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

Document of the Dead is a 1985 documentary film that takes a look back from Romero's first television commercials onward and it chronicles his career and stylistic techniques.

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.

" Allmovie reviewer Keith Phipps stated that: " The last, to date at least, of George Romero's living dead films is in many respects the least interesting, although it's not for a lack of ambition.

Las Vegas escape artist Jackson Rayne set the previous record on 17 November 2009, at the Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada, with a time of 7. 26 seconds, a mark that lasted over 18 months before Romero's quintuplet of escapes set the first sub-five-second mark for fastest Posey straitjacket escapee.

Romero's first company, Capitol Ideas Software, was listed as the developer for at least 12 of his earliest published games.

Romero's first industry job was at Origin Systems in 1987 after programming games for 8 years.

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.

In September 2009 George A. Romero's Survival of the Dead was screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, Venice Film Festival ( where it screened for the festival's top prize, the Golden Lion ), Trinity of Terrors, Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas, and Festival du Nouveau Cinéma in Montreal, introduced by George A. Romero.

* 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 ).

Romero's first fight as a professional was on September 14, 1992, when he knocked out Raul Hernandez in the first round at Phoenix, Arizona.

Because Cesar Romero had other commitments at the time, he was instead interviewed by Shafer from Romero's home.

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.

Zack Snyder stated that he would be only producing the sequel to his 2004 remake of George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead instead of reprising his role as the director due to working on Watchmen when he announced this movie.

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

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.

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.

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.

After Yarborough's death in 1951 ( and therefore Romero's, who also died of a heart attack, as acknowledged on the December 27, 1951 episode " The Big Sorrow "), Friday was partnered with Sergeant Ed Jacobs ( December 27, 1951-April 10, 1952, subsequently transferred to the Police Academy as an instructor ), played by Barney Phillips ; Officer Bill Lockwood ( Ben Romero's nephew, April 17, 1952-May 8, 1952 ), played by Martin Milner ( with Ken Peters taking the role for the June 12, 1952 episode " The Big Donation "); and finally Frank Smith, played first by Herb Ellis ( 1952 ), then Ben Alexander ( September 21, 1952-1959 ).

* George A. Romero's 1977 horror film Martin takes place in Braddock and was largely filmed there.

" An early advertisement for Daikatana, created by marketer Mike Wilson and reluctantly approved by Romero, was a red poster with large black lettering proclaiming " John Romero's about to make you his bitch ", a reference to Romero's infamous trash talk during gaming.

John Romero's Daikatana was meant to be finished within seven months of the founding of Ion Storm and was to use the Quake engine.

The game itself was not considered strong, and an aggressive advertising campaign in 1997 touting Romero's name as the reason to buy the game backfired as fans grew angry over delays.

In 1979, he achieved his international breakthrough with Zombi 2, a violent zombie film that was marketed in European territories as a sequel to George Romero's Dawn of the Dead ( 1978 ).

In 1976, after a three-way competition with attorney Baltasar Corrada del Río and Senator Sila Nazario for the NPP nomination for Mayor of San Juan, Padilla was elected to the post, succeeding newly-elected Governor Carlos Romero Barceló and Carlos S. Quirós who served a days-long stint as mayor following Romero's swearing-in as governor and the official beginning of the 1977-1980 term.

ARENA was founded shortly following the assassination of Óscar Romero in 1980 ; its founder is generally considered responsible for Romero's killing, but died before he could be charged.

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.

Romero's film was also important in that it upped the ante in terms of technique, special effects and the quality of writing, characterization and so on.

On July 21, 2009 it was announced the full title of the film is George A. Romero's Survival of the Dead.

The first page of the proposal had lines taken from Romero's film, and the story was to take place in the 60s.

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

", a direct homage to George Romero's work on Day of the Dead.

On the DVD commentary, Boyle and Garland frequently call it a post apocalypse and horror film, commenting on scenes that were specific references to George A. Romero's Dead trilogy.

Romero's 1970s work on the Modesty Blaise strip is continually reprinted in an ongoing series of compilation volumes published by the UK company Titan Books since 2005, while Comics Revue has reprinted all of his post-1986 work on the strip.

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.

One can use the " noclip " cheat to enter the boss and see Romero's severed head which is skewered on a post.

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 ".

He and Cesar Romero's Joker are tied for number of appearances on the show.

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

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.