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George Andrew Romero Jr. (; February 4, 1940 – July 16, 2017) was an American-Canadian film director, writer, editor and actor. His Night of the Living Dead series of films about a zombie apocalypse began with the original Night of the Living Dead (1968) and is considered a major contributor to the image of the zombie in modern culture. Other films in the series include Dawn of the Dead (1978) and Day of the Dead (1985). Romero later revived his attachment to the sub-genre with Land of the Dead (2005), Diary of the Dead (2007), and Survival of the Dead (2009), his final film. Aside from this series, his works include The Crazies (1973), Martin (1977), Knightriders (1981), Creepshow (1982), Monkey Shines (1988), The Dark Half (1993), and Bruiser (2000). He also created and executive-produced the television series Tales from the Darkside from 1983 to 1988. Romero is often described as an influential pioneer of the horror film genre and has been called the "Father of the Zombie Film" and an "icon". Early life Romero was born on February 4, 1940, in the New York City borough of the Bronx, the son of Anne Romero (Dvorsky) and George M. Romero, a commercial artist. His mother was Lithuanian, and his father was from Spain but had immigrated to Cuba as a child. His father has been reported as being born in A Coruña, with his family coming from the Galician town of Neda, although Romero once described his father as of Castilian descent. Raised in the Parkchester section of the Bronx, he would frequently ride the subway into Manhattan to rent film reels to view at his house. He was one of only two people who repeatedly rented the opera-based film The Tales of Hoffmann, the other was future director Martin Scorsese. Romero attended Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Career 1960s After graduating from college in 1960, Romero began his career shooting short films and TV commercials. One of his early commercial films was a segment for Mister Rogers' Neighborhood in which Fred Rogers underwent a tonsillectomy. With nine friends, including screenwriter John A. Russo, Romero formed Image Ten Productions in the late 1960s. This is the production company that produced Night of the Living Dead (1968). Directed by Romero and co-written with John A. Russo, the movie became a cult classic and a defining moment for modern horror cinema. Among the inspiration for Romero's filmmaking, as told to Robert K. Elder in an interview for The Film That Changed My Life, was the British film, The Tales of Hoffmann (1951), from the Powell and Pressburger team. It was the filmmaking, the fantasy, the fact that it was a fantasy and it had a few frightening, sort of bizarre things in it. It was everything. It was really a movie for me, and it gave me an early appreciation for the power of visual media—the fact that you could experiment with it. He was doing all his tricks in-camera, and they were sort of obvious. That made me feel that, gee, maybe I could figure this medium out. It was transparent, but it worked. 1970s and 1980s The three films that Romero created that followed Night of the Living Dead: There's Always Vanilla (1971), Jack's Wife / Season of the Witch (1972) and The Crazies (1973) were not as well received as Night of the Living Dead or some of his later work. The Crazies, dealing with a bio spill that induces an epidemic of homicidal madness, and the critically acclaimed arthouse success Martin (1978), a film that deals with the vampire myth, were the two well-known films from this period. Romero returned to the zombie genre in 1978 with Dawn of the Dead. Shot on a budget of $1.5 million, the film earned over $55 million internationally and was later named one of the top cult films by Entertainment Weekly in 2003. He made the third entry in his "Dead Series" with Day of the Dead in 1985. Between these two films, Romero shot Knightriders (1981), another festival favorite about a group of modern-day jousters who reenact tournaments on motorcycles, and Creepshow (1982), written by Stephen King, an anthology of tongue-in-cheek tales modeled after 1950s horror comics. The cult-classic success of Creepshow led to the creation of Romero's Tales from the Darkside, a horror anthology television series that aired from 1983 to 1988. As the decade drew to a close, Romero directed Monkey Shines (1988), about a service animal. 1990s Romero updated his original screenplay and executive-produced the 1990 remake of Night of the Living Dead directed by Tom Savini for Columbia/TriStar. Savini is also responsible for the makeup and special effects in many of Romero's films including Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Creepshow, and Monkey Shines. The early nineties also featured directorial efforts Two Evil Eyes (a.k.a. "Due occhi Diabolici", 1990), an Edgar Allan Poe adaptation in collaboration with Dario Argento and The Dark Half (1993) from a novel written by Stephen King. In 1991, he made a cameo appearance in Jonathan Demme's Academy Award-winning The Silence of the Lambs (1991) as one of Hannibal Lecter's jailers In 1994, Romero shot a short film, Jacaranda Joe, about people running into a community of Bigfoot. Filmed at Valencia College in Florida, it was the first film that Romero shot entirely outside of Pittsburgh. In 1998, Romero produced and directed an unaired pilot about Professional wrestling entitled Iron City Asskickers. It was eventually released on DVD and VHS in 2021. In 1998, he directed a live-action commercial promoting the video game Resident Evil 2 in Los Angeles. The 30-second advertisement featured the game's two main characters, Leon S. Kennedy (portrayed by actor Brad Renfro) and Claire Redfield (Adrienne Frantz), fighting a horde of zombies while in Raccoon City's police station. The project was obvious territory for Romero, the Resident Evil series has been heavily influenced by the "Dead Series." The commercial was popular and was shown in the weeks before the game's actual release, although a contract dispute prevented it from being shown outside Japan. Capcom was so impressed with Romero's work, it was strongly indicated that Romero would direct the first Resident Evil film. He declined at first — "I don't wanna make another film with zombies in it, and I couldn't make a movie based on something that ain't mine" — although in later years, he reconsidered and wrote a script for the first movie. It was eventually rejected in favor of Paul W. S. Anderson's version. In the mid 1990s, he wrote a script for a film adaptation of the first original Goosebumps book Welcome to Dead House. It was eventually rejected altogether, although Romero's screenplay is kept archived by The University of Pittsburgh. 2000s 2000 saw the release of Bruiser, about a man whose face becomes a blank mask. Universal Studios produced and released a 2004 remake of Dawn of the Dead, with which Romero was not involved. Later that year, Romero kicked off the DC Comics title Toe Tags with a s.... Discover the George A Romero popular books. Find the top 100 most popular George A Romero books.
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Coldbrook
Tim LebbonColdbrook is a secret laboratory located deep in Appalachian Mountains. Its scientists had achieved the impossible: a gateway to a new world. Theirs was to be the greatest discover...
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The Cinema of George A. Romero
Tony WilliamsThe Cinema of George A. Romero: Knight of the Living Dead is the first indepth study in English of the career of this foremost auteur working at the margins of the Hollywood mainst...
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Puls
Stephen KingDer Horror hat eine neue DimensionDas Grauen kommt nicht aus Gräbern oder aus dem Weltraum. Es ist mitten unter uns und steckt in jeder Handtasche. Das Handy ist ein moderner Heils...
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Creepshow
Stephen KingThe graphic novel adaptation of the classic horror anthology film written by Stephen King, with art by Bernie Wrightson!The graphic novel adaptation of Stephen King’s Creepshow, ba...
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George A. Romero
Luis Pérez OchandoEl estreno de La noche de los muertos vivientes en 1968 convirtió a George A. Romero en uno de los directores más admirados de su generación. Sin embargo, la obra del realizador, c...
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Autumn
David MoodyA bastard hybrid of War of the Worlds and Night of the Living Dead, Autumn chronicles the struggle of a small group of survivors forced to contend with a world torn apart by a dead...
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La Nuit des morts-vivants de George A. Romero
Encyclopaedia UniversalisUne fiche de référence sur La Nuit des mortsvivants, un chefd'oeuvre de George A. Romero.Premier film à petit budget d'un réalisateur inconnu – George A. Romero alors âgé de vingth...
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Toe Tags Featuring George A. Romero
George A. Romero & Tommy CastilloCult movie writer/director George Romero best known for his work on the horror classics Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, and Day of the Dead writes an original horror ...
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Ghost Run
J. L. BourneThe acclaimed and eagerly anticipated fourth thriller in the zombie apocalypse series from the author of Day by Day Armageddon and Day by Day Armageddon: Beyond Exile, for fans of ...
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George A. Romero
Luis Pérez OchandoEl estreno de La noche de los muertos vivientes en 1968 convirtió a George A. Romero en uno de los directores más admirados de su generación. Sin embargo, la obra del realizador, c...
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George M. Romero v. State Alaska
Court Of Appeals Of AlaskaGeorge M. Romero appeals after being convicted by a jury of guiding without a valid license, in violation of former AS 08.54.210(a)(6). Under former AS 08.54.210(b), the...
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Whalefall
Daniel KrausA USA TODAY BESTSELLER Named a Best Book of 2023 by Book Riot, Shelf Awareness, and NPRThe Martian meets 127 Hours in this “astoundingly great” (Gillian Flynn, #1 New York Times be...
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Il signore degli zombie
Marco VettoratoMaestro di un cinema codificato come «horror», George A. Romero ha preconizzato molti scenari contemporanei: i suoi zombie anelano i MegaStore dell’America di J...
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Land of the Dead
Chris Ryall & Gabriel RodriguezPresenting a special adaptation of George A. Romero’s longawaited zombie movie, set years in the future after the end of his Dead trilogy. In Land of the Dead, the walking dead roa...
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Highway to Hell
Max BrallierThe sequel to the “pickyourownpath” adventure Can You Survive the Zombie Apocalypse?the Jacksonville FloridaTimes Union hailed, “may just be the best thing to happen to literary zo...
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The Cinema of George A. Romero
Tony WilliamsIn this comprehensive portrait of horror's definitive director, Tony Williams ties George A. Romero's films to the development of literary naturalism and American culture, expandin...
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Day by Day Armageddon
J. L. BourneOnce on the fringes of horror, the “zombie apocalypse,” has become one of the most buzzworthy genres in popular culture. Now, in Day by Day Armageddon, J.L. Bourne delivers an inte...
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Aftertaste
Andrew PostAn undead monster hunter must track down a killer, trailerparkhavocwreaking werefrog in this outrageous mashup of Jim Butcher’s urban fantasy and George Romero’s zombie horror.Befo...
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Zombie, Ohio
Scott KenemoreWhen rural Ohio college professor Peter Mellor dies in an automobile accident during a zombie outbreak, he is reborn as a highly intelligent (yet somewhat amnesiac) member of the l...