I am sitting in the bath drifting off and then I look down, blood is turning the water red, skin and scabs are beginning to float to the surface and then I remember where the blood, the skin, the taste of alcohol and the exhaustion have come from. I am trying to recover from organizing and running Day of the Undead 2011, the 5th Festival of Zombie Culture.

 

With over 13 hours of feature films and short movies making up a 6 feature film programme that included 2 x UK film premieres, the day pass holders certainly got more zombie movie action than you can shake a stick at… CLICK HERE for FULL Film Details of the Movies we screened...

 

The gaming this year was big screen Dead Rising, in the form of the 3 minute zombie killing challenge, with over 100 people having a go at getting a killer body count… Of course, Big Tewkes from the awesome Retro-Active brought along his games consoles, so zombie gaming was available to all… From our youngest guests to our oldest veterans…

 

Our special guests on the day were the authors Sean Page and the prolific Adam Millard, both of them signing copies of their books for our guests and generally being there to chat about all things undead… The folks from http://underthefloorboards.com/ were also present and provided an awesome UV reactive poster as a prize and the Terror4fun stall had the usual bits and pieces on it including Cute Feltie Zombies made by the lovely and talented Mrs Zombie Ed… A bit later on we also had Dominic Brunt (Yes, Paddy from Emmerdale) with the worlds first showing of a clip from his UK Zombie Film ‘Before Dawn' and it was a bloody amazing sequence showing Dominic going medieval on a zombie in a garage…

 

Some of regular activities were on show again, there was our annual raffle with over 150 prizes which included as the star prize a whole bag full of zombie goodies from films and games to pint glasses and our make up artists were on hand to turn anyone who needed it into the living dead… There was London based prolific artist Paul Ewen, Nottinghams Zombie-phile Steve Uden and Leicesters own and Zombie Undead artist Gavin ‘Gore' Pate…

 

The Best Dressed Zombie this year was simply gore-some, it's the little things that make it stand out and the whole zombie ‘Spock' with green blood, pointy ears and uniform. Made me want to go get my phaser and disintegrate his brain… Hope he was loving all the goodies he won for the effort…

 

SPECIAL THANKS TO: Everyone that helped, especially Craig Clarke and Paul Dignall, the make up artists, the traders, the guest stars, Mrs Zombie Ed for all the support and the Felties, the people that let us show their films, the staff at the Phoenix and everyone that attended… Plus three special mentions must go to Gen D and Grace Elkin Photography and HOBGOBLIN, for supplying us with prizes, gifts, beer and Tees a-plenty…

Thanks to you all…

 

DOWNLOAD: The Most Stolen Poster in the United Kingdom... (We put out more than 100 around pubs, clubs and shops in the Midlands and they have all been taken...)

 

About Terror4fun:

Terror4fun are the UKs leading zombie organisation and have been organising zombie events for over 6 years, from the Day of the Undead, Festival of Zombie Culture to Zombie Fest, where the Zombie Apocalypse is played out for guests by actors and make up artists. Terror4fun have also appeared in numerous magazines, such as SFX and Bizarre, in documentaries about Zombie Culture on BBC and Channel 4 and publish the Zombie Times E-Zine, which is the worlds only regular Zombie Newsletter and this goes out to more than 12,500 Zombie fans every issue.

For more details: Email Zombie Ed at: ed@terror4fun.com