20 Movie Talents We Lost In 2017
2. George A. Romero
Nicknamed ‘The Father of the Zombie Film’, George A. Romero
gave us gore hounds one of horror’s best and most influential movies with his
directorial debut Night of the Living Dead in 1968. The seminal horror movie sparked
a further five Romero directed zombie apocalypse movies starting with 1978’s
Dawn of the Dead and ending with 2009’s Survival of the Dead alongside numerous
unauthorised sequels and remakes.
In between directing his Living Dead films Romero also made the 1978 psychological horror Martin, the 1981 drama Knightriders – a departure from his horror repertoire about a group of motorcycle riding jousters – and the 1982 horror anthology Creepshow.
Romero was also frequently found in front of the camera in sneaky cameo roles in both his own Living Dead series and films including Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs alongside Anthony Hopkins’ Hannibal Lecter.