Dawn of the Dead

By Chad Langen | Updated 7 months ago Dawn of the Dead In 2017, renowned filmmaker George A. Romero passed away, leaving behind a treatment co-written with Paolo Zelati for the seventh installment in his beloved Living Dead franchise. According to Entertainment Weekly, the Romero estate is collaborating with Roundtable Entertainment to bring Twilight of the Dead to the big screen. The film’s scre...[Read More]

After the release of Day of the Dead in 1985, twenty years went by without George A. Romero being able to get another zombie movie into production, even though he was very open about the fact that he had an idea for another one. During that time, a lot of fans expected the next movie to be called Twilight of the Dead, following the progression of the titles Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the De...[Read More]

Though he certainly had help along the way, George A. Romero remains the filmmaker most often credited with creating the modern zombie story thanks to his seminal 1968 classic Night of the Living Dead (now streaming on Peacock!). While he ventured into plenty of other horror subgenres over the course of his long career, Romero's relationship with his "ghouls" never went away entirely, and he kept ...[Read More]

No director has done more to define a genre than George A. Romero with zombie flicks. Without the groundbreaking, lo-fi chills of Night of the Living Dead or the high-octane, satirical thrills of Dawn of the Dead, zombie fans wouldn’t have the likes of The Walking Dead, Army of the Dead, or the seemingly endless horde of zombie thrillers to choose from. But in 1985, Romero’s true opus was rejected...[Read More]

George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead arguably remains the greatest zombie movie of all time, no matter its rough technical edges.Many often point to how silly the film's blood looks, with its strangely pink hue not even remotely resembling actual human blood. Though it's been stated that Romero felt the blood contributed to a heightened, comic book-y style, it was absolutely in no way intentional.T...[Read More]

45 years ago, the late George A. Romero forever immortalized Pennsylvania’s Monroeville Mall as an iconic tourist destination for horror fans, filming his classic Dawn of the Dead inside the still-operational mall. This June, The Living Dead Weekend returns to the Monroeville Mall for another ultimate Dawn of the Dead fan event… and it’s the biggest one yet!Celebrating 45 years of Dawn of the Dead...[Read More]

Welcome back to DEAD Time. I hope you left a light on for me because this month, we’re on the hunt for the Michigan Dogman and other cryptids that might be lurking in the darkness. I talked to Shetan Noir, a cryptozoologist, Michigan based author, journalist, and paranormal researcher about her career, as well as her personal experience with cryptid sightings. Shetan is the Lead Investigator for t...[Read More]

Most horror fans will admit to feeling anything but genuine excitement when it was announced a no-name director would be helming a remake of George A. Romero’s beloved Dawn of the Dead (1978). And with a script written by the guy who did Scooby-Doo (2002) no less. A true travesty in the making, or so it seemed. But then that “no name director” turned out to be Zack Snyder. Whatever you feel about ...[Read More]

The notion of a "zombie apocalypse" has been popular for the past few decades, and the irony is that just such an event has happened within pop culture. After all, zombies are everywhere — books, long-running television shows, board games, video games, action figures, apparel, and, of course, the movies.Yet this wasn't always the case. In fact, just 40-odd years ago, the zombie was still the near-...[Read More]

In the annals of zombie cinema, it would be foolish to even suggest another auteur ever standing on a higher pedestal than George A. Romero. Some subgenres simply have this kind of foundational figure, whose seminal works shaped everything to come in the decades that followed. The greatest zombie films made in the more than half century since 1968’s Night of the Living Dead are all indebted to Rom...[Read More]

Earlier this year, we were treated to a sprawling reissue of Goblin's complete score to the 1978 George A. Romero classic Dawn of the Dead. Now the current lineup of the Italian prog-horror outfit are dusting off Dawn of the Dead once again for a new studio album.Helping celebrate the 40th anniversary of Dawn of the Dead, Goblin are unleashing a new full-length called FEARLESS (37513 Zombie Ave), ...[Read More]

Twice a month Joe Lipsett will dissect a new Amityville Horror film to explore how the “franchise” has evolved in increasingly ludicrous directions. This is “The Amityville IP.” We’ve finally arrived at the first of ten 2023 Amityville titles! First up is writer/director Jack Hunter II’s Amityville Ride-Share, a ~60 minute found footage film featuring loosely interconnected (or not) clips. In some...[Read More]