George A. Romero
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"Set in the present day, The Living Dead is an entirely new tale, the story of the zombie plague as George A. Romero wanted to tell it. A pair of medical examiners find themselves battling a dead man who won't stay dead. In a Midwestern trailer park, a Black teenage girl and a Muslim immigrant battle newly-risen friends and family. On a US aircraft carrier, living sailors hide from dead ones while a fanatic makes a new religion out of death. At a...
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Toe Tags Featuring George A. Romero volume 1
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Cult movie writer/director George Romero -- best known for his work on the horror classics Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, and Day of the Dead -- writes an original horror tale in "Toe Tags"! Overnight, the world has been turned upside down, and zombies rule the day! It's up to a college professor named Hoffman, his assistant Damien Cross and his girlfriend to find out how and why the undead have taken over. But even if they do get to...
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Night of the Living Dead opens with chaos-the brains of the recently deceased have become mysteriously reanimated, causing the dead to rise and feed on human flesh. While visiting their father's grave, Barbra (Judith O'Dea) and her brother Johnny (Russell Streiner) are attacked by a strange shuffling man. Barbra runs into a farmhouse where she encounters Ben (Duane Jones), and they must find a way to save themselves from the horde of zombies. Hailed...
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Tells the story of Plum Island, off the coast of North America, a beautiful refuge whose isolation allows two powerful families to maintain an impression of order in the wake of the zombie epidemic. But as the inhabitants slowly die off, the two clans become sharply divided. Special Features Include: Dead or Alive, Zombie vs. Humans Menu Skins, Walking After Midnight Documentary, and more.
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"When everything is easily crushable under well-meaning feet, how can a Humongo ever fit in in such a little world? From the creator of "The Night of the Living Dead" and the Zombie movement that permeates our culture today, comes a sarcastic and cynical children's tale of different creatures trying to coexist in a benign, yet power-hungry environment. In line with Antoine de Saint-Exupery's Little Prince, The Little World of Humongo Bongo is a beautiful...
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A quarantined Manhattan scrambles to keep the undead plague at bay, but the Big Apple is rotting from within. Not only do flesh-eaters still shamble through unclean areas, but the surviving zombies are also evolving. It's the undead vs. the dead with humans caught in the crossfire!
10) Dawn of the dead
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When a mysterious virus turns people into mindless, flesh-eating zombies, a handful of survivors wage a desperate, last-stand battle to stay alive ... and human! The last remaining humans escape to a shopping mall, where they decide that the only way to truly elude the approaching throng of undead is to somehow make their way to an island that is supposedly zombie-free.
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Welcome back to a very different New York City, one that's still standing--barely--years after a world-changing undead plague. Zombies are used for sport in the arena and vampires rule the city! But now outside forces are knocking on Manhattan's walls and death rains down from above! What is this new threat to NYC?
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A quarantined Manhattan scrambles to keep the undead plague at bay, but the Big Apple is rotting from within. Not only do flesh-eaters still shamble through unclean areas, but the surviving zombies are also evolving. It's the undead vs. the dead with humans caught in the crossfire!
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"Cult movie writer/director George Romero -- best known for his work on the horror classics Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, and Day of the Dead -- writes an original horror tale in "Toe Tags"! Overnight, the world has been turned upside down, and zombies rule the day! It's up to a college professor named Hoffman, his assistant Damien Cross and his girlfriend to find out how and why the undead have taken over. But even if they do get to...
15) Day of the dead
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In the third film in the saga of the undead from writer/director George A. Romero (Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Land of the Dead, Diary of the Dead, Survival of the Dead), a small group of scientists and soldiers have taken refuge in an underground missile silo where they struggle to control the flesh-eating horror that walks the earth above. But will the final battle for the future of the human race be fought among the living or have...
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Packed with haunting stories that at first light appear to be about normal situations, these tales are gradually twisted until they become about something sinister, shocking and totally unsettling. Revealing the dark underworld of our everyday existence, Tales from the Darkside includes stories penned by masters of horror, with unforgettable performances by some of Hollywood's finest stars.
17) Creepshow
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This film contains five ghoulishly clever stories, each told in the lurid comic-book style of famed '50's EC titles. A murdered man emerges from the grave for Father's Day cake. A meteor's ooze makes everything ... grow. A professor selects his wife as a snack for a crated creature. A scheming husband plants two lovers up to their necks in terror. A malevolent millionaire with an insect phobia becomes the prey of a cockroach army.
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Zombies have become the dominant population, and they've begun to show signs of undead intelligence and gathering power. The wealthiest human survivors live comfortably in a luxury high-rise building that is barricaded within a safe zone. The wealthy ignore the horrors of the outside world while armed scavengers stage raids in the zombie-zone to gather much-needed food and supplies. Riley and Cholo are mercenaries-for-hire; Kaufman is their nefarious...
19) The Dark half
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Thad, a college professor who moonlights as a writer of pop thrillers under the pseudonym George Stark, finally writes a serious novel, and decides to stop writing shockers. But George Stark has come to life and doesn't want to die. Thad is forced to battle his own creation for the control of the mind which both must share.
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Recently discovered and restored 46 years after its completion, George A. Romero's film stars MARTIN's Lincoln Maazel as an elderly man who finds himself disoriented and increasingly isolated as the pains, tragedies, and humiliations of aging in America are manifested through roller coasters and chaotic crowds.