This project aims to " reanimate " the 1968 film by replacing Romero's celluloid images with animation done in a wide variety of styles by artists from around the world, laid over the original audio from Romero's version.

Some of the original concepts and characters remain, but the film differs greatly from Romero's original script, as stated by actress Lori Cardille:

The lavish rock star-like treatment given to Romero in his attempt to build a designer-centred game studio ( including a multi-million dollar office on the top floor of a Dallas skyscraper ), Romero's well-publicized expensive tastes and hobbies ( such as racing Ferraris ), the dubious saga of Romero's girlfriend, professional gamer Stevie " Killcreek " Case, being hired on as a level designer, and the game's development ( which included most of the original development team quitting en masse to form a competing company called Gathering of Developers ), incited criticism from the online gaming fan community.

Some of Harris's subsequent genre credits include Jim Mickle's second feature film the vampire / post-apocalyptic epic Stake Land, Cyrus: Mind of a Serial Killer, ChromeSkull and Michael Biehn's The Victim, in addition to providing the voice and basis for a computer-animated Barbara in Night of the Living Dead: Origins 3D, director Zebediah de Soto's prequel / re-telling of George A. Romero's 1968 original.

In a commentary track on the Ultimate Edition DVD for the original George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead, Richard P. Rubinstein, producer of both the original and the remake, explained that Tolkin further developed the characters, while Frank provided some of the bigger and upbeat action sequences.

It currently holds a " Certified Fresh " rating of 74 % on Rotten Tomatoes ; the site's consensus calls the film " A kinetic, violent and surprisingly worthy remake of George Romero's horror classic that pays homage to the original while working on its own terms.

Three actors from the original film have cameos in the remake, appearing on the televisions the survivors watch: Ken Foree, who played Peter from the original, plays an evangelist who asserts that God is punishing mankind ; Scott H. Reiniger, who played Roger in the original, plays an army general telling everyone to stay at home for safety and Tom Savini, who did the special effects for many of Romero's movies and played the motorcycle gang member Blades in the original Dawn of the Dead, plays the Monroeville Sheriff explaining the only way to kill the zombies is to " shoot ' em in the head.

* John Romero's site: The Apple II original Dangerous Dave

In George Romero's original Day of the Dead idea, a person was to have his bitten arm amputated, but still return as a zombie.

Zombie s in Romero's influential Night of the Living Dead.

An influential American horror film of this period was George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead ( 1968 ).

Zombies became a popular device in modern horror fiction, largely because of the success of George A. Romero's 1968 film Night of the Living Dead and they have appeared as plot devices in various books, films and in television shows.

Patrick Taggart of the Austin American-Statesman hailed it as the most important horror film since George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead ( 1968 ).

Romero's decision to direct Night of the Living Dead essentially launched his career as a horror director.

Response from Variety after the initial release reflects the outrage generated by Romero's film: " Until the Supreme Court establishes clear-cut guidelines for the pornography of violence, Night of the Living Dead will serve nicely as an outer-limit definition by example.

" Rewriting the Dead: The Tension between Nostalgia and Perversion in George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead ( 1968 )".

In modern times, the term " zombie " has been applied to an undead being in horror fiction, largely drawn from George A. Romero's 1968 film Night of the Living Dead. They have appeared as plot devices in various books, films, video games and in television shows.

This " zombie " is taken largely from George A. Romero's seminal film The Night of the Living Dead, which was in turn partly inspired by Richard Matheson's 1954 novel I Am Legend.

Day of the Dead is a 1985 American horror film written and directed by George A. Romero and the third film in Romero's Dead Series, being preceded by Night of the Living Dead ( 1968 ) and Dawn of the Dead ( 1978 ).

Even so, that rating is the lowest of the initial 3 films in Romero's Dead series with Night of the Living Dead having a 96 % approval rating and Dawn of the Dead with a 94 % approval rating.

* In George Romero's Night of the Living Dead the town is featured as a sanctuary from the uprising of the dead.

The theatre also is home to Roxie Releasing, an independent film distributor most notably responsible for the 30th anniversary re-release of George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead.

The first splatter film to popularize the subgenre was George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead ( 1968 ), the director's attempt to replicate the atmosphere and gore of EC's horror comics on film.

* Large database of fan-produced rulebooks including the massive Ordog Effect, the Massacre at Muleton ( humorous B-Movie spoof ), A Clockwork Zombie ( based on A Clockwork Orange ), Night of the Dead /... From These Cold Dead Hands ( based on George Romero's Living Dead Trilogy ) and Goro's Revenge ( a weird Deadworld based around Anime spoofing ).

Night of the Living Dead is a 1990 American remake of George A. Romero's 1968 horror film of the same name and was directed by Tom Savini.

Savini directed Night of the Living Dead, the 1990 remake of Romero's Night of the Living Dead ; his other directing work include three episodes of the TV show Tales from the Darkside and one segment in The Theatre Bizarre.

The makers of this parody took George Romero's classic Night of the Living Dead and wiped the soundtrack clean, then redubbed it with comedic dialogue.

Fan of the Dead is a 2003 52 minute documentary road-movie revealing the filming locations of Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead and Night of the Living Dead remake with exclusive interviews with the cast of the George A. Romero's trilogy.

One for the Fire: The Legacy of ' Night of the Living Dead ' is a 2008 documentary film made to celebrate the 40th anniversary of George Romero's Night of the Living Dead.

In November 2008, recording group 400 Lonely Things released the album Tonight of the Living Dead, " an instrumental album composed entirely of ambient music and sound effects sampled from Romero's 1968 horror classic ".

Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero's Visions of Hell on Earth.

Ken Foree and David Emge from Dawn of the Dead and Joseph Pilato from Day of the Dead at a Living Dead # Romero's Dead series | living dead convention.

The two reached a settlement wherein Romero's sequels would be referred to as the Dead movies, and Russo's sequels would bear the suffix Living Dead.

* Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero's Vision of Hell on Earth by Kim Paffenroth ( tie )

Russo and producer Tom Fox planned to bring Return of the Living Dead to the screen offering O ' Bannon the director's seat, he accepted on the condition he could rewrite the film radically so as to differentiate it from Romero's films.

The structure " Fiddler's Green " from George A. Romero's 2005 film Land of the Dead might be an arcology.

Roger Ebert, who reacted favorably to other films of Romero's Dead Series, gave Day of the Dead one and a half stars.

This project alleviated confusion amongst fans of Romero's work by including a scene in which a character acknowledges the George Romero films and explains that while they are based on true events, the events of the Return series are the " true story ".

Romero's story is actually based on an unused script for a sequel to his Dead films ; the miniseries therefore follows his similar tropes: Extreme gore, social commentary, evolving zombies, and the heroes riding off in the end into an unknown fate.

The player defeats the boss ( without the noclip cheat ) by shooting rockets into its exposed brain after activating a lift and riding it ; Romero's head functions as its hit detection point ; when he " dies ", the boss is killed and the game is finished.

Upon making this breakthrough, Carmack and Hall stayed up late into the night making a replica of the first level of the popular 1988 NES game Super Mario Bros. 3, inserting stock graphics of Romero's Dangerous Dave character in lieu of Mario.

Around this time, Scott Miller of Apogee Software learned of the group and their exceptional talent, having played one of John Romero's Softdisk games, Dangerous Dave, and contacted Romero under the guise of multiple fan letters that Romero came to realize all originated from the same address.

Also there was John Romero's Dangerous Dave series, which included such notables as the tech demo ( In Copyright Infringement ) which led to the Commander Keen engine, and the decently popular Dangerous Dave in the Haunted Mansion.

King's first film appearance was in George Romero's Knightriders as a buffoonish audience member.

Romero's friends and acquaintances were recruited as zombie extras.

Matheson was not impressed by Romero's interpretation, feeling that " It was ... kind of cornball ", though he later said, " George Romero's a nice guy, though.

Critics saw the influence of the horror and science-fiction films of the 1950s in Romero's directorial style.

While some critics dismissed Romero's film because of the graphic scenes, writer R. H. W. Dillard claimed that the " open-eyed detailing " of taboo heightened the film's success.

As one film historian points out, horror prior to Romero's film had mostly involved rubber masks and costumes, cardboard sets, or mysterious figures lurking in the shadows.