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Alive- viral campaign for new Zombie series

(This fake PSA to promote Alive teaches "a better way to kill" zombies.)

Hoping to snag viewers and a network distributor, the creators of horror/sci-fi television series Alive launched a gory viral-marketing campaign -- before the series pilot was even produced.

Rather than spending several weeks and millions of dollars producing a full pilot, they put together a two-day shoot to assemble three fictional public service announcements with bloody, violent footage ripe for dissection and analysis on the web.

According to John Frank Rosenblum, Alive's executive producer and an executive at Epic Level Entertainment, today's cluttered TV world demands that a production develop a fan base quickly.

"Some shows are canceled before their first commercial break," Rosenblum said. "What makes a difference for a show is the fans.... We wanted our show to serve its audience first -- and then seek a broadcast partner to deliver it to them."

That's where the viral marketing comes in, with a stealth campaign that violates the standing laws of advertising by subjecting consumers to a striptease of clues about a production.

Alive's creators watched as this dirty trick of the information age, which makes interested viewers figure out details about a show for themselves, worked for movies and TV shows like The Blair Witch Project, Cloverfield and Heroes. Then they hatched their own stealth-marketing plan, which might be the first time a viral campaign has been launched for a TV series that doesn't yet exist.

The producers established a small set of websites for the public service announcements, slowly unveiling the sites over the course of a four-week span. The hub of this project's wheel is the faux-military site for Falcon Rock Command, with similar imagery and editing techniques popping up on fightingthedead.com and sciencecannotsaveyou.com. The sites pack enough bloody photos, screams and gunshots to establish Alive's genre as a scary sci-fi mix of the military and the undead.

The next step was to "leak" the viral elements to horror and sci-fi fan sites and news sources like Ain't It Cool News.

"We're not doing this to trick or deceive anyone," said Rosenblum about the way the viral campaign was revealed to the sites. "We hope they like what they see and steer genre fans in our direction."

Co-creators and show runners Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens explained that shooting only the teaser PSAs allowed them to create their own Alive brand image for a fraction of the cost of making a pilot.

"With the buzz that's building online, we'll be able to show broadcasters the level of interest we've generated through word-of-mouth, based on only about eight minutes of produced material," said Garfield Reeves-Stevens.

But if the Alive producers want to whet genre fans' collective appetite for the series online -- without tipping-off exactly what's on the show's menu -- what's enough and what's too much to release as everything moves forward?

"There's a specific amount of story information we want viewers to have by the end of the campaign," said Garfield Reeves-Stevens. "With that as our goal, it became a question of how to order that content: What do we say first? What do we save for last?"

Mark Askwith, a producer for Space (Canada's equivalent to the Sci Fi Channel), said the initial reaction from genre fans was bafflement, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.


"That's the usual first response to (viral-marketing campaigns)," said Askwith. "Same thing with Cloverfield. Now we have the advantage of other fans out there who did some work researching these videos -- and they see some clues. (Alive) involves zombies, and they're using some Star Trek actors."

Askwith said suspense is building on websites like TrekMovie.com as fans debate the show's content, cast, etc.

Such details will continue to appear in the weeks leading up to Halloween as the viral campaigners release new PSAs.

The Falcon Rock Command site is ticking down to the release of a new PSA this Friday before a final video premieres a week later, Rosenblum said. That last clip will pull back the veils completely, presenting the full show concept for fans and network execs.

Babylon Fields- Zombies on CBS

CBS almost aired “Babylon Fields” in 2007. It was supposed to be apocalyptic zombie drama. Here’s the pilot for the show:

Coming soon....

Twisted Sister #1 is traveling to Ottawa Canada to interview the talented and nubile Matt Ficner, Master puppeteer and Zombie enthusiast. I will bring home lots of pics and video.

Damn, Dude...just freakin' die

Henry the VIII ? I say Woolsey.

In late December of 2003, security cameras at Hampton Court Palace, a huge tudor castle near London, captured a startling image. Security guards were unsettled to repeatedly find a fire door open when no one was apparently around. Upon checking the security tape, they were shocked by a ghostly figure, said to closely resemble King Henry VIII (who died in the 1500s).
Vikki Wood, a spokesperson for the Palace, said "We're baffled too--it's not a joke, we haven't manufactured it. We genuinely do not know who it is or what it is."
A security officer, James Faukes, called the incident "unnerving," and said they'd ruled out their costumed guides. In fact, they don't even own a costume like the one worn by the figure on the video. "It was incredibly spooky because the face just didn't look human," Faukes said.

Something instinctively tells me this is not King Henry but Cardinal Woolsey, former friend, adviser and victim of the King and Anne Boleyn. Hampton Court was the Cardinals own palace until he was tripped of all money, property and power.
I feel a sense of rage while watching this. This doesn't happen often to me but when it does it never fails to be right.

Lilly Grey- Victim of the Beast 666

IN A NONDESCRIPT section of the Salt Lake City Cemetery lies a small gravestone that bears an inscription so unusual that it has for years aroused curiosity, rumor, speculation – even fear – within those who have encountered it. While surrounding grave markers are inscribed with such common inscriptions as “devoted mother,” “beloved husband” or simply “in loving memory,” the gravestone of Lily E. Gray is inscribed with the mysterious and highly provocative phrase: “Victim of the Beast 666.”

This is an allusion, of course, to the New Testament’s Book of Revelation, 13th chapter, which has been interpreted to refer to the Antichrist:

And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.... And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is six hundred threescore and six [666].

“The Beast” and “666” have henceforth become synonymous with Satan and the Antichrist.

Why, then, when other gravestones are inscribed with loving tributes, is Lily Gray’s engraved with this dark, enigmatic message? What does it mean? In what way was she a victim of the Beast? Who chose this unnerving inscription for her eternal resting place?

These questions and more have been the crux of the mystery surrounding Lily Gray’s grave for decades in Salt Lake City. No one seems to know what it means. And few have bothered to investigate to find out.

No one has done more to try to unravel the mystery, perhaps, than Richelle Hawks. A long-time resident of Salt Lake, Richelle has dug deeper than anyone to find out what the inscription might mean. “Salt Lake City is home of the massive LDS (Latter-day Saints)-operated Family History Library, and the world's geneaological research mecca,” says Richelle on her Cemetery Legends website. “Since the stone's erection in 1958, no one has dug deeply enough to uncover even a minimal account of Lily Gray's life and the origins of the inscription. When confronted with apparent true lunacy, evil, religious fervor, abuse, or implausible as it may be, ultimate victimhood at the hands of Satan (as the stone literally implies) do we collectively turn our heads?”

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Nice to see Charlie doing something constructive LOL