News

Why George Romero Rejected The Walking Dead To Make The Zombie Autopsies

We scored a few minutes with the Zombiefather George A. Romero at the kick-off to AMC’s Fear Fest celebration. He shared his thoughts on undead sensation Walking Dead — and his plans for his next project, adapting The Zombie Autopsies.


November 16, 2010
News

Night Of The Living Dead Returns As Graphical Adventure On YouTube

Using YouTube’s in-video linking feature, design studio Analogue has sliced up George Romero’s horror film Night of the Living Dead into a piece of choose your own adventure interactive fiction.


November 5, 2010
News

Dead Rising Splatter-Flick Shuffling On To DVD

Zombie horror game Dead Rising was inspired by George Romero’s zombie horror films, like Dawn of the Dead. But that wasn’t enough! Former Dead Rising producer Keiji Inafune made his first — and last — film for Capcom, Shibyou Osen DEAD RISING.


May 7, 2010
News

This Man Would Like To Make A Video Game

George Romero’s name is synonymous with horror. Romero isn’t a huge gamer, but he’s interested in making a video game. If only a game company would allow him to do just that. There’s shit he’d like to hide and stuff.


April 9, 2010
In Real Life

What’s So Great About Escape From New York?

Man, everything!


July 2, 2008
Uncategorized

George Romero Clueless About Dead Rising?

Back in late February, we brought word of a Dead Rising lawsuit. Capcom was being sued over the game by the MKR Group, which holds the rights to George Romero’s Dawn of the Dead film. MKR claimed that Dead Rising was essentially an unlicenced adaptation of the Romero film. Over the weekend, George Romero appeared at the Chicago Horror Convention, and Kotaku reader Tyler was on hand to get his copy of Dead Rising autographed by the famed horror director. According to Tyler:


February 18, 2008
Uncategorized

Biohazard Commercial Documentary

This a pretty interesting short documentary on the making of a commercial for Biohazard 2/Resident Evil 2. The commercial was directed by zombie master George Romero and starred (the recently deceased) Brad Renfro as Leon Kennedy. I can’t say that I’ve ever seen a documentary on the making of a commercial but this one is actually pretty interesting with the possible exception of the vapid quotes from the gal playing Claire Redfield. It lasts about eleven minutes and is definitely worth a watch.

[Thanks, king_e_dawg]