We love Zombie Walks, marches, public events of almost all sorts here at the ZRC. In fact, next Saturday we’re attending the big 4th Annual Zombie March in Chicago and we’d love to see you there.

However, news of this ‘Zombie Crawl’ in Brooklyn being used to collect footage for a movie about Zombies attacking hipsters saddened us greatly:

This afternoon we crawl! We’ll have a Pabst Blue Ribbon open bar from 5-6pm before the crawl and the all-girls Misfits cover band GHOULS NIGHT OUT will be performing at the afterparty for the 4th Annual Springtime Zombie Crawl! We’ll also have a zombie photo booth and a Hot Zombie contest as well!!

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On Sunday, May 29th we’ll begin 4pm at Knitting Factory Brooklyn (361 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211) with our usual FREE zombie meetup! For 2 hours, zombies of all ages are invited to hang out while our zombie technicians will be providing makeup for civilians who wish to become undead! Zombies over 21+ can drink with some great drink specials including $1 off all beers and $2 off all liquor! Shot and Bloody Mary specials as well as more surprises!

At 6pm, we will take our annual trek down Bedford Avenue! Only this time, we’ll be shooting a scene for Punk Rock Holocaust 3 while we crawl, a zombie attack on the hipsters of Brooklyn! We’re looking for some victims to be eaten by the zombie masses and everyone is invited to help shoot the scene as well. If you have a camera bring it, or just use your smart phone! We’ll be awarding prizes for the best footage! You can upload your videos to YouTube with the tag “NYZPRH2011″ and you’re entered! It’s that easy! Email info@nyczombiecrawl.com with the subject PRH3 Shoot to get more info and sign up to be involved!

I’ll say this much for Anti-Zombie filmmakers: they never run out of new ways to market fear of a Zombie ‘attack’ to yet another cultural subgroup. Cops, the military, sure, retail drones like Shaun, yeah, medical personnel, but now, hipsters? Hipsters are supposed to be afraid of Zombies?

Keep in mind that with their PBR open bar and Brooklyn shooting location many of the Zombies who show up were likely to be hipsters themselves!

The ZRC wants to state for the record that Zombies are no more likely to attack Hipsters than anyone else who’s tired of hearing about how great bands were before they sold out or the wonderful variety of clothing you can get if you know the best vintage stores.

Ahem.

There are pictures from the event up at The Gothamist as well, and they couldn’t resist larding it with their own editorializing against the Undead:

The weather yesterday was perfect… for eating brains! As the Memorial Day Eve sun drifted down over Williamsburg the undead took to the streets to groan unintelligibly, laugh maniacally, enjoy zombie-themed drink specials, play reindeer zombie games in McCarren Park, shoot a scene for Punk Rock Holocaust 3 and scare the bejesus out of passersby. All-in-all a nice way to spend a Sunday evening!

Here are some pics of yesterday’s 4th Annual Zombie Crawl sent in by our ghoulish readers. But as you can see from the photos, there were nearly as many shutterbugs out yesterday as brain-eaters.

As we all know by now, hipsters hate the mainstream. You know what’s really mainstream? Thinking that all Zombies are unintelligent monsters obsessed with eating brains. THAT is mainstream, as well as factually incorrect of course. We know a lot of Zombie Friendly media, events and organizations that would beg to differ with that erroneous assertion, but you’ve probably never heard of them, Gothamist.

Oh well. I guess we’re all just too far ahead of our time for them to understand.

Tags: Movies, Zombie Public Event

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