History Creator / GeorgeARomero

** The one exception to this of course is ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil''; which Romero ''loved'' and was touched by the many homages to his work found in it, stating it games like it and ''VideoGame/HouseOfTheDead'' that truly resurrected the genre. Not only did he pen a sadly unused screenplay for a movie, he was commissioned by Capcom to make a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcDjo_uKeF4&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.talesfromapocrypha.org%2F&feature=emb_title&ab_channel=ResidenceofEvil a live-action commercial for the second game.]]

* ''Film/{{Bruiser}}'' (2000)

* ''Film/{{Martin}}'' (1978)

* FilibusterFreefall: ''Dawn'' and ''Day'' are noticeably more political and satirical than ''Night'', in which the subtext was mostly accidental. In this case, [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools it was for the better]], as the deeper subtext helped to elevate the films into horror classics and make social commentary a hallmark of the zombie genre. Opinions are more divided, however, on the latter three ''Living Dead'' films he made, which grew increasingly heavy-handed.

* FilibusterFreefall: ''Dawn'' and ''Day'' are noticeably more political and satirical than ''Night'', in which the subtext was mostly accidental. In this case, [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools it was for the better]], as the deeper subtext helped elevate the films into horror classics and make social commentary a hallmark of the zombie genre. Opinions are more divided, however, on the latter three ''Living Dead'' films he made, which grew increasingly heavy-handed.

* FilibusterFreefall: ''Dawn'' and ''Day'' are noticeably more political and satirical than ''Night'', where the subtext was mostly accidental. In this case, [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools it was for the better]], as the deeper subtext helped elevate the films into horror classics and make social commentary a hallmark of the zombie genre. Opinions are more divided, however, on the latter three ''Living Dead'' films he made, which grew increasingly heavy-handed.

The resultant film was ''Night of the Living Dead'', which not only went on to become one of the most successful independent movies of all time, but also re-defined the word "zombie". The term originally came from voodoo, or rather HollywoodVoodoo, and referred to [[VoodooZombie voodoo zombies]]: dead or comatose people who were re-animated and enslaved by a master using voodoo magic. Romero's concept of the zombie became so iconic that it pretty much displaced the voodoo zombie in pop culture.

The resultant film was ''Night of the Living Dead'', which not only went on to become one of the most successful independent movies of all time; it also re-defined the word "zombie". The word originally came from voodoo, or rather HollywoodVoodoo, and meant [[VoodooZombie voodoo zombies]], namely comatose or dead people who have been re-animated and enslaved by a master using voodoo magic. Romero's concept of the zombie became so iconic that it pretty much CoveredUp the voodoo zombie in pop culture.

* HeAlsoDid: Started his career working as a cameraman on, we kid you not, ''Series/MisterRogersNeighborhood''. His own directorial debut was in fact a short documentary entitled ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Mr. Rogers Gets a Tonsilectomy]]'', with a bizarre tone that he later credited as a direct inspiration for the Living Dead Series. (Creator/FredRogers later watched ''Night of the Living Dead'' and declared that it was "really fun.")

* HeAlsoDid: Started his career working as a cameraman on, we kid you not, ''Series/MisterRogersNeighborhood''. His own directorial debut was in fact a short documentary entitled ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Mr. Rogers Gets A Tonsilectomy]]'', with a bizarre tone that he later credited as a direct inspiration for the Living Dead Series. (Creator/FredRogers later watched ''Night of the Living Dead'' and declared that it was "really fun.")

* ZombieApocalypse: Practically every ''Film/{{Living Dead|Series}}'' film.

* CreatorsOddball: ''Film/TheresAlwaysVanilla'' is a RomanticComedy-cum-{{Dramedy}}, in contrast to the horror and action films making up the rest of his oeuvre.

* HeAlsoDid: Started his career working as a cameraman on, we kid you not, ''Series/MisterRogersNeighborhood''. His own directorial debut was in fact a short documentary entitled ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Mr. Rogers Gets A Tonsilectomy]]'', with a bizarre tone that he later credited as a direct inspiration for the Living Dead series. (Creator/FredRogers later watched ''Night Of The Living Dead'' and declared it was "really fun.")
* HumansAreBastards: Even though Romero seemed like a respectable person in real life, this is a recurring motif in his zombie films, almost to a point that one could make the argument that the ''zombies'' themselves are actually the good guys. It's argued that, from at least ''Film/LandOfTheDead'' on, this trope actually ''hurt'' Romero's story-telling, as he keeps rehashing the same old message.
* OddFriendship: With ''Creator/FredRogers'' of all people! Romero started working in film as a cameraman on ''Series/MisterRogersNeighborhood''. He would often point out that Rogers was an extremely supportive guy and a great friend. Fred Rogers was apparently even a fan of Romero's ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead'' and ''Film/DawnOfTheDead''.

Romero kept working after this, making films like ''Season of the Witch'' and ''Martin'', but those films didn't catch on with the public like ''Night of the Living Dead'' did, so he went back to the zombie well with ''Dawn of the Dead'' in 1978, ''Day of the Dead'' in 1985, and ''Land of the Dead'' in 2005. His other credits included the horror movies ''Creepshow'' and ''Monkey Shines'', and he was an executive producer of the 1980s syndicated horror television series, ''Tales from the Darkside''.

Romero was born and raised in New York City, to a Spanish-Cuban immigrant father and a Lithuanian-American mother. After attending college at Carnegie Mellon he began work in television and commercials. He banded together with some friends and investors and founded a film production company. When it came time write a script, Romero and co-writer John Russo drew inspiration from the novel ''Literature/IAmLegend'', in which TheVirus turns almost all of humanity into [[FeralVampires semi-sentient]] bloodthirsty vampires. Romero and Russo ran with this concept, but tweaked the idea to make the monsters into even less intelligent, [[FleshEatingZombie flesh-eating]] “ghouls”.

The resultant film was ''Night of the Living Dead'', which became one of the most successful B-movies of all time. It also re-defined the word "zombie". The word originally comes from voodoo, or rather HollywoodVoodoo, and meant [[VoodooZombie voodoo zombies]], namely the comatose or dead that have been animated and enslaved to a master by voodoo magic. Romero's concept of the zombie became so iconic that it pretty much CoveredUp the voodoo zombie in pop culture.