Army of the Dead/Bonus features

Below are the **bonus features** released alongside *Army of the Dead*. Due to the lack of a home release, these features are often in the form of YouTube videos.

## Feature film

The feature film, *Army of the Dead*, is available exclusively on Netflix and does not have a home media release. There is no commentary track for the movie and deleted scenes have not been released with two exceptions. One was made available exclusively to the winner of the *NFT of the Dead* web game. A second was filmed featuring Scott Ward and Maria Cruz recruiting Ludwig Dieter that was instead used in *Army of Thieves* to expand on the story provided in *Army of the Dead*.

## Tie-in media

### *The Reckoning*

*The Reckoning* is a tie-in short film directed by Karla Braun and produced by Zack Snyder. It stars Forrest Griffin and Ken Foree and was made to promote both *Army of the Dead* and Ultimate Fighting Championship. It seems to show a side event during the early days of the zombie outbreak of the movie in which a fight club manager (Foree) trains a fighter (Griffin) to fight against zombies. Fractured FX Inc. provided the zombie makeup effects for the short, Justin Raleigh did makeup work, and Stephanie Portnoy Porter designed the costumes.

### *Army of the Dead: A Film by Zack Snyder: The Making of the Film*

*Army of the Dead: A Film by Zack Snyder: The Making of the Film* is the making-of coffee table book for *Army of the Dead*. It was written by Peter Aperlo and published by Titan Books.

## Other features

### "Why Not an EV?"

"Why Not an EV?" was a commercial campaign that ran in February of 2022 to promote General Motors' new line of electric vehicles. GM joined forces with Netflix to promote the vehicles through various Netflix series and *Army of the Dead* was heavily featured in the commercials. It was the main franchise presented in the full-length commercial, both starting and ending it, and also had two commercials in the campaign specifically featuring the *Army of the Dead* setting.

### "Watch This Before You See Army of the Dead"

In this five-minute YouTube video presented by Netflix: Behind the Streams, a narrator explains the premise of the movie and the history behind Zack Snyder's idea to make it. The idea was formed shortly after working on *Dawn of the Dead*. The ensemble cast was also explained, including mentions of the new cast members for *Army of Thieves* and *Army of the Dead: Lost Vegas*.

### "Behind the FX of Army of the Dead's Alpha Zombies"

This video goes over the process behind designing and building the zombie makeup, prosthetics, and animatronics, featuring Justin Raleigh, Zack Snyder, and a few members of the *Army of the Dead* cast.

### "Behind the FX of Army of the Dead's Zombie Tiger"

This Netflix Film Club video covers the process of creating Valentine, the zombie tiger. Marcus Taormina talks about the studying of Sapphire, one of Carol Baskin's tigers, to make the 3D model that could move like a tiger, then designing the custom zombie aspects and bringing it together to use the tiger to kill of Garret Dillahunt's character, Martin. Dillahunt and Deborah Snyder also talked about the sequence

### "Behind the FX of Army of the Dead's Zombie Horse"

Gabe Bartalos, the special effects makeup artist behind Wildfire, the zombie horse, led the video describing the process of bringing the creature to unlife. Bartalos' studio, Atlantic West Effects, was brought in specifically to develop the prosthetics for the zombie horse, which was a suit worn by a real horse named Ace.

### "Army Of The Dead's Zombie Skill Map"

This six-minute video goes over the various capabilities of the different types of zombies, including how they differ and what's similar to their classic zombie counterparts. The shamblers are more akin to the classic zombies, being dumb and slow, while the alphas are more intelligent and coordinated, comparable to the *Dawn of the Dead* zombies. Zeus (Richard Cetrone) stands above the alphas as the strongest and smartest of all, even using armor and weapons.

### "Weird Zombie Jobs You Didn’t Notice In Army Of The Dead"

This wordless 90-second video goes over several of the zombies that can be seen in *Army of the Dead*, cutting them out of their respective scenes, and placing them into the professions they might have had before they became zombies. The professions get less sincere as the video goes.