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45 years ago, the late George A. Romero forever immortalized Pennsylvania’s Monroeville Mall as an iconic tourist destination for horror fans, filming his classic Dawn of the Dead inside the still-operational mall. This June, The Living Dead Weekend returns to the Monroeville Mall for another ultimate Dawn of the Dead fan event… and it’s the biggest one yet!Celebrating 45 years of Dawn of the Dead...[Read More]

Most horror fans will admit to feeling anything but genuine excitement when it was announced a no-name director would be helming a remake of George A. Romero’s beloved Dawn of the Dead (1978). And with a script written by the guy who did Scooby-Doo (2002) no less. A true travesty in the making, or so it seemed. But then that “no name director” turned out to be Zack Snyder. Whatever you feel about ...[Read More]

The notion of a "zombie apocalypse" has been popular for the past few decades, and the irony is that just such an event has happened within pop culture. After all, zombies are everywhere — books, long-running television shows, board games, video games, action figures, apparel, and, of course, the movies.Yet this wasn't always the case. In fact, just 40-odd years ago, the zombie was still the near-...[Read More]