George A. Romero

George A. Romero’s The Amusement Park: Shudder hosts live watch, panel event

Posted 5 years ago

Nearly fifty years ago, the Lutheran Society hired George A. Romero to make an hour-long PSA on ageism and elder abuse for them. When Romero turned in his film, The Amusement Park, the Lutherans found it too disturbing to be...

The Amusement Park (Movie Review)

Posted 5 years ago

PLOT: An elderly man endures a hellish day at a very strange amusement park in an allegory for ageism and elderly abuse. REVIEW: Back in 1973, George A. Romero and his company Latent Image were hired by the Lutheran Service...

George A. Romero short film Jacaranda Joe to be preserved

Posted 5 years ago

So this is pretty cool! The University of Pittsburgh has apparently been hard at work archiving and preserving lost films from the George A. Romero Archival Collection, and one of them is the never-before-seen proto-found footage short film Jacaranda Joe! Here's a full rundown, via Adam...

George A. Romero’s The Amusement Park is coming to Shudder in June

Posted 5 years ago

A few months ago, we learned that George A. Romero's long lost 1973 film The Amusement Park would be released through the Shudder streaming service in North America, the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand – and now we know...

Twilight of the Dead: George A. Romero’s final zombie movie in development

Posted 6 years ago

After kick-starting the zombie genre with Night of the Living Dead all the way back in 1968, George A. Romero returned to the world of the undead several times over the decades for Dawn of the Dead, Day of the...

Twilight of the Dead: George A. Romero’s unmade zombie film resurrected

Posted 6 years ago

So this is cool! THR reports that late-great George A. Romero's unmade zombie film, Twilight of the Dead – said to be his coda on the zombie cinematic universe he started with 1966's Night of the Living Dead and sadly ended with 2009's Survival of the Dead –...

Creepshow: season 3 of Shudder anthology series has already been filmed

Posted 6 years ago

Season 2 of the Creepshow anthology series won't be making its premiere on the Shudder streaming network until April 1st, but season 3 is already on the way. We heard last year that Shudder ordered scripts for a third season...

Untold Horror: Book will dig into the scariest movies never made

Posted 6 years ago

The folks at Daily Dead recently learned that Dark Horse Books will be publishing Dave Alexander's book Untold Horror, which digs into the stories of horror films that got trapped in development hell. Hardcover editions of Untold Horror will be...

The Amusement Park: Shudder acquires George A. Romero’s long lost film

Posted 6 years ago

Two years have passed since George A. Romero's widow Suzanne Desrocher-Romero revealed that she, with the George A. Romero Foundation, was working to get the long lost film The Amusement Park out into the world. Shelved since it was made...

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