See 'Walking Dead' Photos Of N.J. Kids That Ignited Uproar

Alana Hubbard got what she considered very good subjects to recreate "The Walking Dead" T.V. series: Kids, including her own.

The New Jersey resident drew flack recently for casting each child as zombies, or zombie fighters, and shooting photos of them in a wooded area - with abandoned railroad tracks running through it - as part of a photo display she's posted on the Internet.

Hubbard posted the pictures of the children - some as young as 3 - to the Facebook page of her business, Mother Hubbard Photography of Woodbridge.

"I'm a huge fan and have been wanting to take photos of my own kids," she told Patch.

That's when the trouble started. She's received threatening voicemails for portraying the children in some of the popular AMC show's grisly scenes (see photos).

One showed a pile of children who appeared dead, with one living girl on top. She posted disclaimers that emphasized no children were harmed.

"There were people who called my 3-year-old daughter an [expletive]," she said. "I didn't think it would be this controversial. But everyone has made their point very clear."

Hubbard's photos even once got her banned from Facebook, she said, but she was reinstated after about two days.

Hubbard, however, has taken much of the criticism in stride, even celebrating the publicity she's gotten recently by posting the television footage of her display on her Facebook page.

She said the project has only involved her own children and her friends' kids.

"This is for me, and this for them," she said. "We all support it, and that's what matters."

She takes pride in what she's done to get them to play the main characters, Rick and Carol - both tough zombie fighters who once smeared zombie guts on themselves to disguise themselves.

She's also gotten them to play another favorite character, Daryl, who shoots zombies with a crossbow.

"My neighbor's son looks [like] Daryl, so we included him, and then it spiraled from there," Hubbard said. "It ended up being a 24-kid production, all of the alive principal cast [members] on the show."

Kristin Walters, whose two children portrayed characters for Hubbard, told The Asbury Park Press she has no issues with letting her kids participate. Zombies, she said, are simply part of make-believe play.

"My kids are 6 and 4, and they know all about zombies," Walters told the newspaper. "They love to play zombies. They know how you kill zombies. And they know they're not real."

PHOTOS: Mother Hubbard Photography, used with permission.

Other photos can be found here.