Every George A Romero Movie Ranked Worst To Best

16. There's Always Vanilla

Romero’s second film is a romantic comedy (!?) in the vein of The Graduate, but even though it boasts the color cinematography that Night Of The Living Dead lacked, it’s still rather anonymous and lacks bite.

A time capsule loaded with 1970s attitudes and behaviour, There’s Always Vanilla was put out by a distributor that lacked the wherewithal to mount a wide release and promptly disappeared after playing in only a few theaters. You get the impression from the lack of fanfare regarding the DVD release years later that nobody, including Romero himself, was overly excited by the film’s reappearance.

For all that, the movie proves there was more to Romero than apocalyptic visions and that even in 1971 he wasn’t prepared to rest on his laurels as “The Zombie Guy.” Fans will want to check it out; others needn’t bother.