When they say "Romero films" means zombies, when you hear the word "zombie", you always think of Romero's films. For more than 40 years, these two concepts coexist in such an indissoluble bond.
Съемкой кинокартин Джордж Ромеро увлекся в adolescence. At the age of 14 he created author's projects. But the first significant work of the author of the future maestro of the horror genre is the full-length film "Night of the Living Dead". The film made a real revolution in the genre of horror, defining a kind of subgenre - a movie about zombies. Despite the fact that the picture was taken in black and white, it became one of the most quoted and brazenly plundered plagiarists of all stripes, the cult classic of the genre.
28-year-old George Romero spoke in his debuta full meter in four hypostases: the co-author of the script, the director, the episodic actor (the Washington reporter) and the cameraman. This at first glance unpretentious, almost amateur on the technique of shooting, as if accidentally appeared on the screen, the tape of a novice film-maker is inherent in all the main signs of true cinistry. Some film critics have interpreted the project as a warning anti-utopia, as something like Don Siegel's low-budget horror "The Invasion of Body Snatchers." But George Romero himself considers the source of his inspiration at the time of the creation of "The Night ..." the absurdist-mystical film of Herc Harvey "Carnival of Souls".
For some time the director could not get throughin the industry of high-budget paintings. After the global success of "Night of the Living Dead" and thanks to the impressive amount of box office fees, he removes the dramatic picture "Like flies on honey" (1971). Two years later, two horror movies, "Hungry Wives" and "Crazy", are rolled out one after another. After the movie appears about a maniac who seriously considers himself a vampire, "Martin" (1977).
1978 год ознаменовался выходом нового фильма horror about zombies under the eloquent title "Dawn of the Dead", which, like "Night ...", has a tremendous success. George Romero is due to the success of this project Tom Savini - actor, make-up artist, stuntman and director. The budget tape at the time of completion of filming was $ 1,500,000, and box office fees exceeded $ 55,000,000. Among other things, Savini's makeup was awarded the prestigious "Saturn" award. "Dawn ..." opened the way to the director for high-budget film projects.
The films that followed the second picture of zombies,one way or another related to the genre of horror: "Knights on wheels", three parts of the "Kaleidoscope of Horrors", "Monkey the Killer", "Two Evil Look". In addition to these paintings, the director shot in 1985 a third tape about zombies - "Day of the Dead" (in the domestic box office "Day of the Dead"). Unlike previous works, George Romero made a movie that most closely matches the blurry definition of "arthouse." The third project on walking dead also did not have an impressive budget ($ 3,500,000), so the script had to be changed several times. After this picture, the interest in the creativity of the living legend of the film industry has subside, and Zak Snyder has revived him, taking the remake of "Dawn of the Dead".
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The new film "Land of the Dead" (2005)., in the domestic box office "Land of the Dead") was advertised as a triumphant return to the film industry of George Romero, a director with a cult status from the release of his famous debut. This picture was to be the final tetralogy about zombies. Horror acted in extremely short terms, but George Romero justified the expectation of thousands of fans of his work. It was a truly victorious return of genius directing to the mainstream scene. The film was a resounding success, and in 2007, another Romero's work "Diaries of the Dead" was released, which can not be called the fifth episode of the franchise. The producer who gave the world a zombie starts a new cycle.
One of the great living directors of filmshorrors instead of the immense film-catastrophe presents to the viewer a real social investigation, but zombies, of course, are attached. In 2009, another project of the director "Survival of the Dead" was released. It looks quite dignified, the only thing that grieves - it's despair and sadness, which oversaturated the atmosphere of the film. I want the next Romeo's work to show what will happen as a result after all the "after".
