Zombies Crawl into the Monroeville Mall

After a three-year hiatus, the zombies are taking over Monroeville Mall once again. 

“The Zombie Crawl in the Monroeville Mall” on Sunday, June 24, is being organized by Monroeville Zombies, the zombie themed museum and tourist attraction located in the mall. As a growing popular trend across the world, zombie walks have their roots in this mall, being the host location of several past zombie walks dating back to 2006 and breaking multiple Guinness World Records.

Participants in the all new Zombie Crawl will register in the Monroeville Zombies museum, now located inside the Funhouse Arcade in the lower level at Macy's court. The regional attraction recently moved to this larger location (from its location at the Steelers Court), which allows more space for zombie exhibits and events.

Registration and line-up begins at 10 a.m. The crawl will begin at 10:30 a.m. and will follow with games, exhibits and activities inside the Funhouse Arcade space. A zombie themed talent contest for those who can do a bit more than crawl will take place at 2 p.m. Festivities will be hosted by the cast of “The It's Alive Show”, who also sponsored the event along with Screaming Brain Studio and Funhouse Arcade.

The Monroeville Mall was the film set location of the landmark 1978 zombie horror film, “George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead” and that role in pop-culture history has deemed it to be the mecca of zombies.

The event will benefit two charities. Organizers will be collecting non-perishable food items from participants to donate to The Greater Pittsburgh Food Bank. Fundraising efforts will also be present to benefit www.FixtheChapel.com, a building in the Pittsburgh area Evans City Cemetery seen in the 1968 zombie film classic, “Night of the Living Dead”, the first in the Romero zombie film series.

“This mall was an important place in their lives,” says Monroeville Zombies President Kevin Kriess. “It's a line from the movie, but it also describes how Pittsburgh zombie fans feel about returning here for zombie walks and such. It's the reason our attraction and events are hosted here, to take local pride and celebrate Pittsburgh and Monroeville's place in pop-culture history.”

For more information, visit www.monroevillezombies.com.

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