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George A. Romero, Pioneering Horror Director, Dead at 77
'Night of the Living Dead' filmmaker and father of the modern zombie flim succumbs to lung cancer
http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/george-a-romero-pioneering-horror-director-dead-at-77-w492607
George A. Romero, the Night of the Living Dead director who helped turn zombies into a pop culture phenomenon, died Sunday. He was 77.
The horror filmmaker died following a "brief but aggressive battle with lung cancer" while listening to the score of the 1952 film The Quiet Man, his producing partner Peter Grunwald told the Los Angeles Times.
In addition to Romero's revered, influential Zombie Trilogy 1968's Night of the Living Dead, 1978's Dawn of the Dead and 1985's Day of the Dead the director also helmed horror films like The Crazies, Creepshow and Monkey Shines.
After beginning his career making commercials and shorts, Romero with a group of friends and a shoestring budget filmed his horror classic Night of the Living Dead, which became a cult horror classic that introduced man-eating zombies to a generation of movie fans.
VermontKevin
(1,473 posts)whopis01
(3,491 posts)It's really funny. And morbidly appropriate. And I am sure he would have appreciated it. But so wrong.
VermontKevin
(1,473 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)But they better hit him in the head with an axe just to make sure.
Kittycow
(2,396 posts)I think I was about fifty or so the first time that I saw it...I remember it having a lot of suspense whether the zombies would get in the house or not!
RIP Mr Romero and thank you
VermontKevin
(1,473 posts)Gotta keep busy until GoT comes on.
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)...the censored, and often ragged, prints.
A few years ago the "Director's Cut" was released on DVD and they do a side-by-side split screen of the TV version most of us remembered and the "original print"...what an amazing difference.
Even the censored version was one of the scariest things I'd seen.''
Here is a good article on the "story behind the story" of NOTLD:
Fighting Two Wars:
George A. Romeros Night of the Living Dead as a Critique of 1960s American Society
http://sequart.org/magazine/56503/fighting-two-wars-george-a-romero-night-of-the-living-dead/
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)and damn it was scary.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)RIP George.
Martin Eden
(12,842 posts)I went with my oldest sister and a couple of her friends, including one named Barbara.