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George A. Romero

 

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Director / Screenwriter / Editor / Actor
1940 - 
Born February 4, New York, New York, USA
Key Production Country: USA 
Key Genres: Horror, Creature Film, Drama
Key Collaborators: Richard P. Rubinstein (Producer), Christine Forrest (Leading Character Player), Michael Gornick (Cinematographer), John Amplas (Character Player), Tom Savini (Character Player), John Amplas (Character Player), Pasquale Buba (Editor), Cletus Anderson (Production Designer), Richard Liberty (Leading Character Player), David Rubinstein (Composer)
Highly Recommended: Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Recommended: Martin (1977), Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Worth a Look: The Crazies (1973), Day of the Dead (1985), Monkey Shines: An Experiment in Fear (1988), Land of the Dead (2005)
Approach with Caution: Knightriders (1981), Diary of the Dead (2007)
Links: [ IMDB ] [ TCMDB ] [ All-Movie Guide ] [ Senses of Cinema: Great Directors ] [ Film Reference ] [ Wikipedia ] [ Homepage of the Dead ] [ Film Journal Interview ] [ House of Horrors Biography ] [ GreenCine Interview (2005) ] [ Wired Interview (2010) ] [ Pure Doom Article (2011) ]
Books: [ George A. Romero: Interviews ] [ George A. Romero (Pocket Essential Series) ] [ Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero's Visions of Hell on Earth ] [ The Cinema of George A. Romero: Knight of the Living Dead ] [ The Zombies That Ate Pittsburgh: The Films of George A. Romero ]
DVD's: [ Amazon ]
1,000 Greatest Films: Night of the Living Dead (1968), Dawn of the Dead (1978)
 
Night of the Living Dead (1968)Dawn of the Dead (1978)Martin (1977)Land of the Dead (2005)
 
     
  "One of America's most effective directors of chillers and horror films from 1968 to 1988, Romero has dissipated his talents too much. Still, his Night of the Living Dead, made in black and white, remains one of the rare examples of true horror in recent Hollywood history." - David Quinlan (Quinlan's Film Directors, 1999)  
     
  "Romero's first feature, Night of the Living Dead (1968), remains a landmark of the modern horror film...Two sequels ensued, the equally gripping Dawn of the Dead (1978) and the disappointing Day of the Dead (1985)... Although Romero's work has been uneven and at its best erratic, the influence of his blood-and-gore approach to horror can be detected in the films of such directors as Brian De Palma, John Carpenter, David Cronenberg, and Wes Craven." - (The MacMillan International Film Encyclopedia, 1994)  
     
  "Although an erratic talent, George Andrew Romero remains important for his virtually single-handed development of the horror film from a form where menace was suggested and shadowy to a newly visceral genre in which gore and violence are largely explicit... Romero may be seen to have taken up where Hitchcock's Psycho and the Italian Mario Bava left off" - Geoff Andrew (The Film Handbook, 1989)  
     
 
 
 

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