Atlanta Zombie Apocalypse

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Atlanta Zombie Apocalypse, is an intense 20-minute descent into the end of the world, as we know it— and the biggest, most unique “total immersion” Halloween horror experience the city of Atlanta (or anywhere else for that matter) has ever seen.

“After I saw the facility for the first time, the idea immediately crystallized in my mind, visually. I could see a zombie movie unspooling; the whole story,” recalls makeup FX artist, multi-instrument rocker, set designer, prop-maker, performer best known to Atlantans as the irrepressible “Ghost Host With The Most” (Professor Morte of the award-winning Silver Scream Spookshow), architect of this insane zombie Armageddon and all around local legend Shane Morton.

Situated on 35 acres of land close to Hartsfield Airport, the Atlanta Zombie Apocalypse utilizes over 100,000 square feet of space including a huge, derelict two-story motel, an expansive court yard/open space, a gutted diner, convenience store and an immense truck bay. Morton’s mad vision involves over 100 zombies, two dozen soldiers, bikers, zombie strippers, lost kids, and a mad scientist you don’t want to mess with. As soon as he’d met with the Woelters, Morton called his frequent partner in creative crime, Atlanta-based filmmaker Jonathan Rej of Authority Films, who is also the co-owner, along with his wife, Gayle, of the award-winning Plaza Theatre, the city’s oldest continuously operating cinema.

“I’ve been doing the Spookshow for four years, and it wouldn’t have happened without Jonny,” Morton admits. “I’ve written 48 plays now, so I’ve got my theater chops, but Jonny’s responsible for a lot of the script and over a quarter of the gags. Sometimes I need to be reined in a bit.”

Once he saw the location, Rej says he was “blown away because of the possibilities. The place already looks like the apocalypse has hit without us needing to do anything to it. To be able to take a real place such as this truck stop, and make it a Halloween attraction is amazing. It feels real because it is real.” That said, Morton and Rej, supported by the hard work of a small, dedicated creative team headed by set designer/builder, Scotty Mominee, have taken a ripe location and pushed its potential beyond permit restrictions to create a unique movie-like experience.

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