The goal is to list 1-3 songs or albums (includes scores and soundtracks), 1-3 TV shows or specific episodes, and 1-3 movies (includes major motion pictures, TV movies, indie movies, and documentaries) that will lead to 1-3 book recommendations. You can take the "If you like A, B, & C, you will like D" approach or the "These Are Similar in Topic But All Unique In Their Own Way" approach. The goal is to show that there's something for everyone in every medium.
You can mix & match if you aren't able to find matches for a certain area or pick one area to focus on. For example, if you don't watch a lot of TV, you can pick more music or movie choices but there must be at least 3 recommendations in the entire post that lead to your book(s) of choice. You do not have to link everything up or include a synopsis for everything. Images though are highly recommended.
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This Week's Topic: Zombies
Music
Note: Thursday Trails Spotify Playlist is Here.
Resident Evil Afterlife Soundtrack
Amazon, iTunes
Movie
Zombieland
Amazon, iTunes, Netflix
This is probably my favorite zombie movie ever. I don't like that the tagline is "Superbad Meets Shaun of the Dead." Don't compare this to Superbad! Anyway, I will wait forever for a sequel to come out. Hoping this doesn't turn into a TV series like I've been hearing.
Nerdy college student Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg) has survived the plague that has turned mankind into flesh-devouring zombies because he’s scared of just about everything. Gun-toting, Twinkie-loving Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson) has no fears. Together, they are about to stare down their most horrifying challenge yet: each other’s company. Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin co-star in this double-hitting, head-smashing comedy.
TV
The Walking Dead
iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, Netflix Streaming
If you haven't read the comics yet, read them! Read them! So, so good!
The Walking Dead Season 3 returns Sunday, February 10, 2013 at 9/8c on AMC.
Waking up in an empty hospital after weeks in a coma, County Sheriff Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) finds himself utterly alone. The world as he knows it is gone, ravaged by a zombie epidemic. The Walking Dead tells the story of the weeks and months that follow after the apocalypse. Based on Robert Kirkman's hugely successful and popular comic book series, AMC's The Walking Dead is an epic, edge-of-your-seat drama where personal struggles are magnified against a backdrop of moment-to-moment survival. A survivalist story at its core, the series explores how the living are changed by the overwhelming realization that those who survive can be far more dangerous than the mindless walkers roaming the earth. They themselves have become the walking dead.
Novel
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
Goodreads
I saw the film first and enjoyed it but read the book later on and I have to say, I enjoy the book more. The two are so different though, I don't even want to compare them.
Robert Neville may well be the last living man on Earth . . . but he is not alone.
An incurable plague has mutated every other man, woman, and child into bloodthirsty, nocturnal creatures who are determined to destroy him.
By day, he is a hunter, stalking the infected monstrosities through the abandoned ruins of civilization. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for dawn....
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http://www.hollywoodthewriteway.com/2013/01/thursday-trails-5.html