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Entrepreneur Wants To Transform 200 Acres Of Detroit Into Zombie Playground
You know what? Fuck Detroit. It’s no secret the city’s been slowly degrading into a crime-infested place where your chances of getting stabbed by a heroin addict’s used needle outside a Starbucks are uncomfortably high. The place is so far gone it made my list of the most terrifying places on Earth and that’s pretty impressive. Until now, I’ve never had a burning desire to visit the city, partly because of my fear of getting raped/murdered/mugged/shot/stabbed/sold on the underground sex market. Head past the break to read what some brilliant man plans to do with part of the city after the jump.
The project is Z-World Detroit, and it’s a very real concept developed by Mark Siwak. The idea is simple: the city already looks like a scene from 28 Days Later, so why not transform 200 abandoned acres into a zombie theme park? The park would make use of an area of the city that hasn’t seen any TLC for years and bring in extra cash from people like me who desperately want to live our geeky fantasies of surviving in a zombie apocalypse. Also, Detroit sucks, so it’s not like this is actually going to hurt anyone.
The project’s indiegogo page is still woefully underfunded, though I suppose with a little under three weeks left there’s still some hope. I am all for this, and I’m a little surprised more nerds aren’t dumping their money into it. Come on, people, this may very well be our last chance to save Detroit– home of… uh, tetanus shots and tweakers?
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Sam Neill, the New Zealand actor best known for his role in 1993’s Jurassic Park, has passed away this week at 78 years old. In a statement shared on Neill’s Instagram page this morning, the actor’s family said that his passing was “sudden and unexpected.”
Neill had been diagnosed with a rare blood cancer in 2022, but stated the following year that he was in remission. The family notes that he “remained cancer free” at the time of his passing.
The family statement reads, “It is with immense sadness that the whānau of Sam Neill share the news of his passing on Monday 13th July, in Sydney Australia. Sam was surrounded by family and passed with the dignity that has characterised his whole life. The loss was sudden and unexpected but blessed by the fact that Sam remained cancer free.
“They would like to express their deepest gratitude to the staff at St Vincent’s Private Hospital for their incredible care. More details will be shared later, but for now, on behalf of the family, we ask that you respect their privacy as they navigate this immeasurable loss.”
In addition to his iconic role as Dr. Alan Grant in the original Jurassic Park and the sequels Jurassic Park III and Jurassic World: Dominion, Sam Neill left an indelible mark on the horror genre with memorable roles in Andrzej Żuławski’s Possession, The Omen: The Final Conflict, John Carpenter’s In the Mouth of Madness, and sci-fi horror favorite Event Horizon.
Sam Neill’s vast resume in film and television began in the early 1970s and also includes the films Sleeping Dogs, Enigma, The Good Wife, A Cry in the Dark, Dead Calm, The Hunt for Red October, Memoirs of an Invisible Man, Hostage, The Jungle Book, Snow White: A Tale of Terror, The Horse Whisperer, Bicentennial Man, Daybreakers, Escape Plan, and Thor: Ragnarok.
Sam Neill is survived by his four children and eight grandchildren.
Steven Spielberg said in a statement to Variety, “I owe a debt of gratitude to Roger Donaldson, Gilliam Armstrong, Graham Baker and Phillip Noyce for casting Sam Neill in the roles in which he was so brilliant that brought him to my attention and led to his playing Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park. Sam was exceptionally collaborative. It was a stretch for him to play a character who acted as though children were messy and smelly because this was the opposite of the loving father he was to his children. I adored making all the Jurassic movies with him.”
Spielberg adds, “Along with Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum, we will always have our Jurassic family and Sam will never be forgotten by us or his many millions of fans around the world.”
Sam Neill in ‘Event Horizon’
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