for a selection. Oddly enough, Netflix had a recommendation all lined up for me. Due to my past viewing preferences, it seemed to think I would enjoy a Japanese “horror” film called Lust of The Dead. Apparently, if

Continue reading →
Capt McNeely
Mar 10, 2015