George A. Romero

Land of the Dead (2005)

Cast: Dennis Hopper   

Tags: Creature Film Horror 

Length: 93min

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 hriller. In Land of the Dead, the zombies whose numbers had been slowly...

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George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead (2007)

Tags: Horror Creature Film 

Length: 94min

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...

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Bruiser (2000)

Tags: Psychological Thriller Thriller 

Length: 96min

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...

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Fantastic Flesh: The Art of Make-Up EFX (2008)

Cast: Quentin Tarantino   

Tags: Visual Arts Film, TV & Radio Graphic & Applied Arts 

Length: 60min

Ever since the days of Lon Chaney, Sr. special effects make-up has played a crucial role in the history of motion picture cinema. Produced by Starz Inside, this revealing documentary explores the history of special effects make-up through classic...

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The Dark Half (1991)

Cast: George A. Romero   

Tags: Supernatural Horror Horror 

Length: 122min

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...

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The American Nightmare (2000)

Cast: Wes Craven David Cronenberg John Carpenter Tom Savini   

Tags: Media Studies Film & Television History Politics & Government Film, TV & Radio Social History History 

Length: 73min

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...

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Monkey Shines (1988)

Tags: Natural Horror Horror 

Length: 113min

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...

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Day of the Dead (1985)

Tags: Sci-Fi Disaster Film Horror 

Length: 91min

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...

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Two Evil Eyes (1990)

Cast: Dario Argento Harvey Keitel E.G. Marshall   

Tags: Horror Supernatural Horror 

Length: 121min

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...

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