VIDEO As ghosts and ghouls catch up on their sleep before Halloween, zombies young and old came to life to dance their way into the record books.Nearly 30 people gathered at Bungay's Fisher theatre on Saturday night to take part in a world record attempt involving one of the world's most recognisable dances - Michael Jackson's Thriller.

AS GHOSTS and ghouls catch up on their sleep before Halloween, zombies young and old came to life to dance their way into the record books.

Nearly 30 people gathered at Bungay's Fisher theatre on Saturday night to take part in a world record attempt involving one of the world's most recognisable dances - Michael Jackson's Thriller.

The event was one of 117 registered dances in 80 cities around the world taking part in Thrill the World, an attempt to create the world's largest simultaneous Thriller dance.

Kate Jackson, who organised the Bungay event, said that she heard about a similar event on the radio and wanted to get involved. She said: “I was driving through the town one day when I heard about the Toronto event last year, which set a record for the largest Thriller dance, and I thought how much fun it sounded.

“So I found a website and saw that they were planning to do a simultaneous event around the world. I put up a few posters round town, got in touch with the local dance school, and luckily people wanted to join in.”

Although some of the performers were too young to have ever seen the iconic video, which was released in 1984, everyone embraced the spooky spirit by dressing as zombies and even thinking of the gruesome ways they had died - including being eaten by the infamous Ditchingham roundabout chickens.

Luci Bedwell-Lee, 31, said: “I saw an advert for the taster session about a month ago and though it sounded fun, so I came along. It's been quite hard to learn because the whole routine is nearly six minutes long.”

The group will be repeating their performance during the town's pumpkin parade in Bridge Street on Wednesday at 8pm.