George A. Romero Filmography

George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Michele Morgan, Joshua Close, Shawn Roberts, Amy Lalonde, Joe Dinicol

Synopsis: Horror icon George A. Romero effectively hits the "reset" button on his hugely influential Dead series with this scaled-back look at the zombie apocalypse as told from the perspective of a student filmmaker who sets out to shoot a low-budget fright film, but instead captures the breakdown Read More

Dead On: The Life and Cinema of George A. Romero

Drive-In Madness

Synopsis: At the peak of their popularity, there were nearly seven thousand drive-in movie theaters operating in the United States, where families could see a show in the great outdoors complete with popcorn and teenagers could park for a few hours without being bothered. While many drive-ins showed Read More

Land of the Dead

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Simon Baker, John Leguizamo, Asia Argento, Robert Joy, Dennis Hopper

Synopsis: George A. Romero, who revolutionized the American horror film in 1968 with the instant classic Night of the Living Dead, returns to his dystopian zombie cycle with this horror thriller. In Land of the Dead, the zombies whose numbers had been slowly but steadily growing through Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead Read More

Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream

Synopsis: Stuart Samuels's popular documentary Midnight Movies: From Margin to Mainstream grounds itself in the thesis that six revolutionary American motion pictures - Night of the Living Dead (1968), El Topo (1970), Pink Flamingoes (1972), The Harder they Come (1972), The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) Read More

Dawn of the Dead

Crew: From Screenplay by

Actors: Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Jake Weber, Mekhi Phifer, Ty Burrell

Synopsis: The feature-film debut of director Zack Snyder, Dawn of the Dead is a modern retelling of George Romero's 1978 horror classic, which was actually the second film in a trilogy that began with Night of the Living Dead and concluded with Day of the Dead. Sarah Polley and Ving Rhames star as two of Read More

Masters of Horror

John Carpenter: Fear is Just the Beginning... The Man and His Movies

Actors: John Carpenter

Synopsis: Filmmaker John Carpenter helped redefine the American horror film in 1978 with Halloween, a low-budget thriller which became a major box office success. Since then, Carpenter has devoted his career to bringing a fresh perspective to genre filmmaking, striving to maintain the freedom of an Read More

Bruiser

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jason Flemyng, Peter Stormare, Leslie Hope, Nina Garbiras

Synopsis: Horror-meister George Romero directs this thriller about a 99-pound weakling who strikes back at everyone who has wronged him in the past. Henry Creedlow (Jason Flemyng) works at a fashion mag called Bruiser for the short-fused, dictatorial Miles Styles (Peter Stormare). Henry spends much Read More

The American Nightmare

Actors: George A. Romero, John Carpenter, Tom Savini, David Cronenberg, Wes Craven

Synopsis: In the late '60s, the tone of American horror films began to shift in the wake of the startling success of George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead -- horror films became gorier, bleaker, and began to subtly reflect the political and social upheaval gripping the country. Through the '70s and Read More

Two Evil Eyes

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Adrienne Barbeau, E.G. Marshall, Harvey Keitel, Madeleine Potter, Ramy Zada

Synopsis: Two well-known directors each adapt stories by Edgar Allen Poe in this horror drama. George Romero's "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" tells how the wife of an elderly, wealthy man and her lover--who also happens to be the husband's private physician--scheme to control his assets. Dying Read More

The Silence of the Lambs

Actors: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Anthony Heald, Brooke Smith

Synopsis: In this multiple Oscar-winning thriller, Jodie Foster stars as Clarice Starling, a top student at the FBI's training academy whose shrewd analyses of serial killers lands her a special assignment: the FBI is investigating a vicious murderer nicknamed Buffalo Bill, who kills young women and then Read More

The Dark Half

Crew: Director, Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Timothy Hutton, Amy Madigan, Michael Rooker, Julie Harris, Robert Joy

Synopsis: Marking the first collaboration between horror legends George A. Romero and Stephen King since 1982's Creepshow, this moody, atmospheric adaptation of King's novel was actually completed in 1991, but the highly-publicized bankruptcy of its distributor Orion Pictures in that same year nearly doomed Read More

Night of the Living Dead

Crew: Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Tony Todd, Patricia Tallman, Tom Towles, McKee Anderson, William Butler, William Anderson

Synopsis: Makeup wizard Tom Savini's color remake of George A. Romero's 1968 classic follows the original almost shot-for-shot, so quality comparisons are somewhat pointless. The film was clearly made for younger viewers who refuse to watch black-and-white films, no matter how good they may be. The result Read More

Tales From the Darkside: The Movie

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Deborah Harry, Christian Slater, Rae Dawn Chong, William Hickey, James Remar, David Johansen

Synopsis: This feature-length spin-off of the popular television horror anthology is directed by John Harrison, who directed many episodes of the television series. The film consists of four grisly and gruesome horror teasers. "The Wraparound Story" stars Deborah Harry as Betty, a chef with a kitchen Read More

Document of the Dead

Synopsis: This documentary showcases the career of director George A. Romero, whose horror films of the '60s and '70s (Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead) revolutionized the horror genre. Shown are interviews with Romero as well as with some of the casts and crews from his films. Also shown are some Read More

Monkey Shines

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jason Beghe, John Pankow, Kate McNeil, Joyce Van Patten, Christine Forrest

Synopsis: A quadriplegic former athlete finds his darkest urges being acted out by an animal familiar in this psychological horror film. When Allan Mann (Jason Beghe) loses the use of his legs and arms in an accident, he becomes bitter -- no surprise given that his girlfriend dumps him for his surgeon, his Read More

Creepshow 2

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Lois Chiles, George Kennedy, Dorothy Lamour, Tom Savini, Domenick John

Synopsis: This less-satisfying sequel to the 1982 George A. Romero/Stephen King anthology presents a new trio of King stories, framed in a similar EC Comics-style format -- this time featuring some rather lackluster animated segments involving horror-host "The Creep," who introduces each chapter with Read More

Day of the Dead

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Lori Cardille, Terry Alexander, Joseph Pilato, Jarleth Conroy, Antone DiLeo, Jr.

Synopsis: Day of the Dead, the third and concluding chapter in George Romero's zombie trilogy is the most distinctly 1950s-style science fiction version of the lot. Set in Florida, as the film begins the dead have taken over the world, outnumbering humans 400,000 to one. The handful of surviving humans have Read More

Creepshow

Crew: Director, Editor

Actors: Hal Holbrook, Adrienne Barbeau, Fritz Weaver, Leslie Nielsen, Carrie Nye

Synopsis: Two of the most venerable names in the horror field, author Stephen King and director George A. Romero, present this anthology of original twisted tales inspired by the E.C. horror comics of the 50's and 60's (themselves a more direct basis for the popular Tales from the Crypt TV series). The five Read More

Knightriders

Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Actors: Ed Harris, Gary Lahti, Tom Savini, Amy Ingersoll, Patricia Tallman

Synopsis: Knightriders may well be the only cycle flick ever to be played out in suits of armor. A hardcase motorcycle gang led by Ed Harris has found itself a neat money-making gimmick. Dressed as the knights of the round table, the cyclists pick up a few bucks at local "renaissance" fairs, selling Read More

Dawn of the Dead

Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Actors: Scott Reiniger, Ken Foree, David Emge, Gaylen Ross, Tom Savini

Synopsis: Director George A. Romero's epic sequel to his legendary Night of the Living Dead has firmly established itself as the equal of its ground-breaking predecessor. Though shot in 1978 -- ten years after the first films' release -- Dawn's story begins as if the events in Night had happened only a few Read More

Martin

Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Actors: John Amplas, Lincoln Maazel, Christine Forrest, Elayne Nadeau, Tom Savini

Synopsis: Nearly a decade after George A. Romero changed the face of modern horror films with Night of the Living Dead -- and following the less successful projects Season of the Witch and The Crazies -- the Pittsburgh-based auteur returned to top form with this superb vampire tale. Set in a rapidly Read More

Season of the Witch

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Synopsis: In this little-seen early film from George Romero, Jan White plays an affluent housewife able to keep her creeping disaffection at bay through therapy, friends, and a devotion to her family. When her friends catch wind that a local woman Virginia Greenwald practices witchcraft, their curiosity is Read More

The Crazies

Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Synopsis: George Romero's The Crazies involves a biochemical warfare virus code-named "Trixie" that gets into the water supply of Evans City, Pennsylvania. It has two equally unpleasant effects, either killing its victims outright or driving them hopelessly insane. The military descends on the town like a Read More

There's Always Vanilla

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Editor

Actors: Thomas Ashwell, Nat Carter, Dorrit Chase, Al Croft, Elsie Doughty, Jack Dutch, Ron Jaye, George Kosana, Mike Marracino, Donald Neeld, Ken Peters, Christopher Priore, Bryson Randolph, Roger Ray, Louise Sahene, Eleanor Schirra, Val Stanley, Judith Streiner, Robert Trow, Helen Tumpson

Synopsis: Incredibly, this romantic melodrama was directed by the same man who brought The Night of the Living Dead to the screen. The story concerns a recently discharged young army veteran (Ray Laine), who doesn't want a regular job but wants to drift around and enjoy things for a while. He finds a Read More

Night of the Living Dead

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Editor, Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Judith O'Dea, Russ Streiner, Duane Jones, Karl Hardman, Keith Wayne

Synopsis: When unexpected radiation raises the dead, a microcosm of Average America has to battle flesh-eating zombies in George A. Romero's landmark cheapie horror film. Siblings Johnny (Russ Streiner) and Barbara (Judith O'Dea) whine and pout their way through a graveside visit in a small Pennsylvania Read More