Canberra streets taken over for Zombie Walk

Hundreds took to the streets to walk, or shuffle, from Glebe Park to Garema Place dressed as zombies for the Canberra Zombie Walk.

From blood-soaked nurses, to even zombified grandparents, the large hoard of undead certainly gave passers-by a scare as they made their way through Civic.

Now in its fourth year, this year's walk was the event's largest, also serving as a fundraiser for brain cancer.

Organiser Ravi Sharma said zombie walks have been happening around the world for several years and have only been growing in popularity.

"It's a celebration of Halloween and zombie culture, and it's an indication of how popular zombie-related things are," he said.

"Zombies are a unique kind of horror character because they're faceless and they're a relentless, marching hoard."

For the first time this year, the walk also featured zombie makeup workshops, with teams of professional makeup artists giving zombie makeovers.

Gungahlin resident Tash Beattie was attending the event dressed as a zombified mother with a zombie baby.

She said there was a special reason behind her involvement in the walk.

"I lost a friend a couple of years ago to brain cancer, and this is one way of helping support the cause," she said.

Tim Clark's costume of a zombie Mad Hatter took several hours to come together, which featured large amounts of liquid latex makeup.

"It took a few afternoons to put together, all up it took about 10 hours of work," he said.

"Halloween isn't that big in Australia, so the zombie walk is the only time we can really dress up in a large group of people and take part."

Wesley Shandell and Shayne Larke were also among the undead for the day as a zombie bride and groom, with the costumes sourced from multiple second-hand shops just for the event.

"We wanted to do a bride and groom costume from the film Corpse Bride, and it was easier to do that with zombies," Mr Shandell said.

The walk concluded with the 'zombie pageant' to find the best dressed zombie.

As for what makes a great zombie, Mr Sharma said it's all about the walk.

"It's about the style of walk or shuffling, moving slowly and looking like a limb is about to fall off," he said.