Question of the Week: Is Roanoke Southwest Virginia’s zombie capital?
This morning I learned of a new Kickstarter project. Young Roanoke filmmaker Jake Wood seeks the funds to film a half-hour short, “Zombie Lecher,” about an old hermit caught in a zombie apocalypse who ends up with, hmm, four sorority girls trapped in the cabin with him as the undead groan outside. Great art? Doubtful. Great schlock? Perhaps…
| Given Roanoke has already served as the setting for the recently wrapped remake of “Plan 9 from Outer Space,” and given Studio Roanoke will soon debut the new musical “Zombie Boyfriend!” I find myself needing to pose the question: is Roanoke now the zombie capital of Southwest Virginia? |
June 20, 2011 - 4:58 PM
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Brian wins. New tourist slogan!
Zombies are much like the famous Rolling Stone headline about Jim Morrison: They’re hot, they’re sexy . . . and they’re dead.
You may recall that even the staid old federal government, specifically, the Centers for Disease Control, recently issued a “zombie alert” — medical writer Sarah Bruyn Jones had details on her MedBeat blog:
http://blogs.roanoke.com/medbeat/2011/05/preparing-for-a-zombie-invasion/
The CDC also had a film contest about preparing for said zombie invasion:
http://blogs.roanoke.com/medbeat/2011/05/zombie-preparedness-video-contest/
Hey, I’ll do the makeup just to see that thing get made!Roanoke could use a little ‘deadening up’