Romero describes the mood he wished to establish: " The film opens with a situation that has already disintegrated to a point of little hope, and it moves progressively toward absolute despair and ultimate tragedy ".

Moulitsas describes himself as a recovering Catholic, and says that while he has many problems with the Church, Salvadoran martyr and archbishop Oscar Romero is still his greatest hero and inspiration.

He describes Carmack and Romero as the driving forces of id Software, but with very different personalities: Romero is presented as having unbridled creativity and considerable skill, but he loses focus when the spectacular success of the games allows him to adopt a rock star-like public persona.

His television work led to assignments as an assistant director for several Latin American film productions including Gaby: A True Story and Romero, and in 1991, he landed his first big-screen directorial assignment.

In August 2007, while teaching a four-hour film course during the 9th Cinemanila International Film Festival in Manila, Tarantino cited Filipino directors Cirio Santiago, Eddie Romero, and Gerardo de León as personal icons from the 1970s, citing De Leon's " soul-shattering, life-extinguishing " movies on vampires and female bondage, particularly Women in Cages.

King partly dedicated his book Cell to film director George Romero, and wrote an essay for the Elite DVD version of Night of the Living Dead.

Other " cult " items are Cesare Canevari's Matalo !, Tony Anthony's Blindman and Joaquín Luis Romero Marchent's Cut-Throats Nine ( the latter among Gore film audiences ).

In a 2010 Total Film poll, it was again selected as the greatest horror film ; the judging panel included veteran horror directors such as John Carpenter, Wes Craven, and George A. Romero.

Night of the Living Dead is an American independent horror film directed by George A. Romero and starring Duane Jones, Judith O ' Dea and Karl Hardman.

At the time, it was atypical for an African-American man to be the hero of a film when the rest of the cast was composed of whites ; but Romero said that Jones " simply gave the best audition ".

Romero stated, " We had a film company doing commercials and industrial films so there were a lot of people from the advertising game who all wanted to come out and be zombies, and a lot of them did ".

While attending Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Romero embarked upon his career in the film industry.

According to Romero, they wanted to capitalize on the film industry's " thirst for the bizarre ".

Critic Danél Griffin remarked, " Romero freely admits that his film was a direct rip-off of Matheson's novel ; I would be a little less harsh in my description and say that Romero merely expanded the author's ideas with deviations so completely original that of the Living Dead is expelled from being labeled a true ' rip-off '".

The small budget led Romero to shoot on 35 mm black-and-white film.

Night of the Living Dead was the first feature-length film directed by George A. Romero.

According to film historian Carl Royer, Romero " employs chiaroscuro ( film noir style ) lighting to emphasize humanity's nightmare alienation from itself ".

Romero confessed that the film was designed to reflect the tensions of the time: " It was 1968, man.

Romero revolutionized the horror film genre with Night of the Living Dead ; per Almar Haflidason, of the BBC, the film represented " a new dawn in horror film-making ".

The film and its successors spawned countless imitators that borrowed elements instituted by Romero: Tombs of the Blind Dead, Let Sleeping Corpses Lie ( film ), Zombi 2, Hell of the Living Dead, Night of the Comet, Return of the Living Dead, Night of the Creeps, Children of the Living Dead, and the video game series Resident Evil ( later adapted as films in 2002, 2004, 2007 and 2010 ), Dead Rising, and House of the Dead.

Romero revealed the power behind exploitation and setting horror in ordinary, unexceptional locations and offered a template for making an " effective and lucrative " film on a " minuscule budget ".

Following the 1968 film, Romero released Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Land of the Dead, Diary of the Dead and Survival of the Dead.

Return of the Living Dead sparked a legal battle with Romero, who believed Russo marketed his film in direct competition with Day of the Dead as a sequel to the original film.

Wes Craven's The Hills Have Eyes ( 1977 ) and Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ( 1974 ) recalled the Vietnam war ; George A. Romero satirized the consumer society in his zombie sequel, Dawn of the Dead ( 1978 ); Canadian director David Cronenberg featured the " mad scientist " movie sub-genre by exploring contemporary fears about technology and society, and reinventing " body horror ", starting with Shivers ( 1975 ).

Romero drew inspiration from Richard Matheson's I Am Legend ( 1954 ), a horror / science fiction novel about a plague that ravages a futuristic Los Angeles.

* The British songwriter / preacher Garth Hewitt recorded a song about Oscar Romero on his 1985 Alien Brain album.

* SUPER MARTYRIO, a blog " about the martyrdom " ( of Romero )

The tone was usually serious, but there were moments of comic relief: Romero was something of a hypochondriac and often seemed henpecked ; Frank Smith continually complained about his brother-in-law Armand ; though Friday dated, he usually dodged women who tried to set him up with marriage-minded dates.

Aldemaro Romero once said about Lionel Belasco that he was the first who jazzed the Venezuelan music, in the 30's.

" 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.

Romero Barceló admitted in a public radio interview that it was “ an error of judgment ” and “ a premature declaration ” to laud the police officers, since at that time he believed they were telling the truth about their self-defense.

The series came about as a dispute between John A. Russo and George A. Romero over how to handle sequels to their 1968 film, Night of the Living Dead.

George Andrew Romero (; born February 4, 1940 ) is an American film director, screenwriter and editor, best known for his gruesome and satirical horror films about a hypothetical zombie apocalypse, beginning with Night of the Living Dead ( 1968 ).

" Roger Ebert said the film " works and it delivers just about what you expect when you buy your ticket " but felt that it " lacks the mordant humor of the Romero version " and the " plot flatlines compared to the 1979 version, which was trickier, wittier and smarter.

Alberto Magno Romero Rivera ( September 19, 1935 – June 20, 1997 ) was an anti-Catholic religious activist who was the source of many of fundamentalist Christian author Jack Chick's conspiracy theories about the Vatican.

This change in format had been suspected, due to the recent episodes about George A. Romero, Frank Miller and the history of the King Kong franchise.

* AXA ( comics ), a comic strip by Donne Avenell and Romero, about Axa, a barbarian woman of the future

After about a year's worth of work, however, Tom Hall abandoned the project and left the company to form Ion Storm with ex-Id compatriot John Romero.

* Project DOOM: Q & A with John Romero about DOOM ( III ).

Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture is a book by David Kushner about id Software and its influence on popular culture, focusing chiefly on the company's co-founders John D. Carmack and John Romero.

Atkins teamed up with George A. Romero for the third time in Bruiser ( 2000 ), a horror film about a man who one day wakes to find that his face is now a smooth white, featureless mask.

* Santiago Roncagliolo's essay about Romero in VQR