ComingSoon.net (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Jesse Corti, Joe Pilato, Alona Tal and Cornell Womack are the latest additions to Zebediah de Soto's Night of the Living Dead: Origins . Pilato, star of George Romero's Day of the Dead , will voice the role of Harry Cooper while Tal is his wife Helen. Cooper was previously essayed in Night of the Living Dead '68 by Karl Hardman and the 1990 remake by Tom Towles. Corti plays a reporter,...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
... the use of puffer-fish venom. The cinematic creature referred to in the question first appeared in George A Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968), in which the word "zombie" is never used – Romero himself has stated he regarded them as "ghouls". The lazy use of the term "zombie" has now moved so far away from the Haitian original that...
Premium Hollywood (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
... the world needs now is projectile cow semen in three dimensions. That’s not all, a new remake of George Romero’s seminal “Night of the Living Dead” will be in 3-D digital animation, which actually renders things less gross and scary — to me, anyhow and that’s just fine for this disliker of gross-outs. By the way, this is will be the third remake of the film and the second in 3-D,...
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
... as giallo and soft porn director Joe D'Amato's Beyond the Darkness. They did the soundtrack to George Romero's Dawn of the Dead, aka Zombi, under the name The Goblins; much later, Shaun of the Dead used one of the songs from the soundtrack in their film as one of many sly nods to the zombie classic. Filed under: Horror , Fandom Continue reading Serious Scores: Goblin Permalink | Email...
Washington Post (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
... didn't become widespread until the early 1980s. (Recall that there are no kiosks in the mall in George Romero's 1978 "Dawn of the Dead," but a few crop up in Zach Snyder's 2004 remake.) Since then, kiosks have grown steadily. They now account for $12 billion of malls' total sales, which fell to $2.3 trillion in 2008, and some malls have started kiosk waiting lists to accommodate the...
Babel Clash (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
Having covered some novels I think have been important contributors to the Literature of Last Things, let’s turn our attention for the next few entries to movies that have given us some Technicolor insight into the end of the world. Dawn of the Dead . A postapocalypse film so iconic it’s hard to say anything new about it, George Romero’s Dawn of the Dead has been completely absorbed into...
Stainless Steel Droppings (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
... thing is the best fun you’ll have with a book all year.” ~Warren Ellis “If Jules Verne and George Romero got together to rewrite American history, it might go something like this. I loved it. I want more.” ~Mike Mignola Three quotes from three authors with incredible geek cred who are also at the top of their game. Combine that with the eye-catching Jon Foster cover, the fact that...
