Who knew zombies needed alarm clocks?
Rain spat on a handful of horror-movie hopefuls who gathered in the Wal-Mart parking lot before dawn Saturday morning. An original 6 a.m. call time for the local film "One Last Sunset" got pushed back to 10:30 a.m. Some of the aspiring actors didn't get the message.
Sixteen-year-old Amanda Cancio's mom brought her to Granite Falls from Raleigh, hoping to add a film credit to the teen's resume. She didn't mind being early.
"Everything happens for a reason," said a chipper Cancio, bouncing excitedly on the passenger seat of her mom's minivan.
A chance at movie experience also brought 20-year-old Robert Smith from Raleigh. He and his dad left at 3:30 a.m.
"This is where I want to be," Smith said. "In movies, not in the Wal-Mart parking lot."
More than a half hour later, the quiet crowd filed into the lakeside clubhouse at nearby Riverbend development.
Paperwork awaited them.
Who knew zombies needed pens?
Angela Clark might have. She and friend Amber Mourglea were up at 3 a.m. working on their makeup. Clark sported a wrinkled, blood red patch of latex completely covering one eye.
Mourglea had bits of rice stuck in a faux wound on her face to look, quite successfully, like maggots.
Clark has been "doing zombies for years," she said in her squeaky, decidedly un-zombie sounding voice.
She made up both their faces. She's had some experience, recently working on the Winston-Salem Web series "Monster Cops."
Downstairs, Don and Chana Van Meter of Valdese were getting their clothes distressed. The couple landed roles as primary zombies after sending casting director Maxann Crotts photos of themselves in their bruised and rotting skin makeup.
Nearby, the lead zombie got a thick, pasty white makeover underneath red, white and blue balloons left over from July 4.
In all, about 150 people showed up to be zombie extras, said Filmmaker Kevin Richmond, who wrote and is directing "One Last Sunset." That translates to about 15 hours of unpaid work in one day.
More than 20 of those extras agreed to be back Sunday and still more will volunteer when filming wraps up this weekend.
Who knew zombies were such hard workers?
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