20 Mind-Blowing Facts About George A. Romero’s Living Dead Movies

The timeline of Romero’s Living Dead films is a much-debated topic among fans. Some say that it follows the chronological release of the films as shown by how both society adapts to the outbreak and the zombies become more advanced. Others think there is no connecting timeline at all and that each movie takes place within its own universe.

Throwing a spanner in the works of both those theories is the fact that in 2007’s Diary of the Dead the very same television report from 1968’s Night of the Living Dead can be heard playing in the background which suggests it begins on the same day as Romero’s first movie despite being light years ahead in terms of the technology featured.

Romero did say that Diary of the Dead was a “rejigging of the myth” – a modern-day reboot of sorts – but stated in earlier interviews that up until Land of the Dead, his films were not connected and simply set in the time of their production.

Although that doesn’t explain all those recurring characters … Hmm.