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terça-feira, 18 de agosto de 2009

Conseguirão os humanos sobreviver aos zombies?

Conseguirá a Humanidade sobreviver a um ataque de zombies? Um grupo de cientistas das Universidades de Carleton e Ottawa, no Canadá, publicou um estudo que usa o rigor matemático para responder a esta pergunta.

Intitulado "Quando zombies atacam!: Criando um Modelo Matemático de um Surto de Infecção por Zombies", o estudo foi publicado no livro científico "Pesquisa sobre Modelos de Progressão de Doenças Infecciosas".

Apesar de os mortos-vivos serem personagens que habitam o universo da ficção científica, no estudo são considerados vários cenários, incluindo quarentenas bem e mal sucedidas de infectados, assim como a possibilidade de alguns humanos sobreviverem, mas terem de coexistir com zombies.

Os autores afirmam que um ataque de zombies poderia acabar com a civilização a não ser que a reacção fosse "rápida e bastante agressiva". Mas advertem que “se a escala do surto aumentasse, então, o resultado seria o do dia do juízo final: um surto de zombies resultaria no colapso da civilização, com todos os humanos infectados ou mortos. Isto porque o nascimento e morte de humanos dariam aos zombies um fornecimento infinito de novos corpos para infectar, ressuscitar e converter", afirmam os autores.

Para dar aos vivos uma hipótese de luta, os cientistas escolheram zombies "clássicos", que se movem lentamente, em vez de criaturas mais inteligentes e ágeis, como aquelas que aparecem em alguns filmes recentes.

O professor Robert Smith? (o ponto de interrogação faz parte do nome do investigador para o diferenciar do cantor da banda The Cure, que tem o mesmo nome) explica, citado pela BBC, que “criámos um modelo de ataque de zombies usando suposições biológicas baseadas em filmes. Após, introduzimos um modelo básico para infecções de zombie e ilustramos o resultado com soluções numéricas."

segunda-feira, 27 de julho de 2009

Comic-Con: New Zombieland Red Band Trailer and Footage Debut.

Sometimes the Hall H presentations really have their moments. I’d mostly avoided the brief Zombieland footage that had been released so far; it’s one of those films I just wanted to see all at once. But damn, the red-band trailer that premiered in the big hall today was fantastic, full of slo-mo zombie kills (this is a great way to use speed ramping) and some great humor from Jesse Eisenberg and Woody Harrelson. More on the trailer and a couple of clips after the jump; it’s the sort of thing that some might call spoilerish, too.We saw two clips from the film in addition to the red-band trailer. One featured Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg) at home just before the zombie outbreak begins. He’s alone at night when someone begins frantically banging on his door and shouting for help. It’s his hot next door neighbor, played by Amber Heard, and she’s suffered a weird attack from a hobo who rushed and tried to bite her. After awkwardly comforting the girl (and giving us some private comments via voiceover, which seems like it’ll be a constant device throughout the film) Columbus and the girl fall asleep on the couch. He wakes to find her turned into a zombie, which leads into a violent, frantic chase through the house.

The next clip showed Columbus and Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson) arriving at a supermarket, where they dispatch a few zombies and run into Witchita (Emma Stone) and her sister Little Rock (Abigail Breslin). The situation gets complicated, and I won’t ruin the outcome of the scene. But what director Ruber Fleischer has managed looks like a great combination of action and humor, with a splash of real horror. This movie looks gory and outrageous (I kept thinking of the game Dead Rising) and a lot more fun than I’d been willing to hope. The audience reaction was great, and the voiceover from Eisenberg seems like it works pretty well. There’s a Woody Allen-like tone to his inner dialogue, but Eisenberg mentioned on the panel that Columbus has a list of ways to survive a zombie attack, many of which we’ll hear explained throughout the film, balancing out the nebbishness of his character.

Today’s red-band trailer isn’t live online yet, but I hope it hits soon.

Source: Slashfilm.com

sábado, 20 de junho de 2009

New Zombieland Trailer Rises from the Dead!

Apple has just released the new trailer for the upcoming horror adventure Zombieland, which is set for release on October 9. Click below to check out all the flesh-eating action for yourself.
Zombieland stars Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin, Amber Heard and will tear up theaters nationwide on October 9.

Source: Movieweb.com

quinta-feira, 22 de janeiro de 2009

Zombie swarm or Presidential Inauguration?

'Some amazing satellite images from GeoEye show just how many people attended Barack Obama's inauguration yesterday (20/01/2009).
Is it just me though or would that be what a zombie apocalypse would look like from space? If you've read World War Z you'll know the chapter I'm getting at.
Great photos and cheers to Del for pointing them out.'

Source: Live for Films