Next Crawl – October 16th – Manhattan!!

Greetings Boils and Ghouls!

We’re gearing up for the main crawl event this SUNDAY October 16th! Pabst Blue Ribbon will be hosting an open PBR bar at the afterparty and a photo booth starting at 8:30pm and we have a new sponsor with an awesome product we’ll be promoting – ZOMBIEBOOTH! It’s an awesome mobile app that turns anyone into a 3D Zombie! We have a funny powerpoint presentation about the Walking Dead and we’ll also be doing the late night HOT ZOMBIE CONTEST again!

A portion of the proceeds from the event will go to help our brother Spliff, the father of DisGraCeLand Hook Squad – you can also donate here!

Download the ZombieBooth App as we will be doing some afterparty ticket giveaways to the first 10 people to post pics at the event on the ZOMBIEBOOTH Facebook Page!

It’s all going to kick off at the Beauty Bar NYC by Union Square (231 E 14th St in Manhattan btwn 2nd and 3rd Ave). from 4pm-6pm with the zombie meet up and makeup. Our zombie makeup technicians will be charging a small fee to create zombies or you can bring out your dead! It’s 21 to drink zombie drink specials or enter the bar, but all ages are welcome to join us for the crawl event at 6pm!

At 6pm the madness begins as we crawl through the East Village. This year we’re honored to have Angelo Moore aka Dr. MaddVibe (also frontman of the legendary Fishbone) as a part of the event! We will be shooting the crawl as part of a new Dr. MaddVibe music video and Dr. MaddVibe will also be performing at the official after party!

After shooting for the music video and on the way to the final stop, around 7:30pm we’ll take a break at the Continental NYC (25 Third Avenue between St. Marks Place & 9th St.,New York, NY 10003), $2 Pabst Blue Ribbon 16oz cans and home of the “$10 for 5 shots of anything” special, need I say more!

The location for the official after-party is ARLENE”S GROCERY (95 Stanton St, New York, NY 10002) and will start at 8:30pm. It’s 21 + and tickets are $10 if you are a zombie, $12 for civilians. FREE Pabst Blue Ribbon from 8:30pm-9:00pm!
Performers include;
Angelo Moore aka Dr. MaddVibe
Nassau Chainsaw Disgraceland Demolition Committee
God’s Green Earth
DJ Fangbat
Zombie Comedy, Sideshow and Burlesque – more surprises to come!
Late Night HOT ZOMBIE CONTEST with prizes from The Walking Dead and more!
We’ll be premiering clips from Punk Rock Holocaust 3 (starring Angelo Moore) as well as Cross Bearer and The Cemetery!
We’ll also be doing a sneak preview of PUNK ROCK HOLOCAUST 3 and showing a trailer for season 2 of THE WALKING DEAD!
In honor of Walking Dead Season 2 we’ll have a very funny powerpoint presentation;

Sponsored by Pabst Blue Ribbon and Shaw Promotion!

Check out the write up on FoxNews.com about crawls all over the US, the NYC Zombie Crawl is top of the list!
Also check out more info on Fangoria.com and CityUnlisted!

Also, if you’re in the mood for horror movies, check out this short horror flick we entered into the ABC’s of Death contest! It’s NSFW and sick! Please vote to help us win a spot amongst the 26 short movies! Click here to watch!

Angelo Moore with the demonic Executioner from ‘Punk Rock Holocaust 3′

Murder can happen on the Vans Warped Tour!
PS: We will also be announcing the winners of the Punk Rock Holocaust filmmaker contest at the next event!!
PPS: Our friends at the NJ Zombie Walk has their crawl and Undead Festival on October 21-23rd! Both NJ and the Philly Zombie Crawl are part of our new zombie alliance NEW WORLD ZOMBIE – more info on this soon!!

VOTE NOW and watch ‘The Tap Dancer’ for ‘The ABC’s of Death’

VOTE FOR AND WATCH ‘THE TAP DANCER’ NOW!!!
NSFW – Nudity and Gore!

Check out our friend J.D. Brown’s directorial debut, a short horror movie called ‘The Tap Dancer’ aka ‘T is for Tap Dance’.  The short is entered into the film competition for ‘The ABC’s of Death‘ a cool anthology feature film with 26 short films, each themed around a death related to each letter of the alphabet. The 26th director is for the letter ‘T’, which will be chosen by the submission with the most amount of votes on the website! ‘T is for Tap Dance’ is now on the website and YOU CAN VOTE HERE!!

The movie stars Nick Shellenberger, Tim Cronin, Ariella Cohen, Sarah Mostov and Aria Rae, and was assistant directed by Amy Glickman Brown, shot by Zafer Ulkucu with special effects by zombie ringleader Doug Sakmann.

Dorney Park Invaded, World Record Won!!

For those who were a part of the Guinness World Record, you can order your own certificate to commemorate the event HERE!! Just use the ID# 359343 and code rcum6891RC to order it!

Much love and blood to all our zombies who came out to Dorney Park and helped us set a NEW Guinness world record! 330 Zombies who are the most costumed riders on an amusement ride!! We had over 1500 zombies in the park! Special thanks to our pals at the NJ Zombie Walk and Philly Zombie Crawl, Zombie Beach Party & Zombie Prom and of course NASSAU CHAINSAW DisGraceLand Demolition Committee for an amazing performance, the night wouldn’t have been the same without them!!

Here is a report with pictures and video from our good friends and Zombie sponsor, Shaw Promotion!

Check out some amazing photos from Eric Brown of Time Out NY!!

Check out more photos here!

Check out a video of the official announcement from Guinness about taking the World Record!

Here is cool video from the evening featuing zombies cut with the Nassau Chainsaw Disgraceland Demolition Committee set, shot and edited by Angelica Vanessa

NJ Zombie Walk Organizers Jason Meehan and Jess Rajs with zombie artist Goddess Shea and moi!

The next big NYC Zombie Crawl event will be on Sunday, October 16th in Manhattan- more info to come!!

Until we bleed again!

Doug Sakmann
-Zombie Ringleader
NYC Zombie Crawl

UPDATE: Dorney Park Zombie Invasion – August 18th

UPDATE – The event is rain or shine! And be sure to bring an article of zombie clothing to be a part of the Guinness World record attempt!

The Zombie Invasion is this THURSDAY! If you want to catch the party bus or need a hotel room for Dorney next Thursday, August 18th – email me at doug@backseatconceptions.com with the subject DORNEY ZOMBIE TRANSPORT- ASAP with number of people and for more details!  For hotels, 4 to a room for $95 (split 4 ways) or you can get your own for $95 – Bus tix are looking to be between $30-40 round trip! You don’t have to take the bus to get a zombie hotel room, but just let us know and we will accommodate. We also have a VIP option, email for more details!

Buy your park tix here for $25 in advance – You want to get your tickets IN ADVANCE since the AT THE GATE price is $30 (an extra $5).

We’ll have 3 different tiers of zombie make up available at the park – Basic for $10, Advanced for $25 and Premium for $40 – with over 40 makeup artists applying it!

Also added are live music by Nassau Chainsaw Disgraceland Demolition Committee – featuring live flesh hook performances! Also performing live are The Sharkskins! There will also be some ghoulish DJs throughout the night as well.

We’re also going for a new Guinness Record – Most costumed riders on an Amusement Ride! In order for you to qualify for the record, you need to be in basic 3 color zombie makeup (base color, eye socket color and blood) as well as one article of zombie wardrobe (ripped shirt or some basic zombie costume). We will be providing zombie makeup at the park, but it’s up to you to bring a costume piece – just go to a thrift store or bring a shirt that you don’t mind getting messed up and we will do the rest!

And finally, we may have a few extra spots for makeup artists – if you are interested contact me at doug@backseatconceptions.com and we’ll see what we can do…we have over 40 makeup artists with more being confirmed now!

So overall, just get your tix in advance and let us know if you’d like to get on the bus or stay overnight with us! It’s going to be a zombie party!!

NYC Zombie Crawl is proud to be a part of the Dorney Park Zombie Invasion on August 18th! For one day Zombies will have control over the park!

We’re working with the Philly Zombie Crawl and NJ Zombie Crawl to create the ultimate east coast zombie experience! It’s a full day of fun at Dorney Park and Wildwater Kingdom at a discounted price, only $25 for full access to the park during normal hours (9am-8pm)! Then from 8pm-Midnight only zombies have access to the park!

We’ll have a special ZOMBIES ONLY area of the park where the east coast’s top SPFX makeup artists will be making up zombies as well as a buffet, bands, a costume contest, drink specials for zombies over 21, and much more madness!! We’re also going to attempt to break some Guinness World Records as well!

Much more info coming soon, but you can buy your tickets here!! A portion of the proceeds goes to supporting the NYC Zombie Crawl!

May 29th Crawl Wrapup!

Thanks to all our zombie masses who came out in full effect on Sunday! We had well over 1000 undead mobbing Bedford avenue! Much thanks to all our makeup artists as well as Pabst Blue Ribbon, the Knitting Factory, Public Assembly, Disgraceland Hook Squad, Ghouls Night Out, The Gorgeous Ladies of Bloodwrestling, Jessica Delfino and Zombie Dangerfield!

Check out some photo gallery action from GOTHAMIST, SHAW PROMOTION and DRIVEN BY BOREDOM (NSFW)! You can also see Igor’s photos on the VILLAGE VOICE website from the Crawl and Afterparty (NSFW). You can also check out more photos on TIME OUT NY. We have so many photos and videos to sort through and we’ll have the best ones here soon. In the meantime, you can add and check out photos on Facebook, and check out all the filmmaker entries from the first Punk Rock Holocaust 3 shoot in the playlist below! You can vote on your favorite clips by clicking on the video you like in the playlist and voting “LIKE” on it’s Youtube page. We’ll add up the votes and the best footage will be incorporated into the movie! You can enter your own videos from this event with the tag “NYCPRH2011″ on Youtube! You can also get more info on the project at www.punkrockholocaust.com!

You can check out some of the great press we received for the crawl at CBS NY, FANGORIA & TIME OUT NY

Until we bleed again…

Doug Sakmann
Zombie Ringleader

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