Contact: Mark Menold, Producer
(412) 953-0937
mmenold@theitsaliveshow.com

World Zombie Day Outbreak Spreads to 52 Cities October 26 event to benefit food charities worldwide Pittsburgh, PA – September 8, 2008 – World Zombie Day has gone viral, infecting 52 cities in the US, Canada, Central America, Europe, Asia and Australia.

"The number of cities signing on has far exceeded our expectations", says organizer Mark Menold, who is also producer and host of the Pittsburgh-based television program The It’s Alive Show. "The response is overwhelming. We’re going to bring in substantial food donations as well as set another world record." Pittsburgh owns the current Guinness World Record™ for largest zombie gathering of 1,028 people set last year. "This year, we are going to add all of the zombies from each city to come up with one monstrous total so that everyone can say they were part of a world record", says Menold.

World Zombie Day, being held on Sunday, October 26, features zombie walks with accompanying food drives in participating cities. The hub of World Zombie Day will be a walk at the Monroeville Mall with a food drive benefiting the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank. The Mall walk – which is part of the 2008 Zombie Fest – is at the site where George Romero zombie movie Dawn of the Dead was filmed. Zombie Fest is a free, all ages public fan festival celebrating the 30th anniversary of Dawn and all things zombie and will feature vendors, author panels with award winning writers, films, celebrity guests, bands, entertainment and interactive fan activities.

For more information about World Zombie Day or Zombie Fest, please visit www.theitsaliveshow.com.

No plans for Halloween? Anywhere near Leesburg, VA? Then get your butt over to the Tally Ho Theater for the "World Premiere Bootleg Screening" of NINJAS VS. ZOMBIES!

A web comic about badass babes fighting zombies? What's not to love? The creator says "it's like Power Puff Girls and The Warriors meets Dawn of the Dead."

http://www.blackcherrybombshells.com

Shirt.Woot.com has a fantastic zombie take on the classic Norman Rockwell painting "Gossip", wherein the rumor is replaced with the dreaded zombie virus:

Get one before they're gone! http://shirt.woot.com!

Artist Rob Ullman has done a great Gil Elvgren painting parody:

Find out more at http://rkullman.blogspot.com/2008/10/happy-halloween.html

As time permits, I'm going to give ZombiePinups.com a long-overdue facelift, both because it needs it and because the site's content has evolved past the current designs.

Now that the Zombie Pinup Phenomenon has become a bit of a juggernaut, ZombiePinups.com will expand to cover ALL things related to Zombie Pinup-ness. This Halloween season we've found a ton of events, products and promotions that have nothing to do with ZombiePinups.com, but which call themselves "Zombie Pinups (or Pin-Ups, or Pin Ups)". Rather than fight this trend, we're embracing it for the cultural monstrosity that it is! We started this thing for fun, not profit, and we're going to keep it that way.

If you are involved in or know of a Zombie Pinup-esque event, product or news item, send it to savage@zombiepinups.com and, if it checks out, it'll get posted here as ZPU News!

On a side note: The eCards Link has been fixed!

Television reporter Angela Vidal (Jennifer Carpenter) and her cameraman (Steve Harris) are assigned to spend the night shift with a Los Angeles Fire Station. After a routine 911 call takes them to a small apartment building, they find police officers already on the scene in response to blood curdling screams coming from one of the apartment units. They soon learn that a woman living in the building has been infected by something unknown. After a few of the residents are viciously attacked, they try to escape with the news crew in tow, only to find that the CDC has quarantined the building. Phones, internet, televisions and cell phone access have been cut-off, and officials are not relaying information to those locked inside. When the quarantine is finally lifted, the only evidence of what took place is the news crew’s videotape.

QUARANTINE opens nationwide on October 10th. However, we have passes to an advance screening in Chicago - send us a photo of yourself as a zombie:

Send your photo as an image attachment to an email
Send us a link to the image online (make sure it's not Friends Only!)

All photo entries will be posted to HauntedHouseChicago.com; screening pass winners will be selected at random from all entries; we will also select Grand Prize Winners from the photos - the best zombies will get prize packs with exclusive Quarantine merchandise!

TO ENTER, send your photo to savage@chicagohorror.com with the Subject Header "QUARANTINE ME!". Include your real name and preferred email address. That's it! C'mon, Chicago - show us your BRAAAAAAINS...

DEADLINE: October 8 at Noon. Winners will be notified of the time and location of the screening shortly thereafter.

DISCLAIMERS: Providing incomplete information (no name, bad email address) means you won't win anything. Please don't send us a photo if you don't want it shown to the world - that kind of defeats the purpose. Winners will be contacted directly by Quarantine's promotional company and any issues or complaints should be taken up with them - HauntedHouseChicago.com / ChicagoHorror.com / ChicagoZombie.com / ZombiePinups.com are providing this opportunity to you because we're nice and we love you, but once we deliver your info/photos to Quarantine, it's out of our hands.

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