November 16th, 2013... Phoenix Square in Leicester... The streets ran red with blood...

For the 7th year in a row, Leicester hosted the UK Festival of Zombie Culture a day of gore, zombies, films, games, make up and general zombie badness and madness, the number of people signing up for the 13 hours of zombie films was more than ever before...

THE FILMS: At the Festival we screened more than 12 hours of Zombie films!!!. Which included The Battery from the US, Meteletsa from Russia, The FIRST FESTIVAL SCREENING OF Zombie Hood , WORLD PREMIERE SCREENING OF: Wasteland and STALLED from the UK and finally BATTLE OF THE DAMNED (USA/Singapore) starring Dolph Lundgren. More details of the Films can be found by Clicking Here...

From far and wide they came, some in costumes, some in make up, some in Dawn of the Dead Tees, but they came fom all corners of the United Kingdom (and a couple of mates from Iowa?) to see the sights, the films and the sher charnage of this years Zombie Festival.

 

As far as the films go, most were simply compered by 'Zombie Ed' from The Zombie Times & Terror4fun, Wasteland and Zombie Hood were followed by Q&A sessons with the respective directors and cast and crew, but for all of them the awesome audience was baying for blood and loving the sheer variety of movies on offer, from Zero Budget to Low Budget to Dolph... Awesome Zombie B Movie Craziness...

 

The authors came from Far and Wide too, we had the sinster author of a pile of books including the infamous Autumn Series and Haters David Moody, then a man who brilliantly changes zombie genres more than Zombie Ed changes his pants Adam Millard, we then have the tattoed beat messiah and author of Flu and Plastic Jesus Wayne Simmons and last, but by no means least the UKs leading survival expert, a man who is not afraid to put his body (and mind) on the line to prove his theories, Sean T. Page... Each of these specialists in the zombie genre took a solemn pledge to entertain the crowds, chat to and sign books for the fans and as always they delivered!

 

Retroactive supplied the gaming at the event and Gavin Gore provided the make up, the former holds the UKs only Retro Gaming and Film Festival and the latter has been providing the highest quality Zombie Make up for almost as long as Terror4fun has been providing scares... Alongside Gav and Big Tewkes the Phoenix provided the highest quality fodder and brains for all and sundry, including the frighteningly tasty Pulled Limb (pork) sandwich... In the centre image at the bottom, you can see the dreamy winner of the Best Dressed Zombie Competition... This dream boat was dressed as one of the Cops from the opening scene of Zombie Flesheaters... What a GUY!

 

After so many of them had been slaughtered on the big screen, the Zombies then started to kick off, the ZED EVENTS crew turned on each other, Mike Grace hoped a Gas Mask would save him, Rhys Davies, director of Zombie Undead was devoured by his family, who then feasted on his leg and then the authors fought back by beating Zombie Ed and his balloon to a pulp...

 

It was not just the Zombie Fans that came and saw and conquered, there was a whole pile of guests top left you can see Jessica Messenger and the awesome Shameer Seepersand from Wasteland, who headed to the event with a pile more cast and crew including director Tom Wadlow and writer Tommy Draper, middle top is Julie Mayer from BBC Radio Leicester with the Zed Events undead and on the top left, the only living person in the pic is Steve Best, director and creator of Zombie Hood, who along with a tonne of cast and crew Q&A'd after the screening... Along the bottom row you can see Zombie Shop, Terror4fun and copies of Zombie Undead that were being signed by director Rhys Davies...

 

After all was said and done, the films were screened, the beer drank, the food devoured hungrily and the toilets filled with the living dead... Yes, the toilets, there was even a special loo based photoshoot in honour of our screening of Stalled, our final film of the night... the blood scabbed over... the lights went out... and for another year, the undead returned to their graves... and the Phoenix could once again return to the hands of the Living...

 

A Massive Thanks to Grace Elkin for the Pics of the Event...

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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.

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

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