Zombie Menace (Romero types)
Zombies have been popular with movies lately thanks to the efforts of George Romero and Italian director Fulci. Yet the first zombie movies appeared in the 1930’s with the memorable White Zombie starring Bela Lugosi. With the recent discoveries of Egyptian Tombs and their associated curses the film industry turned to the mummy as a means of using the walking dead. There would be no real major zombie movie until the fifties and then you usually saw a variation of the mummy. With the release of George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead we would have a sudden rash of zombie movies, most notably from Italian film makers and released in the US under a multitude of titles. Romero’s efforts would open the door to other film makers as this was a simple and lucrative means of making a low cost horror movie. We would see sequels based on Romero’s films, and a multitude of films by Sam Raimi, Mario Bava, Dario Argento and Peter Jackson.
Dawn of the Dead (1979)
Dead Alive (1992)
Evil Dead (1982)
Evil Dead II (1987)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Night of the Living Dead (1990)
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