Zombie Fest is a Live Action Role Play (LARP) event. Attendees invent their own cannibalistic corpse character and play dead with each other for five blood-spattered, brain-splattered hours, spontaneously spinning plotlines around a general theme devised by organiser Ed ‘King of the Zombies’ Thurlow.

For 2008, the story was set in 1978, in the fictional British village of Willard Valley (loosely based on inbred hamlet Royston Vasey from The League Of Gentlemen). The event drew flesh-eating flare-wearers and decomposing disco dollies a-plenty.

We sent our reporter down to get some replica innards inside him and tell us what the tubes taste like. Read all about it in this month's Bizarre - out now. Subscribe here and never miss an issue...