Living dead come out to play in Spanish zombie games

As night falls in a small Spanish village, horror movie fan Noelia Vacias prepares for a night as a zombie invasion survivor, her eyes glowing white from tinted contact lenses, her arms covered in fake blood. Like the hundreds of others waiting in the park, for the next eight hours they will flee the living dead with blood dripping from their wounds to avoid being contaminated and turning into zombies themselves. “Survival Zombie” - held recently in the village of Olias del Rey, 70 kilometres (40 miles) south of Madrid - was the 22nd edition of the event in Spain since it was launched in 2012, with more and more people turning out in each town that hosts a zombie invasion. The goal of the game is for participants to stay alive until morning by avoiding getting touched by a zombie.

When you play, you are almost convinced that you are fighting to survive.

Zombie Apocalypse Game fan Pablo Lueiro, 33

A group of actors dressed as soldiers are also involved in the game, helping some players against the zombies or making it harder for others to solve the clues to survive. Some of the largest zombie games in Spain have drawn up to 3,000 participants and even involved tanks or helicopters. Diego de la Concepcion, the organiser of the “Survival Zombie” roleplaying games in Spain, said other creatures did not spark as much interest. Zombies have been in fashion since the beginning of the 2000s in the movies, literature and video games, according to Jerome-Olivier Allard, who has a doctorate in film studies from the University of Montreal in Canada and is a fan of the genre.

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