Return of the Living Dead: Designing the Dead

00:00:01 The fundamental decision was this.

00:00:44 One school said, "Become a film editor first."

00:01:29 which I didn't like much.

00:02:13 Russo being his writer on that.

00:02:49 and I didn't want to make that script.

00:03:20 He was very confident I'd have no trouble designing the corpses.

00:03:52 It had to have a look

00:04:29 I mean, we got that right. I don't know if Bill still has the artwork he did for it

00:05:00 But, yeah, I got Bill right away.

00:05:25 Dan was smart enough to do that.

00:05:51 or benefiting the film as I could.

00:06:26 He actually made my job as production designer very easy

00:06:53 I got a huge photo book on the mummies of Guanajuato.

00:07:25 Tales from the Crypt, Vault of Horror, Crypt of Terror

00:08:00 So we had the principal actors

00:08:30 I thought it would be funny if one of them had lost their lower jaw

00:09:04 whose flesh is turned into this tar-like substance

00:09:36 that a stuntman would never think of.

00:10:04 Allan could move in a way...

00:10:40 that they stimulat e creativity.

00:11:03 You want to know, seriously, a real technique that I use for getting ideas?

00:11:36 When the picture was first completed, I was very frustrated.

00:12:16 we based everything we did on reality.

00:12:50 But the details were from God and the devil.