Hide Your Brains! Zombiecon Returns Tomorrow

The zombie protesters last year had nothing to do with Occupy Wall Street (Jim Kiernan's flickr).

Can you not wait until the premiere of The Walking Dead on Sunday? Free finger-filled cupcakes not enough to quench your thirst for brains? Never fear! Tomorrow one of our favorite annual events returns with the seventh annual Zombiecon! This year's theme? "A Game of Brains" so get ready to get wasted with the undead, because a Zombie winter is coming!

This year's brain-eating festivities start at the Slaughtered Lamb in the West Village (182 West 4th Street) at 1 p.m. for Bloody Marys and some serious zombification before hitting the road at 3 p.m. After that they'll be moving around and devouring the city (you can follow them @zombieconnyc), so don't forget to bring your ID and MetroCard.

As for what kind of zombie costumes they're looking for this year? They're thinking "Undead Couture, Rotting Kings and Queens, Knights and Maidens, Gore, Brains… Or go Medi-Evil however you wish… arggggghhh."

And please? If you see some zombies on the street, don't be afraid! Zombies are easily distracted by cameraphones, so just take yours out and snap a few photos for us. You can either send them to photos@gothamist.com or tag them 'Gothamist' on flickr!

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By Garth Johnston in Arts & Entertainment on October 14, 2011 4:51 PM

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smalll

Can someone explain to me why zombies and vampires are so popular these days? I mean, as opposed to things like ghosts or elves or something else slightly more plausible?

Also, that girl in the middle - she may possibly have an awkwardly wide body (or perhaps her clothes don't fit her well) - but doesn't she have a really strikingly beautiful face?

matteus

There are ghosts too, for instance in True Blood which has Vampires, Werewolves, Witches, Fairies, Ghosts, Shapeshifters and Panthers. I think "Abject" is the common denominator. Basically, reflecting on something that once was alive but is now dead/unreal allows us to confront our own mortality: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.... "Powers of Horror" by Julia Kristeva is a good read.

Sociologically, I blame the growing disconnection caused by the Internet and the banality of reality TV shows for the rising interest in these alternate worlds.