Website Bloody Disgusting scored a set visit to the series (because, the name) and here are a few of the lovely images they witnessed during the shoot:
· When the first zombie image from set circulated last month, portraying the rotting corpse of a woman reaching out towards camera, the collective hearts of zombie fans across the nation went aflutter... "Just wait until you see below the waste," explains a giddy Kirkman. "Below the waste, she's just a pelvis with a dragging femur. She's just dragging herself around and it is just horrendous-looking."
· Rick wanders into an abandoned downtown Atlanta looking for signs of life. Instead, he comes across a mob of hungry zombies. He manages to escape, but his horse isn't so fortunate. "They rip a horse open and there's just spaghetti coming out," says Kirkman. "They actually have things that you see."
· "It was fantastic," Nicotero says of the horse scene. "You see the pale, discolored hands going in and then coming out red."
· The other gory image is of a dead nurse that looks to have been one zombie's late night snack. Her body is totally massacred, blood streaked and splattered all around her, a dark pool around her corpse. Some of her ribs are exposed and all that remains of one leg is a bloody stump. Did I mention they showed us these images right after lunch?
· "Yesterday [makeup artist Greg Nicotero] was up past his elbows. He was just absolutely covered with blood."
· [Says Darabont,] "You can't say fuck but you can shoot a zombie in the head at point blank range. I love this business."
What inspired AMC's new bloodlust? We don't want to point any fingers, but maybe you guys shouldn't have reacted so excitedly to a certain someone getting certain appendages mowed off by a certain errant tractor...
'The Walking Dead' Set Visit Preview: The Bloodiest Show Ever! [Bloody Disgusting]