Lower East Side Carnage Update: Zombies!!

Wednesday, August 1, 2007, by Lockhart

Yesterday's CurbedWire revealed a swath of destruction at the corner of Orchard and Stanton Streets on the Lower East Side. It's a swath of destruction that is, sad to say, merely a movie set—albeit a set for the much-buzzed J.J. Abrams monster movie alternately called Cloverfield, 1-18-08, and Monstrous. No one's got much idea what the movie's all about—the trailer is suitably awesome insofar as it's suitably inscrutable—but web chatter is pegging the flick as a monster movie. But the photo above, snapped in the midst of the LES carnage by an alert tipster during the film shoot late last night, heralds a new, horrifying plot possibility. Per our tipster, "stanton/orchard zombies!!!! brains! they want my brains!"
· Cloverfield Revealed? [Whatevs]
· Abrams Takes Over Orchard Street [Gothamist]
· CurbedWire: Faux Carnage in Hell Square! [Curbed]

Filed under City Life, Manhattan: Lower East Side, Cloverfield, Les Destruction, Zombies

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would actually prefer the zombies over the usual weekend LES crowds.....

By ldlw at August 1, 2007 12:28 PM

I see they've included the post-apocalypic movie staple: a burning car.

By Anonymous at August 1, 2007 1:26 PM

I dunno, I think that IS the usual weekend LES crowd...

By Mister 1-2-3-4 at August 1, 2007 1:37 PM

They weren't zombies. Its a monster attacks new york movie. Later in the night there was a scene where cops and fdny were directing the "zombies" to an evacuation route, somehow I doubt they would evacuate zombies. Check out the trailer on apple.com\trailers.

By Anonymous at August 1, 2007 1:47 PM

I'm gettin' too old for this shit.

By Anonymous at August 1, 2007 2:57 PM

Is this movie based on a real hipster party?

By Anonymous at August 1, 2007 3:20 PM

time for someone to make a zombie comedy in which the joke is that you can't tell the zombies from the usual brainless party bridge-and-tunnel party brats clogging the streets of the LES

By Diana at August 1, 2007 3:52 PM

Tonight, me and my pseudo-hipster friends noticed posters for "walberg" (sic) mall or something, complete with an illustration of a rollerscoaster atop a fortunoff, slated for development. Of course, being in advertising (oops, I mean art and entertainment) I realized it looks a lot like a movie set and we laughed and continued on to the bars to get shitfaced.

Oh, but how the howls from the american apparel- T-shirted hedgefunders at Max Fish belted out and made everyone know that this area will not be co-opted...

By Tasman at August 2, 2007 3:54 AM

it's the time, of the season...for skinny jeans!

By mbf at August 2, 2007 9:33 AM

10.

Zombies or production assistants?

Is there a difference?

By LinkMan at August 2, 2007 12:10 PM

11.

They're not zombies. They're just ordinary New Yorkers who have been through Hell. Ripped clothing and dirty, bloodstained faces DO NOT MAKE ZOMBIES!

By SteveO at August 3, 2007 4:16 PM