Zombie- Behind The Scenes

Sometimes you gotta go all in.  Months in the making, this Bike Monkey Zombie extravaganza required the Culture Pop crew to go BIG or go home.  Shooting on location in Boggs Mountain State Forest, we brought in the pro makeup team from Pandora FX in San Francisco to transform Adam Menconi and Wade Scarpelli into brain-munching, Capo-wearing, skin-rotting Zombies from hell.

The crew worked tirelessly, with Kit Karutz SPRINTING the Red Epic Dragon through the woods in take after take.  Gunther Kirsch must have made three hundred trips back and forth from set to holding as he schlepped tripods, lenses, c-stands, sliders, silks and flags without a complaint.  Producer Taylor Scott kept the whole ship afloat on the production end, while Matt Fabiano did his best impression of a disgruntled, surly Boom Op who’s about to call his union rep to complain about the working conditions.

And driving all of us the entire time – the incomparable Jamie Tuell.  Calling for take after take until he KNEW we nailed it, Jamie channeled his inner George Romero and directed the hell out of this thing.  After countless hours of editing, color correcting and sound designing, Jamie looked a little undead himself, but the end result is a cinematic masterpiece that will live on in zombie infamy.