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“The Walking Dead” Just Went Full Fulci With Awesome ‘Zombie’ Tribute
Fulci lives. Forever.
On last night’s episode of “The Walking Dead” (Season 7, Episode 6, “Swear”), returning characters Tara and Heath found themselves on a bridge that was literally crawling with the undead. A huge mountain of sand blocked off one side of the bridge, and when they disturbed the makeshift tomb, dozens of walkers emerged from the sand and went on the hunt for fresh brains.
The sequence was easily the most memorable in what was ultimately a slower episode that surely did no favors for the show’s declining ratings, and you might have noticed that the mummified “sand zombies” looked very familiar – one of them in particular. As Greg Nicotero explained on “Talking Dead,” the whole sequence was a tribute to Lucio Fulci’s 1979 classic Zombie.
The makeup master explained:
[I wanted to do] zombies that looked like old Italian horror movies. We bleached the wardrobe, made full body suits… we made 18 of them. We got a chance to do what every great zombie movie does: show zombies coming out of the ground.
Nicotero, who loves to use “The Walking Dead” to pay tribute to his favorite zombie movies, made sure that one of those sand zombies was a direct homage to “Maggot-Eyed Zombie” from the Fulci film. That zombie, played by Ottaviano Dell’Acqua, is the most iconic and instantly-recognizable from Zombie, immortalized on most posters and home video releases of the film.
Check out screen-grabs of the Maggot-Eye tribute below, courtesy of fans on Instagram!
While you wait for Alien: Romulus, the folks over at Devilworks have cooked up their own slice of “mockbuster” fun with Alien Hunt, and we’re debuting the trailer here on BD this morning.
This brand-new sci-fi horror from director Aaron Mirtes (The Bigfoot Trap, Painted in Blood) is set for its US premiere on May 14, and you can find it on digital thanks to Devilworks.
You can exclusively watch the official trailer for Alien Hunt below, which looks to combine elements of Alien and Predator. This particular “mockbuster” has very little interest in hiding its inspirations, with the alien designs plucked straight out of H.R. Giger’s beautiful brain. Hey, if you’re going to pull from other movies, might as well take from the all-time greats!
In Alien Hunt, “On a hunting trip in the wilderness, a group of siblings discovers an abandoned military outpost on their land, but is it what it seems?
“Their trip takes a sinister turn when they find themselves facing off against a relentless army of extra-terrestrial beings. Suddenly, the hunters become the hunted.
“The formidable squad of alien soldiers will stop at nothing to wipe out the enemy and in an all-out, brutal battle for survival, it’s kill or be killed in Alien Hunt.”
Barron Boedecker (Escape Pod, The Bigfoot Trap), Brent Bentley (The Perfect In-Laws, Haunt Season), Deiondre Teagle (The Visitor, Painted in Blood, Death Ranch), Chelsey Fuller (The Bigfoot Trap, The Silent Natural), Jesse Santoyo (A Nashville Country Christmas, Potter’s Ground), and Adam Pietripaoli (The Bigfoot Trap, The OctoGames) star.
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