History Creator / GeorgeARomero

George Andrew Romero (February 4, 1940 – July 16, 2017) was a director of [[BMovie B-Movies]] and horror movies, namely the Film/LivingDeadSeries, in which he had occasion to invent [[FleshEatingZombie a famous trope]].

* ''Knightriders'' (1981)

Romero was born 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”.

Romero was born in New York City to a 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”.

Romero was born in New York City to a 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 this idea to make the monsters into even less intelligent, flesh-eating ghouls.

Romero was born in New York City to a 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 ram with this concept, but tweaked this idea to make the monsters into even less intelligent, flesh-eating ghouls.

Romero was born in New York City to a 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 [[FeralVampire semi-sentient]] bloodthirsty vampires. Romero and Russo ram with this concept, but tweaked this idea to make the monsters into even less intelligent, flesh-eating ghouls.

Romero was born in New York City to a 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 vampires. Romero and Russo tweaked this idea to make the monsters into flesh-eating, re-animated corpses.

* ''Monkey Shines'' (1988)

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

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: ''Film/TheresAlwaysVanilla'' is a RomanticComedy, in contrast to the horror and action films making up the rest of his oeuvre.

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism: Most of his films, his zombie films, tend to very HEAVILY on the cynical end.

* NiceGuy: Romero apparently was a very decent guy who originally worked on ''Series/MisterRogersNeighborhood'' and became friends with Fred Rogers himself. He had nothing but total respect for him. Amusingly enough, when Romero showed an early cut of his bloody, nihilistic horror film to the sweetest man who ever lived, Rogers was ''delighted'' with the movie and thought it was great fun.
** His films were to also encourage others to go out and make their own movies.

* OurZombiesAreDifferent: While the earliest depictions of zombies in films are VoodooZombies controlled by necromancy, Romero popularized the idea of zombies as a result of viral infection, going after uninfected humans.

* OurZombiesAreDifferent

* NiceGuy: Romero apparently was a very decent guy who originally worked on ''MisterRogersNeighborhood'' and became friends with Fred Rogers himself. He had nothing but total respect for him. Amusingly enough, when Romero showed an early cut of his bloody, nihilistic horror film to the sweetest man who ever lived, Rogers was ''delighted'' with the movie and thought it was great 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 ''LandOfTheDead'' on, this trope actually ''hurt'' Romero's story-telling, as he keeps rehashing the same old message.

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

* NiceGuy: Romero apparently was a very decent guy who originally worked on ''MisterRogersNeighborhood'' and became friends with Fred Rogers himself. He had nothing but total respect for him.

!! Tropes Associated with Romero's work

* ZombieApocalypse: Practically every ''LivingDead'' film.

* NiceGuy: Romero apparently was a very decent guy who originally worked on MisterRogersNeighborhood and became friends with the title lead himself. He had nothing but total respect for him.