Greg Nicotero's Guts & Glory Turns Horror Into a Live Competition on Shudder
- TalkTeaV
- Apr 9
- 3 min read
Updated: 5 days ago
Award-winning horror legend Greg Nicotero is back with Guts & Glory, a wild new unscripted series that drops contestants into a real-time horror competition filled with practical effects and surprise scares.
Image of Executive Producer Greg Nicotero in The Walking Dead Season 11 Episode 24 as a Zombie: Image Courtesy of Jace Downs/AMC
Set to stream on Shudder and AMC+ later this year, this six-episode series is part game show, part horror movie—and it’s launching during Shudder’s massive 10-year anniversary celebration.
If Nicotero’s name sounds familiar, it’s probably from The Walking Dead, Creepshow, or the iconic makeup and monster work that’s earned him his legendary status. With Guts & Glory, he’s bringing that same live-on-set fear to a non-scripted format where nothing is pre-planned and everything is bloody real.
“I couldn’t be more excited with this opportunity to explore this new landscape. To marry a non-scripted competition show with a genre narrative lands along the lines of ‘if Survivor and The Blair Witch Project had a baby.’ It’s one of the most creative and organic things I’ve ever done, creating FX that have to happen live in real time and capturing the honest reactions….all the while fighting to see who the winner will be. To add to the mayhem, I also got to reunite many of the key crew members from The Walking Dead Universe to help bring this show to life,” said Nicotero.
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Executive Producer Greg Nicotero on set of The Walking Dead Season 11 Episode 24: Image Courtesy of Jace Downs/AMC
The series is backed by AMC Studios with executive producers from Monster Agency Productions, White Label, and Salaryman. Familiar crew members from The Walking Dead universe have rejoined Nicotero behind the scenes—adding a trusted layer of horror craftsmanship to the set.
Greg Nicotero isn’t just a name in horror—he’s a defining force in it. His earliest credits include Day of the Dead, Creepshow 2, and Army of Darkness, long before he helped shape modern horror TV with The Walking Dead, Fear the Walking Dead, and Creepshow on Shudder. More recently, he’s worked on Fallout and Netflix's Pulse, showing that his style is still evolving.
Last week, Nicotero took the stage at a special moment in horror history—the Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony for John Carpenter.
On Instagram, Nicotero wrote:
“I was honored to be asked to speak on John’s behalf and the entire day just spoke to the 15-year-old version of me who looked up to (and still looks up to) this amazing filmmaker.”
Director Greg Nicotero on set of The Walking Dead Season 11 Episode 24: Image Courtesy of Jace Downs/AMC
That mix of genre love and deep horror knowledge makes him a natural fit for a show like Guts & Glory. Shudder called it a “gloriously twisted” concept in its own Instagram post, and fans of creature features, practical effects, and survival challenges will likely agree.
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