Erik Tomren with Sid Haig at Seattle's 2011 ZomBcon.

Seattle’s ZomBcon raised the living dead

From the looks of things ZomBcon was a smashing success when it invaded Seattle this past weekend, Oct. 21 to 23, 2011 at the Hilton Seattle Airport & Convention Center. I had previously only been to a few movie screenings in 2010 for the first ZomBcon in lower Queen Anne. The 2010 convention was somewhat confusing because…

Production still from 'Survival of the Dead' by George Romero.

George Romero’s ‘Survival of the Dead’ – dead on arrival

The Night of the Living Dead films are unique in that they are explicitly political. George A. Romero injects his heavy-handed political commentary at every turn. You can enjoy a Dead film without accepting the social or political message, but you can’t ignore that there is one. Behind the blood and guts there is always some very pointed social…