Celebrate the Horror Society's One Year Anniversary at Viaduct Theater on June 20th with their first annual Zombie Disco!
DJ Joe Wallace will spin your favorite retro disco beats mixed with horror classic tunes all night in tandem with screenings of classic zombie movies.
Come dressed as a zombie or get zombified on the premises and win the Best Zombie Contest!
Other games and events include Zombie Twister, Shoot'em In The Head, booze, trivia, games, vendors, raffle & more!
ViaDuct Theater
3111 N Western Ave
(Belmont and Western, under the bridge on Western)
Tickets only $10 at the door or online
More info:
http://www.horrorsociety.com/discohttp://www.viaducttheatre.com
On Sunday, May 24, get ready to party like it's 1959 at RETRO ZOMBIE TIKI TERROR!, a night of zombie fun set in the tiki wonderland that is The Tiki Terrace in Des Plaines, IL. RETRO ZOMBIE TIKI TERROR! will feature a Polynesian floor show, Zombie Pinups Beauty Pageant, Zombie Costume Contest, raffles, prizes, zombie movies, tiki tunes and, of course, delicious tiki drinks!
Tentative itinerary (subject to change):
- 6:00 - 10:00 : All ages welcome!
- 6:00 - 8:00 : Socialize, eat, drink and be scary!
- 8:00 - 9:00 : Live Polynesian Floor Show
- 9:00 - 10:00 : Booze & Shmooze
- 10:00 : Kids, go home - 18+ after 10:00
- 10:00 : Zombie Costume Contest
Guys & Dolls, come dressed in your zombie finest and compete to win fabulous prizes! - 11:00 : Zombie Pinups Beauty Pageant
Ladies, put on your sexiest classic pinup outfit and your most gruesome zombie make up, and compete to win awesome prizes! Judging will be based on quality of make up / effects and costume. All contestants will be photographed for a special gallery at ZombiePinups.com; to get an idea of what we're looking for, visit the gallery at ZombiePinups.com, and start planning your character NOW!
Enjoy fine food, tiki drinks, classic music, zombie movies and other Chicago zombie dudes & dames in between events! Every ticketholder gets a raffle ticket, so you never know when you'll win something spectacular.
Tickets are $15.00 in advance, $20.00 at the door. Ticket does NOT include food or drinks. The Tiki Terrace has a full menu of Polynesian-themed food.
RETRO ZOMBIE TIKI TERROR! will take place from 6:00 pm to 2:00 am on Sunday, May 24, at the Tiki Terrace, 1591 Lee St., Des Plaines, IL 60018, approximately 4 minutes north of O'Hare International Airport. Tiki Terrace is located at the NE Corner of Lee/Manheim and Oakton.
RETRO ZOMBIE TIKI TERROR! is presented and hosted by Kitty Zombie, ChicagoZombie.com, ZombiePinups.com and Zombie Army Productions.
The high-school prom is coming up. All the cool kids are going to be there. Plus, a surprise guest: An army of zombies who think the kids are hors d'oeuvres. The only people who can stop the carnage: The losers who couldn’t get a date to the dance.
// More: Dance of the Dead
Warning: An enormous comet is headed straight for Earth. But don't panic
yet. The impact probably won't kill you. However, the dust it kicks up
will transform everyone within hundreds of miles into mutant,
flesh-eating zombies. Okay, time to panic.
// More: Days of Darkness
On his honeymoon,a young man is attacked by a zombie. He survives but starts to grow a desire for human flesh and learns the boundaries of true love can be pushed without reaching a breaking point.
// More: Zombie Honeymoon
On film, Facebook, even the streets (a pub crawl!), zombies are everywhere. But fear not: The undead have never been so lively
People of Chicago, while you sleep, the Zombie Readiness Task Force worries, with admirably straight faces. In the event of an outbreak of the dead, should bodies of the deceased rise from their graves and stalk the streets of Chicago muttering for a bite of brain, the Zombie Readiness Task Force has a plan of action...
Read the full article
HERE.
You've been waiting a whole year to dress up like a zombie and hit up the city... so let's do it again!
You know the deal... meet up at the field at Millennium Park at 2pm on June 13th in your best zombie get-ups.
Remember: haunted house rules apply! No touching strangers; mind your own business. Just use your common sense -- every zombie-style event this city's seen has gone well, and the police have noticed -- let's keep up the good rapport!
Contact us at brains@chicagozombie.com with questions/comments/concerns, and keep watch on ChicagoZombie for all your braingnoshing updates.
Time Magazine ran an article a couple of days ago declaring "Zombies Are the New Vampires". As ever, Time Magazine is the last to know, as last year's box office receipts show, in fact, that vampires are the new vampires. But I digress...
"If there's a social hierarchy among monsters, zombies are not at the top of the list. They may not even be on the list. They're not cool like werewolves. There's no Warren Zevon song about them. They're not classy like Dracula and Frankenstein, who can trace their lineage back to respectable 19th century novels. All zombies have is a bunch of
George Romero movies."
Full article
HERE.
Oh, and Woody Harrelson can't tell the difference between a
photographer and a zombie.
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