Downtown Sioux Falls Trades Zombie Walk For A Unique Prom

With Halloween creeping up faster than a jump scare after Michael Myers pops up from the backseat of a car, Sioux Falls most beloved band of undead partygoers was noticeably missing this year: the Sioux Falls Zombie Walk and Parade.

Normally, by late October, downtown Sioux Falls is overrun with groaning “walkers,” fake blood, and that one guy who takes his “Thriller” choreography way too seriously. But this year? Crickets. No slow shuffle, no fake guts, no zombies photobombing your pictures.

Instead, the annual fright-fest rose from the grave in a new form, a Zombie Prom.

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Yep, you read that right. The 2025 version of the undead tradition traded the pavement for the dance floor at Remedy Brewing Company, turning the night into a gory-glam bash benefiting the Sioux Falls Junior Roller Derby.

Kerry Roberts, member of the Sioux Falls Roller Dollz and one of the event’s mad scientists, told Dakota News Now,  "We are in a rebuilding year, and everybody who supports us helps next year happen. This year, all of our proceeds from makeup go towards Sioux Falls Junior Roller Derby, something that is super close to my heart. I coached for a while. Both of my kids play."

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While Sioux Falls Halloween diehards may have felt a little cheated out of their annual apocalypse cosplay, fear not, the undead aren’t gone, just regrouping, or should I say, re-animating.

Next year marks the 20th anniversary of the Sioux Falls Zombie Walk and Parade, and organizers are already brewing up something “super scary and very special.” Word on the dark, foggy street is that the full Zombie Parade will rise again to walk another day in 2026.

And I'm willing to bet it's going to be killer.