This week, creative director John Murdy took select members of the press – including Shock Till You Drop – on a tour of the maze. After the jump, gain access to our photo gallery and check out a video of one of the gruesome rooms attendees will be stepping through.
In our tour, we learned:
- Dead Inside is based on the first two seasons of the hit AMC series.
- Greg Nicotero of KNB EFX (he’s also directing episodes of The Walking Dead) is in constant contact with Murdy and watching over the maze’s production.
- Murdy and his team were able to use the same FX molds and sound effects as those used on the show.
- Your journey through the maze begins with the hospital Rick Grimes wakes up in and ends at Herschel’s barn.
- You’ll meet “bicycle girl.” Other highlights include the tank sequence (complete with half-eaten horse), the deer-eating zombie and the well zombie.
- Murdy originally wanted to recreate the car-riddle highway from season 2, but pulling it off proved to be too ambitious. It would take up way too much space.
- Over 2,000 prosthetic appliances will be used on this maze alone through the event’s run from September through October.
- The maze will incorporate the smell of decaying corpses.
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