When the last shots were fired and the Center for Disease Development doors were closed after last Halloween, it seemed that the Atlanta Zombie Apocalypse had finally come to an end. However, a new zombie outbreak is happening Oct. 23-24 as the Silver Scream FX Lab has teamed with students from Maynard Jackson High School to create Atlanta Zombie Apocalypse: Dead End.

Taking place on a dead end street next to the school, Dead End is an immersive zombie outbreak experience featuring indoor and outdoor scenes. After teaching three workshops at the high school, Silver Scream’s Shane Morton has gotten the brains of these students ready for AZA’s cinematic experience.

“The thing about AZA was it was always a surprise what the theme would be,” he says. “Just imagine if a zombie outbreak happened at a high school. We play with all these different tropes and there are a lot of fun characters these kids have come up with. They’ve really got some great ideas and really impressed me, and I’ve got 25 years in the haunt business. We’re doing some gags in this thing that I’ve never even heard of being done in any haunted house anywhere ever before.”

With dozens of AZA and high school actors, special effects artists and unique zombie props built just for this event, Dead End builds upon what was done at AZA over the past five years and takes it in an apocalyptic new direction. For those who don’t fall victim to these resurrected nerds, jocks and preps, there will be food trucks and beer for survivors.