Greg Nicotero began his career as a special effects make-up assistant on George A. Romero’s Day of the Dead. He worked alongside fellow legend of practical FX, Tom Savini, before branching out on his own, and has collectively worked on almost two hundred projects across television and film. Not content to stay within the effects world, Nicotero expanded into producing before making the move into directing where he has spent the last decade working behind the camera on television super-smash, The Walking Dead. Nicotero’s talent also paved the way for one of his past projects, Creepshow, to get a second lease on life.
Nicotero got one of his earlier FX jobs working on Creepshow 2 and the fun of the experience must have stuck with him as he immediately jumped aboard the television series. As well as directing several episodes, Nicotero serves as showrunner for the programme, helping to curate the line-up for each season. As usual, the third season of Creepshow will welcome directorial efforts from familiar names as they create stories featuring famous faces. Continuing to follow its typical anthology set-up, each episode will present two very different stories with the intention to give viewers thrills and chills every time around.
At the same time, Nicotero is also helping put the final touches onto the final season of zombie phenomena The Walking Dead. The mutli-faceted talent has been part of the show since its inception and with the end of an era nigh, things are pretty hectic in Nicotero’s world right now. With so many productions on the go at once, Greg is obviously incredibly busy, but we managed to sneak a few moments with him to discuss both projects and how his love of film memorabilia informed his decision to take to the director’s chair for season three’s story, Skeletons in the Closet.
Season Three of Creepshow is available to watch now on Shudder.
