Zombies. No, really.

by Charleton Lamb | July 1, 2008 at 5:42 pm

Recent graduates heading off to B-School take note: the smartest move right now is buying a car you can’t afford. America’s next top business executives have quickly learned that emptying your bank account earns you a much bigger financial aid package and basically scores you a new set of wheels. Now we know how the Enron guys got their start.

Well Harvard students may be clever enough to fudge some financial aid documents, but are they smart enough to BATTLE ZOMBIES?

That’s right, you spent four years developing that brain, and now someone (something?) else wants it for lunch.  There’s not too much information out there about producer Warren Zide’s “Harvard Zombie Massacre“, but something tells me the plot is not very difficult to figure out.

According to the Crimson’s interview with executive producer Ryan Lewis:

So, the world’s smartest college students have to battle the world’s smartest zombies…Usually you get serial killers and ghost stories and stuff with college kids. There hasn’t been a college zombie movie yet. It will have that great cheekiness, some great horror moments—it’s really a great blend.

After the jump: Zide’s battle with Harvard’s real monsters: the administration
Zide plans to film on campus, but the administration is not likely to grant his request since very few commercial films have ever been shot in the Yard. (Love Story, anyone?) But this guy produced the American Pie and Final Destination series, so I doubt anyone who thought those movies needed sequels is going to give up so easily.

I say this movie deserves to be filmed here solely on the basis of its awesomeness. Check out some pictures from Boston’s annual zombie walk here and here. If this is what dungeons and dragons nerds can pull together when they need sunlight once a year, imagine how cool it would be to see some big budget blood and guts all over campus as you walk across the Yard.

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3 Responses to “Zombies. No, really.”

  1. Tully Says:
    July 1st, 2008 at 10:23 pm

    Although not a Zombie expert myself, I have a good friend who is, and he can confirm that the average Harvard student would not last more than a few hours in the event of a Zombie attack. This is based not only on their lack of street smarts, but the disadvantages of a college campus, namely a large population in close proximity (potential future zombies) and no access to a military grade weapons cache. While an assault weapons ban is good for ’stopping crime’ and other nonsense, it is a real disadvantage during the first wave of a zombie attack.

  2. galtgold Says:
    July 2nd, 2008 at 12:11 am

    Harvard has a shitload of nuclear fallout shelters. Let’s use them!

  3. Pining for the Fjords Says:
    July 2nd, 2008 at 7:05 pm

    I don’t know about Harvard, but Princeton has a rifle team. We’d snipe those sorry bastards apart. Bring ‘em on!

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