Created on a budget approximating the change I lost to my sofa cushions last night when I passed out whilst watching “The Adventures of Ford Fairlane,” this is one poor example of proper film making. After all, with a title like this current offering, one finds it tough to even pretend to foster expectations going in, which “BZFD” definitely has in its favor. I refuse to bring an overly favorable comportment to a viewing merely because the movie is locally produced. That merits note to your average country bumpkin, which I am at heart.įret not, friends. I live just up the street from where some of this was filmed. Thumbing its nose contrarily at its own title, “‘Biker Zombies From Detroit” (“BZFD” until the final paragraph) is set in the suburb of Grosse Pointe, yet shot in every surrounding city that isn’t Grosse Pointe. thelivingdeadweekend.It’s an exciting prospect, to view a film from your neck of the woods when your particular neck isn’t a common stomping ground for motion pictures. Monroeville Mall, 200 Mall Circle, Monroeville. Living Dead Weekend Runs Fri., June 8 through Sun., June 10. "But I think, for the larger number of fans, Dawn would be their favorite.” "Everyone understands Night was his first success," says Streiner. Kevin has expanded it to make it bigger and cover more bases."
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I couldn’t make any money doing that-not that I was looking to-but I couldn’t lose money every year. My idea was to be very smaller and for the super-fans. "He’s taken it into a much bigger general direction.
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"I turned it over to Kevin Kreiss in 2014, who’s run it ever since," says Streiner. The Living Dead Weekend has grown considerably since 2008, when Gary Streiner started it in Evans City (where Night of the Living Dead was filmed). ‘Tom, it’s time to be Blades, or ‘Tom, it’s time to get hit by a truck.’ Even the blond zombie, that was me with a blonde wig on. Between doing the effects and the part and the stunts, I’d go to sleep under the escalator. “I’d be on the set with a sleeping bag tucked in the corner. “I describe it as the longest Halloween I’ve ever had,” says Savini. George wanted more and more of it, and I became the leader of the biker gang.”ĭawn of the Dead lasted three months, and kept Savini busy acting, doing makeup and special effects. “I just threw a costume on and was in the movie. “The part I played isn’t in the script,” says Savini. The Pagans, however, were nice guys, Savini recalls. “Some zombies jumped on a golf cart and crashed it into a pillar in the mall, doing about $7,000 dollars of damage.” “We’d make up the zombies at 7 p.m., and didn’t start until the stores closed at 9 p.m. A lot of the zombies went to The Brown Derby and got drunk.” “There was bar called The Brown Derby,” recalls Savini.
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However, there was one instance where things did get out of hand. In fact, the cast and crew were pretty careful to limit the damage. Despite the fact that the film featured a scene with members of an actual motorcycle gang (The Pagans) roaring through the mall on their bikes, the mall opened for business every day like it was no big deal. Much of the film was shot afterhours at Monroeville Mall - so, of course, they had keys to all the stores. Savini will be there, along with just about everyone from the film, and others inspired by it, like Greg Nicotero, the Sewickley-born director and brain behind the special effects on AMC’s The Walking Dead. On June 8-10, fans will have a chance to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Dawn with The Living Dead Weekend, featuring 40 members of the cast and crew at the site where it all began - Monroeville Mall. That’s why I was contacted for Friday the 13th. There’s groundbreaking effects - it wasn’t necessarily realistic before Dawn.” “If there was no Dawn, there would be no Friday the 13th for me. “I wouldn’t have a career, if not for this movie,” says Savini.
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Savini had worked makeup and special effects for Romero’s 1978 vampire flick Martin, but this new project promised to be bigger, scarier and nastier than just about anything before it: Dawn of the Dead. “George loved it, so I’m building retractable screwdrivers.” “So I came back to Pittsburgh, and I’m thinking of things like, ‘How about we drive a screwdriver through a zombie’s ear?’” says Savini.