George A. Romero Archives

Night of the Living Dead (1968)

Rating: ★★★★½

Dec 1, 2000Zombies

The film that created the modern zombie genre, that took a creature from voodoo and reinvented at a something stumbling and wanting only to devour flesh. George Romero creates a horror film that shoots out all cozy, established convention

Director: George A. Romero

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

Category: Horror

1 December 200031 December 2025 by Roog

Jack’s Wife (1972)

Rating: ★★★

Apr 22, 2016Suburban Witchcraft

One of the least known of George Romero’s films. Made not long after Rosemary’s Baby, this concerns itself with bored suburban housewives dabbling in witchcraft. Aka Season of the Witch

Director: George A. Romero

Category: Horror

22 April 201612 May 2026 by Roog

The Crazies (1973)

Rating: ★★★★

Jun 8, 2001Madness Inducing Biospill

George Romero's most underrated film, filled with disturbing images as the population of a town are driven crazy by a bio-weapon spill The first and also the best of a number films on the theme of outbreaks of mass insanity

Director: George A. Romero

Actors: W.G. MacMillan, Lynn Lowry, Richard Liberty

Category: Horror, Science Fiction

8 June 20017 October 2025 by Roog

The Amusement Park (1975)

Rating: ★★½

Feb 26, 2024Surreal Journey Through a Fairground

A recently rediscovered work that was sold as a lost George Romero film. Romero was hired to make a film about the plight of the elderly and creates a surreal allegorical work set around an amusement park

Director: George A. Romero

Actors: Lincoln Maazel

Category: Fantasy

26 February 202424 November 2025 by Roog

Martin (1976)

Rating: ★★★★★

Mar 11, 2001Deconstructed Vampire

George Romero's vampire film is one of his most remarkable films. In contrast to the cliches, the vampire here is a pale teen with an unhealthy obsession contrasted with a religious extremist who demands he be exorcised.

Director: George A. Romero

Actors: John Amplas, Lincoln Maazel, Tom Savini, Christine Forrest, …

Category: Horror

11 March 200112 August 2026 by Roog

Dawn of the Dead (1978)

Rating: ★★★★

Jun 8, 2001Zombies

George Romero's successor to his cult hit of Night of the Living Dead. Romero creates a very different film, one that takes place in a mall and comes with a level of droll satire. A bigger budget allows him to push things to gore-drenched extremes

Director: George A. Romero

Actors: Ken Foree, Gaylen Ross, Tom Savini, David Emge, …

Category: Horror

8 June 200115 January 2026 by Roog

Creepshow (1982)

Rating: ★★★★

Jul 6, 2000Horror Anthology

Stephen King and George Romero collaborate on a horror anthology made as homage to the EC Comics, telling five tales that replicate the blacker-than-black sense of humour (and even the visual look) of the comic-book with hilarious results

Director: George A. Romero

Actors: Leslie Nielsen, Ted Danson, Stephen King, Fritz Weaver, …

Category: Horror

6 July 20003 October 2025 by Roog

Day of the Dead (1985)

Rating: ★★★★½

Mar 9, 2001Zombies

The third and most undervalued of George Romero's original trilogy of zombie films, an explosively bared to the bone series of apocalyptic confrontations containing some of the best performances and writing in any of his films

Director: George A. Romero

Actors: Lori Cardille, Joe Pilato, Richard Liberty, Howard Sherman, …

Category: Horror

9 March 200117 February 2026 by Roog

Creepshow II (1987)

Rating: ★

Mar 7, 2001Horror Anthology

The sequel to the hit George Romero-Stephen King horror anthology. This misses the original’s black humour by a mile and instead becomes overblown and filled with shrill unlikable characters

Director: Michael Gornick

Actors: Lois Chiles, George Kennedy, Dorothy Lamour, Joe King, …

Category: Horror

7 March 200112 January 2026 by Roog

Monkey Shines (1988)

Rating: ★★

Mar 11, 2003Psychic Link with a Monkey

Disappointing George Romero film about a paraplegic man's psychic link with his monkey that then comes to enact his suppressed anger. A fine idea drowns in shrill moral characterisations.

Director: George A. Romero

Actors: Jason Beghe, John Pankow, Stanley Tucci, Joyce Van Patten, …

Category: Horror

11 March 200318 August 2023 by Roog

Night of the Living Dead (1990)

Rating: ★★★

Dec 3, 2000Zombies

George Romero produces a remake of his groundbreaking zombie film. This adheres closely to the original but manages to modernise it in interesting ways

Director: Tom Savini

Actors: Tony Todd, Patricia Tallman, Tom Towles, William Butler, …

Category: Horror

3 December 200031 January 2023 by Roog

Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990)

Rating: ★★★½

Mar 21, 2001Horror Anthology

Film spinoff from the Tales from the Darkside tv series, this is an anthology of three horror tales, the result is a surprisingly slick and well made film

Director: John Harrison

Actors: Christian Slater, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, Deborah Harry, …

Category: Horror

21 March 200116 March 2024 by Roog

Two Evil Eyes (1990)

Rating: ★★

Feb 15, 2001Edgar Allan Poe Anthology

George Romero and Dario Argento collaborate on an anthology, each adapting an Edgar Allan Poe tale. Either director leaves you with high expectations but the results are very mixed

Director: Dario Argento, George A. Romero

Actors: Harvey Keitel, Adrienne Barbeau, E.G. Marshall, Tom Atkins, …

Category: Horror

15 February 200113 January 2026 by Roog

The Dark Half (1993)

Rating: ★★★

Aug 4, 2001Writer's Evil Doppelganger/Stephen King Adaptation

George Romero's adaptation of a Stephen King novel with writer Timothy Hutton haunted by an evil alter ego. Underrated and quite possibly the King adaptation that is the most faithful to its source material

Director: George A. Romero

Actors: Timothy Hutton, Amy Madigan, Michael Rooker, Julie Harris, …

Category: Horror

4 August 200118 July 2025 by Roog

Bruiser (2000)

Rating: ★★½

Dec 31, 2004Man's Face Becomes a Blank Mask

Uneven George Romero film from his less satisfying latter period in which Jason Flemyng wakes up with a blank white mask on his face and finds it allows him to unleash vengeance against those who wronged him

Director: George A. Romero

Actors: Jason Flemyng, Peter Stormare, Leslie Hope, Tom Atkins, …

Category: Horror

31 December 200411 September 2025 by Roog

Dawn of the Dead (2004)

Rating: ★★

Jun 15, 2004Zombies

Zack Snyder debuts with a remake of the cult George Romero film. While this has a bigger budget, it is missing is the satire and gore-drenched effects that made the original memorable. This inspired the mid-2000s zombie film revival

Director: Zack Snyder

Actors: Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Jake Weber, Mekhi Phifer, …

Category: Horror

15 June 200423 December 2025 by Roog

Land of the Dead (2005)

Rating: ★★★

Aug 5, 2005Zombies

George Romero's return to the zombie genre after twenty years, after others starting remaking and homaging his films. Romero still makes potent social metaphors but the gory extremes of his earlier films seem tamed down

Director: George A. Romero

Actors: Simon Baker, Dennis Hopper, John Leguizamo, Asia Argento, …

Category: Horror

5 August 200520 June 2026 by Roog

Night of the Living Dead 3D (2006)

Rating: ★★

Mar 18, 2015Zombies

Remake of George Romero's seminal zombie classic. The 3D is no more than a gimmick, while elsewhere they are some radical changes – a white Ben, a lame explanation for the zombies, some far-too-cute in-jokes – that fails to match the effectiveness of the original

Director: Jeff Broadstreet

Actors: Sid Haig, Brianna Brown, Greg Travis, Max Williams

Category: Horror

18 March 201531 January 2023 by Roog

Diary of the Dead (2007)

Rating: ★★★★

Jun 15, 2008Zombie Found Footage Film

George Romero returns to zombies, making a Found Footage film. After the disappointment of Land of the Dead, he delivers the goods here, while making powerful political points about modern media

Director: George A. Romero

Actors: Josh Close, Shawn Roberts, Joe Dinicol, Tatiana Maslany, …

Category: Horror

15 June 20087 March 2023 by Roog

Day of the Dead (2008)

Rating: ★

Oct 19, 2008Zombies

A remake of George Romero's third and most underrated zombie film, This came out as part of the 2000s revival of the genre but majorly miscalculates the original and emerges as wrong in just about every way

Director: Steve Miner

Actors: Mena Suvari, Ving Rhames, Annalynne McCord, Nick Cannon, …

Category: Horror

19 October 200815 January 2026 by Roog

Survival of the Dead (2009)

Rating: ★★★½

Jul 30, 2010Zombies

George Romero's sixth and final zombie film where he writes characters and a script with much more of a richness of theme than he did in the last two entries

Director: George A. Romero

Actors: Alan Van Sprang, Kenneth Welsh, Richard Fitzpatrick, Athena Karkanis, …

Category: Horror

30 July 20105 December 2021 by Roog

The Crazies (2010)

Rating: ★★

Mar 9, 2010Madness Inducing Biospill

George Romero's underrated classic gets a makeover amid the 00/10s fad for remakes of 70s/80s horror films. Alas, Romero's modest classic about a madness-inducing biospill has a big-budget thrown to emerge as just another zombie film

Director: Breck Eisner

Actors: Timothy Olyphant, Radha Mitchell, Joe Anderson, Danielle Panabaker, …

Category: Horror

9 March 201014 January 2026 by Roog