Greg Nicotero, an executive producer for The Walking Dead, has talked about the show being scary once more and how they hope to keep up the horror going forward.
While The Walking Dead is a zombie-themed show, no one could label the series as being particularly scary, at least not in recent years. The show has tried to rectify this at the end of season nine’s first half and now it’s producers hope to keep it up.
Executive producer Greg Nicotero is excited about making The Walking Dead a more scary experience and admitted to ComicBook.com that it hasn’t done this enough in the past: “The show really hasn’t been scary for a while. I mean, it just wasn’t necessarily in the DNA. The last few seasons, there was a lot more of the drama of the war between Rick and Negan, the Sanctuary and our good guys, so to speak.”
Going forward, Nicotero hopes to capture more of the horror of season nine’s mid-season finale: “To be able to introduce these new villains and this new threat, I was really excited. Listen, when I shot [Episode 9×09], we shot the opening my initial editor’s cut. I loved the opening of the cemetery scene. I thought it was so scary, and just something really, really different and really exciting.
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“They went in and did some additional shooting in the cemetery for the end of episode eight, because I think that they realized that we had some great opportunities in this cemetery. I mean, I kept saying, ‘It’s Night of the Living Dead.’ We’ve never shot zombies in a cemetery before, so this is the closest that we’re ever going to get to a George Romero homage, which is to have zombies in the cemetery. So a lot of the shots that I did in the [Episode 9×09 opening] are all intended to be evocative of classic horror, and the classic imagery of zombies in the cemetery.”
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The second half of The Walking Dead season nine finds our groups of survivors, both old and new, continuing to deal with the impact of events that took place during the six years that have passed. Since the disappearance of Rick, many of these characters have become strangers to each other, and in some ways, strangers to themselves. What they do know is that they are in undeniable danger. They will soon realise the world just beyond does not operate as they thought. The group’s rules and ways of survival no longer guarantee their safety. A whole new threat has crossed their paths, and they soon discover it’s unlike any threat they have encountered or endured before. The group will start to question what they think they see. What may appear to be normal in this post-apocalyptic world could actually be more disturbing and terrifying than when the apocalypse first broke out. All that is certain is the stakes are high and numerous.
The Walking Dead season 9 airs on Sundays in the US and on Mondays in the UK.
