MTV Shows "One thing I learned from George Romero years ago was, if you ever demonstrate something to a group of people, all 50 people will do the exact same thing. We were very specific about not demonstrating zombie walks to them, but we lined up groups of 20 and said, 'Let's see what your zombie walk looks like.' They would shamble across the room, and we would say, 'Okay, that looks pretty good — but try this or try that next time." "I cut together a littler reel that had clips from the original 'Night Of The Living Dead,' it had clips from 'Dawn Of The Dead,' it had clips from 'Shaun Of The Dead. 'There's a great scene in 'Shaun of the Dead' where Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are pretending to be zombies, walking through a crowd of zombies. Frank Darabont thought it was a stroke of genius to put that clip in there. 'Shaun Of The Dead' is a great zombie movie — it just happens to be very funny." "It's not really rocket science to be trained how to walk like a zombie. But you also have a lot of people who work at Halloween events or in October they do a lot of haunted attractions. With that kind of stuff, their movements are pretty over the top, because it's very exaggerated. So you have to tone them down a little bit." "We've had some great performers. They bring the makeups to life. It's always interesting when you see someone who has a really great zombie walk, and then we put the contact lenses in and the dentures, and get that final look, and then you kind of go, 'Wow. It doesn't like a person any more.' It looks kind of creepy."
"One thing I learned from George Romero years ago was, if you ever demonstrate something to a group of people, all 50 people will do the exact same thing. We were very specific about not demonstrating zombie walks to them, but we lined up groups of 20 and said, 'Let's see what your zombie walk looks like.' They would shamble across the room, and we would say, 'Okay, that looks pretty good — but try this or try that next time."
"I cut together a littler reel that had clips from the original 'Night Of The Living Dead,' it had clips from 'Dawn Of The Dead,' it had clips from 'Shaun Of The Dead. 'There's a great scene in 'Shaun of the Dead' where Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are pretending to be zombies, walking through a crowd of zombies. Frank Darabont thought it was a stroke of genius to put that clip in there. 'Shaun Of The Dead' is a great zombie movie — it just happens to be very funny."
"It's not really rocket science to be trained how to walk like a zombie. But you also have a lot of people who work at Halloween events or in October they do a lot of haunted attractions. With that kind of stuff, their movements are pretty over the top, because it's very exaggerated. So you have to tone them down a little bit."
"We've had some great performers. They bring the makeups to life. It's always interesting when you see someone who has a really great zombie walk, and then we put the contact lenses in and the dentures, and get that final look, and then you kind of go, 'Wow. It doesn't like a person any more.' It looks kind of creepy."
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