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Talkin' 'Bout Zombies with Sid Haig
November 16, 2007

“There’s a little bit of stuff they do in post-production and they designed two cameras specifically for this shoot,” said actor Sid Haig of his experiences working on Night of the Living Dead in 3-D, which was released on DVD last month by Lionsgate.  “For all intents and purposes, you couldn’t tell you were doing anything out of the ordinary.”

 

This latest version of George Romero’s legendary zombie saga throws in plenty of homages to the original 1968 film (at one point, a pair of characters are seen watching the original on TV!), while Sid Haig essays a new role, that of a creepy mortician who explains the reasons that the recently dead are re-animated and wreaking

havoc on the living. Usually, those who are left delivering a film’s exposition are the most forgettable characters in the production, but in Haig’s case, he’s the best one in the movie (which is a pretty so-so movie).

 

“I though it was pretty cool to get a gig in this movie,” said cult figure Haig, who’s been popping up in various film and TV projects for the past four decades, most notably as the demonic clown Captain Spaulding in Rob Zombie’s 2003 House of 1000 Corpses. It was that star turn that revitalized Haig’s career and quickly elevated him to horror movie icon status. But even though Haig has appeared in some ten horror flicks since that film, he still keeps his eye open on other genre opportunities.

 

“Right now, I’m going for content. If I get a hold of a really good story, then I know that it’s something I have to do,” Haig told us. “I learned a long time ago, never say never. I once said ‘I’ll never do a kids’ show, and then Jason of Star Command came along!

 

 

Posted by Laurence Lerman on November 16, 2007 | Comments (0)