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Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with today’s Behind the Scenes Pic!
Welcome, constant reader, to the annual all-horror themed run of BTS pics. The month of October is generally my favorite time of year. I’m a big fan of Fall weather, Fall movies and the holiday spirit that Halloween season kicks off every year. So, I’m giddy. So giddy, in fact, that I might let loose a small Knowlesian “giggle.”
It’s become tradition now to turn the BTS column into all horror for this month and while I love that tradition I found myself using a lot more horror and make up pics in the last few months than I expected to, so I hope I have enough to keep October running strong. There’s no shortage of awesome monster BTS pics, so we should be okay.
To kick things off, I figured why not start with Mr. George Romero surrounded by his undead during the filming of Day of the Dead. I’ve always liked this photo. The zombies are in full character and Romero isn’t pulling a face, acting scared, but is instead like “Yeah, I’m surrounded by rotten corpses. I am their King. What are you going to do about it?”
So, welcome to October. Thanks to Robin Smith for passing this one along. Click to enlargen!
If you have a behind the scenes shot you’d like to submit to this column, you can email me at quint@aintitcool.com.
I don’t know what tomorrow’s pic is, but it’s sure weird and pissed off.
-Eric Vespe
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Romero has certainly milked every last buck out of his zombie franchise.
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That's what I get for eating Taco Bell and drinking Captain Morgan.... Just sayin... Oh yeah, first again??? Twice in same day????
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Oct. 2, 2012, 3:05 p.m. CST
See "Night of the Living Dead", restored, in color & in 3D!!!
by Maegnarval
They’re coming for you, Barbara – and now they’re in 3D! Southside Works Cinema presents the original version of director George Romero‘s 1968 zombie thriller, only restored, colorized, and with an extra dimension. Cinema purists may consider it a travesty, but those looking for a whole new undead experience will find it here. Night of the Living Dead 3D screens on Oct. 27th at midnight. Advance tickets are on sale now at the SouthSide Works Cinema, in the South Side of Pittburgh, Pa: http://tinyurl.com/9xoeacw
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Cleveland, Ohio the same night (October 27th), just go to this link: http://tinyurl.com/9xoeacw
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CHOKE ON 'EM!!!! CHOKE ON 'EM!!!!
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I never got the hate for it. Maybe I'm more attached to it nostalgically because it was the first one I saw in an actual theater when it came out way back when.
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That ending pissed me off as a kid when I first saw it. I still don't "get" it. I've been told it's supposed to be something to do with racism, but all I ever got out of it was that they just thought the dude was a zombie. Not hard to believe, given the circumstances. I still vastly prefer the remake. Never saw Dawn or Day. Loved the Dawn remake though. Land was... you know what? Nevermind that.
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I saw"Dawn" at a midnight screening in 1982. It really stuck to my ribs after, and I'd feel sick for days whenever I thought about it. I was a child of all the 'pop' movies in the eighties, and I'd never seen anything that gory before. Headshot after headshot after headshot, by the end of the film, I was just numb.
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I know I'm human. And if you were all these things, then you'd just attack me right now, so some of you are still human. This thing doesn't want to show itself, it wants to hide inside an imitation. It'll fight if it has to, but it's vulnerable out in the open. If it takes us over, then it has no more enemies, nobody left to kill it. And then it's won.
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Oct. 2, 2012, 4:09 p.m. CST
I can live with a 3D conversion, but colorization sucks.
by Royston Lodge
So say we all.
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Oct. 2, 2012, 4:30 p.m. CST
its as if romero is surrounded by a bunch of metaphors for the consumer society.
by vulturess
think of the possibilities george.
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Oct. 2, 2012, 4:43 p.m. CST
Quint, this just might be my favourite BTS picture yet. (Been thinking a lot about this film as October arrives, how it is something of the pinnacle of horror violence for me and makes of itself a taboo mirror image of us and our raggedness.) A brillian
by ChaunceyGardiner
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Oct. 2, 2012, 4:44 p.m. CST
(And I thought that this was going to be a "Soylent Green" BTS pic.)
by ChaunceyGardiner
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Oct. 2, 2012, 4:47 p.m. CST
Did you have to see it in an adult movie theatre? I remember that my parents said in Augusta, GA that is how they had to show "The Exorcist," at the local nudie flick theatre: "The Majestic."
by ChaunceyGardiner
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Oct. 2, 2012, 5:02 p.m. CST
The opening of Day really set the bleakness for the rest of the movie.
by Christian Sylvain
It's just all about embracing mankind's extinction, knowing there's nothing you can do about. Scary stuff.
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Oct. 2, 2012, 5:04 p.m. CST
He's one of the few directors who can say that he kickstarted an entire subgenre (the modern zombie movie).
by Mr. Pricklepants
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He kickstarted the modern zombie movie by copying THE LAST MAN ON EARTH.
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this stuff gives me an instant tingle thank God she's kinkier than i am :-) Thanks George!
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Thank God! BEST... MOVIE... EVER!!!!
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Oct. 2, 2012, 11:04 p.m. CST
What the fuck in WRONG with you people?! They're DEAD!
by Nasty In The Pasty
They're fucking DEAD and you wanna teach 'em TRICKS?!
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Oct. 2, 2012, 11:53 p.m. CST
fawst, never saw Dawn or Day?? Fix that shit, go fix that shit right now!!...
by FreeBeer
...A new Night over old Night? Naaah
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Oct. 2, 2012, 11:55 p.m. CST
There's a shot in DAY where the elevator lowers, full of zombies standing perfectly still so they don't fall off
by Adelai Niska
I always wish that they had the money and technology to have a few zombies spill over the sides. They should to a special edition of just that one scene.
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It must've run in Fangoria about '85 or '86.
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it had some good scenes but it petered off towards the end. That half intelligent Gas station Zombie shoulda got into Dennis Hoppers tower block, somehow find the lift to his apartment, take him by surprise and kill him; then sat in his big chair croakin a zombie style cackle....That woulda been classic.
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Oct. 3, 2012, 8:01 a.m. CST
God yes Fawst!!! How can you come to this site having not seen those?!?!?!
by dacanesta
Dont worry, im not getting all high-horsey. BUT STILL!!!!! Dawn is my favourite movie OF ALL TIME!!!! I cant still see the cool VHS cover of it. If you havent seen it (!) be prepared for some dodgy make up and stuff but ignore those and its one of them films that takes you into that world a la Blade Runner/Star Wars. The most believable zombie movie ever. GOD i cant stress how much I love Dawn! And SCREW the remake....dont get how people forgive it, its NAFF!!! (and my reasons are more than because its not like my beloved 78 Dawn.....its coz its NAFF)
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Haven't seen Survival. Is it worth a look?
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Oct. 3, 2012, 8:57 a.m. CST
@ phifty2: not really but I keep giving Romero a chance, even after Diary.
by Aaron
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Eh, maybe I'll On Demand it if it's like $2 or something.
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Oct. 3, 2012, 10:37 a.m. CST
I'm old enough to remember how much everyone hated 'Day'
by SigourneyWeavers3Dbeaver
...so I'm hoping his recent trilogy 'rots' better too. 'Land' ain't bad. 'Diary', I thought was great. 'Survival' I was lucky to survive. But I remember how reviled 'Day' was when I was growing up, do live in hope.
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When they colorize a film like ''NOTLD,'' is it all basically guesswork as to what colors things were? Or is there enough information in the film itself somehow that it's a sort of automatic conversion? Or...is it like, you know this guy's face is a skintone that looks sort of like this, so you can calculate the other colors in the frame based on that? You know? I should really know how this works.
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Long story short, sounds like artists pick colors for everything in the first frame of a scene, and then a computer auto-colors and pixels that don't change in the succeeding frames. So kind of a mix of by-hand and digital, and there's no color information somehow secretly embedded in the original, black-and-white film or negative.
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