Tag Archives: George A. Romero

In his book Gothic Pathologies, the critic David Punter observes that the complex, contradictory and somewhat confusing nature of adolescence is integral to gothic fiction. As a fundamentally transgressive genre, a fictional mode preoccupied with the crossing of boundaries, the ...

Almost a decade had gone by since George A. Romero revolutionized horror cinema with his reinvention of the zombie in 1968’s Night of the Living Dead, when he started to develop its follow-up. By this time, Romero’s reanimated, rotting, shambling, ...

Sunday morning, October 22, 2017…the sun shone brightly over Evans City Cemetery. Unusually hot for an autumn day near Pittsburgh, yet perfect for friends, family, and fans to honor the life of George A. Romero. Some came as far as ...

With Night of the Living Dead (1968), George A. Romero rejuvenated the horror genre by reinventing the now iconic figure of the zombie in popular culture. His 1978 film Martin – a realistic interpretation of the vampire mythology – was ...

The zombie film is not only a staple of the horror genre but arguably one of the most diverse sub-genres within it. Relatively cheap to produce, easy to market and with few rules to adhere to it is no surprise ...

By the tail end of the 1970’s, the Americanization of Italian cinema had existed for quite some time. During the 1960’s, spaghetti westerns populated most of the commercial landscape, with filmmakers such as Sergio Leone spearheading the genre to profitable ...

After six forays into the series himself, the godfather to the dead, George A. Romero is finally ready to pass the torch. And, who is the lucky person waiting on the receiving end? His son, Cameron. With the official announcement ...

The Dark Half, made by zombie king George Romero in 1993 and based on a novel by Stephen King, is an often-maligned film. It’s mostly ignored or derided by even the most hardcore Romero fan, and it’s easy to see ...

In taking a break from his precious zombies, filmmaker George A. Romero made Monkey Shines in 1988. Being distributed by Orion Pictures, it was Romero’s first studio picture and, while the studio hoped for a hit, the film came and ...

There’s an old, tired cliché that goes, “they don’t make them like they used to,” and, for the most part, they don’t. But in the case of George A. Romero’s 1976 vampire-character study, Martin, they never made them like this—and ...