Released in 1968, when the phrase “zombie movies” didn’t yet evoke the flesh-eating monsters audiences think of today, George A. Romero’s classic, Night of the Living Dead (1968), marked a pivotal ...

George A. Romero may be the godfather of the modern zombie film, but there was always way more going on in his movies than a simple gore fest. The first of those classics, 1968's Night of the Living ...

The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living,” Marx wrote in The Eighteenth Brumaire. It’s a nightmare represented in George Romero’s zombie films—and ...