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If You Thought an Actual Reality Show With Zombies Couldn’t Happen, Think Again


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CONtv, a network name that inspires no faith whatsoever (especially once you learn that the Wizard World people are behind it), is an online subscription service designed to provide original entertainment for the kind of fan that attends conventions (the kind ready to sleep in line overnight and part with money at a second’s notice?).

Following a Bruce Campbell game show, they have now revealed a trailer for Fight of the Living Dead, which will debut this coming Sunday. Shot in a women’s prison, it features competitors facing off against parkour experts and extras dressed like zombies, not unlike the Walking Dead Escape obstacle course from Comic-Cons past. It sounds like a recipe for somebody to get seriously hurt by accident, and I suspect the viewership for this show may not be dissimilar to those who watch NASCAR for the crashes.

Shot over the course of two days at Sybil Brand Women’s Prison in Los Angeles, “FIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD” competitors were first blindfolded, driven in circles, led onto the set, and zipped into body bags, all to help simulate the all-too-real tension of awaking in a post-apocalyptic landscape riddled by monsters out for blood. Instructed by a faceless character named Dr. Altagracia (portrayed by Tony E. Valenzuela, Executive Producer and founder of YouTube’s #1 ranked genre channel BlackBoxTV), the “survivors” are tasked finding the antidote that can save mankind.
Enlisting over 200 extras, FX Supervisor Tommy Pietch (“Face Off”) and his team create a horrifying mob of rotting, wounded, bloody zombies tasked with keeping the competitors from accomplishing their mission. “FIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD” also turns up the thrills by including a collection of zombie-clad Parkour experts, overseen by renowned stunt coordinator Chris Carnel (Captain America: The Winter Soldier), who use the prison’s walls as their terrifying playground, threatening to unleash destruction from any angle.

I guess they wouldn’t air it if anyone had actually shot somebody in the head by mistake.