Back in the summer of 2021, we got to direct an episode of Creepshow for Greg Nicotero.
It’s called The Things in Oakwood’s Past, and we made the whole thing in just three months.
Greg Nicotero and a friend from the military.
The project landed in our lap right when everybody else was getting ready for summer vacation, but it was urgent, so there was no time to think twice. We couldn’t outsource it, so we built a team of almost 30 artists at lightning speed and ran the whole production out of Angry Metal.
We barely slept that summer, but man, it was worth it. It ended up being the highest-rated episode on IMDb.
You can watch it on Shudder, and yeah, there are a bunch of copies on YouTube too. But the cut below is the only place you’ll find the Junquera version.
Click below to watch it in English.
Click below to watch it in Spanish.
Click below to watch the animatic.
Deleted Scene.
Our favorite sequence in the episode never actually got made. It was something we came up with at Angry Metal to fix a scene we felt didn’t really hold together in the script. I’m talking about the moment where the mayor decides to handcuff his daughter and drag her away so she’ll stop digging into this “monster” that could wipe out the town. There were a bunch of reasons why that scene didn’t work for us, but the biggest one was the way the characters behaved. In the scripted version, the hero just stands there watching the woman he loves get handcuffed without even flinching, and on top of that, she lowers her head and takes the scolding from her father without showing an ounce of fight, will, or power.
So we came up with a different version, where the hero actually tries to help her, and the heroine, instead of hanging her head, storms out with the handcuffs still on and kicks the door open on her way out. That felt like a much stronger image to us, and a pretty great way of showing exactly how far this heroine is willing to go.
On top of that, we also patched up a hole in the script by giving the Deputy a little more backstory, almost like the huntsman in Snow White. We added a sequence where he goes to find Marnie and lock her up, but when he sees her in the library in the middle of the night, still studying with the handcuffs on, he feels for her. So he leaves the handcuff key in the book return slot. The whole sequence could’ve brought a lot more humanity and texture to the characters. But in the end, they went with something more static, and more faithful to the original script.
Making Of
And since I know you guys love this stuff, here’s a making-of for the chase sequence, with a 3D car and a pretty polished animatic.
The Art
Down below you’ll also find some of the episode’s artwork, which was an exceptional job by art director Raúl Monge and his team.
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