George A. Romero

CreepShow, Dawn of the Dead, original Twilight Zone, George A. Romero, Ken Foree, and Adrienne Barbeau headline inaugural horror fest

Horror comes to my hometown this weekend with the inaugural edition of Saturday Nightmare’s Weekend of Horrors, taking place at the historic Loew’s Jersey in Jersey City. This is the perfect venue for the event, offering enough classic touches, dark hallways and retro bathrooms to make any classic horror movie festival feel right at home. ….

Magnet nabs release rights for George A. Romero’s Survival of the Dead

Magnet Releasing, the genre division of Magnolia Pictures, recently announced that it has acquired U.S. rights to George A. Romero’s Survival of the Dead, the latest in the legendary and beloved cult series of zombie films, which premiered at the Venice and Toronto Film Festivals earlier this year. Romero, one of the most influential and ….

George A. Romero to screen Survival of the Dead after Slipknot performance at Fangoria Trinity of Terrors in Vegas

At midnight on Halloween, immediately following a special performance by the band Slipknot, George A. Romero will be in attendance for a screening of his latest zombie epic Survival of the Dead (huge dichotomy in that title) at the Brenden Theatres inside the Palms Hotel and Casino Resort, according to Fangoria. Survival of the Dead ….

Cult Cinema Icons Roger Corman, Malcolm McDowell, George A. Romero, Tony Todd, John Waters, Jeffrey Combs, Ken Foree, Dee Wallace and Slipknot to attend massive Las Vegas horror festival this month

This is the “thrilla dilla” of horror events, as far as I’m concerned. Cult Cinema Icons Roger Corman, Malcolm McDowell, George A. Romero, Tony Todd, John Waters, Jeffrey Combs, Ken Foree and Dee Wallace; plus film screenings at The Palms Hotel Casino, which sports Ghost Bar; located just across from The Rio, with their incredible ….

The Crazies film details and new teaser poster

Imagine living in a small town where everything is safe and happy…until suddenly it isn’t. Imagine your friends and neighbors going quickly and horrifically insane. In a terrifying tale of the “American Dream” gone horribly wrong, four friends find themselves trapped in their hometown in The Crazies, a reinvention of the George Romero classic directed ….

Trick ‘r Treat and George A. Romero’s Creepshow to double bill at New Beverly ahead of DVD release

ShockTilYouDrop is hosting a screening of the already cult classic anthology horror film Trick ‘r Treat – in 35mm no less – on Sunday and Monday, October 4th and 5th. L.A. horror fans are in for a real special treat, since it’s going to double-feature with George A. Romero’s Creepshow. Both evenings will kick off ….

Original Night of the Living Dead returning to theaters in 3D

Night of the Living Dead is getting a unique dimensional twist that promises to pull viewers closer to the undead action. The team at Legend Films and PassmoreLab is bringing new life to the undead by converting the previously colorized genre-defining zombie film into 3D. The enhanced 1968 George A. Romero cult classic is slated ….

Timothy Olyphant to redo George Romero horror The Crazies

Timothy Olyphant (Go, Live Free or Die Hard) is attached to star in Overture Film’s remake of The Crazies, the 1973 George A. Romero horror film that Breck Eisner (Sahara) is directing. The low-budget cult classic The Crazies originally starred Lane Carroll, Will MacMillan, Harold Wayne Jones, Lloyd Hollar, Lynn Lowry, Richard Liberty, Richard France, ….

Enjoy cult classic horrors during Monster HD’s Thanksgiving Day of the Dead

This Thanksgiving, Monsters HD will be airing the network’s traditional undead buffet with all the trimmings, called Thanksgiving Day of the Dead. This year includes premieres of the George Romero cult classic Day of the Dead and the neo-classic, The Rage, from director and special-effects master, Robert Kurtzman. Day of the Dead (1985) In this ….