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
CBS NY Article – Watch Out For Your Brains
Watch Out For Your Brains: Zombie Crawl Hits Brooklyn Sunday
By Lawrence Bonk
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — If the lack of horrific beasties on the streets of Brooklyn has been keeping you asleep at night, then you might consider heading to Williamsburg weekend’s Zombie Crawl.
This annual scare-fest, now in its fourth year, turns the streets of Williamsburg into a relentless march of the undead. And the best part? You’ll be the zombies doing the crawling.
The event kicks off at the Knitting Factory Sunday at 6:00 p.m., when a team of trained makeup professionals will turn you and your friends into the zombies of your nightmares. Then you take to the streets to take part in the filming of a forthcoming horror sequel, Punk Rock Holocaust 3.
“Part of Punk Rock Holocaust 3 is getting the fans involved both as victims in the movie as well as filmmakers shooting footage so we’re using the NYC Zombie Crawl as a launch for that,” said Doug Sakmann, director of the film and organizer of the event. “Everyone can shoot footage with their phones, cameras, whatever – and then upload it.”
A slow traipse down Bedford is not all that will go on at this year’s crawl. The newly undead will end up at McCarren Park and then Public Assembly bar, where the organizers have arranged a host of gruesomely fun activities. There will be a lively game of tug-o-war, a Misfits cover band, zombie burlesque dancers and even comedy by the one and only Zombie Dangerfield.
In short, this is the perfect event to tide you over until Halloween.
The Zombie Crawl originated when Sakmann was inspired by the success of a similar event held in Philadelphia.
“Our friends at the Philly Zombie Crawl have been bleeding all over Philly since 2005 and when I saw there was no real zombie organization in NYC, I knew it was my destiny,” he said, noting how his event has grown through the years.
“The first crawl in May 2007, we had about 100 zombies but now we average between 700-1000 zombies per event.”
If you needed any proof that zombies have clawed their way back to mainstream culture – not to worry. There are more movies, television shows and comics than you can shake a bloodthirsty stick at. Even the US Government is getting in on the act.
“The Center for Disease Control just released a new section on their Web site about what to do in the possibility a zombie apocalypse.” Said Sakmann. “Obviously zombies are in the back of the public consciousness.”
Press – Crawl Event May 30th 2010
June 10, 2010 by admin
Filed under Crawl Event: May 30th 2010
Check out the press, photos and video from the event, if you have something to add please send to doug@backseatconceptions.com
Time Out NY – NYC Zombie Crawl in top 5 events of Memorial Day weekend
Horrorpunks Website – The Undead play LIVE at NYC Zombie Crawl
Also, add your photos and check out others on the Facebook Group
Zombies in NY Press!
May 29, 2010 by admin
Filed under NY Press - May 2010
Williamsburg residents have recently been terrified by vandalizing ninjas. Now zombies are set to roam the streets. Fear not, they come in peace. On May 30, Doug Sakmann – director of the upcoming zombie football film Play Dead—will unleash his annual Zombie Crawl on the neighborhood.
The crawls began in 2007 with a few hundred zombie diehards, but have grown into family-friendly events that had about 700 zombies running through Times Square last October. “It was marketed toward our specific crowd of horror movie people,” explained Sakmann. “It has grown to everyone disgusted by zombies, wished they were zombies, or has some sort of thoughts on zombies.”
In honor of Play Dead (watch the trailer here), this year’s crawl will have a sports theme, so expect tons of zombie jocks escorting their zombie cheerleaders to the zombie football game and zombie versus human tug of war in McCarren Park. Sakman suggests people come to the crawl already “zombified” but there will be free makeup stations for those not brave enough to turn themselves into an undead.
Despite the recent upswing of vampires into the cultural zeitgeist, Sakmann expects to get his biggest turnout of zombies to date. He’s protective of his beloved zombies and dismisses the vampire obsessions. He says they come in waves and tend to get overstated. “In certain circles, zombies have always been the new vampires.”
There is a bit of a rivalry between the two camps as evidenced by the vampire enthusiasts that often show up to terrorize the zombie crawlers. In the end, Sakmann doesn’t think vampires pose a serious threat to his crawls or line of work. “Zombies will always prevail because they can walk in the sun.”
PRESS: 'Zombieland' event with Sony Pictures
March 24, 2010 by nyczombiecrawl
Filed under 'Zombieland' event - Sept 30 2009, PRESS
Sept 30th 2009 – Zombieland event through Times Square:
Check out the cool 15 minute documentary “More Dead Than Alive” that zombie lover and filmmaker John Morgan made about the NYC Premiere of ‘Zombieland’ with Woody Harrelson. We did a huge crawl through the middle of Times Square and was one of our biggest events to date…we had over 600 Zombies!
See PART 1 here and PART 2 here!
Galleries :
Driven By Boredom – Nate “Igor” Smith
WCBS – News Radio 1080
Marie Alyse Rodriguez/NY2night.com & Philly2nite.com
Exposay
Current.tv
Vampire Freaks
Photo Burns
Village Voice
Gothamist
You Tube videos:
One – Two – Three – Four
Write-ups
Time Out NY
L Magazine
