Summary
For fans who lovedThe Walking Dead’s zombie look, the series' producer and special effects artist, Greg Nicotero, has a new upcoming TV show onShudderthat sees the award-winning creative bring his skills to an unscripted horror-based competition series calledGuts & Gloryin first-look pictures. Nicotero serves as showrunner and executive producer for the immersive 6-episode reality show premiering very soon, and is described asSurvivormeetsThe Blair Witch Project.
Guts & Glory Reality TV Show Gets First Look Images of ‘Immersive Horror Experience'
As reported byThe Wrap, Shudder shared a first look at its new, unscripted horror-based competition seriesGuts & Gloryat this year’s San Diego Comic-Con. Never a stranger to guts or gore, as seen inThe Walking Dead, Greg Nicoterowill bring his years of experience doing incredible special effects makeup for many shows over the last 40 years, with his very first job beginning on George A. Romero’s 1985 film,Day of the Dead.In 1988, Nicotero formed KNB EFX Group, a special make-up effects studio which went on to win an Emmy Award in 2001 forFrank Herbert’s Duneand an Academy Award in 2006 for achievement in make-up forThe Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
In April, when the series was officially announced,Nicotero saidthat he “couldn’t be more excited about this opportunity to explore this new landscape. To marry a non-scripted competition show with a genre narrative lands along the lines of if ‘Survivor’ and ‘The Blair Witch Project’ had a baby." He went on to explainGuts & Gloryis “one of the most creative and organic things I’ve ever done, creating FX that have to happen live in real time and capturing the honest reactions… all the while fighting to see who the winner will be. To add to the mayhem, I also got to reunite many of the key crew members from the ‘Walking Dead’ universe to help bring this show to life.”
In the new first-look images, Nicotero can be seen leaning over a huge bloated corpse of some kind, with its stomach split open and decomposing gray skin, more than enough to give the most hardened horror fan nightmares. Rob Fox, EVP of production for AMC Networks,previously said, “If you know horror, you know the innovation and creativity that Greg Nicotero brings to the genre. His legendary special effects work has given audiences a fresh and thrilling take on familiar genre staples, from his notorious walkers ofThe Walking Deadto themonsters ofCreepshowand more, never failing to shock and scare,“ Fox continues. “We’re thrilled to continue our longstanding relationship with Greg in bringing his unique concept to life with moments and scenarios that shock, surprise and showcase the depth of this genre.“
Guts & Glorypremieres on July 06, 2025, on both Shudder and AMC+
