My first stop is at wardrobe, where I try on a disgusting bloodstained suit. I'm a size 32, but they make me wear a size 38 because they like their zombies to look like they've lost some weight since dying. It all serves to make me look more like a skeleton than a zombie, but maybe the two are, in fact, one and the same.
Image Credit: GENE PAGE FOR EW
Dalton Ross spent a day last June as an undead extra; here's his photo album, and his take on the experience