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George A. Romero, creator of 'Night of the Living Dead,' dead at 77
FoxNews.com ^ | July 16, 2017

Posted on 07/17/2017 5:50:23 AM PDT by ETL

The legendary creator of the "Night of the Living Dead" zombie franchise, George A. Romero, died Sunday at the age of 77, Fox News has confirmed.

Romero died "peacefully" while sleeping after a "brief but aggressive battle with lung cancer," his manager, Chris Roe, said in a statement. The filmmaker was "listening to the score of The Quiet Man, one of his all-time favorite films" with his family by his side, the manager added.

Romero co-wrote and directed "Night of the Living Dead" in 1968, which went on to become a cult classic.

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TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: georgeromero; nightofthelivingdead
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To: ETL

They’re dead, they’re. . . .all messed up.


21 posted on 07/17/2017 6:37:07 AM PDT by GodBlessRonaldReagan (The jolly, candy-like button!)
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To: ETL

Ha! If you don’t think zombies exist visit Berkeley.


22 posted on 07/17/2017 6:37:15 AM PDT by Seruzawa (FABOL)
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To: BitWielder1

...or, is he?


23 posted on 07/17/2017 6:49:03 AM PDT by steve8714 (My wife calls me Dr. Smartacus. This makes me happy.)
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To: Seruzawa
I know that zombies still exist.

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24 posted on 07/17/2017 6:50:57 AM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, the REAL Russia-US scandal (UraniumOne Deal, Missile Defense, Nukes) See my home page)
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To: GodBlessRonaldReagan
They’re dead, they’re ... all messed up.

Wasn’t that a line from *Return* of the Living Dead, the other film I mentioned above?

25 posted on 07/17/2017 7:00:41 AM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, the REAL Russia-US scandal (UraniumOne Deal, Missile Defense, Nukes) See my home page)
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To: ETL

The Quiet Man is one of my favorite movies too.


26 posted on 07/17/2017 7:09:30 AM PDT by homegroan (Ambition can creep as well as soar.)
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To: ETL

He played an integral role in turning Pittsburgh into the
Hollywood on the Monongahela that it is today.

I have mixed feelings about that. RIP anyway.


27 posted on 07/17/2017 7:29:51 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: ETL
No, that's in the original NOTLD. The Sheriff is being interviewed and is asked, "Are they slow-moving Chief?" My fave scene in the movie!

Return of the Living Dead is great also. Lotsa humor in that one.
28 posted on 07/17/2017 7:35:37 AM PDT by GodBlessRonaldReagan (The jolly, candy-like button!)
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To: ETL

Still the best zombie movie.


29 posted on 07/17/2017 7:58:35 AM PDT by VermithraxPejorative
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To: ETL

I saw Dawn of the Dead when I was about 8 and was so horrified by the bikers getting their intestines eaten I wouldn’t watch it again. Finally bought it and watched it after so long and had a laugh at the bright blood, but that scene stuck with me.


30 posted on 07/17/2017 8:03:32 AM PDT by VermithraxPejorative
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To: VermithraxPejorative
I saw Dawn of the Dead when I was about 8 and was so horrified by the bikers getting their intestines eaten I wouldn’t watch it again.

Today Andrew Zimmern is on the air 30 hrs./week. How far we've come.


31 posted on 07/17/2017 8:06:08 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: ETL

That is a great movie. Love how they mix comedy with the horror like American Werewolf in London.


32 posted on 07/17/2017 8:09:51 AM PDT by VermithraxPejorative
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To: shotgun

George never called them zombies in his movies. Though one of the interesting tropes of zombie is that zombie fiction doesn’t exist in those worlds (at least most of them), so nobody knows what they are. Unlike vampire fiction where everybody knows what vampires are.


33 posted on 07/17/2017 8:21:29 AM PDT by discostu (You are what you is, and that's all it is, you ain't what you're not, so see what you got.)
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To: ETL

Return is where the Brains thing comes from. It started as a novel sequel to Night written Russo who wrote Night, but then Russo and George split up, Russo kept the rights to “Living Dead” which is why George’s movies dropped the “Living”. Great soundtrack too.


34 posted on 07/17/2017 8:28:35 AM PDT by discostu (You are what you is, and that's all it is, you ain't what you're not, so see what you got.)
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To: discostu

Thanks. Didn’t know all that.


35 posted on 07/17/2017 8:45:20 AM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, the REAL Russia-US scandal (UraniumOne Deal, Missile Defense, Nukes) See my home page)
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To: ETL

Is he merely dead, or really most sincerely dead?

RIP.


36 posted on 07/17/2017 9:10:00 AM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: ETL

He can now be in the remake as an extra......


37 posted on 07/17/2017 9:33:44 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: left that other site
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38 posted on 07/17/2017 9:37:13 AM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, the REAL Russia-US scandal (UraniumOne Deal, Missile Defense, Nukes) See my home page)
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To: ETL

I love the “Old” movies.

Romero was a master in his genre too.


39 posted on 07/17/2017 10:56:23 AM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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