This made me smile and think of all you zombies. Enjoy.
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HERE ARE THE FINAL DETAILS for tomorrow’s bloody zombie bash! See you soon.
STARTING POINT (1 to 3PM)
The Slaughtered Lamb @ 182 West 4th Street
(Between Jones and Barrow St)
For bloody mary brunch specials and zombifications
Followed by downtown mayhem until we OCCUPY TIMES SQUARE (5:30PM) and eat protestor brains at this huge demonstration. Then take the F train to:
ZOMBIE BAWL (7 to 10PM)
Lucky Jack’s @ 129 Orchard Street
(Between Delancey and Rivington St)
Starting at 7PM, zombies invade and totally take over this LES bar with zombie DJs downstairs, dancing and all-night drink specials!
and then eat goth brains at:
The Contempt Party (10-4AM)
The Delancey Club @ 168 Delancey Street
(Between Clinton and Attorney by the base of the Williamsburg Bridge)
Head downstairs for a dark goth party where zombies get in free with zombie drink specials…gurgle “zombiecon” if they try to charge you.
Remember zombies…. bring your ID, Metrocard, your most disgusting zombie costume and your common sense (because we’d hate for any of you to get arrested or killed by humans)!
Zombiecon got some love on Gothamist!
Can you not wait until the premiere of The Walking Dead on Sunday? Free finger-filled cupcakes not enough to quench your thirst for brains? Never fear! Tomorrow one of our favorite annual events returns with the seventh annual Zombiecon! This year’s theme? “A Game of Brains” so get ready to get wasted with the undead, because a Zombie winter is coming!
This year’s brain-eating festivities start at the Slaughtered Lamb in the West Village (182 West 4th Street) at 1 p.m. for Bloody Marys and some serious zombification before hitting the road at 3 p.m. After that they’ll be moving around and devouring the city (you can follow them @zombieconnyc), so don’t forget to bring your ID and MetroCard.
As for what kind of zombie costumes they’re looking for this year? They’re thinking “Undead Couture, Rotting Kings and Queens, Knights and Maidens, Gore, Brains… Or go Medi-Evil however you wish… arggggghhh.”
And please? If you see some zombies on the street, don’t be afraid! Zombies are easily distracted by cameraphones, so just take yours out and snap a few photos for us. You can either send them to photos@gothamist.com or tag them ‘Gothamist’ on flickr!
Harkening back to another era the zombie plague will wreak havoc this Saturday, October 15th all day – into night….
In a year of armor and sword, hammer and shield, quakes and storms, the zombies rage forth seeking revenge, ale and brains… Topple the steel throne, burn Valhalla’s bridge and plunder the innocents along the way. The fetid, bloody game is on. Cometh all ye zombies to the isle of Manhattan where the carnage begins at a bloody mary brunch (out with her brain!) shambling towards the Zombie Bawl at trail’s end.
DON’T FORGET YOUR ID AND METROCARD
TIME: Saturday October 15th, Zombies gather to FEED starting at 1pm to leave launch venue at 3pm sharp.
WHERE: Starting location – ye olde SLAUGHTED LAMB at 182 West 4th Street, between Jones and Barrow with sumptuous Bloody Mary brunch specials. Get there early to feed and zombify!
ZOMBIFICATIONS by Transformational Bodypainting or bring your own makeup to share! Stop by Halloween Adventure costume store (104 4th Ave at 11th street) for Zombiecon specials.
ROUTE: All day into night brain-seeking rampage with more info coming Friday!
CONNECT:
- RSVP at http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=195677740506216
- Follow the locations and carnage on Twitter @zombieconnyc
- or join our Broadtexter text message list here: broadtexter.com/ZombieCon
COSTUMES: Undead Couture, Rotting Kings and Queens, Knights and Maidens, Gore, Brains… Or go Medi-Evil however you wish… arggggghhh
Rising from the depths of another era the zombie plague is set to wreak havoc as the end times draw near. In a year of armor and sword, hammer and shield, quakes and storms, the zombies rage forth seeking revenge, ale and brains…
Topple the steel throne, burn Valhalla’s bridge and plunder the innocents along the way. Garb thyself in thy finest torn velvet bloomers and dirty chainmail. The fetid, bloody game is ON!
Cometh all ye zombies on Saturday, October 15th to the Isle of Manhattan where the carnage begins at a bloody mary brunch (out with her brain!), and rambles towards the Zombie Bawl at trail’s end.
RSVP on Facebook here and join our email list to get all the details!
*** Zombie leaders and herders are being sought!
*** Olde pubs with foode and drinke are requested… This bloody crowd is being sourced – message the Queen with your favorite haunts!
The path is unclear, the sooths have yet to say. The all seeing eye sees nothing. Where will the blood gush forth? TBD!
What sayeth thou? Who can help, or has ideas to share? large bars that can handle 90 minutes of mayhem or other interesting places to attack. Chime in or be dead. Your Zombie Queen demands compliance.
We just found this great little photo gallery that we’d missed from last year’s Zombie festivities. Thanks to photographer David Blotner!!!
Photo by David Blotner
We recently checked out this project called ‘A Cure For Dead.’ It purports to be a “zombie web series.” For an indie production it’s pretty well done and definitely looks like it was fun as hell to be part of. There are only a few episodes but we’re hoping there’ll be another one in time for Halloween? Here’s the first episode to get you in the zombie mood.
Zombiecon buddy Carlos shot us an email the other day to let us know about this year’s Nightmare haunted house and it sounds amazing! (Yeah, yeah, it’s September and we’re already planning our haunted house attendance….look we admit it, we have a problem.) Who’s going?!
In what is perhaps the most stylistic NIGHTMARE to date, this year’s theme is Fairy Tales. Under the direction of Creator and Co-Director Timothy Haskell, NIGHTMARE: FAIRY TALES stages the original versions of well-known (and some lesser known) fairy tales at their most gruesome and horrific. Over the centuries many of these fables have evolved into sanitized entertainment for children, but they began as racy and violent tales intended to keep children from misbehaving.
Get lost in a dark forest and wander through the woods while becoming the characters and reliving the terrifying experiences extracted from over a dozen twisted stories handed down by The Brothers Grimm, Aesop, Hans Christian Anderson, and more. Try and stay on the path as you go from cottage to cottage – each housing a familiar tale told in the way they were intended – to scare the wits out of you! Each cottage gets more and more intense until you reach the climactic conclusion. Then you have to find your way home. Be careful, though, there are hidden cottages to explore.
“The original purpose for virtually all fairy tales was to scare children straight, so they wouldn’t do anything dangerous, bad or amoral,” says co-director and creator Timothy Haskell. “We are going to teach those same lessons to our audiences! The narratives of the Fairy Tales chosen lend themselves to Nightmare’s unique theatricality, while giving opportunities for fantastical scenarios and set pieces.”
Another component to this year’s NIGHTMARE will be a sensory assaulting 5-D theatre experience called THE EXPERIMENT created and directed by John Harlacher and Timothy Haskell. Unlike year’s past where the second event was a much smaller prelude to the main event, THE EXPERIMENT is actually Full-on, every bit as satisfying and experiential as the haunted house. Experienced from your chair in a small lab, you are a subject in a case study for research on the threshold of fear. Will YOUR limits be hit?
Thanks to everyone who has written to ask about this year’s ZOMBIECON NYC! Yes, we are going to zombie it up again this October and we hope to follow it up with another bloody ZOMBIE BAWL! Check back soon for updates and info, we’ll be announcing the date soon. (In the meantime, make sure to follow @ZOMBIECONNYC on Twitter, like ZOMBIECON on facebook and sign up for our email list to make sure you don’t miss any vitally important Zombiecon news.)
Geoff Skinnell and his crew decided to feature Zombiecon in their short film entry in the 2010 Brooklyn Film Race competition:
We had 24 hours to write shoot and edit this. For the competition we had to include the prop: Pizza, and focus on the theme: Exaggeration.
Against All Odds from Geoff Skinnell on Vimeo.
Gail writes:
On behalf of my team who participated in the Brooklyn Film Race this weekend, I’d like to thank you and all of Zombiecon for letting us be a part of your event and use you all in our film! We were so psyched when we heard Zombiecon coincided with the film race and it worked out so well with our short film idea! …….. Some awesome news: we won 2nd place for the audience award at our film screening time! Everyone loved the film and we actually were answering some questions regarding the Zombies!
Great work guys!!!!
