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- his watch is in one of those cool...

- Biker stuff.

Like there's any cop in the world

who's got that sh*t on.

- Maybe at the end of the world.

- You go with it.

There's a great line when he's looking

at the zombies - ''l slept with her!''

- He was saying stuff like that.

- He was going nuts.

This is bad news.

Cos they don't know...

Here's our pharmacy.

There it is. There's your pharmacy.

l like how Sarah touches

all the things in the cabinet.

l came to the conclusion on this movie

that there's never enough money

and there's never enough time.

No matter how much you have...

And we had neither money nor time.

A great combination.

- lt was a great example.

- There's Scott Reiniger.

Awesome. We shot this in the parking lot.

We made Fort Pastor right outside.

That hill is the same hill that the zombies

come down in the shot on the roof.

We just put a chain-link fence up there

and drove some Humvees around

and said, ''Look, we're at Fort Pastor.''

- l like this girl's bite on her eye.

- Yeah.

This is Sarah breaking down.

Yeah. Just lost her husband.

lt's understandable.

- Realised what kind of movie she was in.

- Maybe that was it.

''What have l done? l had real credibility!''

''Get me out of here!''

''Michael Barry's yelling at me!

What am l doing?''

- l always liked this shot.

- Yeah.

Matt and l talked about it for a long time.

He was like, ''That's cool.''

This was awesome

because the woman who was doing...

- We brought her in to sew.

- She's a nurse.

The special effects people

had put some plastic under Ving's arm

so that she could sew the fake skin together.

The plastic was to shield his actual skin.

She did one in the foreground

and l said, ''OK. Go deeper,''

and l wanted her to go

physically down the wound

but she thought l meant

dig down deeper into the actual skin

so on the second one,

which you don't see here,

she stabbed the needle

into Ving's actual skin

and then sewed it.

And we didn't know that,

but blood started coming out of the wound

and l said, ''Awesome,

they did a great job with that prosthetic.''

And Ving goes,

''OK, l believe that's my last one.''

l was like, ''What do you mean?

lt was great but...''

He goes, ''She sewed

my actual skin on that last take.

''She sewed the plastic to my...

She stabbed me.''

l was like, ''OK, cool. That's great

you didn't scream out or anything.''

lt was pretty cool he just took it on the chin.

- The fabulous Ben Cozine.

- Yeah. He's just twitching out.

- Twitcher is just something we made up.

- lt's a made-up thing.

- lt's a little something for zombie lure.

- Yeah...

- ''Lore'' l believe that is.

- Or lure! You could lure a zombie.

With a twitcher. lt'll come to you.

This is the non-theatrical kill of Ben Cozine.

The MPAA had a real problem with it.

This is how you do it, by the way.

l liked it cos you get a glimpse of Ben

at the last second.

- There's his humanity. No.

- Oh, no.

- lt ended.

- lt's good.

l like that cos you get that

from lnna, too, later on.

- You get a little look at her...

- When she gets capped.

- Look at that.

- The Kid doesn't have the stomach for it.

- The Kid can't handle it.

- He didn't like that.

But he has the stomach for it.

lt's unfortunate that

they had to clean up the mall

and when you clean up the mall, you kill.

You gotta kill.

- This was the actual roof...

- This is awesome.

When they were throwing this body off,

right behind us was a church.

And they were having a funeral

and Michael Barry was yelling...

That's where Fort Pastor was.

Michael Barry was yelling off the roof, like...

- He saw a zombie he recognised.

- lt's in the deleted scenes

where he's going, ''Look at you now!''

and swearing

and people are coming out of the church

and we're throwing a body off the roof.

A funeral! And going, ''My God,

what are you guys doing over there?''

And he's bumming out

that he's gotta keep yelling.

We made him do it over and over.

lt was pretty great.

There's Andy for the first time.

Bruce Bohne plays Andy

and is a much-loved character.

- People love him.

- He's close to our heart.

- Bruce is a solid dude.

- He's a good guy.

Until very recently,

that was a Shrek helicopter.

- l like what they've done with it now.

- lt's good.

That helicopter wasn't there.

We'd written a sequence where

the helicopter landed, took them away.

We just couldn't do on the budget.

At one point we added a bit character

that we'd put on the helicopter

- cos it was full.

- He'd been bitten.

And he was going to Fort Pastor

just to really finish that off.

- Here they are.

- Locked in Metropolis.

We shot all this in the mall.

lt was our giant mall set that

we physically rolled around on shooting.

This is not in the theatrical version,

where we discover what

Jake's character does for a living.

ln some of the reviews l read,

they knew he was a salesman.

- Did we say it anywhere else?

- l don't know!

lt's kinda cool. lt's cos he's got

that crazy, short-sleeved shirt

the kind l wear with a clip-on tie.

Exactly. Like you'd wear under a blazer

or you'd wear on the floor

if you were selling a washing machine.

- l wear it.

- l know. lt's a good look for you.

This is kind of like, ''Sh*t's bad...''

l always liked this scene.

l did too. l like it when Ving goes

after his chewing gum antenna.

- Yeah. l like that, too.

- We weren't sure. lt's awesome, though.

- He clearly knew something we didn't.

- Yeah. But we took it out.

Sarah.

His brother at Fort Pastor.

''They seem to need to feed

on human flesh.'' l love that.

One of the first things we shot

for the movie was all this video stuff.

- We were on stage with the cameras...

- At the CTV.

On top of the CTV in Toronto,

shooting all this news stuff.

A lot of it's in the title sequence

and some of it's here and...

- This guy was good.

- Yeah.

- All the news guys were good.

- They were.

l love that shot of Michael combing his hair.

This thing came out of...

- ''We need something funny here.''

- We did.

We were like, ''We need something funny,''

and we came up with this.

And they sell it well, the guys do.

lt's nice also to talk about cos we brush over

the world at that moment there.

The Kid was selling that.

- l love Barry - ''That sucks too.''

- That's great.

Ken Foree.

He's a televangelist in a law office.

Not sure about that but l love it.

- l dig that crucifix.

- Yeah.

- lt's Don King style.

- We extended this also.

This has got that ''same-sex marriage''

and ''man-on-man relations'' in

which l always loved.

The lights go out.

l'm glad you got this thing in

when they're just bumming out in the mall.

- Yeah, that was good.

- Scott Hecker did a great sound job.

- Yeah, it's creepy here.

- lt's a bummer.

And also Tyler Bates.

- Tyler Bates. Awesome.

- F***ing awesome, awesome job.

- Throughout, everywhere you turn.

- He did a great job.

- There's Tyler coming at ya.

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