The Walking Dead: 6 Things "Slabtown" Did Right (And 4 It Didn't)

4. Real Violence

Greg Nicotero and his team do an excellent job on The Walking Dead. The special effects bods are at least part of the reason AMC drop so much money on the show, to ensure that the zombies tearing people apart look like actual zombies tearing actual people apart. Or, well, how zombies tearing people apart would look if zombies were real. Whatever. It€™s always realistically grizzly and gory, but it€™s still somewhat fantastical. It€™s sort of easy to disassociate yourself from the more bloody walker-related sights in the show, since you can tell it€™s special effects. It€™s a person with a grey face chewing someone€™s nose off. That doesn€™t tend to happen IRL. The real horror of The Walking Dead has always come from what the human survivors do to each other, though, rather than what the zombies do to them. Some of the most vicious moments in the series have come from people, and the violence enacted by people upon other people always tends to be more vicious. Slabtown was especially full of really grim, disturbing and disgusting scenes: the bodies being tossed down the elevator shaft was grimly inhuman, but the surgery scenes were especially gross considering the usual sort of gore.