The Alamo Lake Creek was the proud host of two sold out crowds on the closing night of Dismember the Alamo. One for the Zombie Shorts Program and one for the Texas premiere of Dead Snow. This is exceptionally good news because we know every place in town had something going on for Halloween night. It is comforting to know that there are that many loyal zombie fans ! For Dead Snow there were even German soldier zombies in attendance!

The shorts screening was as fun as ever with cheers, laughter and plenty of audible “what the…” at all the right moments. After an impromptu costume contest the awards were announced. The winner, BY ONE VOTE, of the Audience award went to Andrew Reyes for his short Absinthe Makes the Dead Live Longer! Third place was awarded to Tom Martino for his bizzare film Race War. Second place went to Joe Nicolosi for his short about Twitter during the outbreaks #Zombies. And first place went to a animated short that was made using overhead projectors: David King’s ZZZZombies all the way from Edinburgh, UK!

Thank you to EVERYONE who took the time to submit a short. Please be thinking of your zombie short for next year starting … now!

The festival is over but please do keep on eye on this site as we hope to continue to bring you great zombie news throughout the year!

Playing Left4Dead in the lobby last night was SUCH a blast. Communicating with total strangers on the earpieces and coordinating to meet in the Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek manager’s office to stand off against the undead with actual Alamo Lake Creek managers was quite the experience. Night of the Comet delivered what it promised, valley girls with guns and plenty of frizzy hair. PKWProductions entertained an enthralled crowd with arias, spooky classical pieces, original compositions and the theme songs from Twilight Zone and Twin Peaks, which we still can’t get out of our heads.

Tonight we screen a Canadian zombie movie centered around radio transmissions called Pontypool. This has only previously screened at SXSW in Texas so we are thrilled to give it another chance to grace the silver screen. Get your advance tickets HERE. We close tonight with two features crammed into 2 hours along with all sorts of other extras via Horror Remix. This will be the first time that the creator of Horror Remix –EJ- will be able to see his creation at an Alamo Drafthouse! Also-, word on the street is that this is the first time you can purchase Horror Remix t-shirts! Get your advance tickets HERE!

Check out the next GREAT round of photos from Sunday’s zombie walk taken by the wonderful Brent LaVelle. See his whole gallerty HERE !

Pictures and video are still rolling in from the big Zombie Walk we hosted in Austin this past Sunday! Re-living the walk is really getting us excited about the first round of movies that kick off TONIGHT at the Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek. To see more pictures from the above photo set click HERE!

Check out what the Austin Onion has to say about Night of the Comet (7pm) :

"Apparently released to capitalize on Halley’s Comet-mania, 1984 cult classic Night Of The Comet pits valley girls against the undead when Earth passes through the tail of a comet that reduces most of the population to either a pile of red dust or a cannibalistic zombie. Sisters Sam and Reggie survive thanks to their Army-brat upbringing—which imparted an impressive knowledge of assault weapons—coming to terms with the end of civilization by raiding the mall, while avoiding the government agents out to harvest their blood for an antidote. The comet gets all the titular credit, but it's the zombies that are of interest here, as this screening kicks off the Alamo Lake Creek’s annual festival of the living dead, Dismember The Alamo."

Read more HERE!
Get your advance tickets HERE!

Check out what the Austin Onion has to say about our Music and a Movie screening of Night of the Living Dead (10pm) on glorious 35mm:

"Rising from Pittsburgh as the '60s boiled over, George Romero’s zombie classic Night Of The Living Dead took the notion of a world turned upside down to its visceral extreme. As if overturned accepted notions seep down to a biological level, the dead prey on the living without hesitation, a low-fi shock the film’s many imitators (even its fine sequels) haven't dulled. Shot in creepy black and white, the film’s technical proficiency is remarkable considering the production team’s lack of previous feature experience and budgetary constraints. A stock musical score (shared with more dubious drive-in titles like The Killer Shrews) was one result of those constraints—a disservice partially undone by this entry in composer P. Kellach Waddle's "Music And A Movie" series."

Read the whole thing HERE!
Get your advance tickets to this one of a kind DtA event HERE.

The above pictures are from long time zombie walk documentor Bill Jones. See ALL of his pics from the big day HERE.

We are pleased to announce the selected films for this years shorts program!

See the following for free in at the Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek on Saturday at 7 for the official screening. Here, we will announce 1st, 2nd and 3rd place as well as an audience award. The films will also be shown in Houston at the Alamo Drafthouse West Oaks on Saturday at 7:30. No awards will be given at this screening. To reserve a seat to either screening with a $5 food and drink voucher visit the links above.

Here we go, in no particular order:

* Absinthe Makes the Dead live Longer! - Andrew Reyes

* Case File ZA2 - Adam Cagley

* Rove - Scott McWhirter

* When Zombies Attack PSA #4 : the Temptation of Firearms - Craig Ouellette

* Race War - Tom Martino

* Zombie a Go-Go - Don Swaynos

* The NightLight Zone 7: Alien Zombie Killer - Anderson Brice Morris

* The Morning After - Matt Sigers

* Untitled Tape - Mario Restive

* Death of Fame: The Story of Robert Deadford - Ali Naqvi

* It Ain't Easy Being a Zombie - Jared Liebowich

* Zombie Dad - David Ward

* #Zombies - Joe Nicolosi

* Darla of the Dead - Paige Suth

* Gay Zombie - Aaron Frank

* ZZZZombies - David King

Congratulations to everyone who got accepted and thank you to everyone who took the time and effort to enter. We had such a great time watching the fantastic undead short stories you came up. Please believe us when we say how hard of a call it was but due to time restrictions we had to go with the above list.

The shorts screenings are notoriously the most packed and the most fun screenings at the festival so be sure to reserve your seats now.

Stay tuned for more updates!

(Photo credit )

Thank you to everyone who came out and participated in yesterday’s zombie walk! As far as we can tell this was the best and largest crowd yet! The outfits were out of this world this year, the zombie marching band made a triumphant return and did an excellent job of leading our lurch to the capitol steps. There was a zombie dog, zombie children and just when this sentence was getting a tad too wholesome this happens: a zombie pervert flasher with a severed member.

Here is some early footage from man on the street Andrew who runs a great blog called The Dalmatian Reputation . Check it out for plenty of great pictures of the mayhem including what debauchery went down afterwards at the always gracious Club DeVille.



More coverage on the way…

(photo credit: Emily Gross)

In this country, the law provides equal protection for every man, woman, and child.  These inalienable rights have been a point of pride for us as Americans.  But, for far too long now, the rights of one particular minority group have been overlooked.  Universally reviled and discriminated against, this group has not been afforded the liberties that others take for granted.  The right to marry, the right to vote, the right to bear arms; the most fundamental tenets of our society have all been denied based on a culture of fear and ignorance.  

It’s high time that the powers-that-be heed our cries for justice as we march to the capitol in support of EQUAL RIGHTS FOR THE UNDEAD!  On Sunday, October 25th at 5pm, we will gather the undead masses at the teacher’s retirement system parking lot on 10th and Red River to stage a lurch through downtown and straight to the steps of the capitol building.  No crowbar to the head or shotgun blast to the face can stop us from making our position known.  Our unearthly moans and ravenous cries for brains will be heard!  

All zombies shall converge at 10th and Red River at 5pm on Sunday geared up and ready to march.  Creative signage and dress is encouraged.  Stick around afterwards for a zombie happy hour at Club Deville.  Giveaways from Alamo Drafthouse Cinema and Mansion of Terror will be available while supplies last.  

ATTENTION zombie comic heads. One of your favorite zombie comics is heading to the silver screen. Variety has announced that American Movie Classics has picked up The Walking Dead comics to be developed into a weekly series. AMC has tapped Writer/Director Frank Darabont (The Green Mile, The Shawshank Redemption) for his experience with both the horror genre and human drama, which should be interesting. With the original comic content, and a talented Writer/Director - The Walking Dead is in good hands.
When asked about the new project Joel Stillerman, AMC’s Senior VP explained

“This is not about zombies popping out of closets,” Stillerman said. “This is a story about survival, and the dynamics of what happens when a group is forced to survive under these circumstances. The world (in ‘Walking Dead’) is portrayed in a smart, sophisticated way.”


Thanks to the Zombie Reporting Center for the tip off!
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Less than a week to go for this year’s annual zombie walk. If you aren’t in Austin- bug your zombie loving friends and family who might be willing to ruin an article of clothing or two with fake blood. Click HERE for more details... See you at 5 on Red River!

A day of reckoning is slowing shambling its way toward us. A zombie attack is eminent and zombie killers all over the world are gearing up. Even law enforcement is taking the zombie invasion seriously.
LETargets.com is selling targets with zombies on them so you no longer have to use your imagination at the shooting range.

“Targeting for a Safer America” is more than just a corporate slogan at Law Enforcement Targets, Inc. The 2X3 foot ghoulish targets come in five different Zombie characters: Jimmy the Outdoorsman, Becky the Bridesmaid/Prom Date, Roxie the Party Girl, and Hans and Frans the Axis undead Commander and Foot Soldier! LET seems to have everything a zombie killer or officer needs to be fully trained for the next raising for the dead, which is soon to come: The Third Annual Dismember the Alamo Zombie Film Festival at the Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek kicks off October 29th with two great zombie flicks per night thru the whole weekend! Check out the full lineup for the festival HERE!

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Thanks to everyone who has submitted their short zombie films! We will notify everyone soon as to the results! The screening for the shorts will be held on Halloween (October 31st) and if you have ever attended these in the past you know how fun they are!

Also- join us at the Teacher’s Retirement System parking lot on 10th and Red River (1000 Red River St, Austin, TX) at 5pm on October 25th for a good ol' fashioned zombie walk! Get your zombie get-up together and prepare to join the undead masses as we lurch towards the capitol. Creative signage and zombie attire is encouraged! 

Please do pass along this information to your zombie movie loving friends and family. 

If you have any questions about the festival, just send us an e-mail at : alamozombiefest@gmail.com .

It's that time of year again, the time where we must remind the world that it is not Decepticons, Terminators, or sparkling vampires that frighten the world. It is mindless, bloodthirsty zombies! Yes, that means it's time to begin preparing for the Alamo Drafthouse's weekend of celebrating all things undead, infected, and zombified - the third annual Dismember the Alamo Zombie Film Festival at the Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek.

In addition to all sorts of Dismember the Alamo gear, cash prizes this year are $300, $150, an $75 respectively for 1st 2nd and 3rd place.

The deadline for submissions to be postmarked is October 13th. All entrants will be notified of their acceptance shortly there after. The screening for the shorts will be held on halloween (October 31st) and if you have ever attended these in the past you know how fun they are!

The only rules are that the films have to contain at least one zombie and be ten minutes or less!

Without further ado, download the submission form .PDF HERE!

Please do pass along this information to your zombie movie loving friends
and family.

If you have any questions about the festival, just send us an e-mail at
alamozombiefest@gmail.com.

See you the last week of October!

CHEERS!
the DtA team

We've finally crawled out of our underground bunkers surprised to see the world hasn't been overtaken by the Swine/Zombie pandemic as we were promised just a few weeks ago. Needless to say, there was much disappointment.


We've been watching the development of an awesome site called Lost Zombies for quite some time now. Lost Zombies is a community based website that collects all our zombie photos, videos and personal experiences with ultimate goal of producing the world's first community generated zombie documentary.

With over 14 hours of footage collected so far, it's only a matter of time before this site really takes off.

Capcom brings us a new trailer for Dead Rising 2, the sequel to the zombie slasher game they released back in 2006. The new game takes place in an undead infested Las Vegas and our hero is now equipped with enough chainsaws and chainsaw motorcycles (yes this is as awesome as it sounds) to keep us interested in the games development.

Set for release in 2010, this trailer is good enough to hold us over until then.

It's been a big week of zombie news in the web. First of all some responsible citizens here in Austin valiantly attempted to increase public awareness of the imminent zombie uprising by hijacking a local construction sign:



In case you're having trouble reading what the sign says, here are it's messages:

"CAUTION! ZOMBIES! AHEAD!!!" "RUN FOR COLD CLIMATES" "THE END IS NEAR!!!!!!!!"

Earlier this week our favorite Sci-Fi Blog io9 posted an amazing piece of concept art for Max Brooks' upcoming zombie epic, World War Z:
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Head over to the io9 page to see the full rez version.

And finally, for those of you who have read through all Brooks' books and need some new zombie fiction, here's Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. This is an actual book that features the original text of Jane Austen's beloved novel with all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie action. If only someone would update all classical literature with undead hoards.



-DtA

Who would have thought Metallica would ever produce something cool again? Well, surprising us, they created the best zombie music videos since Chromeo's Fancy Footwork. Metalica's video is equal parts Michael Jackson's Thriller and Pearl Jam's Do The Evolution. We recommend turning you speakers down and enjoying the creepy story without the stinging sounds of outdated metal.

Soviet War Zombies:



-DtA

Sometimes (rarely) we stop watching zombie flicks long enough to pick up a game controller, and when we do the only games that satisfy our desire for fantastic gameplay mixed with an immersive story are those by the game publisher Valve. Valve, based in California, is most known for the Half Life and Portal series, and a few months ago they announced they were completing development on a new zombie survival game, titled Left 4 Dead.



Left 4 Dead is a fist person shooter that follows a group of four survivors as they battle their way out of an zombie infested city.You can play it alone, but for survival's sake Valve recommends playing with as many friends as you can fit on a couch. So does the game deliver on the premise and the reputation of the company? In a word... oodles.



It's worth it. It's worth the time and the money--any investemnt you make in this game will pay dividends. Four people playing this together is an experience of exciting zombie survival that can only be matched if the undead were to break into your living room while you and your friends were sharpening your machetes.



If you're reading this blog, you've probably already mentally assembled your zombie survival squad. Call those people up, buy the game and get some practice in.

When z-day finally comes, you'll be glad you did.

Dismember the Alamo t-shirts - $18
custom designed, front and back printed, American Apparel shirts for this year's event.

click here to visit our shopping cart for our 2008 DtA shirt.


Dismember Zombie Survival Pints - $5
custom designed, 2 color, 9" wrap around style with Zombie Survival Tips on one side
click here to visit our shopping cart for our DtA Zombie Survival Pint.


Dismember Posters - $8
custom designed, professionally screen-printed, artist-signed

click here to visit our shopping cart for our DtA Zombie Survival Pint.

Max Brooks wasn't the only one impressed with our Zombie Short Flim Competition, everyone in the office was blown away by the quality of the submissions for this years fest. Narrowing it down to a screenings worth of films was hard enough, picking our favorite three proved exceptionally difficult.

Here are the winners of this years Dismember the Alamo Zombie Film Festival Shorts:


Third Place: Chainsaw Maid
directed by: Takena Nagao

Second Place: Necropolis Reborn
directed by: Garrett White

First Place: The End of the World Party
directed by: Logen Strobel

And finally, here's is the winner of our audience award. Given to the film that received the most votes by the people in the audience.

The Audience Award goes to Blood Money
directed by: Owen, Ernest, Aidan and Ben

A million blood-soaked thanks to everyone who entered this year and to everyone who came out and made this year's Dismember the Alamo a total success. We'll be working hard to bring you an even better festival next year, so stay tuned.

-The Dismember the Alamo Team

Our brains were blown away by all the submissions we got this year. We saw Zombies and zombie films of all shapes and sizes and from all over the world. Although we'd love to screen them all for you this weekend we had to whittle our program down to a more realistic 80-minutes. This will be the scariest, funniest, bloodiest, most undead 80 minutes in Lake Creek history, so don't miss it.

The FREE screening will take place on October 24th at 7:00pm at the Alamo Lake Creek. You can reserve a seat by buying a $5 food voucher, here.

Here is the list of the short films accepted to the DtA 2008 Zombie short contest. The films are in not in screening order.


Zero Hour
End of the World Party
Conjured
Episode #247
Necropolis Reborn
Zombie Gets a Date
Roam
Chainsaw Maid
When Zombies Attack PSA #5
Blood Money
Bits
Unicycle Bastards Kick Zombie Ass
You Should Watch This


The contest winners will be announced the night of the screening and everyone watching will get to vote for what they thought the best film of the night was.

Again, you can reserve a seat to the screen by clicking here.

Here's a zombie gallery from Erin Hanson:



And here's a gallery from Senor Jose:


And a short video:
Austin Zombie Walk 2008

Got pictures? Send them over to alamozombiefest@gmail.com

Click for tickets or info:
BioZombie - Zombi 2 - Max Brooks - Horror Remix - Zombie Shorts
Shaun of the Dead

The Alamo would like to extend a thanks to everyone who made it out to our zombie walk yesterday and helped make it the best lurch yet. We had a huge turnout with some really creative zombies.
An extra thanks goes out to Bill Jones, who took some breathtaking photos at this years Austin Zombie Walk. Below are just a few, you can see his whole gallery here.






If you or someone you know took photos or video from this years walk, send an e-mail over to AlamoZombieFest@gmail.com and we'll post a link to the gallery from our zombie walk page.

Just a reminder, tickets are online for our Zombie films and Events this weekend up at the Alamo Lake Creek. For the free screenings you can purchase a food voucher that saves your seat.

Click for tickets or info:
BioZombie - Zombi 2 - Max Brooks - Horror Remix - Zombie Shorts
Shaun of the Dead