'The Walking Dead' Season 6 Spoilers: Midseason Premiere 'Night Of The Living Dead' Tribute!

If you needed another reason to look forward to the midseason premiere of The Walking Dead Season 6, executive producer Greg Nicotero has just revealed that No Way Out will pay homage to George A. Romero's classic film Night of the Living Dead. And if that's still not enough, there's always the promise that the episode will feature more walkers than any other episode in TWD history!

Nicotero, who also directed No Way Out, recently spoke to Entertainment Weekly about how different the ninth episode of TWD Season 6 will be compared to its predecessors.

"When you spend eight episodes of the show seeing the walkers advancing on Alexandria in broad daylight, I felt that it was very important to introduce a bit of the genre element of the spooky, nighttime, boogeyman-coming-out-of-the-dark, Night of the Living Dead sort of vibe and feeling," Nicotero admitted, adding that he made sure the writers were aware that he wanted a change.

"Even when they were pitching the episode, I had said, 'Listen, we really need to try to make this episode at night because it will give the show a different look,'" he said. "I didn't want it to feel like, 'Oh, here's another scene with a bunch of walkers in broad daylight in the sun.'"

In addition to the switch to night mode, Nicotero claims that No Way Out will feature a record-breaking number of zombies.

"The record that we had established in Episode 1 of Season 6 will already be broken in this episode in regards to the number of walkers and the number of kills," he said. "It's the action movie version of The Walking Dead."

So how many undead extras will appear in the midseason premiere?

"With reshoots and with additional photography and things, I think we were over 1,300 walkers," Nicotero confirmed.

It certainly sounds like Rick (Andrew Lincoln) will be dealing with more zombies than he usually can handle, and he'll have to manage without Daryl (Norman Reedus), Glenn (Steven Yeun) or Abraham (Michael Cudlitz). Hopefully, the team will be reunited before the end of the midseason premiere.

No Way Out will air on AMC on February 14.