This review of Zombie Joe’s Urban Death: Tour of Terror contains very minimal thematic and format spoilers. A deep ominous drone envelopes us as we sit inches apart in the pitch black. A nervous energy fills the air, and I hold my breath in anticipation of what might appear out of the darkness next. […]
When you picture those halcyon days of the late 80s, what comes to mind? And don’t say “those weren’t halcyon days.” Shh, go with me here, I looked the word up in a dictionary and everything. Now that that’s out of the ways, if your answer wasn’t “a Vegas-themed casino party for donors and employees […]
A frantic doctor, fire in his eyes, rushes us into his dim laboratory. The scent of incense teases my nostrils, and electricity crackles in the air. A shrouded figure lies still on a table in the darkness. We huddle around it silently, watching, waiting. A sharp gasp of breath and the figure shudders and shakes, […]
I open the glass door to Zombie Joe’s Underground Theatre on a cool Monday evening, cooler than most during springtime in North Hollywood. For once, it’s deathly quiet inside the tiny black box. There are no deafening screams to be heard, nor the moody bassline of an improvised soundtrack. There is just one man, high […]
Considering the level of insanity on display at any given Zombie Joe’s Underground Theatre production, it was to great anticipation that ZJU announced that they would be tackling one of the holiest of holidays with their F*cked Up Easter Egg Hunt. In a tiny theatre where taboo topics are rarely off-limits and full frontal nudity […]
There are few better at pushing boundaries than Zombie Joe’s Underground Theatre Group. Perhaps best known for their annual Urban Death horror show, a graphically unsettling collection of Grand Guignol terror and dark humor, the group makes it their business to deal in the more unseemly aspects of the human psyche. Their recent limited-engagement […]
As I enter the theater for 2017’s Urban Death: Tour of Terror, I see a slight woman standing in the center of the stage. She looks (surprisingly) rather beautiful: dressed in a gown that is elegant but not gaudy, and lacking the apparent ghoulishness that we expect from characters in most Zombie Joe’s Underground (ZJU) […]
This Halloween season the darkened doors of Zombie Joe’s Underground Theater Group will slowly slip open and summon guests inside to experience Urban Death: Tour of Terror. The show will run on Friday and Saturday nights, October 6th – October 28th, plus Monday October 30th and Halloween night, Tuesday October 31st. A special press and haunters performance will be held Thursday, October […]
As soon as I enter the theater, my eyes are immediately accosted with red, white, and blue. In the middle of the stage, an enormous star-spangled tarp covers a strangely-shaped mass. Streamers, flags, half fans, and just about everything else you can put flag colors on adorn every wall. The color scheme even extends to […]
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