Press for the Philly Zombie Crawl

The day that dawned with prayer was to end with an antithetical event: the Philly Zombie Crawl.
The Philadelphia Inquirer, 2009

Skip Easter dinner with the family, dress up like the undead, and join the Philly Zombie Crawl.
Philly Zombie Crawl is listed as one of the "103 Things You Should Do in Philly Before You Die" in the Philadelphia Weekly 2008 Summer guide.

Forget jellybeans and chocolate rabbits. What you want to eat this weekend is brains.
Phillylist.com, 2008

What's Boston got on this? Sad to say the city founded by Puritans has no shamble, just a pedestrian observation of Christendom's highest holiday. Zzzzzzz without suffixed "ombies" bores me to the grave. Philly takes the Thriller crown on this one.
Bostodelphia - Boston vs. Philadelphia 2008 Round 5: On Easter Sunday...

Philly's zombie crawl scene exploded into existence last year. Then it died. And then it came back to life again. Just like Jesus. But with more brain-eating. It's shaping up to be as much of a tradition as the South Street Easter parade. Except not lame.
Philadelphia Weekely - A-List, 2008

Robert Drake takes Easter morbidity to a deliciously new level with the third annual Philly Zombie Crawl. Along with co-founders Melissa Torre and Dave Ghoul, he'll lead hundreds of undead on a South Street bar infestation in honor of the zombie of all zombies, Jesus Christ. Hallelujah.
City Paper - Agenda, 2008

If you can't possibly understand what a Zombie Crawl could be, just stay home, for your own good.
Phillymag.com - Impresario, 2008

For some, Easter Sunday evokes images of creepy pink bunnies, overdressed family gatherings and inexplicably addictive Peeps. Now, thanks to the efforts of the Tattooed Mom crew, Easter Sunday also means roaming packs of inebriated zombies.
City Paper - This Week In Eats, 2007

The event was inspired by a similar event we attended, the Philly Zombie Crawl, and a love of all things undead. After the Philly Crawl I was still craving brains and did some research online.seeing that NYC did not have anything like that going on (and being from NY) I figured we'd get everyone to "bring out their dead"!
KillerReview.com interview with Doug Sakmann (Troma Films and Punk Rock Holocaust), 2007

Did you know that on Easter Sunday hundreds of thousands of seemingly sane Philadelphians will celebrate the execution and resurrection of a zombie god king called Jesus? That's the amazing fact uncovered by the organizers of Philadelphia's first ever undead-themed pub crawl-a blasphemous conceit for which they'll surely burn in hell.
Philadelphia Weekly - A-List, 2006

What to do on Easter Sunday if you crave Pabst Blue Ribbon more than pastel ribbons? Join the other undead on a Philly-wide pub crawl.
City Paper - City Week: Mixpicks, 2006

Press for the philly Zombie Prom

Oh yeah, and try not to get too drunk at the event -- who knows what ghoulish creature you may wake up next to.
Jordan Baumeister - NBC 10 Around Town, 2009

No matter what kind of music you’re into, the Prom won’t disappoint. If you want to dance there will be a few DJs to help you get your Thriller on. If you want to rock, Live Not On Evil and The Young Werewolves will be happy to oblige.
Torin Sweeney - Examiner.com, 2009

What more could a couple of living dead lovebirds ask for?
City Paper - Agenda Picks, 2009

How do you improve on the American institution that is the high-school prom? Why you add the living dead, of course.
Geekadelphia.com, 2009

Twilight madness aside, it’s fair to say the whole vampire thing is dying down (pun intended). Now zombies—here’s something to get excited about.
Philadelphia Weekly - Events, 2009

Of course, it would rain on Zombie Prom. It rained on zombie homecoming and zombie spring fling too. Man, what is up with this school, it's like the zombie seniors are cursed.
Johnny Zito - ComicMix interview at the Philly Zombie Prom, 2008

Nothing's more horrifying than memories of prom. Haunting us years later like an overachieving poltergeist, no one can forget the corsages, the poofy dresses, the tuxes that never fit. In honor of the quintessential pinnacle of senior high, the Philly Zombie Prom plays on old fears with a twist of bloody glitz and glamour.
City Paper - Agenda Picks, 2008

I feel a Philly tradition in the making-one that won't end until we've strangled the last baby boomer with the guts of the second-to-last baby boomer. And then eaten them.
Philadelphia Weekly - Editor's Picks, 2008

It's the morning after the Philly Zombie Crawl Zombie Prom and Joe Flyblown wakes up confused, his head throbbing something rotten. "Urgh?" He tries to draw upon the power of every brain he's ever eaten to figure whose mausoleum he's rising from the dead in.
Philadelphia Weekly - A-List, 2007

Depending upon what year you graduated from high school, you may already have the perfect outfit for Zombie Prom. The creators of Philly Zombie Crawl - the Easter bar crawl in honor of history's most famous zombie - are hosting this new brainy bash in response to Philly zombie enthusiasm.
City Paper - Agenda Picks, 2007

Press for the Philly Zombie Beach Party

TONITE: I Walked With A Zombie : 2009 Phawker interviw with PhillyZombieCrawl.com Co-Organizer Robert Drake.

You can act like Scott from the Austin Powers movies and dance to Bauhaus like it’s 1983 and that actually means something.
Philebrity, 2009

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Here in the US, several cities have zombie pub crawls on Easter Sunday. It's pretty self-explanatory. People dress up like zombies and stagger on their way to the next bar. The hard part is telling the actors from the drunks, since they're both seemingly in character.
Michael Miller, Philadelphia - 'Zombies' bear down on Brisbane (BBC)

City of the Living Dead : A 2005 interviw with PhillyZombieCrawl.com Co-Organizer Dave Ghoul.