It's not just a run anymore! 
Zombie Run in conjunction with the State Theater is pleased to announce the State of the Dead Film Festival, October 28-29 at the State Theater.
We will be dedicating Friday night and Saturday evening to the zombie genré!
You may have seen Shaun of the Dead so many times that you know every line by heart, that's why we're doing this zomromcom (zombie romantic comedy) in Quote-Along.
What is a quote-along? We'll have all of your favorite lines subtitled karaoke-style so that they pop up on the screen in white seconds before the character says the line, then highlighted in yellow along with the dialog so you can yell out in your best British accent "You have red on you" or "she's so drunk!"
Stick around after the movie Friday night for the Zombie Prom party, right at the State! There will be dancing, music, and for those over 21 RBB beer, as well as other surprises! Oh and yes, we encourage everyone to dress up as ZOMBIES!
Saturday evening we will start things up again with several Zombie Shorts, including Year Zero fresh from the Tribeca Film Festival followed by Harold's Going Stiff a new zombie indie from across the pond that takes the genera to a whole new level! If you loved "Shaun" you will definitely want to see "Harold".
We will also be showing the best zombie movie ever made, George Romero's gore fest, the original 1978 Dawn of the Dead. If that's not gory enough for you, at midnight we will be showing one of the most disturbing films ever made, Peter Jackson's Dead Alive! Don't forget your cell phone because we're doing this film in Hecklevision! You text it we project it!
Happy Halloween Zombies!
All proceeds from this event will go to support the STATE THEATER!
Zombie Feature Films
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
 It's some time after the dead have started to rise and attack the shocked living, and civilization has started to crumble. In the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, TV station workers Stephen and Francine decide to run as the situation worsens. After meeting Roger and Peter (two special policemen ordered to move any people into rescue stations), who have also chosen to run, they steal the station's helicopter and fly west in an attempt to find a safe place. After several attempts during their flight across Pennsylvania, they find a deserted mega-mall in Monroeville, outside Pittsburgh and decide to wait there until the crisis is over. They clear the mall of the undead and board the entrances up with tractor-trailers and then sit down and wait. Can they hold out, not only against the growing, moaning, and hungry masses of the undead outside, against murderous looters, but most importantly of all, can they hold out and not lose their sanity...?
Director/Writer: George A. Romero
Harold's Going Stiff (2011)
 Harold (Stan Rowe) is an old-age pensioner, suffering from O.R.D., or the onset of rigor disease. He can't get out and about as much, and he's getting forgetful. Then there's the stiffness. He can't even touch his nose. What is the ultimate effect of O.R.D.? Well, it turns you... into a zombie. And it's affecting more and more UK males. Enter Penny, (Sarah Spencer) a cheerful, dedicated but lonely nurse, as his care helper. She'll engage in therapy with him, to delay the disease's effects. However, during the onset of the disease's later stages, loss of mental faculties and violent behavior is inevitable. Already there have been reports of attacks, which prompt a trio of baseball bat wielding vigilantes to patrol the area, taking down any errant zombie they happen to find. Meanwhile, Harold is still getting by, and starting a tentative friendship with Penny. Will a cure be found? Or will Harold have to be taken out like so many before him?
Director/Writer: Keith Wright
Dead Alive (1992)
 Lionel, a Mama's boy, has the unwanted honor of having to look after his overbearingly evil mother. He ends up falling in love with a local woman, who believes that they're destined to be together. In a moment of intentional sabotage of one of their dates, his mother is bitten by a mysterious creature that ends up zombifying her. It's only a matter of time before she rises from the dead as a powerful, bloodthirsty zombie. She then starts infecting residents of the town and Lionel has to stop her... and them.
Director: Peter Jackson
Shaun of the Dead (2004)
 A man decides to turn his moribund life around by winning back his ex-girlfriend, reconciling his relationship with his mother, and dealing with an entire community that has returned from the dead to eat the living.
Director: Edgar Wright
Zombie Short Films
Year Zero (2010)
 Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 24:00
A month after a parasitic epidemic takes Manhattan; a loner is trapped in his apartment, no less by his fear of the end-of -days, than by the two zombies pounding at his door. Year Zero is an animated film about one man's struggle to let go of the past, during the onset of a zombie apocalypse in New York City.
Director and writer: Richard Cunningham III
No Candles (2011)
 Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 11:43
An official Lost Zombie short film that documents the great acts of horror and heroism that exist at the frayed ends of survival.
Director: Skot Leach
Alice Jacobs is Dead (2009)
 Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 24:00
Dr. Ben Jacobs saved the world. The drug he created allowed mankind to fight against the Z-virus, which nearly destroyed civilization entirely. Now, in the aftermath of the crisis, he's trying to cure the last victim of the virus. But what will happen when he brings his mysterious work home?
Director/Writer: Alex Horwitz
Stars: John Lazar, Adrienne Barbeau and Peter Cambor
Night of the Little Dead (2011)
 Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 11:00
"Night of the Little Dead" takes the viewer on a journey to Sadie & Sadie’s Grub and Grub
In Oconomowoc, WI where residents try to survive and fight off zombie little people.
Directors: Frank Ippolito, Ezekiel Zabrowski
Zombies and Cigarettes (2009)
 Country: Spain
Language: Spanish with English subtitles
Also known as: Ta zombie den einai kapnistes
Runtime: 17:36
A virus has been set loose in a Spanish shopping mall and it's turning everyone into flesh eating zombies. Our hero is trying to get out alive and at the same time impressing the girl he likes and finding a cure.
Directors: Rafael Martinez, Inaki San Roman
Writers: Inaki San RomanStars: Samuel Viyuela Gonzalez, Aroa Gimeno and Javier Rios
Cabine of the Dead (2010)
 Country: France
Language: French
Runtime: 10:00
Patrick, an ordinary man about thirty years old, gets stuck in a phone booth, the night when the dead return to life... While struggling with zombies, he decides to call his close relations to ask for help
Director/Writer: Vincent Templement
Stars: Alain Brunel, Clement Chebli and Bernard Cormerais
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