Venture into the 'Fresh Air' crypt for a Halloween horror fest

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Venture into the 'Fresh Air' crypt for a Halloween horror fest
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Ever wonder what keeps Stephen King up at night, or which movie scenes make Jordon Peele jump? Come with us into the crypt (aka the Fresh Air archives) — if you dare!

MERCEDES McCAMBRIDGE: I had to vomit on the screen, you see. Well, what it is, is pea soup with corn flakes in it to make the bumps of it. Now, I had to make that sound and the way I finally did it, and it was only through stumbling and invention again, as [Russian theater practitioner Konstantin] Stanislavski says, you utilize it.

I would have them bring me apples, sections of apple, and I would put a whole bunch of those mushy apples in my mouth. And then from a Dixie cup, I would put in two eggs that had been just broken into the cup, not mixed up, just the yolk lying there looking at you, two of those. ...

GEORGE ROMERO: I liked it. Tom and I will always argue about it. I like the fact that it looked comic book. Tom felt it looked too bright red, it didn't look real. And I feel that that helps ease the ease, the pain a little bit...in your zombie movies to walk? Did you demonstrate for them how you wanted them to look?

ROMERO: No. It's funny, when you have 40 people in makeup looking at you and you're trying to direct them and tell them what you want them to do, if you make the slightest little arm movement and then in the next shot, everyone makes that arm movement. I pretty much leave it up to them and just ask them to do whatever they think a zombie might do if it had just recently come back [from the dead] and had stiff limbs ...

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