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 Romero’s latest movie Diary of the Dead
now available on DVD
 40th Anniversary of his genre masterpiece
Night of the Living Dead
 Renewed interest in zombie movies such
as Shaun of the Dead and 28 Days Later
 The authors have organised special
Romero events and launch parties
for Hallowe’en
GEORGE A. ROMERO
TOM FALLOWS & CURTIS OWEN
The dead walk. Putrid corpses claw their way out of
legend Stephen King on both Creepshow and The Dark
earthy graves and stumble towards civilisation. They are
Half. Even today films like Land of the Dead have proven
bloody, rotting, and hungry for human flesh – and it’s all
Romero to be a fearless anti-establishment filmmaker.
George Romero’s fault.
He’s a maverick, a man who frequently directs outside of
With 1968’s Night of the Living Dead Romero unleashed
the Hollywood mainstream, allowing his films to work as
the modern zombie onto cinemas, annihilating their
both chilling frightfests and impassioned comments on
voodoo roots and resurrecting them as passed away
the American psyche.
friends and dead loved ones. Its sequel, the zombies in
This Pocket Essential examines Romero’s work up to
a mall masterpiece Dawn of the Dead, took Romero’s
and including his latest ‘Diary of the Dead’ and explains
apocalyptic nightmare further. Its frank depiction of
why filmmakers Quentin Tarantino and Martin Scorsese
bloodshed changed horror cinema forever and paved the
often refer to him as horror’s greatest living director.
way for such recent offerings as Shaun of the Dead and
28 Days Later.
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But there is more to Romero than just the living dead. He
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reinvented the vampire in Martin, took on the American
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military in The Crazies and has collaborated with horror
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Curtis Owen is a writer and has studied Film at Falmouth University.
Tom Fallows trained in Journalism with the British Film Institute and
currently contributes to www.obsessedwithfilm.com
Both authors currently live in Stoke-on-Trent
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