And even beyond his Living Dead series, George Romero was always a maverick independent filmmaker taking imaginative chances every time he stepped behind the camera.
The popularity of the walking dead has done nothing but grow since the initial 1968 release of George A. Romero’s seminal Night of the Living Dead, with zombies infiltrating nearly every level of our pop culture
From 2005 on Romero has restricted himself to making zombie films, expanding on the universe he created back in 1968 to lessening impact each new go-around.
Every single film or television show you watch with flesh-eating zombies in it is either inspired by, or responding to, Night of the Living Dead. Every single one.
