Phoenix Zombie Walk @ 1st Friday 10/2/09

[jettajeffro]

Get ready to put on your best zombie make-up and practice your undead moans. On Friday October 2nd the International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival and the Arizona Ghostbusters with host the 2009 Phoenix Zombie Walk. We would like participating zombies to meet at the Arizona Ghostbusters booth located at the southeast corner of 5th St and Roosevelt starting at 6:30 PM. We will begin walking at 7:00 pm. The walk will end at the International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival booth.

Immediately after the zombie walk, participants can join in the Zombie Scavenger Hunt also hosted by the film festival.

For more info on the scavenger hunt visit: http://www.horrorscifi.com/sh.php

We will have the final walk route and a flyer available soon.

The Arizona Ghostbusters booth will be located at 501 E. Roosevelt Phoenix, AZ 85004, next to the Pravus Art Gallery

Here is the complete schedule for the evening:

6:30 P.M. - Zombies gather at AZ Ghostbusters booth for Zombie Walk

7:00 P.M. - Zombies begin Zombie Walk lead by AZ Ghostbusters

7:00 P.M. - Registration begins at Vendor Village Booth for Zombie Scavenger Hunt

7:30 P.M. - Zombie Walk ends at International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival Booth

8:00 P.M. - Scavenger Hunt begins at Vendor Village Booth for Scavenger Hunt

8:00 P.M. - MidnightMovieMamacita presents Trailers at Alwun House

9:00 P.M. - Contestant Deadline for Scavenger Hunt at the Alwun House front lawn - start tabulating totals - contestants go inside the Alwun House

9:15 P.M. - MidnightMovieMamacita presents "Blood Bath of the Bat Beast" at Alwun House

10:15 P.M. - Announce winners of Scavenger Hunt

[jettajeffro]

Here's the official flyer for the event:

http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii19/arizonaghostbusters/sh_flier-web.jpg

[jettajeffro]

Here is a rudimentary map of the walk route:

http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii19/arizonaghostbusters/walkroute.jpg

We will be offering on the spot zombie makeup for anyone who does not come already "undead".

I forgot to mention at our booth all night we will be collecting donations for the upcoming MS Walk happening on November 7th.

Our team walk page is here: http://main.nationalmssociety.org/site/TR/Walk/AZAWalkEvents/2146111241?pg=team&fr_id=12140&team_id=176307

[MidMovieMama79]

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c300/TheStenGun/Horror%20Fest/sh_flier.jpg

New Flier!

You can also rsvp on Facebook too!

http://www.facebook.com/andrea.beesleybrown#/event.php?eid=143934712327

[jettajeffro]

Hope to see lots of zombies out tonight. Luckily the weather as cooled off. Pics will be posted shortly after the event.

The horror festival has moved locations to spot #40, on 4th Street South of Garfield.

[jettajeffro]

Here's our pics and breakdown of the evening.

As the sun fell down we had over 100 zombies of all ages stalking the streets of Phoenix. Many zombies came in great makeup and many participated in the first Zombie Walk. Around the walk route we made and posted various zombie warning signs. For the zombies themselves we made various signs to carry to promote the film festival and a few just for fun. On those we distressed the signs as much as possible with blood, bullet holes and burn marks. For our booth location we set up police tape and chalk outline of a victim who apparently lost their head. To help gain more walkers and to also collect donations for the MS Walk, we offered zombie make-up on the spot. This proved to be a very popular and many passers-by continued to get makeup even after the walk was over.Just ahead of the zombies several of our team members led the way handing out zombie info pamphlets. The other half of the team helped keep the zombies together on the sidewalks and while crossing streets. The zombies had a great time as well as the unwitting participants along the walk route. After the walk we continued with our booth to collection MS Walk donations for pictures with the team and the occasional zombie completing their scavenger hunt requirements. It was an awesome night and we are proud to have helped bring the Zombie Walk back to Phoenix. We have a great video and more pics coming. I'll put up a couple of the brief videos I took at the very beginning of the walk and will update on the total donations for the evening.

Our full photo gallery of the evening on flickr is located here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/56352803@N00/sets/72157622507662750

Video Clips

http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii19/arizonaghostbusters/th_zombie09083.jpg (http://s260.photobucket.com/albums/ii19/arizonaghostbusters/?action=view&current=zombie09083.flv)

http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii19/arizonaghostbusters/th_zombie09101.jpg (http://s260.photobucket.com/albums/ii19/arizonaghostbusters/?action=view&current=zombie09101.flv)

[jettajeffro]

The local paper just put up their slide show located here: http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/slideshow/view/28522602

Photos on classic-horror.com are here:
http://classic-horror.com/newsreel/pictures_from_the_phoenix_first_friday_zombie_walk _and_scavenger_hunt

[robberfly]

I took a few pictures while there, but it wasn't really of the zombie walk. Just my boyfriend and our friend dressed up as zombies.

You can see them here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/24065331@N05/sets/72157622408464929/