George A. Romero may be the godfather of the modern zombie film, but there was always way more going on in his movies than a simple gore fest. The first of those classics, 1968’s Night of the Living Dead, spoke to the woes of the civil rights movement (even if it was by accident), while its follow-up, 1978’s Dawn of the Dead, showed that, through consumerism, we are the true zombies. Although some other entries in his franchise didn’t have the same impact as those, his most underrated film, Land of the Dead from 2005, stands out from the pack by having a major distributor in Universal Pictures, and big-name actors like Dennis Hopper and John Leguizamo. Romero used these additions to tell a well-crafted story about the evils of the rich, and made the zombies the heroes.
With This Zombie Horror Movie, George Romero Literally Ate the Rich – IMDb
