![]() ![]() By day they take part in author readings, fashion shows, make-up demonstrations and the 'Walk Like a Zombie' acting workshop. More than 20,000 zombiephiles attend the annual convention. Bloody handprints from genre celebrities cover the Maul of Fame. Fans stream in to see rotting legs, eyeball-less faces and a red-jumpsuited Michael Jackson 'Thriller' fiend among the film props. Zombie Museum, Monroeville, Pennsylvania, USAĪ suburban Pittsburgh shopping centre might seem an odd location for the globe's foremost zombie institution, until you realise Monroeville Mall ( ) is where Dawn of the Dead - the greatest zombie flick of all time - was filmed in 1978. ![]() Outdoor specialist Trackers PDX in Portland ( /zombie-survival.php) teaches the essentials in day classes or overnight retreats so you'll be ready when hell boils over. Abilities like how to throw a hatchet, cut with a samurai sword, build smokeless fires, and camouflage a shelter in the wilderness are handy. In the zombie-swarmed post-apocalypse you're going to need a new skill set to carry on. It's hard to kill the undead because, well, they're already dead. Creative Commons Attribution licence Zombie Survival Camp, Portland, Oregon, USA The fully uncut version was finally released on DVD in 2001.'Zombie gathering' by Jim Reynolds. Most of the scenes depicting excessive gore were shortened or removed, with the tree rape scene being particularly targeted for cuts. In the end, a further 1m 6s was removed, in addition to the previous theatrical version cuts. It was not until 1990 that the film surfaced on video in the UK again, due to wrangles between the distributors and the BBFC over how much footage should be cut from a legal video release. ![]() ![]() Despite the cuts, it became one of the most notorious of the UK video nasties and was subject to many obscenity trials before being withdrawn on video in 1984, when mandatory video censorship was introduced to the UK. When originally released to theaters in Britain, the UK censors removed 49 seconds of footage including an ankle stabbing, Shelley chewing off her own hand, an eye gouging, Shelley's body being dismembered, body blows with a poker and a wooden post, and shots of blood spurts, and it was this version that was released on video originally. ![]()
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