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Ahead of this year's Zombie Walk on October 24, organizers held a "Special Directors Cut Edition" Saturday to celebrate director George Romero—already a Toronto resident—becoming a Canadian citizen, as well as the premiere of his new film, Survival of the Dead. Several hundred zombies gathered in Alexandra Park before the walk, and there was a very un-undead-like buzz of excitement as participants fretted over their torn rags and seeping wounds in anticipation of meeting the cult director at their destination, Yonge-Dundas Square. Organizer Thea Munster warned zombies not to mutter "brains" within earshot of Romero, as his zombies do not speak. However, no one mentioned the half-dozen or so people dressed as security agents from the Umbrella Corporation (a creation of the Resident Evil franchise).

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ZOMBIES: Put on your make-up and rip off your clothes—it’s the 2008 Toronto Zombie Walk! Sponsored by the concurrent Toronto After Dark Film Festival, the walk will stumble out of Trinity-Bellwoods Park, shuffle along Queen Street to Bathurst Street, and heave up to Bloor Street, finishing in the alley behind the Bloor Cinema. Zombies will receive a discount for tonight’s festival screenings. Brain-eating mayhem continues at the Annex Wreckroom for the Zombie Walk Afterparty, featuring Misfits tribute band The Skulls, with guests The Rock Ons and The Von Drats. (No cover, but donations toward next year’s street permit gratefully accepted.) Zombie participants should meet in the pit of despair at the Dundas Street end of the park. Trinity-Bellwoods Park, 3 p.m., FREE.

The natural ebb and flow of movie releases catches us again; unlike last week, this week is swollen with films and festivals worth commenting on—not least the After Dark Film Festival, already mentioned in Urban Planner, but we'll mention it again here for good measure. But suddenly! A capsule review of Passchendaele!

Some film odds and ends: ImagineNative has announced the opening and closing night galas for their ninth annual film and media arts festival, running from October 15 to 19. The festival is to open with two films, Canadian documentary Mémère Métisse and Australian documentary River of No Return, and to close with drama Older Than America, an indictment of residential schools. The Toronto After Dark Film Festival has also announced its full line-up, with eight newly announced films—two of which (horror comedy I Sell The Dead and sci-fi Mutant Chronicles) feature Ron Perlman! Check out the full list at the After Dark website, or view their newly updated festival trailer here.

The Toronto After Dark Film Festival doesn't start at the Bloor until October 17, but they've announced eight of their films this week, perhaps as a quick spoiler for the Midnight Madness crowd revving up for this year's TIFF (starting next week). The slate includes Toronto premieres of self-explanatory titles such as Tokyo Gore Police, Repo! The Genetic Opera, and Trailer Park of Terror, and though they won't announce their complete line-up until September 24, you can already buy a festival VIP pass—which allows access to all seventeen of the festival's films—at the site for the "early bird" price of $99. Check out the festival trailer here.

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