The Secretive Horror Sequence Filmed On The Strolling Useless Set

A brand-new TV present was created in a really secretive method—and the method concerned filming on the set of The Strolling Useless. The long-running zombie apocalypse franchise has been on the air since 2010, with the unique Strolling Useless sequence operating for 11 seasons and spawning a number of spinoffs, together with Worry the Strolling Useless, Useless Metropolis and Daryl Dixon.

Georgia served as the principle backdrop for manufacturing on The Strolling Useless, and the Peach State is now host to a brand-new horror sequence that utilized the Strolling Useless units whereas filming, in response to EW.

Guts & Glory is a six-episode actuality competitors sequence premiering Tuesday, October 14 on Shudder, the horror-based streaming service owned by the identical media firm that produces The Strolling Useless.

The method was so secretive that producers misled the contestants about the place they’d be filming the present. Initially informed that Guts & Glory would movie in Alabama, the forged was as an alternative transported to Georgia.

In response to Greg Nicotero, who’s produced each The Strolling Useless and Guts & Glory, the truth present contestants flew into Atlanta, Georgia, then received on a bus and had been pushed to Alabama. So far as they had been involved, the Yellowhammer State was their remaining vacation spot.

Nevertheless, after staying the evening at a resort, the forged received on a bus that had its home windows blacked out, and so they had been taken again to Georgia. “We took them on the again lot of The Strolling Useless studios,” Nicotero revealed.

A few of the Strolling Useless units can be simply recognizable to eagle-eyed followers, so the Guts & Glory producers took the contestants “deep sufficient” in order that they did not spot the sound levels. They only thought they had been “in the course of nowhere,” however they had been really stationed on the similar location because the Whisperers camp on The Strolling Useless.

Different areas the competitors present filmed at included the deserted hospital featured on the AMC drama, which acquired a makeover to make it appear to be a “actual functioning emergency room.”

The contestants landed in Atlanta, we put them in a bus, and we drove them to Alabama. They stayed in a single day at a resort. They got here out, they received in a bus with the home windows blacked out, and we drove them again to Georgia. And we took them on the again lot of The Strolling Useless studios. We simply needed to take them deep sufficient that they could not see the sound levels. And once they received out, they had been like, ‘Properly, the solar’s over right here!’ Their camp was actually the place the Whisperers camp was. However they could not see the sound levels, in order that they thought they had been in the course of nowhere.

In episode 2, once they go to the hospital for a problem, that’s the deserted hospital the place we shot The Strolling Useless. We shot Emily Kinney’s loss of life there, and we shot the Whisperers there. I additionally shot a few Creepshow episodes there, so I knew that the hospital was deserted, however we dressed the emergency room to seem like it was an actual functioning emergency room. Inside 30 seconds, the lights exit, there are screams, horrible sounds from the hallway, blood splashes, the lights come again on, everyone’s useless.

At this level, it is unknown if the contestants lastly discovered they had been competing on the Strolling Useless units, so followers must keep tuned to the Shudder sequence to search out out.

Guts & Glory, which can launch its finale on Tuesday, November 4, incorporates a group of contestants experiencing a horror movie come to life, with varied challenges alongside the best way to check their talents.

Shudder is a streaming service recognized for horror reveals and flicks, in addition to unique content material like Creepshow, The Creep Tapes, Deadstream and Converse No Evil. Whereas docuseries and different unscripted tasks like The Final Drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs are featured on Shudder, the streamer is not recognized for actuality competitors reveals—till now.

Guts & Glory guarantees to be a scary, enjoyable and wild journey for the contestants and viewers alike. Followers of The Strolling Useless ought to undoubtedly take a look at this brand-new enterprise that is a mashup of the horror style and actuality competitors reveals like Survivor.

Guts & Glory streams Tuesdays on Shudder.