The Munbees took control of Manhattan on Saturday.
A brutal group of 52 mothers and grandmothers from the leafy suburbs of Fairfield, Conn., performed a bloody dance at the South Street Seaport.
“You never know what's going to happen in New York,” founder Terry Davis told the Post about his first Gotham performance.
“It's full of people with a great sense of humor. We hope they laugh and embrace us.”
Davis, a mother of two boys, said the Big Apple holds a special place in her family's hearts.
“Many of us moms consider New York City our second home, because it's where some of us went to college, where we lived after school, and in my case, where I worked for many years. , it's very exciting for us to bring this project to the big stage in New York City,” she said.
Every Halloween, the matriarchs transform into bloody, pale zombies with torn costumes and tousled hair, performing a choreographed dance on the streets of their neighborhood as a terrifying flash mob.
The women, who range in age from 30 to 70, have been practicing this year's routines weekly since early September with the help of choreographer Paul Herman.
“We’re not dancers, we’re just moms,” Davis said.
“There are so many professions: doctors, teachers, accountants, lawyers, psychologists, librarians, nurses, professors, hairdressers, real estate agents, graduate students, architects, stay-at-home moms, housewives. ”
The Mombies formed in 2016, and the following year, videos of them dancing to songs like Michael Jackson's “Thriller” and MC Hammer's “You Can't Touch This” went viral, with over 1,200 hits on Facebook. It has been played a million times.
They dance for a worthy cause of raising money. cancer couch foundationwhich funds Sloan Kettering's metastatic breast cancer research team.
Currently, Mombee's is helping seven breast cancer survivors and breast cancer patients undergo chemotherapy and has raised $500,000 to date.
On Saturday, after finishing work at the Seaport, they headed to Grand Central to take the Metro-North back to Fairfield. It's the first time we've all dressed up and taken public transportation together.
“Can you imagine getting on a train and seeing 50 zombies?” Davis laughed.
“Commuting into the city on a normal day is hard enough.”
