George Romero Dead at 77

If his films are any indication, he'll be back soon.

 

RIP. His classic b/w movie looks great on Blu ray!

 

Happy to have met him at a local horror convention. Love his movies and this review/reaction from Roger Ebert from Night:

Night of the Living Dead Movie Review (1969) | Roger Ebert

 

R.I.P. Mr. Romero. Your legacy will never die.

 

He'll always be known for zombies, but I thought this non-horror movie he did was a lot of fun.

 

RIP....

 

First Martin Landau,too.

 

That's what I came here to say... first Martin Landau then George Romero... holy hell, the grim reaper was on a roll yesterday.

Romero will go down in history next to Bram Stoker, I mean it; he quite literally invented and set the rules for an entire genre of fiction, how many people can say that???

Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead remain the best one-two punch in horror to this day...

 

Wow, just heard. Another individual who had an impact on my formative years gone. Rip.

I must have been 7 or 8 when I first saw Night of the Living Dead. I thought it was super scary (and real, actually) but also super cool. I loved monsters as a little kid so it was definitely in my wheelhouse. For a long time it was the film I used as a gauge to compare all other scary films and usually they came up short. And then Dawn of the Dead came and it ratcheted everything up a notch.

At any rate, I owe a lot of my imagination in youth and overall interest in scary movies to George Romero. He will be missed. He may not come back as a zombie, but that's ok because his legacy will live on.

 

And they both were involved with North by Northwest!

 

RIP Mr Romero. Thanks for the memories.

 

I did not know that

 

Very sad news. Love all his movies and the genre he created. RIP.

 

I agree with Romaro entirely. I can't get through one episode of TWD because I find it so dreadfully boring.

 

RIP George. For my 30th birthday I took a Romero sight seeing trip to Pittsburgh.

 

First director : where a black actor not only survived to the end of the movie but got the gal.

 

Night of the Living Dead

"Romero had even dipped a toe into the cinematic mainstream, working as a go-fer on a pair of major Hollywood productions that would play a significant role in shaping his negative view of the industry. First up was Alfred Hitchcock's 1959 North by Northwest, which left a teenage Romero less than wowed: 'I didn't see him [Hitchcock] much, but I did see him some, and the way he worked was just so mechanical! There was no vitality on that set.'"

 

Interesting. And I love North By Northwest.

 

Interesting indeed. Yet, Hitchcock made a masterpiece out of this!

 

Perhaps "no vitality" was just Romero's way of calling Hitch a Living Dead?

 

Which film would that be? Certainly not Night of The Living Dead, where

Spoiler

the girl is eaten by zombies and the hero shot dead at the end.

 

Sad to hear, hopefully Criterion will release a restored version of NOTLD on BD.

 

He was great as bela Lugosi in Ed Wood (one of my 10 fav films)

 

He changed a genre and virtually created a subset that has taken on a life of its own. He had a real point of view, and vision for putting it all together. He was the real deal!

Thanks for scaring the daylights out of me George. It was fun!

 

RIP, Mr. Romero. I missed the chance to meet him when he showed up at my university in the early 2000s. I heard he

And a restored "Martin" as well. I don't think a blu-ray has ever been released for that film.

RIP Mr. Romero. Thanks for all the great movies.