TSPDT - George A. Romero

George A. Romero

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See Also

Dario Argento

Mario Bava

Kathryn Bigelow

Tod Browning

John Carpenter

Roger Corman

Wes Craven

David Cronenberg

Guillermo del Toro

Lucio Fulci (External Link)

Tobe Hooper

Peter Jackson

Director / Screenwriter / Editor / Actor / Cinematographer

1940 -

Born February 4, New York, New York, USA

Key Production Country: USA

Key Genres: Horror, Monster Film, Natural Horror

Key Collaborators: Richard P. Rubinstein (Producer), Michael Gornick (Cinematographer), Christine Forrest (Character Player), John Amplas (Character Player), Tom Savini (Character Player), Pasquale Buba (Editor), Cletus Anderson (Production Designer), Joseph Pilato (Character Player)

Highly Recommended: Night of the Living Dead (1968)

Recommended: Martin (1977), Dawn of the Dead (1978)

Links: [ IMDB ] [ All-Movie Guide ] [ Senses of Cinema: Great Directors ] [ Film Reference ] [ Official Website ] [ Homepage of the Dead ] [ Film Journal Interview ] [ House of Horrors Biography ] [ GreenCine Interview (2005) ] [ Film Comment Article (2008) ]

Books: [ 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), Day of the Dead (1985)

21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films: 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)