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Drivers slowed and stopped with bemused tolerance as actors dressed as zombies paraded under the railroad bridge on Main Street on June 12. The 16 thespians were students from the Highland Lake-based Margolis Method Center, and they were making a three-minute zombie video as part of the 2009 Digit Exposition.

The exposition, sponsored by the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, was held from June 12 through June 14, in various locations in Narrowsburg, and part of the lineup was a “Quick and Gritty Video Slam.” The slam consisted of five videos, each less than three minutes in length and shot during the weekend in Narrowsburg.

One of the performers, Sarah Harwood, said with a wide grin that the zombie filmmakers were “going for a kind of a metaphor. Sometimes, we all walk through life like zombies, so the film is kind of an advocation for living life to the fullest.”

Did they achieve that with their video? Go to www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4C3hZryQ2E to find out. The film tied for first place along with Cass Collin’s “Narrowsburg at Night.” Each was awarded a $500 prize.

Kari Margolis, founder of the Margolis Method and a co-founder of Margolis Brown Adaptors Company, said the company usually performs in places like New York City, and other places around the world with large venues.

She added, however, that this weekend the company will be staging a show at the Tusten Theater in Narrowsburg on June 20, at 8:00 p.m. It’s billed as a theatrical improvisational performance event. Go to www.margolismethod.org for more on the performance.

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It has been announced that Watchmen and X-Men screenwriter, David Hayter, will help develop and write the screenplay for an adaptation of the on-going comic book series, Deadworld. The post-apocalyptic zombie story is being adapted for the big-screen by Dark Horse Studio partners Hayter and Benedict Carver, along with Pandemonium’s Bill Mechanic. As well as writing and developing it, Hayter will also conceive and design the look of the film. Gary Reed, who currently owns the rights through his Caliber Comics company, will exec produce the movie.

Published by Image Comics, Deadworld is set in a post-apocalyptic world where flesh-eating undead rule the earth with humans being very few and far between. The protagonist of the comic is King Zombie, “a Harley-riding corpse who holds a grudge against the survivors who made him an outcast.”

As Matt Goldberg at Collider points out, the only thing that’ll set the Deadworld movie apart from other zombie tales is that it’s told from the perspective of the zombies. However, that still doesn’t stop the comparisons to the likes of Dawn of the Dead, 28 Days Later, Land of the Dead, Day of the Dead, and any other zombie films you can think of. I hope the zombie perspective angle can make it feel original as something like Shaun of the Dead felt, even if at it’s core it’ll just add to the ever-growing zombie movie list.

The Deadworld comic became noted for it’s gory artwork, both on the cover and on the inside pages. Although even if they translate literally what’s on the page to the big-screen, it won’t be that shocking in today’s movie-going age where we have gore-fests like the Hostel and Saw series’. I still hope they keep it consistent from page-to-screen. With Hayter involved, who practically co-translated Watchmen page-for-page from graphic novel to movie, I think the source material will be kept pretty faithful to.

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Festival-goers will soon get the chance to appear in a horror movie, with the makers of the forthcoming I Spit on Your Rave inviting music fans to appear as zombies in their film.

Attendees of The Big Chill (a UK music festival based in Herefordshire) are being encouraged to don ghastly make-up and shuffle into the record books, as Warp Films and Film4 attempt to set the record for most zombies ever captured on film.

Rave is a ‘mockumentary’ set in the year 2018, six years after a virus is released at the London Olympics, turning the populace into flesh-hungry killers.

However, rather than chart Romero-esque carnage, the film will instead revolve around the first post-apocalyptic festival, created and curated by lifeless citizens looking to re-stage events from the ‘golden age’ of the 21st century.

Full details will be posted on the Big Chill website, with the horrific festivities kicking off on Thursday, August 6 and continuing throughout the weekend.

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A man dressed for an evening zombie crawl chose a costume that was a bit too realistic, and it ended up getting him arrested.

Wearing all black, knee pads, a knife, grenade, a gas mask, and carrying what looked to be a machine gun, he walked into the Metro Clothing store Friday evening on Capitol Hill, which was sponsoring the zombie crawl to promote the Crypticon Horror Convention at the Seattle Center next weekend.

But apparently, someone thought a masked gunman was walking into a store, and called police. Witnesses say a dozen police cars converged on the scene and officers ran into the store, guns drawn.

“The police came in with guns and they caught the guy and I’m like, ‘Oh wait, he’s in costume,’ ” said Carl, the store’s owner.

Seage, the event’s organizer, says the man was dressed as one of the zombies from Resident Evil’s Umbrella Corporation.

“I guess it was a little too good,” she said. “It was too believable and that’s why the police showed up.”

The man arrested, who gave his name as “Jay,” says he wasn’t detained too long.

“It’s definitely understanding — they (police) weren’t aware of the event going on,” Jay said. “They just had to check me out (and they) let me go pretty quick once they saw what I was here for.”

Seage said she was surprised it caused such a commotion.

“I didn’t expect anyone to be arrested being dressed as a zombie because we did this last weekend,” she said. “(There were) a dozen of us walking around in full zombie gear — blood, guts and nasty skin hanging off and it just went fine.”

Carl said the man was the first one to arrive in costume, and he could understand how someone might mistake the costume for something more sinister.

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From the “screenwriters are going to kick themselves for not thinking of this one” file comes the preview for a new German Norwegian horror film, Dead Snow — an epic that finally brings Nazi zombies to the big screen.

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