George romero

George Romero

George A. Romero tribute art by James Reeves

George A. Romero

Director of the zombie classic “Night of the Living Dead”… George Romero, the director of the zombie classic “Night of the Living Dead,” has died, according to multiple news sources.…

With admiration to the father of all the Zombies Acrylics and pencil on board, digital color

Dr Tongue

Zombies, as any cultural critic who’s ever written about zombie movies will tell you, are metaphors. They represent our societal and generational fears, or something. Take George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead, that seminal zombie masterpiece from 1968. The zombies aren’t just reanimated corpses who can’t resist bum-rushing a Pennsylvania farmhouse. They symbolize Cold War paranoia and homosexual repression and mainstream tensions about the counterculture and Vietnam War anxiety and a…

Romero passed away in his sleep at his Toronto home on Sunday, listening to his favorite film score from 1952's The Quiet Man, surrounded by his wife Suzanne and daughter Tina.

Day of the Dead (1985) artwork

George Romero ― film maker

Martin (1977) - George A. Romero

What do you get when you throw a disgruntled military battalion, some ethnic stereotypes, an insane surgeon, and tons of zombies into an underground bunker? The answer: The 1985 zombie tour de force, George A. Romero's Day of the Dead. Pardon the lame humor, but zombie films have been done to death. In 1985, however, it was a different story. Audiences hadn't yet been exposed to a deluge of the genre, and they were hungry for some undead action. Day of the Dead was a fresh concept, its only…

King of the dead