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George Romero’s Dawn of the Dead Is Still the Pinnacle of Zombie Movies – ComingSoon.net
Next month marks 55 years since George Romero blessed the world with Night of the Living Dead, but this month is the 45th anniversary of its spiritual sequel Dawn of the Dead. Night may have been the one to break ground on the redefinition of the zombie, but Dawn takes it to another level with a more insightful look at humanity in a crisis. Night of the Living Dead ended with a bleak but seemingly...[Read More]
Shaun of the Dead Is an Adoring Monument to George A. Romero – ComingSoon.net
In Edgar Wright’s classic sitcom Spaced, there was an episode (Art) where Tim (Simon Pegg) was obsessed with playing Resident Evil 2. He gets so engrossed in it that he cannot tell reality from fiction (the dose of amphetamines probably didn’t help either), and subsequently batters some arty types in his hallucinatory panic. It’s the strongest showing of Wright’s love for a particular zombie movie...[Read More]
There are plenty of scary movies to watch at Halloween; here are 4 set in Philly – PhillyVoice.com
Horror fans have long known to avoid the woods of rural Maryland, the home of the Blair Witch, and entire state of Texas, the site of an infamous chainsaw massacre. But if the scary movies set in Philadelphia are any indication, they should also steer clear of Broad Street.Philadelphia has gotten plenty of play in horror thanks to M. Night Shyamalan, the Penn Valley native who consistently films i...[Read More]
Dawn of the Dead to Screen in Theaters for One Night Only – Consequence
Regal Cinemas is bringing Dawn of the Dead back to theaters for one night only on October 27th in celebration of the horror classic’s 45th anniversary.George A. Romero’s 1978 film — a sequel of sorts to his 1968 project Night of the Living Dead — stars David Emge, Ken Foree, Scott Reiniger, and Gaylen Ross as survivors of a zombie outbreak who take refuge in a suburban shopping mall while mass hys...[Read More]
Composer Claudio Simonetti Breaks Down His Scores For ‘Suspiria,’ ‘Deep Red’ and ‘Dawn of the Dead’ Ahead of Nationwide ‘Demons’ Tour – Variety
For horror fans, Claudio Simonetti is a household name. First a founding member of rock group Goblin, whose work is synonymous with filmmaker Dario Argento’s genre standard-bearers “Deep Red” and “Suspiria,” a producer and pop artist in his native Italy, and later a lead composer on Argento’s “Tenebre,” Lamberto Bava’s “Demons” and more, Simonetti and his collaborators turned iconoclastic takes on...[Read More]