'It was just gross, and they had skin replicas of the kids' faces for scenes where people couldn't be there. 'The contortionists were pulled up on a harness so they could float while making this thing move and follow me around the car with Nell,' says Sullivan. Bodiless Ellie taunts Beth still, telling her that she'll fail as a mother, just like the sisters' own one did, prompting her to kick the head into the chipper, killing her once and for all. After a bit of a struggle, Beth gets a hold of the chainsaw and forces the Marauder's body into the chipper, leaving only Ellie's decapitated head. Beth gets free but the Marauder captures Kassie and tries to behead her with a chainsaw, so Beth returns and shoots it, luring it towards her, in front of Fonda's woodchipper. When the monster, which Cronin refers to as 'The Marauder' climbs on top of the elevator, it exceeds its weight limit and crashes to the lower level, allowing Beth and Kassie to flee into the parking lot. So we didn't have them to operate with limbs, and we ended up having to get these contortionists in to do certain scenes.' 'But yeah, the guys who were supposed to operate this thing were locked out of the country. At one point, the guys who built this bodysuit – she says backpack but it was a full torso by the way - it weighed like 70 pounds,' recalls Sullivan. 'Having to look at it, I wanted to be sick basically. Back in the hall, Bridget and Danny plunge their arms into their incapacitated mother – and the trio form a conjoined abomination before scampering off into the vents.

When the possessed versions of Bridget and Danny stumble into the hall, the other residents' bodies come back to 'life' too, and all the deadites start chanting 'dead by dawn, dead by dawn!' Beth and Kassie decide the elevator is their only option and rush into it, but as soon as the doors shut, it starts filling up with blood.

In fright, Beth fires off the gun again this time, shooting Ellie's arm off. 'You're not my mom anymore,' she mutters, before Mr. Deadite Ellie tries to convince little Kassie to come back to her, but the youngster isn't having any of it.

Return of the Living Dead by John Russo