The Zombie Emergency Defense held their second annual Zombie Dance at BackBooth to get in some "good times before the end times."
"The point of our dance is to encourage ZED members as well as zombie enthusiasts alike to come out to our dance," said Nick "Jade" Martinolich, captain of Zombie Emergency Defense. "Once they get in we kind of let them know the truth about zombies, that they're actually a very dangerous thing and that it's not just fun and games."
Martinolich said the dance serves to add flavor to the sometimes dismal reality for which ZED are preparing.
"We have a very serious message and if you're going to get in ZED it takes a lot of hard work, we're going to make it easy to digest," Martinolich said.
Doors opened at 8 p.m. last Thursday and the zombie make-up tent had a willing line down West Pine Street of those willing to join the undead for the night's festivities which included a best costume contest and a stellar performance by the five-piece hip-hop outfit, Emergency Pizza Party, debuting their zombie-themed ZED album.
"It's a concept album about Zombie Emergency Defense literally and a tribute to horror movies, B movies, '40s radio drama, a hip-hopera if you will," said MC Wrekshin of the group.
ZED member Mike Pandel said ZED inspires people and he likes to see what they produce from that inspiration.
"Get them all in the same room," Pandel said, it's kind of like youth group, they have like a fun concert, everyone goes and then you spring all this rhetoric on them about when the zombie apocalypse is going to happen because it's not 'will it happen,' it's 'when will it.'
The party unofficially started at 9 p.m., which was when Michael Jackson's "Thriller" come over the speakers and the entire club, ironically, came alive. Though it was obvious many came dressed as the undead antagonists they were expecting to lure, others decked themselves out as other cult comic creations like Howard the Duck, X-Men's Gambit and the Monarch from the Adults Swim's cartoon, the Venture Brothers.
Aleksandra Bloomer received the loudest applause from the audience during the costume contest. Her costume, Zombie Bride Mary Jane, from the Spider Man comics, consisted only of a beautiful wedding dress splattered very convincingly with fake blood.
"I love Spider Man and zombies, so Marvel Zombie equals awesome," Bloomer said after winning $100 in prize money for her costume.
And how was she planning to spend the cash?
"I'm going to pay my cell phone bill," Bloomer said.
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