Romero created the modern zombie genre as the co-writer (with John A. Russo) and director of the 1968 movie Night of the Living Dead, which went to show future generations of filmmakers such as Tobe Hooper and John Carpenter that generating big scares didn’t require big budgets. Living Dead spawned an entire school of zombie knockoffs, and Romero’s sequels included 1978’s Dawn of the Dead, 1985’s Day of the Dead, 1990’s Land of the Dead, 2007’s Diary of the Dead and 2009’s Survival of the Dead. He had been developing the next installment in the Dead series, which was to be titled Road of the Dead and directed by Matt Birman.
In honor of the late George A. Romero, who passed away last week, we’re taking a look at the best of his lesser known films in a special episode of This Week in Horror.
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