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Thursday, 12 November 2009
Parkour Thriller Zombies
An amazing new film here. Parkour Thriller Zombies. Starring, written, directed & produced by Paul Maunder. Watch it. Keep an eye out for me (I'm the first zombie and I'm at the back-right during the Thriller dance):Over the last few months we've been rehearsing the Michael Jackson Thriller dance, and Paul's been writing and planning the film. We spent a few hours each week for about 6 weeks filming zombie parkour scenes and we filmed Thriller in one sitting (10 takes at different angles).
I didn't have a lot of time to be in most of the zombie scenes, but I got practising for Thriller and made sure I was around for filming it. The one night I was there for the zombie filming was the one at Dean's house when I came to the door at the beginning of the film and Paul threw holy water on me and I attacked him and mauled his arm before being hit on the head by Freeman's nunchucks and having my neck broken. That was a hilarious scene to film as I had blood capsules (which were out-of-date, might I add) in my mouth and had to pretend to bite his arm and shred his skin with my teeth. The way the blood capsules work is you bite them to release powder into your saliva which turns it red and makes it foam, so I was literally druelling it all over his forearm and shaking my head about to make it look like I was biting and ripping. We had to film the scene about 8 times to get all the camera angles Paul wanted (to make sure he had some good ones to pick from) so this meant I got hit on the back of the head with the nunchucks and have my neck "broken" 8 times! It also meant that my bloody saliva was all over Paul's arm and was starting to get really mankey for him to have on his arm. There was a brilliant clip we filmed of him running off after the final take to wash it off in the sink, saying "That was the most disgusting scene I've ever shot - bloody Ben Nuttall's saliva all over me..."
Anyway, it's a great film and has had over 10,000 views, 500 comments & 500 ratings in just the first few days. Between you and me, we're aiming for 1,000,000 views within 12 months. So get commenting, rating, favouriting and most of all get sharing!
Huge thanks and congratulations to Paul for producing, to Dean for his efforts with make-up and to everyone else who took part.
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0GtKbeyYBg
Posted by Ben Nuttall at 17:23 
