The Zombie king.
Director George A Romero has died at just 77. The A is for Awesome or maybe its Andrew.
Born 4th Feb 1940 in the Bronx he passed away on the 16th July 2017.
So for anyone thinking who the fuck is this guy well back in 1968 he co wrote NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD(1968) the original and first real zombie movie it was made on a budget of just over $100.000 dollars and had to be filmed in black and white this was the birth place of the zombie movie and would spawn just hundreds of them in the coming years.
The film itself due to being made back in the 60s of course had a few problems one people were fucking retards back then so some Readers Digest tried to warn people if the watched it people would become cannibals lol it of course has a female lead oooooh by todays standards nothing but back then it was a big deal but bitch i grew up watching Ripley and Sarah fucking Connor and fucking Murder She Wrote an by god she was like 60 and she still solved crime every week and dont get me started on Buffy. Any ways back then it was a big deal like i said people were idiots and then you had a black leading man. When the movie was finished being edited George put it in the trunk of his car and headed to New York to find anyone willing to screen it haha no fucking trailers in those days no youtube but the film still made 263 times its money back making it the most successful low budget movie maybe ever made.
Ten years later Georgie returned to the zombie world and made DAWN OF THE DEAD(1978) some of you 90s fuckers might have heard of this by way of the modern remake DAWN OF THE DEAD(2004) made for just over a million dollars it went on to make back 40 million at the box office the movie tells the tale of 4 people who escape the city during the zombie outbreak a sort of sequel of sorts the same world just a different time and place and people.
He of course tried another sequel to this zombie world later in the 80s with DAY OF THE DEAD(1985) this was utter horse shit and borders on funny it made some money back but was just a movie out of time the horror genre had moved on for things like THE THING(1982).
George did make a late come back with LAND OF THE DEAD(2005)
continuing the zombie world he had started but it was kind of a poor mans movie with more of the movie about terrible acting but any ways a couple of years later he made a sort of BLAIR WITCH PROJECT(1999) style DIARY OF THE DEAD(2007)continuation of the zombie world with this low budget movie forget straight to dvd or bargain bin this was straight pirate bay lol. And then he just wouldnt let go of it so he then makes SURVIVAL OF THE DEAD(2009) they are not what you would call great but they are fun this guy really was the godfather of zombie flicks.
Without his movies an genre you would have no RE-ANIMATOR(1985) the entire RESIDENT EVIL(2002) franchise 28 DAYS LATER(2002) 28 WEEKS LATER(2007) I AM LEGEND(2007) QUARANTINE(2008) WARM BODIES(2013) WORLD WAR Z(2013) and THE WALKING DEAD tv show not to mention no Call Of Duty zombies no endless hours of playing the cod franchise zombie games killing hordes and running around buildings like a motherfucker till 6am yeh thats right i played Black Ops2 zombies for 8 hours one night and held on with a team of retards for 33 rounds lol well anyone who ever watched enjoyed the zombie style movies and played any kinda zombie based game you owe this man a thanks
RIP GEORGE
