AMC released a first trailer for season eight of “The Walking Dead” this week and it is five minutes of intense action, gruesome gore, and everything awesome and fun that makes us shit our pants! The footage teases the pending war between Rick Grimes and his growing alliance and big bad Negan and his Saviors.

The feuding footage is pure whiteknuckle and the zombie action will put a smile on your face, but it’s the scenes bookending the trailer that raises eyebrows: Father Gabriel at the mercy of Negan and some walkers; a drastically aged Rick awakening from a deep slumber in what appears to be a hospital room.

Peep it: