Zombie Walk

4^th Annual Zombie Walk

Zombies everywhere come together one day a year to walk the undead walk at the 4^th Annual Omaha Zombie Walk.  This year Omaha will hold the Zombie walk on October 15^th, 2011.  The theme is Voo Doo Zombie and benefits go to the Siena Francis House - the largest Omaha shelter that provides emergency overnight shelter and food for those in need. They also operate an addiction recovery house as well.

The walk starts at 2:00 at the Waiting Room Lounge– 6212 Maple St. Omaha Ne 68104 and later features Kepi Ghoulie to perform an acoustic set for the undead.  This walk is brought to you by the NYDM Nebraska Chapter.

A zombie walk is an organized gathering of two or more people who dress, act, and participate as zombies or victims during the walk.  They usually have makeup done and limp around grunting and groaning to stay in character during the walk.  Come early and get your face painted for $3 by makeup artists.  There are a few rules to remember about the walk, which are featured below:

Rules:  For Zombies

·    If you use blood it cannot stain the sidewalks or anything else for that matter, which means no bloody handprints on the light pole or pedestrians.

·    Stay on the sidewalks and do not jaywalk.

·    Do not use profanity (you can scream for brains though, in fact it’s encouraged).

·    Do not attack anyone who is not a designated victim (more on that below).

·    Do not enter a business unless they have made it clear it is okay and that they like zombies.

·    Do not touch cars, windows, or other personal or private property.

·    Even the undead need to be law abiding citizens.  This is a no-brainer right?  (He he).

Rules:  For Victims

·    Identify yourself as a victim by placing a duct taped "X" somewhere noticeable on your clothes.

·    Once caught by a zombie (oh yes, they will catch you!) they will swarm around you and you can apply makeup or rip your clothing to become a zombie as well.

·    If you want your clothes ripped, place a starter hole in them and rip yourself.  Zombies should not be doing this in case a victim does not want his/her clothes ripped.

·    Scatter yourselves along the walk so you are not all in one place at one time.

·    Do not run into the streets or places not allowed to get away from zombies, but have fun with it and scream and yell.

So come out and join the undead while scaring all the living away.  There are zombie walks all over the country so check your city or state to see if there is a walk close to you.

How to Decorate for a Zombie Party

Zombies are all the rage this Halloween so creep into Halloween with a Zombie Party for your friends and family.  I love zombie parties for the simple fact that I don’t even need to worry about having a spotless house before the party!  Of course you can always add extra ambience with these ideas.

The invite:

Send Toe Tag invitations to all your guests a few weeks in advance outlining your gruesome night ahead.

The costume:

A zombie party is the one social occasion where the idea is to turn up looking your worst! In fact it’s advised that you throw your zombie party while having gone several days without washing or brushing your hair with wrinkled or torn clothes.

The Ambience:

Scare your guests before they have even entered your house. Use these decorations to turn your yard into a graveyard and rope off your yard with party tape and signs that say “Beware of Zombies”. 

Inside the house, more important than decoration is the scene setting.  Dim the lights, use candle lights wherever possible and low voltage or colored lights for the rest of the house.  Use a fog machine by the front door so guests feel they are entering the undead zone.

It is also a good idea to stick faces or words on your mirrors in small rooms such as the bathroom or coatroom so they see a gruesome sight as soon as they walk in.  This bloody “beware” mirror cling is a great choice.

Leave your TV on all night it on silent playing zombie films.  Keep the haunting noises going with a scary soundtrack.  Add bloody gauze as a table cover.  Serve food and drinks on it.

The drinks:

There is no better cocktail for a zombie themed party than the brain hemorrhage. This is a great visual drink that your fellow zombies will love!

1 oz. Peach Schnapps
1 tsp. Bailey's Irish Cream®
1/2 tsp. Grenadine

First, pour in the peach schnapps, and then slowly pour in the Irish Cream.  Do not mix!  The cream will clump together and settle at the bottom of the schnapps.  Pour the grenadine over the cream for a completely disgusting look, yet completely tasty drink.

Another option is adding fake eyeballs to your ice cube trays so each guest has a frozen surprise staring back at them as they drink.  Or you can add two olives to a pick and put in your martini glass so the olives look like eyes.

The food:

Zombie food is one of the easiest ones to get.   Just call for take-out and eat the delivery boy!!!

If the delivery boy doesn’t appeal to you, you can always offer a buffet of cold meats to your guests. Add “fresh flesh” signs by the buffet table. Some meats that you can use for fresh flesh are cuts of ham, smoked fish, turkey or roast beef.  For the sweet tooth, you can have trays of jello brains or ice-cream with candy worms sticking out.

Zombie Costume Ideas

Zombie Parties are becoming extremely popular as costumes are very easy to make. There’s nothing funnier than having a building full of zombies and then venturing out to town to scare the local populace!

This theme is perfect for a Sunday party after you have been to several parties over the weekend. This is the only party where you do not need to look fresh and pretty.  You are supposed to be dead and stiff in the joints and with your flesh saggy and pasty.  So you will be perfect even if you have been partying all weekend!

To pull off a zombie costume, choose from one of the following:

·         The green zombie, think Herman Munster.

·         The sexy zombie, think pin-up girl converted to zombie.  For this look you can choose your favorite dead movie star and bring her back from the dead.  You can dress sexy and just add a few zombie touches like messed up hair and gray makeup on your skin.

·         The rotting zombie. A bit more complex to achieve, you will need lots of disgusting accessories like guts, worms, grey skin, dirty clothes, and flesh falling off.

·         The ready-made zombie costume which you can get all the accessories you need at Nobbiesparties.com.

Of course, no matter what zombie type you choose, there are a few things to help give your costume that extra edge.

1.       Cover yourself in grey make up.  Go heavier under the eyes!

2.       Go over parts of the grey in green and other parts in red.

3.       Achieve the crusty look by mashing potato, dying it green and plastering your skin with it. Leave it on for ten minutes, enough for it to set and when you take it off you’ll have an awesome green flaky skin look.  You can get this same effect with latex or gel makeup.

4.       Choose your oldest and worst clothes as they’re going to get messed up! The day before your party bury your shirt in the dirt overnight.

5.       Put rips in your shirt, pants and jacket etc. If you can, make it so there’s strips hanging which look more authentic.  You could chop one leg off your pants if you wanted or a hole in the knee and put your foot through the hole.

6.       Style your hair so that it purposely looks disheveled and your hair is all messed up (or just don't wash or brush it for two days).  

7.       Wear odd shoes so you’ll have an awesome limp enforced upon you, no need to act it out.

With these tips, you should be the star of the undead with the best zombie costume for any party you attend this fall.