Since its inception back in 2011, the annual Colchester Invasion has become something of a must attend event, and this year's which will be held on Saturday 6th September is looking like being the biggest and best one yet!
Organised by Kerrie Williams, who being the owner of the local Ace Comics shop knows a thing or two about super heroes and costumed characters, this year's invaders include Freddy Kreuger, Judge Dredd, Buffy Summers, Batman, a squadron of Stormtroopers, a troupe of Ghostbusters, Vikings, Zombies and even the Stay Puft Marshmallow who will be towering over Ace Comics to help celebrate the film's 30th anniversary.
Throughout the day there will be plenty of photo opportunities for fans, both with the human (and alien) characters and the impressive vehicles that will be on show, including the Dukes of Hazzard and Starsky and Hutch cars. Make up artist extraordinaire Clive Double will be...
Organised by Kerrie Williams, who being the owner of the local Ace Comics shop knows a thing or two about super heroes and costumed characters, this year's invaders include Freddy Kreuger, Judge Dredd, Buffy Summers, Batman, a squadron of Stormtroopers, a troupe of Ghostbusters, Vikings, Zombies and even the Stay Puft Marshmallow who will be towering over Ace Comics to help celebrate the film's 30th anniversary.
Throughout the day there will be plenty of photo opportunities for fans, both with the human (and alien) characters and the impressive vehicles that will be on show, including the Dukes of Hazzard and Starsky and Hutch cars. Make up artist extraordinaire Clive Double will be...
- 8/20/2014
- Shadowlocked
On a chilly Wednesday morning at the beginning of April the walking dead invaded Colchester Castle with a vengeance. Not only was the professionally made up zombie army of Castle Zombie organisers Silent Studios in full effect, but we were treated to the first appearance in the UK of any of the cast of The Walking Dead, AMC's ridiculously successful undead show based on Robert Kirkman's decade old comic book.
Fittingly the star guests were themselves walkers on the show, with Michelle Flanagan-Helmeczy having portrayed a myriad of zombies in all three seasons, and Mike Mundy achieving immortality by featuring in the very opening shot of season three as the camera pulls back from his eye, a move reprised in the season’s finale with the Governor's eye.
Thanks to a renovation program, the castle itself is as empty and authentic as it was hundreds of years ago, all...
Fittingly the star guests were themselves walkers on the show, with Michelle Flanagan-Helmeczy having portrayed a myriad of zombies in all three seasons, and Mike Mundy achieving immortality by featuring in the very opening shot of season three as the camera pulls back from his eye, a move reprised in the season’s finale with the Governor's eye.
Thanks to a renovation program, the castle itself is as empty and authentic as it was hundreds of years ago, all...
- 4/17/2013
- Shadowlocked
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