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Thursday, October 30, Grand Rapids, Michigan. A seemingly average midwestern city. Until the zombies invade. A throng of at least 3,370 zombies flowed through the downtown streets (it’s very likely it was over 4,000) to try and break the world record for the largest zombie walk. The event, organized by college sophomore Rob Bliss, shattered the previous record of 1,375, set just a few days earlier in the Pittsburgh suburb of Monroeville. If Monroeville sounds familiar to zombie fans, it should. The Monroeville Mall was the setting of George Romero’s Dawn of the Dead.
While Grand Rapids may not have the zombie pedigree of Monroeville, it’s no less qualified for an invasion of the living dead. Annalee Newitz recently wrote a post on io9 charting the correlation between civil unrest and zombie movie production. The results are surprisingly revealing. Given the current economic downturn, it’s no surprise that struggling post-industrial areas like Pittsburgh, and the whole state of Michigan, would see an increase in zombie invasions. If Michigan’s unemployment rate cracks 10%, I predict a complete state-wide zombie apocalypse by Halloween 2009.
For more ghoulish goodness on Spout.com, check out The Zombie Group and Horror Movies 101.
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oh yes… the undead walked the earth… leaving a bloddy mess in their path!!!!
I helped write a movie called ‘World Wide Dead: The Internet Zombie Movie’ which is a collaborative Internet project being worked on by people all over the world. We recently held a screening for a teaser clip of the film in London sponsored by BBC3, but we are still working on the project and looking for contributions.
We need good footage of mass zombies and also vlogs about zombie attacks. Anyone with footage of this zombie event who wants to contribute to the movie can contact me or go to our website http://internetzombiemovie.blogspot.com/ for more information.
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OMG +1000 for the half life zombie at the end!!!!
and some of those girls were amazingly cute i wish i had a zombie girlfriend
Awesome!
While we applaud the initiative, Grand Rapids was not part of World Zombie Day on October 26, 2008. On the 26th, close to 50 cities woldwide held zombie walks and food drives. Pittsburgh led the way with 1,341 zombies donating more than 2,000 pounds of food.
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Autograph Request for Zombie Walk Esq. PLEASE -
DEAR SIR / MADAM ,
I HAVE THE HONOUR TO INTRODUCE MYSELF , I AM A SERIOUS COLLECTOR OF AUTOGRAPHED PHOTOGRAPH OF THE GREAT CELEBRITIES LIKE YOU.
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VERY TRULY YOURS.
L.BAJAJ.
Hey!
I love your pictures and thanks for sharing the i09 article about zombie movie production.
Here are some of my pictures form the zombie walk in GR.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/eatpomegranate/sets/72157622584789235/