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You've got a guy for hard-to-find tickets and dependable event details. The Annual Philly Zombie Crawl is a Philadelphia institution that began in 2006 as a small Easter Sunday crawl along South Street, organized by Philly Zombie Presents under coordinator Robert Drake. Over the years, it has grown into a city-wide celebration featuring makeup artists at participating bars, zombie packs with a unified theme, a lively zombie parade, and a post-parade pub crawl through selected venues. The tradition also included the Philly Zombie Prom, launched in 2007 at the Trocadero Theatre as a Halloween-season kickoff, which drew large crowds for several years before its final run in 2016 and the venue's subsequent closure in 2019. While the Easter Sunday crawl remains the core annual event, the zombie-prom tradition lives on in memory as a major chapter in Philadelphia's undead lore.