Nebraska Zombie Movie Reaches MILLIONS World-Wide

Corn-Fed Zombies: A Cold Day in Hell

What started as a passion project my final year of community college became the 1st ever feature length zombie movie made in Nebraska! It was theatrically debuted at the historic Grand Theater in downtown Grand Island, and since it's original upload has gathered millions of views world-wide!

 Learn more about the movie here!

Inspired by shows like "The Walking Dead" and movies such as George Romero's "Night of the Living Dead", I have always fantasized how people in the rural Midwest would react during a zombie apocalypse. The locations in the movie are all shot within the Big Red cornfield state of Nebraska, which includes areas near Hastings, Harvard, Fremont, Geneva,  Dannebrog, and Wilcox.

Because little is known about this movie by the locals I thought I would highlight the areas where these scenes were shot. Maybe a few people might  recognize a place or two, or want to take a scenic road trip through central Nebraska to visit the locations! (As scenic as cornfields get! lol )

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Location #1 - Wilcox

The first scene in the film we actually shot last. There was an abandoned farm property along a highway near where I grew up that I always thought looked picturesque in a decaying sort of way. It's located along Highway 4 between Wilcox and Hildreth. We mostly needed the empty highway to film the majority of the scene, but the decayed building farmer Max runs into added to the scene and setting. There were only a couple farmers who stopped to check out what we were doing, and luckily we had cameras and tripods all around to explain all the blood on Max and zombie Shane! 

We had scattered showers and tornado watches all afternoon, so we tried to shoot as much as we could inside the truck while it rained and prayed it'd pass by before sunset. We must've been heard because the clouds cleared up and we rushed to finish all the outside/highway shots as quickly as possible. Looking back I'm still impressed by how this scene turned out given the weather and time limitations placed on us that day! It's still one of my favorite scenes I've created to this day, and I felt Karrie Bauman, Max Leininger, and Shane Fitzgerald were all outstanding with their work and performances!

(More locations coming soon!)

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