And that’s nothing compared to the full-throated horror of the episode’s climax, which contains some of the most audacious work of KNB’s illustrious special effects career. There’s no shortage of Last House on the Left gristle in “On the Inside.” There’s few places The Walking Dead won’t go, and there’s no cutting away demurely or emphasizing psychological horror in this episode when it’s time for someone to get hurt, we see it, from a knife plunging into a chest or a fingernail getting ripped out with a pair of pliers. KNB doing the special effects on that movie rubbed off on Greg Nicotero and Howard Berger, because not only does the special effects live up to that high standard, the episode itself is a full-on banger of a tribute to the late Wes Craven. “On the Inside” takes that premise, combines it with Mile Flanagan’s Hush, and the end result is one of the most jaw-clenching, teeth grinding episodes of straight-out horror that The Walking Dead has done. The 1991 Wes Craven film The People Under the Stairs was one of the better movies Craven did, and it remains a lot of fun while also being shocking and still having some great scares. The Walking Dead Season 11 Episode 6Ĭlearly, writer Kevin Dieboldt and the various creative crew behind The Walking Dead are Wes Craven fans. This The Walking Dead review contains spoilers.
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