• George A. Romero Explains Why He Won't Do 'The Walking Dead'

    George A. Romero gave birth to the modern zombie with 1968's Night of the Living Dead, and at present the most popular example of that horror subgenre is The Walking Dead. A Romero-directed episode of the AMC series, then, seems like a natural fit. But sorry, gore junkies, Romero just isn't interested. In a recent interview,…

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  • New 'Day Of The Dead' Reboot Rises

    There's a remake -- another one! -- brewing of George Romero's original 'Dead Trilogy' capper Day of the Dead. The third film in the loose series of zombie films that also features Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead, the film was last remade in 2008. Producers with some remake experience are…

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  • George Romero Adapting Zombie Novel 'The Zombie Autopsies'

    The king of the zombies, George Romero, is at it again but there will be no night, dawn, day, land, diary or survival for the dead this time. This time, he's cutting them up. Romero is currently writing an adaptation of a 2011 book The Zombie Autopsies: Secret Notebooks from the Apocalypse by Steven C.…

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  • 'Super 8' Easter Eggs

    JJ Abrams is obsessed with mystery, and often hides a lot of easter eggs in his films and tv shows. In the past we've chronicled easter eggs in the Pixar movies Toy Story 3, WALL-E, and Up, as well as some other films. So it should come as no surprise that his latest movie, Super…

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  • George Romero Remaking Dario Argento's Deep Red In 3D

    George Romero and Dario Argento go way back. Argento helped Romero finance Dawn of the Dead in exchange for international distribution rights. Argento cut his own version of the film for various European markets, changing it quite a bit in the process, which led to Romero saying that Argento never really understood the film. The…

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  • Red-Band Horror: Bloody Trailers For Survival Of The Dead And [REC] 2

    Yesterday I riled a few people up with a conversation about red-band trailers. (You guys like them; we get it.) Today we'll flip to the other side of the coin, as IGN has new bloody and restricted clips for George Romero's Survival of the Dead and a UK trailer for [REC] 2. Check both out…

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  • MTV Planning Dawn Of The Dead Spin-Off TV Series

    The last time George Romero's Dawn of the Dead went out for a reworking, pretty much the entire blogosphere shared my skepticism. Luckily, once Zack Snyder's remake finally came out, most of us were satisfied that while he hadn't ousted the original from it's Best Zombie Movie Ever pedestal, he'd actually served up a film…

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  • Fantastic Fest Review: Survival Of The Dead

    When George Romero walked on stage at the Paramount theatre for the introduction to his latest zombie film Survival of the Dead, over 1,000 Fantastic Festers gave the filmmaker not just one, but two standing ovations. If there is any crowd thankful of Romero's contributions to cinema, it has to be the film fanatics at…

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  • New Clips: 2012, Ninja Assassin And Romero's Survival Of The Dead

    A few new clips slipped by us right as last week ended at the holiday weekend began. Well, two of them slipped by, and I hedged on posting the clip from Survival of the Dead at first because it's fairly lousy, and that makes me sad. See all three (or whichever ones you choose) after…

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