In 1968, with a crew of friends and colleagues from Pittsburgh (where he worked on local television ads as well as on Mr. The DVD release of Romero's latest zombie flick, Diary of the Dead (2008), provides an opportunity to review those 40 years of death.īen (Duane Jones) and Barbara (Judith O'Dea) take refuge from zombies in Night of the Living Dead Romero continued the genre he created in the four decades that followed with Dawn of the Dead (1978), Day of the Dead (1985) and Land of the Dead (2005). The modern zombie genre began in 1968 with George Romero's low-budget black-and-white masterpiece Night of the Living Dead. Take for example, the 1932 film White Zombie, starring Bela Lugosi as the "voodoo master" of (Black) Haitian zombie slaves. They were chock full of colonial ideas based on wildly misinformed and racist prejudices.
My friend was talking about the modern zombie genre-which is characterized by bloody "gags" (heads exploding, intestines being eaten, chewing on human arms as if they were turkey legs) as well as social criticism and satire.Įarly zombie movies were something else entirely. My friend and I both love zombie movies, and conversely don't understand people who don't "get" them. "THERE ARE two types of people in the world," a friend of mine once said, "those who get zombie movies, and those who don't."
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