I must confess that me and The Walking Dead went our separate ways a long time ago. I think it was the perpetual despair and zero percent hope/happiness/point-to-any-of-the-suffering that made me move on.
But just when I thought I was over it, I heard this incredible version of the main theme.
Click the field zombie below:
Looks like there's a chance that Stephen King and his son will be penning an episode of AMC's The Walking Dead. Pretty excited about that. King's ensemble paranoia and claustrophobia would be perfect for that series.
Click below for more info (not much more though):
Click below for a [partial] track from The Walking Dead by Bear McCreary:
(Like she's about to get a bullet.)
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On Sunday, December 5th, starting at 4:30/3:30c, AMC will air the entire first season of "The Walking Dead", culminating with the season finale at 10/9c.
More info at Dread Central.
I wonder how a haunt would go over if this scene were reproduced. And children had to walk to get candy through a little path between sheet-covered corpses. Add a wagon off to the side piled high with bodies and a few torches, and dress in a dark cloak with a plague doctor mask and you have yourself a Black Death yard haunt (and some complaints from parents).
Great scene from The Walking Dead. I'm really enjoying this series and the amazing effects featured each week.
More photos here.
The annual tradition of AMC's Fearfest. All this AND The Walking Dead? Awesome.
AMC PREMIERE EVENTS
Among a vast library of horror favorites, AMC Fearfest will present premieres of the following:
• House of Wax debuting Oct. 22, 10PM | 9C
• Dead Silence debuting Oct. 23, 12 :30PM | 11:30C
• 28 Days Later debuting Oct. 24, 8PM | 7C
• Jeepers Creepers 2 debuting Oct. 24, 10 :30PM | 9:30C
• From Dusk Till Dawn debuting Oct. 30, 8PM | 7C
• Evil Dead II debuting Oct. 30, 10PM | 9C
• Dawn of the Dead debuting Oct. 31, 8PM | 7C
In addition to the AMC Premiere events, AMC Fearfest will feature horror favorites from the vintage to the contemporary including :
• Friday the 13th parts 1-9 airing together for the first time, in celebration of the franchise's 30th Anniversary airing primetime, Oct. 18-22
• Halloween I-V airing primetime, Oct. 25-27
• Stephen King classics Cujo, Pet Sematary, The Shining, Sleepwalkers and Graveyard Shift airing throughout the day on Oct. 9
• Night of the Living Dead (1968), Frankenstein (1931), Dracula (1931), The Wolf Man (1941), and many others
"KILLER CONVERSATIONS"
Throughout AMC Fearfest, the network will feature conversations between celebrated horror filmmakers including Darabont and award-winning makeup artist Greg Nicotero (The Walking Dead, Inglorious Bastards); Wes Craven (A Nightmare of Elm Street, Scream 3) and Mick Garris (Batteries Not Included, Hocus Pocus) and more. Each pair will talk candidly about their experience with the genre and what it takes to make a great horror film.
"NEW BLOOD"
AMC Fearfest will profile new and upcoming filmmakers and actors who are creating waves in and transforming the horror genre. Included are Shawnee Smith (actress, Saw), James Gunn (director/writer, Slither), and Alexandra Aja (director, The Hills Have Eyes), among others. "New Blood" segments airs throughout the primetime AMC Fearfest movies.
FANBOY IMAGE SHORTS
Airing during AMC Fearfest, the network will feature a series of ten comedic shorts, which showcase two fanboys parodying horror film classics from Friday the 13th and Pet Sematary to The Shining and Halloween.
By artist, Dan Kanemoto.
Fan-made titles. It'll be interesting to see what they actually end up using.
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Click below to watch a bootlegged trailer for AMC's The Walking Dead.
via dreadcentral.com
Q: How long did that take to set up?
A: They shut down the street at 7PM on a Friday night, and at 7AM we were shooting these apocalyptic scenes over six blocks. The set was so large, when Frank [Darabont] got there he didn't even see we had a Huey helicopter landed in the street. He's like, "Where's the helicopter?" "It's down there!" "Well bring it up here!" So we immediately brought that up. That's how big it was - the helicopter got lost. [Laughs]
Q: Will you have to supplement these set-ups with CGI?
A: I have to say rather proudly that there are two or three sets that we've done - downtown Atlanta, the gas station - that were going to have a lot more CG work done to them. But when we got done with them, Frank was like, "We kinda have it," which was great for me. He's like, "I don't think we need to extend this set. This is actually much more than I thought I was going to get." That's been kind of cool, to actually be able to deliver enough physical scenery to fill the shot.
Image source.
AMC's The Walking Dead blog.
Q: How do these zombies differ from the ones you created for Romero?
A: We used the graphic novel certainly as inspiration. We've always tried to push the envelope, and because I've done so many other projects it's always one of those things where you finish a movie and go, "Oh man next time I know how we can make it better. And after that I know how we can make it even better than that." We've taken everything that we've learned on all these other projects, and applied them in terms of using new materials and new techniques - even something as simple as a zombie getting shot in the head: We really sat down and worked through the best way to make that look realistic and practical.
Q: What was your solution?
A: Well in the '70s they just put squibs on extras' heads and detonated them. Then you got to the point where if you had to use explosive squibs it could only be on a stunt person. But for The Walking Dead, we're going for a very specific physical type: Every zombie that we see is really tall and really thin and really gaunt looking. One of the story points is that these characters have been dead for so long that they're starving, and will eat virtually anything. They'll eat a horse, they'll eat a rat. So we built this self-contained head-hit rig that runs off compressed air. You fill a tube with blood, and then you use a foot pump to get a really great blood spray. You can clip it on to anybody that you want, and then all of a sudden you have instantaneous head wound.
The Walking Dead blog.
Darabont said he’s put a lot of thought into it and decided to fall back to George A. Romero’s original NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD. He called it the “Book of Genesis” of his zombies here. People forget the first zombie we see in NOTLD is moving fairly quickly. He’s not running, but he shuffles after Barbara at a decent speed. That, Darabont feels, gives him a little liberty at having his zombies do a little more than a mummy-walk.
I'll be checking in on this blog regularly.
Pretty excited about this new series.
Incredible. I've watched A LOT of zombie films over the years, and this is the first time I'm seeing a zombie and not just an actor in makeup. It's truly terrifying. And believable.
AMCs Walking Dead Blog.
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