Will AMC's The Walking Dead Be the Grossest TV Show Ever?

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AMC is well-known for its cerebral dramas like Mad Men and Breaking Bad, but with the upcoming zombie serial The Walking Dead, the brainsss over at the channel intend to do something different: make you throw up. “The stuff that AMC is going to put on air is crazy,” says Robert Kirkman, who created the comic the show is based on (Frank Darabont is directing). “They keep showing me things and I’m like, you’re not doing that.” What kind of things? Read on, but put down that pastrami sandwich first!

Website Bloody Disgusting scored a set visit to the series (because, the name) and here are a few of the lovely images they witnessed during the shoot:

· When the first zombie image from set circulated last month, portraying the rotting corpse of a woman reaching out towards camera, the collective hearts of zombie fans across the nation went aflutter… “Just wait until you see below the waste,” explains a giddy Kirkman. “Below the waste, she’s just a pelvis with a dragging femur. She’s just dragging herself around and it is just horrendous-looking.”

· Rick wanders into an abandoned downtown Atlanta looking for signs of life. Instead, he comes across a mob of hungry zombies. He manages to escape, but his horse isn’t so fortunate. “They rip a horse open and there’s just spaghetti coming out,” says Kirkman. “They actually have things that you see.”

· “It was fantastic,” Nicotero says of the horse scene. “You see the pale, discolored hands going in and then coming out red.”

· The other gory image is of a dead nurse that looks to have been one zombie’s late night snack. Her body is totally massacred, blood streaked and splattered all around her, a dark pool around her corpse. Some of her ribs are exposed and all that remains of one leg is a bloody stump. Did I mention they showed us these images right after lunch?

· “Yesterday [makeup artist Greg Nicotero] was up past his elbows. He was just absolutely covered with blood.”

· [Says Darabont,] “You can’t say fuck but you can shoot a zombie in the head at point blank range. I love this business.”

What inspired AMC’s new bloodlust? We don’t want to point any fingers, but maybe you guys shouldn’t have reacted so excitedly to a certain someone getting certain appendages mowed off by a certain errant tractor…