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Remember a couple weeks ago, when about a dozen pretend undead took over Manhattan Beach's Polliwog Park to practice the elaborately choreographed dance from Michael Jackson's "Thriller" music video?

Well, imagine that frightful spectacle multiplied by three hundred or so Saturday, when almost 3,400 fake zombies worldwide performed the line dance simultaneously as part of "Thrill the World."

Organizers behind the Los Angeles group reported that people in 65 cities scattered across nine countries danced the 80s pop hit, setting a new world record and topping last year's showing of about 1,700 dancers.

Almost 115 people performed with the Los Angeles contingent, which took over the Hollywood & Highland Center on Saturday, organizers said.

Check out our photo gallery of the practice session to see a smaller-scale version of what happened Saturday.

And they're after you!

Well, not after your flesh -- but they do want your dance skills.

About 100 pretend-undead are holding a practice and teaching session Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Polliwog Park to perfect the 1980s iconic line dance, "Thriller."

Anyone from the public is welcome to join in and learn the moves.

Saturday's session is practice for Thrill the World, an Oct. 25 event where folks all over the world get together and simultaneously perform Michael Jackson's ode to the undead.

The Los Angeles-area group, which so far includes about two dozen South Bay people, will do their performance in costume at the Hollywood & Highland Center.

For the first time ever, I'm bummed I don't work Saturdays. *Sigh*

For fun, check out the original Thriller video -- from way back when Michael Jackson didn't look like a zombie in real life.

And here's video of some inmates at a prison in the Philippines performing the dance.