Inspired by ‘The Last of Us,’ a California bakery creates terrifying clicker. See it
They’re heard before they appear.
That horrifying clicking noise echoing through the halls of a damp, abandoned house or school or, heaven forbid, a mall. The noise means it’s time to run — every “The Last of Us” fan knows this. But for one baking team in Benicia, California, it was a noise that sparked a creative thought.
Baker and co-owner of One House Bakery, Hannalee Pervan, and her mother Catherine, took that thought inspired by the “clicker” killer zombies in the hit HBO series and the game it was based on and ran with it, inventing something bone-chilling.
“We both just loved the show!” head baker Hannalee Pervan said in a news release. “I’m not usually into being scared, but the story was so incredibly beautiful while also being terrifying. I cried after every single episode!”
Without a blueprint, the bakers cooked up more than 1,000 individually created “mushrooms” to make a life-size bread sculpture of the zombie that came about when infected with a mind-controlling fungus in the show and game.
“I was lying in bed one night, and I thought, ‘What if I wrap a balloon in a really thin layer of dough and then bake it? When the popped balloon is removed, it leaves behind these really strange pod-like shapes we were able to use,” Pervan said in the release.
And what is it called?
“The Last of Crust.”
Yes, it’s all bread and took 400 hours to create.
This wasn’t the first time Pervan, a former Le Cordon Bleu student, had created a fresh-smelling masterpiece based on a sci-fi character. In 2020, her bakery made “The Paindoughlorian” (if you guessed “The Mandalorian” you are correct), which was a life-size bread sculpture of actor Pedro Pascal, who also plays Joel in “The Last of Us.”
The baker also made a “Pan Solo” in 2022, which was a sculpture of Han Solo, the character from the Star Wars franchise played by Harrison Ford, when he was stuck in carbonite.
The realistic-looking bread clicker will appear in Benicia’s Scarecrow Contest and can be seen until the first of November, the release notes.
“The Last of Us” stars Bella Ramsey as the pun-loving Ellie, who curses like a sailor and whose existence can be the key to saving humanity from the zombies, along with Pascal, who plays the father figure in charge of making sure Ellie stays alive. It premiered in early 2023 on Max, formerly known as HBO.
Benicia is about 40 miles northeast of San Francisco.
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