George A. Romero

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 Milwaukee 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.

"Shot outside Pittsburgh on a shoestring budget by a band of filmmakers determined to make their mark, Night of the Living Dead, directed by horror master George A. Romero, is a great story of independent cinema: a midnight hit turned box-office smash that became one of the most influential films of all time. A deceptively simple tale of a group of strangers trapped in a farmhouse who find themselves fending off a horde of recently dead, flesh-eating...

A mysterious virus has infected the small town of Leadville, Colorado and the military is brought in to enforce a quarantine and stop the spread of the disease. As people perish, survivors realize that the virus is creating the walking dead who crave human flesh. Only a small number of people are immune to the virus and those few survivors must battle to fend off the infected zombies while trying to make it out of town alive.

"In 1968 the world experienced a brand new kind of terror with the debut of George A. Romero's landmark movie Night of the Living Dead. The newly dead rose to attack the living. Not as vampires or werewolves. This was something new ... and terrifying. Since then, zombies have invaded every aspect of popular culture. But it all started on that dreadful night in a remote farmhouse ... Nights of the Living Dead returns to that night, to the outbreak,...

Injected wth human brain cells, a superintelligent female monkey is enlisted to help a wheelchair-bound quadraplegic get on with his life.

The rotting Creep himself is back with three new gruesome tales of horror that will make your skin crawl: a cigar store wooden Indian comes to life to avenge the store owner's brutal murder at the hands of three punks in "Ol' Chief Woodenhead." Then four teenagers become the target of a terrifying, man-eating oil slick in "The Raft." The chills continue with "The Hitchhiker," the chilling tale of a woman who keeps running into, and over, the same...

Horror and sci-fi veteran Lance Henriksen takes viewers through a fascinating look at the history of the American horror film, examining the earliest monster movies of the silent era up to the scariest modern-day masterpieces. Highlights include interviews with genre masters Roger Corman, John Carpenter, and George A. Romero, plus clips from classic films like The Exorcist; Night of the Living Dead; Friday the 13th; Halloween; Nightmare on Elm Street;...

A small group of military personnel and survivalists dwell in an underground bunker as they seek to find a cure in a world overrun by zombies.

Martin is a misunderstood young man who happens to be a vampire ... maybe. The sun really just bothers his eyes a little, garlic and crosses have no effect, and he has no fanges. He also doesn't have any vampiric powers, which makes acquiring blood an extremely harrowing experience for all involved.

"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."--Container.