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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Ryan Gilbey

Sex, drugs and amoebic dysentery: the 20 best making-of documentaries – ranked!

Film still showing Romy Schneider with green makeup on her face and body and smoking a cigarette, against a pastel-coloured background
Impossibly ambitious … Romy Schneider in Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno. Photograph: Publicity image

20. Document of the Dead (1985)

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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