The day before Halloween, Zombies invaded Buenos Aires. The mob assembling in Plaza San Martín, gathering momentum and numbers until they spilled out of the plaza and took over Calle Florida on their way to the Obelisco. The ‘flash mob’ was a huge success with thousands of zombies ambling around, screaming their lungs out and marching to the call of the bullhorn’s siren. The costumes ranged from a bit of white foundation with a red smear, to full on latex gaping wounds, to one man even carrying a cow’s brain in his hand all afternoon. Not only was the afternoon full of wicked amusement (including a choreographed Thriller dance), but there was a canned-food drive and a blood-drive. Photographer, Beatrice Murch, shares a selection of photos with our readers below.
Enterprising Porteños set up shop and charged a few pesos to apply make-up and effects on the spot..
Cute and Sexy Zombies pose for the camera.
Food donations were collected on-site.
Yellow zombies parade through the crowd at Plaza San Martin.
Not what Disney had in mind for the little zombie princesses.
Some people just don't appreciate a good Zombie Flash Mob. This man was arguing with the flash mob as he just wanted a nice quite Sunday afternoon in the park.
This dashing young Zombie is part of the Reynaldo family organizing the event.
The crowd of Zombies dances to Michael Jackson's Thriller in synch at Plaza San Martin.
This evil grin says it all.
Stick a fork in him Larry, he's done.
The Zombie March leaves Plaza San Martin.
The throng of thousands of Zombies clogs Calle Florida.
These Zombies, although stopped at the stop-walk, know what they want and came at their prey to get it.
The siren behind Reynaldo blares for 5 minutes and calls all the Zombies together to Diagonal Norte.
Siren's call to gather.
Unfortunately for Waldo, he was found too late.
His oxygen mask wasn't enough to save this man from decaying.
This Zombie held a cow's brain all afternoon in the heat and ended up a bit worse for wear at the end of the event.
TE FELICITO BUENOS AIRES!!!!!! ;D)
This looks amazing! I wish I could have been there!!!
This is great. Did you write the sub text? Very funny and sarcastic. Please tell me what a flash mob is.
Francine – thanks, I shot and wrote it up.
According to Wikipedia a Flash Mob is a group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, perform an unusual and sometimes seemingly pointless act for a brief time, then disperse, often for the purposes of entertainment, satire, artistic expression. Flash mobs are organized via telecommunications, social media, or viral emails.