RIP, nah, Walk In Living Dead! George A. Romero, Father of the Zombie Film, Dies at 77 His low-budget body of work, which included 'Night of the Living Dead' and 'Dawn of the Dead,' creeped out audiences for decades. George A. Romero, the legendary writer-director from Pittsburgh who made the 1968 cult classic Night of the Living Dead for $114,000, thus spawning an unrelenting parade of zombie movies and TV shows, has died. He was 77. Romero, who put out five other zombie movies after a copyright blunder cost him millions of dollars in profits on his wildly popular first one, died Sunday of lung cancer, his producing partner, Peter Grunwald, told the Los Angeles Times, which first reported the news. Romero's family confirmed his death to the newspaper as well. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/george-a-romero-dead-night-living-dead-director-was-77-945346
Damn, I've always been a fan of Romero's work. There will be no better a zombie film then what Romero has offered us. RIP George
He almost outlived the Great Rurals Malls which were the playground of his greatest satire. The boring mindless zombies of pointless consumerism. There is kind of a poetic finality about it in the era of Amazon and Ebay. Still, the first Living Dead film finished production on the day MLK was assassinated. The ending of that film should leave an image that stays with us forever.
