He pawned the lens of his DVX100 video camera and also his car and raised enough money to rent the 14th Street Playhouse for a few nights, where he performed a one-man show he’d been writing for ten years, called IronE. He could not even get an agent, halfway into his thirties. He grew up in the Perry Homes housing project in Atlanta, had studied theater at UGA.
He came home after a few months of getting nowhere and opened a costume shop in Dallas, Georgia, and then worked at a Subway, and then as the mascot with the huge baseball head at Atlanta Braves games. a few years ago dreaming to make it big, but he did not. At Zombie School, she learned how to walk like a zombie, to moan like one, to hold her arms like one, to maneuver her mouth like one, to see as a zombie sees, with a lack of depth perception she even learned how to think like a zombie, too-which is to say, to not think at all. White, who lives near Midtown, had worked at Six Flags and was also a dancer and a contortionist and a model. People get it here.”īefore the first season began filming last year, a woman named Rachelle White went to AMC’s Zombie School. The creative people who live here are obsessed with the dark side of things. There are just a lot of independent filmmakers here, and a lot of fans. “DragonCon is huge we show a lot of splatter theater at the Plaza the Buried Alive Film Fest, it’s just starting to take off the Drive-In has the Monster Bash every year. “Zombies are so popular here because there’s a huge horror film contingency, for whatever reason,” says Jonathan Rej, who owns the Plaza Theatre and helps run the Atlanta Zombie Apocalypse. Around ninety people heard Emory and Tech professors and zombie cultural enthusiasts yak it up about zombie economies (financial institutions that are “dead, but don’t know it”), zombie insects, the history of zombies in Haiti. This turned out to be a panel discussion at the Clary Theatre at Georgia Tech, a film festival at the Plaza Theatre, and a late-night dance/“Zombie Transformation Chamber” at the Graveyard Tavern.
A couple years ago, a local artist named Stan Woodard raised about $5,000 to host, for his own edification, what he called the Atlanta Zombie Symposium. In 2010 there were more than 1,000 walkers. Not only do we claim The Walking Dead, but for the past few years, every September, people in costume march from Downtown to Oakland Cemetery as part of the Zombie Walk Atlanta. Never.”Ītlanta is the zombie capital of the world. They would never, for instance, shut down a freeway in L.A.
The people here are friendly and accommodating. The people here have been more cooperative than most other places.
“Last night, for instance, we shut down a state highway for the third time this season. “We’ve gotten great cooperation from the city,” Melton says.
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