Where it all came from (by Patrick)

     The "Zombie Hunters" project began in November, 2005. I was returning home from work one night during a heavy fog, and my street was deserted. (Executive Producer) Jeanna and I had recently bought a garden apartment in Jamaica, NY, from a man who did custom ironwork. Every opening of our apartment is locked-down with his craft, a castle-like fortress of iron and brick.

      David Dianora and I had done volunteer work earlier that year for Habitat for Humanity, and we stayed in a local Pentecostal church for the duration of our tour. Everywhere inside were references to the end of the world, the "Rapture" as they called it. After a few days of this, it was hard not to think of the end of all things! So here I was, looking down the road a few times, back and forth, thinking about if this was what the end of the world might look like. I saw the bars in the distance and thought to myself that if it wasn't the Rapture, but Zombies instead, our apartment would be an ideal place to hide. I then started thinking about what an excellent movie scene that foggy street would make. All these thoughts collided at once, and the show was born.

      After discussing the idea with Jeanna during our vacation in Maryland the following January, she told me straight out that if I were to do it, I just had to do it, and not to just talk about doing it. I started the first script the night we returned home, with an opening scene to pay homage to the original Night Of The Living Dead (with a New Yorker's spin to it, of course!)

      I enlisted writing help from Paul Pinsdorf, who had been writing sci-fi and horror fiction for several years, and we set out to create the episodes. I wrote the character of Bates for my long-time school friend Christopher Murphy, and started plotting the storyline from start to finish. After a general casting call, Richie Martinez was the first to respond and the character of John was writen for him. David Dianora and Mark Boutros soon followed as Cinematographers, and just like that, we had a crew.

     Principal photography for the show started in May, 2006, on a $399.00 Sony palmcorder, with barely four scripts written. The first scenes shot were the news interviews from Episode Two and the storm scenes for the opening credits. The newsroom greenscreen segments were filmed in August of that same year (albeit on much better equipment!)

     Two weeks later, I found myself unemployed. The choice was between the mortgage or the Zombies, so filming my undead friends would have to wait. During the following four months, Paul, Boutros, and I wrote the next 13 episodes and turned everything into screenplays. It was also during this time that I heard about Mike Scardillo, one of the makeup artists from the independant film "GAP". He was hired on the spot and finally met with us only a few weeks before filming resumed in April, 2007. Bernadette McCallion of Pitch Black Dream, my friend of over 20 years, offered her considerable talents so we'd have a purely original score. Ning Ham came on as Assistant Director the following week, and Linnet Brooks and Teri Gudorp were cast as the final Hunters to round out, as Bates' puts it, the "Death Squad".

      Filming of these episodes continues at a regular pace, and is scheduled to continue into 2013.

      Our many thanks and unyeilding graditude to all of you who have supported us over the years, and allowed us to make our dreams come true!

Happy Hunting! 

      P. Devaney