NEVER mind bringing out your dead. Sunday morning is the chance to bring out the undead in you by taking part as an extra in the latest instalment of Zomblogalypse, the new comedy-horror web series recorded on York’s streets.

“We’ll be filming a major scene from Zomblog on Sunday (January 18) from 8am to 11am outside City Screen, involving lots of zombies,” says Miles Watts, York film-maker and producer of Miles To Go Productions.

Miles, his fellow City Screen staff member Tony Hipwell and their fellow zombie movie enthusiast Hannah Bungard have launched the website at zomblogalypse.com to show a series of monthly episodes featuring an ever-growing cast of zombies.

“It’s our latest no-budget project, this time about what happens in York after a zombie apocalypse,” says Miles.

He has already directed the feature-length film The BandWagons, starring York singer-songwriter Hayley Hutchinson, and established Hum-Drum Films with Ryan de Koning and Finn Riley to make a series of short films.

“In the York film scene, we make all our films for virtually nothing and it’s this lack of funds which has made us even more determined and resourceful. Last year, three of our Hum-Drum shorts were accepted into film festivals.”

The zombie project came into focus when Miles began prepping his next film, CrimeFighters. “We’re trying to get the money together as The Bandwagons took a year, and so we wanted to do something else while prepping it as I hate not doing things.

“So we decided to do something that would be easy to do and fun to do, something that we could do while hanging around doing other stuff.

“We decided it should be something to do with zombies as Tony and I both love zombies and someone had said ‘You’re not a good director until you’ve done a zombie movie’. But there are so many zombie movies, we thought, ‘How do we do something original?’, and that’s why we’re doing the zombie blog.”

Tony had worked previously with Hannah – they had been students together at York St John University – and Miles had “really liked their work”, so Hannah came on board and Zomblogalypse was born. “The great thing about blogs is that you can just get them out there, as we wanted to have total control over it and put stuff out there regularly and quickly.”

Now comes Zombie Sunday, your chance to be dead good at being undead.

•For more details on Zomblogalypse, visit the event page on facebook.