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We just found this great little photo gallery that we’d missed from last year’s Zombie festivities. Thanks to photographer 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!!!!
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Huffington Post gets a faceful of blood: Months before swarms of drunk Santas flood the streets of Alphabet City for SantaCon, there is Zombiecon. This is the sixth annual gathering for Zombiecon. The theme this year was a political protest … Continue reading
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Via Gothamist with photos by Jim Kiernan: …a contingent of the undead wandered around Manhattan, searching for fresh brains and taking up midterm election issues. And because New Yorkers will grab any opportunity to dress up, yesterday’s sixth annual all-day … Continue reading
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Via Village Voice: This year’s Zombie Con was themed “Red White and Gangrene,” with political signage encouraged in order to mirror “our idiotic national discourse,” though non-aligned brain-eaters were also invited to tag along.
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Photographer Joseph Mikos has a gallery up on flickr of photos from this year’s event! Click for the whole gallery.
