Romero’s ultra-low-budget Night of the Living Dead was released in October 1968, just months after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., which was shortly followed by that of Robert F. Kennedy.

Chris Williams is a writer with more than 20 years of experience writing about film. Chris holds a B.A. in communications and an emphasis in journalism and an M.A. in communications with an emphasis ...

The Halloween season has always been special for me. It’s the time when it seems the entire country shares the fascination with the dark side of human experience that has inspired me from my youth as ...

Back in 2021, Hannah’s love of all things nerdy collided with her passion for writing — and she hasn’t stopped since. She covers pop culture news, writes reviews, and conducts interviews on just about ...

I’m probably going to catch a lot of flak for this, but I think the 1990 remake of Night of the Living Dead is a better movie than the original. Though Romero’s black-and-white 1968 version, which ...

The best zombie movies epitomize a horror subgenre that will not die. The cannibalistic living dead kicked off the American horror renaissance in 1968 with Night of the Living Dead, a movie ...

George A. Romero arguably invented the modern zombie genre with the 1968 classic “Night of the Living Dead” but, fittingly enough, zombies turned out to be a Frankenstein monster, tromping ...