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Sex, drugs and amoebic dysentery: the 20 best making-of documentaries – ranked!
By https://www.theguardian.com/profile/ryangilbey||11 min read at The Guardian
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- This article presents a ranked list and commentary on some of the most revealing and chaotic behind-the-scenes documentaries in cinema history. It explores the troubled, often disastrous production stories of famous and infamous films, ranging from cult horror hits to ambitious failed epics.
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Sign in to give feedbackFrom tropical disasters and doomed sci-fi epics to bribing Orson Welles and fending off a puma, we rate cinema’s most revealing glimpses behind the scenes
Behind-the-scenes footage from Dawn of the Dead is the highlight of this aficionados-only affair, which follows the 1979 satirical zombie horror all the way through to distribution. Director George A Romero, makeup maestro Tom Savini and the occasional zombie actor shoot the breeze in the deserted shopping mall that provides the movie with its incongruous central location.
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