At this year’s Richmond Zombie Walk, we will have a special costume contest category: Best Plants vs. Zombie costume. Whether you’re a zombie-destroying plant or a member of the zombie army on the hunt for BRAINS, the best Plants vs. Zombies-themed costume will win a Virginia Lottery prize pack, including scratcher tickets! Check out the Virginia Lottery’s Plants vs. Zombies scratcher ticket on-sale now at a retailer near you.

In addition to this, we’ll be giving away $20.00 Plants vs. Zombies game download coupons to our zombie walk participants.*

*Recipients of download coupons and of the costume contest prize pack must be 18 years or older.

Remember the undead bicycle girl from season 1 of The Walking Dead? AMC has a set of shorts that tells the story of Hannah, the show’s most iconic zombie. It’s a great series of videos (my biased opinion) and a huge bummer at the same time. I mean, it’s a sad story.

AMC knows zombies. I <3 them.

See the 6 short webisodes now!

What do you do when the zombie apocalypse comes while you’re on your next vacation? You sack up and grab the biggest weapon you can find.

Dead Island (out now) looks pretty damn amazing. This first person gaming experience utilizes an open-world format that goes beyond the all-melee zombie games of yore. Customizable weaponry, vehicular slaughter, RPG gameplay. wha?!

If you have the means, and especially if you’re a fan of the genre (FPS and/or zombies), pick this thing up now!

Still not convinced? How about 20 minutes of gameplay footage?

Now get out there and be somebody!

We now have stickers!

The people at RVA Stickers whipped up these quality 1-color vinyl stickers. Stick ‘em anywhere your non-beating heart desires!

If you catch me (DeadMason) around town, ask me for stickers and I’ll consider not feasting upon your brain matter to absorb your tasty courage, or whatever it is we do.

What was I saying? Oh, support your local sticker guys and go to RVAStickers.com!

BWAAAHAHA! I think it’s hilarious that parents now have this opportunity to scar their young children at an early age. For me it was that damn Thriller video.

Anyhoo, the fine upstanding folks at ThinkGeek present a bed time story with a  bit of bite. *natch. “That’s Not Your Mommy Anymore” could, at the very least, give your kids a heads up on the coming zombie apocalypse. How can you not trust the Zombie Research Society?

Get your copy at ThinkGeek and edumacate your young today. ..and knowing is half the battle!

BTW, there’s so much zombie stuff at ThinkGeek it makes my brain hurt.

We are fortunate to again have the super talented Abigail Larson create the official event poster for 2011! (Remember last year’s poster contest winner?)

Like last year we will be offering high quality prints at the event for $5 and soon on shirts at our Zazzle site. All profits will go to the American Cancer Society.

Until then, check out Abigail’s amazing work.

13th STREET – Bowlingheads (Case Video) from RUOK on Vimeo.

GALLOPING CADAVERS!

WHEN?

The 7th Annual Richmond Zombie Walk will take place on Saturday, October 29th. Pre-walk meet up at Byrd Park (Boat Lake) is at 1pm and the actual walk will begin on the sidewalk in front of Kroger on W. Cary Street in Carytown immediately after.

WHERE?

This year, as always, we will walk Carytown. And that’s it. You will find that it is exhausting to lumber around just after a few blocks. In previous years some of the locations that we walked based on popular suggestions have been “hit or miss”. We lose attendance with each new location, and there is some confusion with our out-of-town undead.

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***Reminder***

Plan your rides! This starting point is about 1 mile from the initial meet up spot.

WORKSHOPS:

Do you want to go beyond the basic bloody mess of a freshly turned zombie? Luckily we have some of the goriest zombies who are willing to show you how fun making rotting flesh can be. Make up and costume workshops will be held in October. Upcoming details can be found at RichmondZombieWalk.com.

CONTESTS:

Here are the categories we’ll be judging. Prizes will be awarded at the pre-walk meet up.

- Most Disgusting

- Best Couple/Group Theme

- Best Pop Culture Theme (TV/Movie/Comic/Gaming)

-  Best Zombie Kid

- 2011 Zombie of the Year (Best Overall)

OUR PURPOSE:

Our activities this year will benefit The American Cancer Society. Again,we won’t require anyone to make a donation, but if everyone can pitch in $5 each, it will be much appreciated. Let’s raise even more money this year than we have in the past!

Again, stay tuned for upcoming information and details. If you have any questions, ideas or would like to help out in any way, send us a message at info@richmondzombiewalk.com

BRAAAIIINS!

Most of the time while watching TV I spend half of my concentration wondering what those celebrities look like naked.

The other half is dedicated to wondering what they’d look like undead.

I present to you an exercise in photoshop of you favorite undead celebs.

(btw, can you guess who that is up there?)

So there’s this interesting phenomena that occurs when the world’s not right. When nations are at war or when revolution is in the news, people tend to want to make zombie movies. Weird, right?

That’s a good thing for fans of the genre.

Check out the complete list/infographic here!