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How many years does it take for a zombie to decompose?

Within three to five weeks the body enters 'active decay' in which maggots will hatch from eggs in the eyes, mouth and other orifices. Six weeks later, in the 'advanced decay' stage, most of the body will have been eaten by scavengers, leaving just skin, bone and some ligaments.

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The zombies across The Walking Dead universe – including on World Beyond – are plenty traumatised. In fact, one of Nicotero’s favourite challenges is to work on new visual ‘gags’ for each series. “We’ve done gags where the skin has flopped off which we achieved by layering vaseline between fake muscle and skin to get that yellow adipose-like fat,” he says. “There are so many things to think about; when a zombie bites into somebody you want to see the muscle tearing at a different rate to the skin. In terms of blood spray, we developed this little perforated plate that we’d lay over a blood bag, so when you see the skin rip off in a zombie bite the blood swells up instead of spraying out. It was really important to me that you get the sense that the blood is flowing from underneath the flesh.” Other favourite make-ups include the toxic waste zombies from season eight of the main show, created in homage to RoboCop’s villainous Emil Antonwsky, who meets his demise through falling into toxic sludge. Season nine’s frozen zombies, meanwhile, were something Nicotero had been waiting to do ever since he first read the comic books which the series is based on. “We still have the freedom to play around across the shows,” he says. “It is a bit of a challenge now because we have to keep one-upping ourselves in terms of visual style. You just really want the zombies to look good. Recently, we’ve been experimenting more with tearing off skin by using prosthetics as a base and adding on to them so that they feel like they’re more delicate. Ten years in to the zombie apocalypse, we want it to look like if you grabbed a zombie your hand could sink through its chest and slide right into its liquified organs.” Despite a decade of experience in the world of The Walking Dead, Nicotero explains that World Beyond provided some fresh opportunities, allowing him and show runner Matt Negrete to really focus on zombie ‘hero moments’. “On World Beyond we really spent time asking ‘what is the hero visual that you want to send to the audience?’,” explains Nicotero. “It was really different to what we’d done on The Walking Dead in the past.” With two seasons of World Beyond commissioned and a trilogy of Walking Dead films in the pipeline, it seems Nicotero has plenty more opportunities to deconstruct decomposition yet. Whatever fresh takes World Beyond introduces one thing is for sure, there will be blood. And guts. And eyeballs…

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