17th November, 2012... Phoenix Square in Leicester...

The scabs have healed over, the blood has been steam cleaned out of the carpets at the Phoenix Square, the bar has been restocked, the guests have returned to their homes and the staff are beginning to return to their normal habits after this sell out event that had them on their toes dealing with the living dead for more than 13 hours...

The thirteen hours of films included a Preview Screening of the Arrow Film Re-Mastered ZOMBIE FLESH EATERS, a programme of short films including the UK Premiere of MURALIM (poisoned) which is Israels first zombie film, alongside BUMBLOODS, THE VELVET ROAD and THE END. These were followed up a screening of awesome new zombie film BEFORE DAWN introduced by director Dominic Brunt, followed by a Q&A and a screening of THE ESCHATRILOGY, another UK film introduced by director Damian Morter, then into the home straight we had another UK Premiere, this was GANGSTERS, GUNS AND ZOMBIES, introduced again by its director, this time the awesome Matt Mitchell and we closed the film side of the event with the ‘must see' zombie film of the year… COCKNEYS Vs Zombies… Blow you can see in the top left picure, Joanne Mitchell Brunt and Dominic Brunt star & star and director doing the Q&A at the close of the screening of the awesome Before Dawn... Middle top row picture shows Damian Morter, star and director of THE ESCHATRILOGY talking to Dom Brunt and finally on the top row, Zombie Ed and Matt Mitchell from GANGSTERS GUNS AND ZOMBIES, getting confused before the screening....

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The special guests this year included a total of five, YES, five authors including event regular and genre veteran David Moody, to Luke Duffy author of two awesome zombie books, but at his very first signing event! Charlie ‘Fast Show' Higson came down to do a half hour talk about his new book ‘The Sacrifice' and to talk about his love of scaring children!!! The top row of pictures (below) shows Kit Cox and Paul from Haunted Magazine, then there is a picture of Adam Millard, Wayne Simmons, David Moody and Luke Duffy and the final picture in the row is Charlie Higson during his on stage interview...

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Also in the mix for this year, was the usual selection of entertainment, NOT on the big screen… There was Retroactives ‘Arcade of the Dead' with House of the Dead 1 to 4 on consoles with Zombie Black Ops, Stubbs the Zombie, Zombies ate my Neighbours and the event favourite ‘Typing of the Dead.'

Also featured were Gavin Gore and his make up team who raised plenty of money for Help for Heroes by making people into zombies for a small donation to charity and with ‘The FleshKrafter,' ‘ZombieShop' and Terror4fun al trading in different selections of Zombie Goodies, there was plenty to do in between the films too…

 

Best dressed zombie was tough to call with so many people going that extra mile, until Paul Ewen started shambling about with a massive pole through his chest, many folks agreed that dressing up to the extent that you can't sit down for 13 hours, was going above and beyond the call of duty and so he did win a copy of Last Night on Earth…

 

TRADERS who appeared at the Festival:

www.Zombieshop.co.uk will be heading down with some of the best and craziest Zombie products on the market...

THE FLESHKRAFTER will be at the event with his unusual gore and toys to trade and disturb you all !!!

PLUS, of course, Terror4fun, will have a stall full of Zombie Films, Books and other Goodies for you to regurgitate...

 

AND FINALLY, Thanks to everyone that helped in any way shape or form that has not been mentioned yet, which of course includes Paul ‘Bignall' Dignall, Maz ‘Bad' Penny, Hazel ‘Badd' Gadd, Laura from Melton and my lovely wife Sam, that had put up with tonnes of zombie stuff over the years… Oh, and Jake from the Phoenix, who I promised to lick!

Next years events are still in the planning phase which includes a Zombie Short Film competition, the 7th UK Festival of Zombie Culture and some other bits and pieces… Thanks also goes out to Grace Elkin (below), photographer and feeder of Zombies… Awesome pics !!! We salute you...

 

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 13,000 Zombie fans every issue.

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