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A Langley man has put his delicious brains to good use, coming up with a scary twist on the game of paintball MONIQUE TAMMINGA Times Reporter
A zombie apocalypse has come to the Langley area. In the dark of night, zombies are wandering around 57 acres of creepy forest along 16 Avenue, wanting to eat the brains of all they encounter. Armed only with a limited amount of ammo and a paintball gun, your mission, should you be crazy enough to accept it, is to save some trapped scientists and to stay alive. This is Zombie Combat Zone paintball — an experience like
nothing else out there. Brookswood native and movie prop designer Ron McCall and his business partner Jen Yarnell have opened Zombie Combat Zone, offering people the experience to shoot at, and run from, real zombies. Groups of eight to 12 people will trek around the forest, in the dark, trying to “kill” (shoot) zombies that are constantly on the attack. “People are going to crap themselves,” said McCall, who came up with the idea after having one too many conversations with film industry
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friends who “People would were boasting always be about what bragging about they would do what they would in a zombie do if zombies apocalypse. attacked. Now The topic has we have real been a hot zombies chasing one in recent people and let’s months across see how they North America, really handle Ron McCall especially given zombie wrangler it?” said McCall, the real-life who has worked zombies-type in the movie people in the States who have industry for 15 years as a prop made headlines for eating master. people’s faces after going on a With that talent for special drug-induced rampage. effects, he has put together a
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“It is a theatrical experience. There is blood, gore smoke and other surprises.”
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fun and frightening experience never seen before. “I’ve researched this a lot and I think we are the only experience like it in the world,” said McCall. “It’s giving people the opportunity to be in a zombie movie. It is a theatrical experience.” “There is blood, gore, smoke and other surprises along the way. The forest at night is actually very quiet, which makes the experience that much creepier, he said. continued, PAGE 7 Monday to Thursday
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