| release date | June 24 1979 |
| studio | Anchor Bay |
| director | George A. Romero |
| writer | George A. Romero |
| starring | Ken Foree, David Emge |
| rating | R |
| tagline | When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth. |
| site | amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/630469797X |
| trailer 1 | Trailer #1 |
Not that you asked, but I probably don’t like the zombie genre as much as a lot of you. For starters, I feel like its over saturated. You can’t go more than a month without another one hitting the direct-to-DVD/VOD market. I also don’t find them particularly compelling as creatures. They lack personality and, fast or slow, they’re cognitively… stupid. I also feel like a lot of filmmakers latch onto them because of their popularity, not because they’re particularly engaged by them. In the process they forget that the most compelling part of this sub genre isn’t the creatures – it’s usually the survivors and their response to the undead horde. READ MORE
“These creatures are nothing but pure, motorized instinct. We must not be lulled by the concept that these are our family members or our friends. They are not. They will not respond to such emotions. They must be destroyed on sight!” READ MORE
We have heard your cries! MANY of you felt that the The Ultimate Horror Challenge wasn’t comprehensive enough! So we included an additional 20 films that round it out a bit more. Many of these are from your suggestions! But this still isn’t a list of every horror movie ever made. And it still doesn’t contain every major work of every horror auteur (there’s still no John Carpenter’s They Live or Wes Craven’s The Last House On The Left). READ MORE
This isn’t a list of every horror movie ever made. Nor does it contain every major work of every horror auteur (you’ll notice we didn’t include John Carpenter’s They Live or Wes Craven’s The Last House On The Left). Rather, this is a compendium of films that we feel – in one way or another – are essential viewing for every horror fan. Some are mainstream (Poltergeist), some aren’t (Cannibal Holocaust). It’s a broad sampling of key films from the genre. READ MORE
Landon Liboiron is going from a time traveling sci-fi drama to a horror series as the former “Terra Nova” co-star has been tapped to join Netflix’s original series “Hemlock Grove,” THR has learned exclusively. READ MORE
Gearing up for AFM this week we’ve now scored the official sales trailer to go along with the previously released art for the indie thriller Seven Below (formerly Seven Below Zero). READ MORE
Premiering tonight on MTV, Death Valley is a new mockumentary series that follows a group of officers working for the Undead Task Force (UTF), a law enforcement agency assigned to keep the denizens of Los Angeles safe from attack by supernatural creatures. READ MORE
Premiering tonight on MTV, Death Valley is a new mockumentary series that follows a group of officers working for the Undead Task Force (UTF), a law enforcement agency assigned to keep the denizens of Los Angeles safe from attack by supernatural creatures. READ MORE
In Italy, it was considered the ‘unofficial sequel’ to Dawn of the Dead In England, it was known as Zombie Flesh Eaters and banned as obscene. In America, it was called Zombie and advertised with the depraved tag line “We are going to eat you!” READ MORE
Playing at both the upcoming Fantasia Film Festival and the Film4 FrightFest is Severin’s new horror anthology The Theater Bizarre! READ MORE
In the decade-plus period of time that has passed since the release of Scream 3, there’s no doubt that the horror landscape has changed significantly. In the intervening years we’ve witnessed the rise of the torture porn craze, seen a resurgence in “found footage”/shaky-cam horror, and watched helplessly as a seemingly unyielding series of remakes cluttered up our local multiplexes. READ MORE
In the decade-plus period of time that has passed since the release of Scream 3, there’s no doubt that the horror landscape has changed significantly. In the intervening years we’ve witnessed the rise of the torture porn craze, seen a resurgence in “found footage”/shaky-cam horror, and watched helplessly as a seemingly unyielding series of remakes cluttered up our local multiplexes. READ MORE
One of our favorite things to do here at Bloody Disgusting is let our writers take the ball and run with it. What would be the point in bringing you content if we didn’t enjoy writing it? I’d like to introduce our new contributor, Rebel Phoenix, who is passionate about the “classics”. Today he would like to present to you a new list, “The Top 10 Most Influential Horror Movies You’ve NEVER Even Heard Of (…Let Alone Seen),” all of which were released before Hitchcock’s seminal Psycho. Read on and tell Rebel what you think of his work below! (more…) READ MORE
Back in May, Bloody-Disgusting reporter Chris Eggertsen visited the Toronto set of Universal’s The Thing prequel and was given the opportunity to interview some of the key players involved with the film, as well as getting a look at several key sets and some of the practical effects models that will be featured in the finished product. See inside for Part 1 of his set visit coverage, including interviews with producer Marc Abraham and star Mary Elizabeth Winstead! Topics covered include the amount of practical vs. CGI effects utilized in the movie, the challenges of getting the studio onboard for a prequel as opposed to a remake, and John Carpenter’s feelings on the project, which is being shot without his involvement. (more…) READ MORE
For millions of people all over the world, winter time means skiing, snowboarding and frolicking in the snow. But what happens when the sun sets, and the blinding white suddenly becomes an enveloping – and potentially lethal – darkness? Written and directed by Adam Green (Hatchet, Spiral and the upcoming Hatchet 2), Frozen (review) terrified audiences during its theatrical release last February, receiving some of the best reviews of any theatrical film released so far this year. We maybe in the heat of summer, but get ready to thrill and “chill” all over again with Anchor Bay Entertainment’s September 28th release of the intense suspense thriller on DVD and Blu-ray. Bloody Disgusting has been provided with (3) Blu-ray copies for some lucky readers to enter to win. Read on to see how. (more…) READ MORE
I dug it in theaters, and I dug it again at home. While it’s not going to reinvent the genre, Breck Eisner’s update of George Romero’s (also imperfect) The Crazies is, like the Dawn of the Dead remake, an action movie version of the original horror tale, with much of the social commentary stripped to the bone in favor of scares (many of which are effective) and big action sequences. Two different approaches to the same story, both with merit. (more…) READ MORE
The first batch of images have appeared online from Vampire, the English-language debut of Japanese director Iwai Shunji. Keisha Castle-Hughes and Rachael Leigh Cook star alongside Kevin Zegers (Dawn of the Dead, Wrong Turn) who plays a schoolteacher with a taste for human blood, who searches for suicidal young women as his victims; all of whom he falls in love with before their deaths. Also on board the film are Kristin Kreuk (“Smallville”), Adelaide Clemens (X-Men: Origins), Trevor Morgan (Mean Creek), Amanda Plummer, and Japanese star Yu Aoi. (more…) READ MORE
Midnight Syndicate Films has announced plans to release a special edition of The Dead Matter DVD that will include two bonus CDs by gothic Halloween music artists Midnight Syndicate. It will be available at all Hot Topic stores nationwide on July 30th. The specially-priced set will include The Dead Matter DVD, the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack CD by Midnight Syndicate, and a new Midnight Syndicate 13th Anniversary greatest hits CD entitled Halloween Music Collection. Midnight Syndicate Films has also released a new official trailer for The Dead Matter movie which can be viewed at the film’s revamped website or below. READ MORE
Being an avid horror fan there’s nothing more special than the discovery of long-lost “artifacts”. We were contacted today by photographer Richard Burke who writes in with info on new behind-the-scenes photography from the set of George A. Romero’s 1978 Dawn of the Dead! “My name is Richard Burke and in 1978 I had a small photography studio in Pittsburgh. I was assigned to take pictures of the filming of the Dawn of the Dead by Pittsburgh Magazine and recently I rediscovered the old negatives and have been scanning them. Most of them have never been seen. I have been posting the better images to my commercial site. The others I have been posting to my blog.” Take a peak at a young Romero and Tom Savini below. (more…) READ MORE
Oh the surprises of Cannes — and this one is a doozy. Get ready for Deep Red in 3D — not by Dario Argento but from zombie icon George A. Romero. Word has it that Romero is in advanced negotiations to helm a completely unnecessary stereoscopic remake in English of Argento’s cult classic. The 1975 masterpiece Deep Red, about a string of supernatural splatter murders, is considered Argento’s gem giallo and the film that established his international standing. Claudio Argento, who is Dario’s brother and regular producer, has penned the screenplay for Romero’s redo. Plan is to start shooting this fall in Canada. Though Dario Argento and George Romero go back a long way — he collaborated with Romero on zombie classic Dawn of the Dead, on which he has producer credit, and they also co-directed Two Evil Eyes in 1990 — Dario Argento will not be involved in Romero’s remake in any guise. This news makes me a little sick to my stomach, you? (more…) READ MORE
Y2K, 9/11, war and a a horrid recession, a major escape we had this decade was in the form of film, notorious for thriving during National crisis. Leading up to New Year’s Eve where we’ll ring in 2010, Bloody Disgusting will be looking back at the entire decade year by year through the eyes of various staff writers. Check back each day for a profound reflection from Ryan Daley, David Harley, Tex, BC and yours truly. Inside you’ll find BC’s personal look back at the year 2006, the year PG-13 got served! Please share your memories for each year below, there are so many stories to be told! (more…) READ MORE
Y2K, 9/11, war and a a horrid recession, a major escape we had this decade was in the form of film, notorious for thriving during National crisis. Leading up to New Year’s Eve where we’ll ring in 2010, Bloody Disgusting will be looking back at the entire decade year by year through the eyes of various staff writers. Check back each day for a profound reflection from Ryan Daley, David Harley, Tex, BC and yours truly. Inside you’ll find Tex Massacre’s personal look back at the year 2005, the birth of so-called “torture porn”! Please share your memories for each year below, there are so many stories to be told! (more…) READ MORE
Y2K, 9/11, war and a a horrid recession, a major escape we had this decade was in the form of film, notorious for thriving during National crisis. Leading up to New Year’s Eve where we’ll ring in 2010, Bloody Disgusting will be looking back at the entire decade year by year through the eyes of various staff writers. Check back each day for a profound reflection from Ryan Daley, David Harley, Tex, BC and yours truly. Inside you’ll find my own personal look back at the year 2003, the year horror explodes!! Please share your memories for each year below, there are so many stories to be told! (more…) READ MORE
The Wagner/Cuban Companies’ Magnet Releasing, genre arm of Magnolia Pictures, announced today that it has acquired US rights to George A. Romero’s Survival of the Dead, the latest in the legendary and beloved series of zombie films which bowed at the Venice and Toronto Film Festivals earlier this year. Romero, one of the most influential and respected horror auteurs of all time, has created a new, terrifying vision that combines viscerally gory undead action with biting social commentary and a return to the black humor and playfulness of his seminal film, Dawn of the Dead. Magnet will release the film as part of its Ultra VOD program this spring, debuting it on VOD platforms nationwide a month before its theatrical release. (more…) READ MORE
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