{"id":2186,"date":"2017-10-22T10:07:12","date_gmt":"2017-10-22T14:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/?p=2186"},"modified":"2017-10-22T10:07:12","modified_gmt":"2017-10-22T14:07:12","slug":"daily-horror-film-fest-zombie-survival-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/2017\/10\/22\/daily-horror-film-fest-zombie-survival-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Horror Film Fest: Zombie Survival Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every day in October, the Department of Tangents Blog &#038; Podcast brings you a different short horror film as part of the Daily Horror Film Fest. Some are bloody, some are funny, and some, like today\u2019s entry, <em>Zombie Survival Guide<\/em> by Bettina Gericke and Chris Meyer, are instructional. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Zombie-Survival-Guide-Complete-Protection\/dp\/1400049628\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Max Brooks\u2019s <em>Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection fro the Living Dead<\/em><\/a> is the classic text for humans who want to stay alive in the inevitable zombie apocalypse. It\u2019s thoughtful and thorough, but there\u2019s just one problem \u2013 what if you\u2019re already a zombie? What about complete protection <em>for<\/em> the living dead? No one thinks about them. They\u2019re new to being zombies, and likely to make a lot of mistakes that will allow a human to beat the odds and slaughter whole herds. <\/p>\n<p>But Gericke and Meyer have your back. If you have one. Gericke and Meyer have whatever\u2019s left of you. In this short, they give you all the basics \u2013 types of zombies, types of zombie food, helpful tips for holding on to your prey. It doesn\u2019t cover everything, like, how do I know what herd to join or how do I keep quiet until a human is in striking distance to give myself the best chance to taste flesh before I get an arrow in my head? Those are more advanced questions, and may not be teachable. <\/p>\n<p>So, in honor of tonight\u2019s <em>Walking Dead<\/em> season eight premiere, and to increase your changes of a happy life after death, take a look at this. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/100511482\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/100511482\">Zombie Survival Guide<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user6588998\">Chris Meyer<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every day in October, the Department of Tangents Blog &#038; Podcast brings you a different short horror film as part of the Daily&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,1422,5],"tags":[1514,1515,641,795,434,1513],"class_list":["post-2186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-comedy","category-daily-horror-film-fest","category-horror","tag-bettina-gericke","tag-chris-meyer","tag-daily-horror-film-fest","tag-max-brooks","tag-the-walking-dead","tag-zombie-survival-guide"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/DHFF-Zombie-Survival-Guide.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7lGwW-zg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2186"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2189,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186\/revisions\/2189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}