Zombie Wrasslin'

Zombies are kind of a big deal these days. I recently finished reading Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, I've heard good things about Zombieland, and zombies don't get hiccups. Zombies are just the bees knees right now. I like zombies.

You know what else I like? Wrestling. (Or at least I used to. I haven't watched any WWE in quite a long time, but I used to like it a whole bunch.)

So what do you get when you combine these two awesome/nerdy things? River of Darkness! That's the title of a zombie movie that's in production right now that's going to star my all-time favorite wrestler/Olympic gold medalist, Kurt Angle. Angle was such a hilarious tool on the mic, and he was a crazy-entertaining wrestler too. In the movie he'll be playing the role of a sheriff of a small town that has to fight zombies.

"So what?" you say. Yeah, this story doesn't sound super original or anything, and even though I think Kurt Angle is hilarious and awesome, it's not like he'd make a better zombie fighter than The Rock or Woody from Cheers. But what I really dig is that the zombies are ALSO going to be played by wrestlers! HA! (There's a bunch of wrestlers in this movie that'll be zombies, but the only other name I recognized was Kevin Nash).

You think they're going to hire a bunch of wrestlers to play zombies just so they can walk around slowly and groan? Hell no! Those zombies are going to be choke-slamming and clothes-lining innocent civilians, and Angle's going to hit them with chairs and make zombies tap out of the ankle lock! I'm more excited to see this than just about anything ever. And that was before I saw the poster:

You can't arrest the dead! NO YOU CAN NOT! Not when they're zombie wrestlers! You half-nelson them all the way to Hell!