2023-09-14 08:14:22
October 1, 1968. Hits theaters The night of the Living Deada B-movie horror film directed by George A. Romero, his debut film. In his late thirties, the filmmaker founded the production company Image Ten Productions and managed to raise $114,000 for the feature film, written with John A. Russo inspired by the novel I’m legendwritten by Richard Matheson. At first it was criticized for its explicit violence, but the result is considered the first modern zombie film, “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant” by the United States Library of Congress and has greatly influenced the horror genre, not only in film and television, but also in video games, literature and comics. Not in vain, it raised more than 30 million dollars at its launch.
Filmed in black and white, it tells the story of a group of people who barricade themselves on a farm in Pennsylvania to protect themselves from the dead who, for an unknown reason, come back to life in search of human flesh and blood.
When Romero made the film, he did not consider the transcendence he achieved or that his proposal would establish the bases of the mythology of the living dead in popular culture from the 1960s onwards. The night of the Living Dead would lead to a saga that continued with Zombie: Return of the Living Dead (Dawn of the Dead1978), The day of the Dead (Day of the Dead1985), The land of the living dead (Land of the Dead2005) y The resistance of the living dead (Survival of the Dead1985), as well as The diary of the dead (Diary of the Dead2007), outside the canon, all of them written and directed by the creator.
Besides, Tom Saviniwho had worked in charge of special effects and makeup in several films of Romerodirected the 1990 remake of The night of the Living Deadbased on the original script.
In 2006, a new 3D version directed by Jeff Broadstreetand in 2015 a third arrived, under the direction of Zebediah de Soto y Krisztian Majdik, Night of the Living Dead: Originswith little to contribute.
Died in July 2017, aged 77, Romero He worked on two scripts: Road of the Dead y Twilight of the Dead (“twilight of the dead”, according to its literal translation), a title that he conceived as a continuation of The land of the living dead and with the aim of it being his farewell to the genre.
Thanks to the wish of his wife, Suzanne, president of the George A. Romero Foundationfor what Twilight of the Dead see the light in the best possible way, the company Roundtable Entertainment He is working on the project that will be filmed at the end of this year in Puerto Rico, if nothing delays the planned schedule. Thus, the seventh and final chapter of the franchise will follow “the last survivors of humanity in a land ravaged by various factions of zombies.”
Brad Anderson, director of the seventh installment of the walking dead franchise
Furthermore, this same week it was learned that the director Brad Andersonresponsible for the cult psychological thriller Session 9 (2001), The Machinist (2004), starring Christian Baleo Transsiberian (2008) has signed on to direct it and has expressed himself very happy for his special connection with the classic, as well as for the component of social criticism that Romero gave to his zombie films from the first installment. Meanwhile, five years after the action and espionage thriller ‘The Hostage’, a season in which he has focused on platform projects.
BLOOD, new movie by Brad Anderson
Anderson returns to the big screen this year with the horror family drama Blood. A film that gives a twist to the vampire myth, with Michelle Monaghan as headliner, and that we will be able to see in November within the programming of the Canary Islands Fantastic Film Festival Ciudad de La Laguna Calavera Island.