Title: Survival of the Dead (2009) Director: George A. Romero Runtime: 90 minutes “In an us-versus-them world, someone puts up a flag, another person tears it down and puts up his own. Pretty soon no one remembers what started the war in the first place and the fighting becomes all about those stupid flags.” —…
Movie Review – Branden Chowen on Diary of the Dead (2007)
Title: Diary of the Dead (2007) Director: George A. Romero Runtime: 93 minutes “God had changed the rules on us. And surprisingly, we were playing along.” — Take one my favorite sub-genres – found footage – and put one of my favorite directors at the helm, and you should have a recipe for gold in…
Movie Review – Branden Chowen on Land of the Dead (2005)
Title: Land of the Dead (2005) Director: George A. Romero Runtime: 97 minutes “In a world where the dead are returning to life, the word “trouble” loses much of its meaning.” — Land of the Dead is often looked at as the start of the decline of Romero’s Dead series, and though this definitely feels…
Movie Review – Branden Chowen on Day of the Dead (1985)
Title: Day of the Dead (1985) Director: George A. Romero Runtime: 101 minutes “We’re bein’ punished by the Creator. He visited a curse on us. So that man could look at…what Hell was like.” — George A. Romero is three for three in leaving me wanting so much more at the end of his films….
Movie Review – Branden Chowen on Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Title: Dawn of the Dead (1978) Director: George A. Romero Runtime: 127 minutes “My granddad was a priest in Trinidad. He used to tell us, ‘When there’s no more room in hell, the dead will walk the Earth.’” — Unlike Night of the Dead, it only took me one viewing to fall in love with…
Movie Review – Branden Chowen on Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Title: Night of the Living Dead (1968) Director: George A. Romero Runtime: 96 minutes “We may not enjoy living together, but dying together isn’t going to solve anything.” — Night of the Living Dead is such an important film in the pantheon of both the horror genre, and the zombie sub-genre. Of course, it’s not…
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