20 Mind-Blowing Facts About George A. Romero’s Living Dead Movies
8. We Have I Am Legend & Carnival Of Souls To Thank For The Living Dead Series
Not the 2007 film starring Will Smith obviously, but the original 1954 book by Richard Matheson. George A. Romero admitted the idea for his first Living Dead movie evolved from a short story he’d written that was basically a rip-off of Matheson’s sci-fi horror novel.
Another major influence on Night of the Living Dead was director Herk Harvey’s cult classic horror movie Carnival of Souls. In fact, there’s a scene in Romero’s fourth Living Dead movie Land of the Dead when the zombies learn they can cross a river into a protected zone that plays direct homage to a similar scene in Carnival of Souls.