The zombie guru counts down his favorite walkers from seasons 17 and shares the stories behind them.
Season 2 was a lot less zombie-heavy in the first several episodes.
“I really love the sequence.
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It’s scary, it’s suspenseful, and filled with tension.
Everything that we want forThe Walking Deadwas embodied in that sequence.
It’s a classic horror scene with a classic movie monster and a classic beauty trying to save herself.
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It just worked on every single level.”
I think the entrails were added digitally later.
“But the rest of it was all practical.
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He was just so revolted by it.”
I think there were like nine of them.
“I just loved the fact that that particular zombie had a lot of screen time.
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If we have a minimum number of zombies we can do more elaborate makeups.
I just thought the performance was fantastic.
It’s sat on the ground and it sat there for a year.
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“He wasn’t onscreen very long.
I think he’s only on screen for three shots in the whole episode.
So the first thing that popped into my head were the scarecrows from the originalPlanet of the Apes.
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We started going for this kind of brown, leathery body with, like, white hair.
It was veryEvil Dead II.”
When we started shooting in Alexandria, we talked about, ‘Why are there no walkers around?
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We had multiple layered prosthetics.
So there’s a lot going on in that particular shot.
It was just taking what we do to the next level.”
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Some people thought it was a puppet.
Some people thought that we had buried her body.
Some people thought that it was CG.
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That one always stands out as the zombie that put us on the map.
Look what these painters can do.
Look what these technicians can do with practical makeup.’
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