You know, the hair-covered mumbling creature from “The Addams Family.”

Well, the actor who played him, Felix Silla.

“He was giving me advice,” said Martini, 18.

Martini, raised in Cary, attended the Con Nooga horror, sci fi and fantasy convention last month, handing out headshots and hoping to increase her fan base.

Silla told her to sell them for $20 rather than give them away free, to raise her mystique.

When The Cary News met Martini two years ago she was a junior at Green Hope High School, fresh off filming her first feature-length horror movie, a zombie flick called “The Forever Dead.”

Now, Martini is in Wilmington, studying drama at Cape Fear Community College, driving back to the Triangle on weekends to film her newest movie, “Fistful of Brains.”

A “zombie Western” — its name is a play on the classic spaghetti western “Fistful of Dollars” starring Clint Eastwood — the movie is directed by Sanford graphic designer Christine Parker.

Martini does most of her classes online, which gives her time to audition and work in a Wilmington boutique, where actors filming movies at local studios sometimes drop by for a bit of shopping.

Michelle McMurray, Martini’s mother, has acted as an extra in “The Forever Dead” and plans to do it again for “Fistful of Brains.”

“Since I’ve been an extra in her movie I’ve lost my fear of zombies,” she said. “Once you are a zombie it makes things totally different.”

As a zombie, McMurray’s had her cheek bitten off and her throat torn out, all in a day’s work.

“I have a hard time stomaching the gore,” she admitted.

Martini plays Lily, the sheriff’s daughter, who manages to survive a zombie overthrow of her small western town despite her prissy attitude.

“I’m really angelic and I don’t want my hair getting dirty,” Martini said.

The movie is being filmed at Shadow Hawk, a fake Old West town in Brogden, built by former b-movie Western actor Bill Drake.

Martini plans to move to New York in the next year or so to pursue her career. “I’m just trying to get my headshot and resume out to everybody as soon as possible,” she said. “Then just kind of go where the wind takes me.”

Meet the actress and the director • Martini and Parker will be signing copies of “Forever Dead” at SunCoast in Cary Towne Center on Saturday, March 8, from noon to 2 p.m.
• Interested in being a zombie extra? Contact Michelle McMurray at vampyrelady@yahoo.com.
• For more on Martini check out jaquelinemartini.com.