ArgentoFan here, just logging on to say WOW, we had a real blast last Saturday at the Brighton shoot.

Admittedly things didn’t start out to well for the Croydon 4 (my neighbour, 2 neighbourly pals and my goodself) as it downpoured virtually the whole way to Brighton.

Things looked grim down south, but as we pulled back on the rain the moment we parked up in a beautiful multi-storey 5 mins walk from where Mr Watering was orchestrating the event.

So, we arrive at 8.00 and see this bright green crane extended God knows how high, and I'm thinking "Shit, I hope Stuntman Frank knows what he's doing, either that or its quick and painless for Stacey should he NOT know".  60ft is awful high when a hard pavement is just DYING to meet you. And right there, next to the crane are the 2 makeup artists, already applying slap on the first few walking dead. Not to much to see or do at this time - out came the camera (1st time on a film set, spot the newbie)  and I snapped off a few pics.

The morn progresses and a few more zombies are made up. Roughly 30 of us, all grinning like idiots, wondering if the Grand Ole Duke of Gore George Romero will ever see our efforts and call us up for Dawn of the Dead part 23.

Matt's shooting some weird and wonderful footage on the roof, involving 2 very attractive young ladies who have a "liking" for each other. If only I could have been a stage hand to THAT, but alas, Mr Watering left me out on a cold street for that particular little scene.

Finally, after a time, our director descends to the street, having satiated himself with his rooftop shootings of the cinematic variety, and we are all called upon to portray to the outside world what a feeding frenzy of the dead looks like. Some poor soul lies on his back, entrails  on his stomach, face about to be torn off, with the more hungry of us all huddled over him.

The guy's about to buy it big time, and to prove it, there's this hose that runs alongside him out of camera shot.

Action is called. The munchers move in for the kill…

And blood just shoots everywhere. I mean EVERYWHERE. That hose, you see, is happily pumping out blood from a large dustbin, and believe me there's plenty to go round.

We all get soaked, especially  the poor guy on the floor (lets call him PGOF as I never knew his name) . All fun and games, but wait. Matt makes us do another take or two, after which PGOF so drenched and shivering in the chill Brighton cold that he REALLY looks dead.

Gut munching really gives you an appetite, so we all broke up after that. After the break, the stunt duo of Frank and Lenny rigged up the harness onto Stacey, the oh-so-brave actress, and the zombies reassembled. By now, crowds of onlookers and shoppers are rubbernecking at the perimeter of the set, as if it was a road traffic accident, interest from Joe Public is building. Upon seeing folk dressed up with blood, snarling and looking like death warmed up, someone from the outside world posed the £50 million question….."what are you filming here?", to which the reply   "the new Merchant Ivory production.." "Oh, cool".

Its time for Stacey's big moment. Rigged up to the crane, the crowds now eagerly gathering,  Frank, another guy and myself haul Stacey up into the air, some 50 or 60 ft, maybe more.

And then let her drop. I feel it’s the closest I've ever come to stone cold murder….she comes straight down,  and I cant tell if her scream is acted out (in which case shes a fine actress) or its for real (the latter methinks, and Hell, I'd be doing the same in that situation). She comes to a sudden  halt mere inches above a sea of grabbing, reaching undead hands. The zombies want Stacey (or Liu as her character is called) for dinner and who can blame them.

The crowds love it…  clapping and cheering. The scene changes and suddenly our heroine is lying  atop a zombie in a banana suit. She kicks back over her head Van Damme style, and rolls away under the mobs legs, zombies falling like skittles over her. All good fun.

Another break and suddenly its 4.00……..and the arrival of several hundred zombie revellers all from  the Beach of the Dead walk.  A whole army of guys and gals dressed in their very best zombie atire, and some excellent makeup on many of them I must say.

Matt corralled about 80 or so into the little side street where the filming was taking place and hey presto……The Horde scene was birthed.

What a day. Great time, a whole lotta fun. Can't wait for Matt to shoot the rest of the movie. Cant wait to see it. Let's hope the budget is met and roll on next year for the rest of the shoot.

Oh, and congrats on a certain delivery this week, Meester Watering. The OTHER highlight to your week.