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R.I.P. ‘Night of the Living Dead’ Star George Kosana Has Passed Away
“They’re dead. They’re all messed up.”
One of the most iconic lines in George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead was ad-libbed by Pennsylvania native George Kosana, who played Sheriff McClelland in the seminal zombie film. Today we’re sad to report that Kosana has passed away at the age of 81, his death coming in the wake of a myriad of health problems including emphysema, COPD, and macular degeneration.
Night of the Living Dead co-writer John Russo remembered his friend on Facebook:
My close friend George Kosana, who played the sheriff in NOLD, has regrettably passed away after a long battle with various illnesses. He will be greatly missed by me, by his fellow NOLD cast and crew members and by his many fans. For the past few days, I have been constantly reliving my many good and often funny remembrances of him.
Kosana, a regular on the horror convention scene, reprised the role of Sheriff McClelland in both Living Dead (2012) and the upcoming My Uncle John is a Zombie!, the latter of which was penned and co-directed by John Russo. He also appeared in George Romero’s 1971 film There’s Always Vanilla, as well as The Booby Hatch (1976) and Incest Death Squad (2009).
We offer our sincere condolences to Kosana’s family and friends.
Kosana (left) with co-star Russ Streiner – Aaron M. White Photography
After pulling in $28 million at the worldwide box office this month, director (and star) Dev Patel’s critically acclaimed action-thriller Monkey Man is now available to watch at home.
You can rent Monkey Man for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99!
Monkey Man is currently 88% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro awarding the film 4.5/5 stars in her review out of SXSW back in March.
Meagan raves, “While the violence onscreen is palpable and painful, it’s not just the exquisite fight choreography and thrilling action set pieces that set Monkey Man apart but also its political consciousness, unique narrative structure, and myth-making scale.”
“While Monkey Man pays tribute to all of the action genre’s greats, from the Indonesian action classics to Korean revenge cinema and even a John Wick joke or two, Dev Patel’s cultural spin and unique narrative structure leave behind all influences in the dust for new terrain,” Meagan’s review continues.
She adds, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”
Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.
Monkey Man is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.
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