THIS year’s Big Chill offers festival-goers the chance to be part of the world’s first and largest audience participation zombie movie, which Film4 and Warp Films will shoot over the four days of the festival.

The plot revolves around dodgy drugs leaked into the water supply which turn peaceful festival-goers into rampaging, flesh-eating undead, and Big Chillers arriving on Thursday will be invited to come in costume or dress up on site to participate in this celluloid chiller, to be produced by Warp Films.

Getting everyone in the mood will be an all-nighter of classic zombie flicks.

The result will be not only a downloadable movie after the festival, but also entry into the Guinness Book of Records for the largest number of zombies ever caught on camera.

Over the rest of the festival, Film4 will also present the Dereliction Drive-In, a field of deserted and abandoned cars among, on and in which Big Chillers can roam, sit and crash out.

As screens play ghostly re-mixes of classic and imagined road movies, car stereos will crackle with soundtracks specially recorded by guest artists and DJs.

This year will also see the all new Film4 Cinema Tent, where a programme of super cool road movies will accompany the Dereliction Drive-In installation and, hot on the heels of their amazing success with Slumdog Millionaire, Film4 programmers will present a night of classic Bollywood and Bollywood-inspired classics.

Festival-goers living in selected local postcode areas – GL18, GL19, HR1, HR4, HR6, HR8, HR9, WR1, WR13, WR14, and WR6 – are eligible for a special local residents discount of £45 off the weekend ticket price and £25 off the Sunday ticket price. Proof of residence is required. See page 10 of the Hereford Times, April 30, for your voucher.