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[Video] 10 Lesser Known ‘Day of the Dead’ Zombies!
They may not be Bub, but we love them all the same.
I found myself revisiting George Romero’s Day of the Dead earlier today, and I must admit that I wasn’t so much paying attention to the movie as I was the zombies featured throughout. Like most horror fans, I’ve seen the film countless times over the years; and when you’re that familiar with a movie, it’s sometimes fun to go back and look for things you never noticed before.
What did I notice this time? A whole bunch of amusing zombies!
Romero’s third zombie movie featured some of Tom Savini’s all time best makeup effects, and Savini and the team really went all out to make the zombies look way cooler than they did in Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead. Of course, featured zombies like Bub and Dr. Tongue are the most famous in Day of the Dead, but it’s not them that we’re here to talk about tonight.
Did you know that there’s a CLOWN ZOMBIE in Day of the Dead?! Prior to tonight, I didn’t either. And I made a fun little video to highlight my favorite of the film’s lesser-known zombies.
Check it out below!
Described as “Ted meets ET,” David Mikalson’s raunchy comedy Goblin is being brought to life over at A24, and Will Forte (“The Four Seasons”) is now in talks to star.
Deadline first reported the news this afternoon.
Kenneth Branagh has been cast to voice the titular Goblin in the upcoming A24 movie, with the character said to be “green-colored” as well as “anatomically correct.”
Skyler Gisondo (Superman) is reportedly playing the Goblin’s human best friend.
The mysterious project sounds a bit like films including A Gnome Named Gnorm and more recently, Frankie Freako, though it’s important to note that it’s not billed as a horror movie.
Deadline details, “After [Mikalson] hatched the idea to make an outrageous buddy comedy about a goblin, using a practical puppet and operating outside the Hollywood system, his script quickly got him a rep team. While others might have eyed the raunchy comedy as a writing sample or planned to wait to see the micro-budget version Mikalson has been directing in Kentucky, A24 jumped all over it. The hot indie essentially has agreed to finance a full feature.”
“There was a lot of interest, but A24 came with what Mikalson really wanted, after spending all his money crafting the puppet title character: they acquired the movie and agreed to let him make it with a significantly increased budget than what he had left after creating the anatomically correct title character,” Deadline’s report goes on to explain.
What does the titular Goblin actually look like? Well, a cake that Mikalson had whipped up for his reps might give us our first look at what to expect. Deadline explains the photo you’ll see down below, “Take a look at the cake he commissioned with Marc Gravelle at Cake Art in West Hollywood, to present to his reps as thanks for making his dream come true.”
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