History Film / LivingDeadSeries

* ''The Living Dead'' (2020): A novel started by George A. Romero before his death, and subsequently finished by Creator/DanielKraus using Romero's notes and incorporating an old short story by Romero. The novel covers a periods of time from the first known zombie attack to the next eleven years.

* ThematicSeries: The series (and most zombie movie franchises) never keep the same characters or setting but are all still a part of the same series. Part of the reason for this is because of the KillEmAll plots.

* KillEmAll: Besides the general death of humanity, even the main characters are usually dwindled down to a handful of survivors at most by the end of the film. In the original ''Night'' and the alternate ending of the original ''Dawn'', every one of the main characters died.

* TheVirus: Possibly. [[AmbiguousSituation ''Something'']] is causing the recently deceased to rise. Contrary to most versions, it's made clear that it isn't the bites or contact with the zombies that turn people into more zombies but are just lethal and merely dying without incinerating the corpse is enough to turn one into a zombie. It was because every corpse in the world came back to life that the plague could become apocalyptic in the first place. The only exceptions to this are brain trauma and complete immolation.

* ComicBookTime: The series depicts the breakdown of society over a handful of years, but they reflect the wildly different times they were made in. ''Night'' shows the zombie apocalypse beginning in its release year of 1968, while ''Dawn'' begins a few weeks into the apocalypse despite obviously occurring in the late 1970s. ''Day'' is perhaps a year or two into the apocalypse but is clearly set in the mid-1980s. ''Land'' avoids the issue completely by simply making it clear that a long, long time has passed (though Romero, himself, stated that the film was canonically set 3 years after the events of ''Night''), and the POVSequel ''Diary'' moves the events of ''Night'' to the late 2000s.

* FantasticAesop: George Romero's ''Living Dead Series'' is another example that puts forth the idea that [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters humans, for all their claims of being civilized, are really savages]] and that a supernatural species, in this case the zombies, are people too. This aesop became more emphasized as the films went on. ''Film/LandOfTheDead'' eventually went so far as to give the zombies their own storyline with a SympatheticPOV, and presenting their invasion of the last remaining human city, which was run by a CorruptCorporateExecutive and his private army, as a liberation for the oppressed humans. The problem with this is that while the zombies are too animalistic to be considered truly ''malevolent'', they are still undeniably ''dangerous'', being that they are predators whose biology demands that they feast on human flesh. During their assault towards Fiddler's Green, the zombies consumed just as many of the destitute poor as the corrupt rich, which the film glosses over, resulting in it also being a BrokenAesop.

The ''Living Dead'' Series is a series of horror films initiated and largely directed by Creator/GeorgeARomero, starting in 1968. It is primarily responsible for [[TropeCodifier codifying the modern trope]] of [[OurZombiesAreDifferent zombies]] as [[FleshEatingZombie shambling, flesh-eating undead]] whose awakening typically brings about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.

* ''Literature/ReturnOfTheLivingDead'' (1978) A stand-alone sequel to ''Night of the Living Dead'' by John A. Russo., with few similarities to the eventual films of the same name.
* ''Dawn of the Dead'' (1978): A novelization of the second film by George A. Romero and Susanna Sparrow. .

* ''Day Of The Dead: Bloodline'' (2018)

* OurZombiesAreDifferent: They move slowly, crave human flesh, and [[TheVirus can infect people]] with one bite. Later movies showed that they retain some intelligence from their lives and can be taught certain things. The movies have shown that they have aversions to fire and large bodies of water (though this becomes subverted later on in ''Land''). In ''Day'', they are capable of resting until they hear an active prey.

* TheVirus: Possibly. [[AmbiguousSituation ''Something'']] is causing the recently deceased to rise. Contrary to most versions, it's implied that it isn't the bites or contact with the zombies that turn people into more zombies but are just lethal and merely dying without incinerating the corpse is enough to turn one into a zombie. It was because every corpse in the world came back to life that the plague could become apocalyptic in the first place. The only exception to this is brain trauma and complete immolation.

* TheVirus: The zombie plague ''can'' spread through bites, but merely dying without incinerating the corpse is enough to turn one into a zombie. It was because every corpse in the world came back to life that the plague could become apocalyptic in the first place. The only exception to this is brain trauma and complete immolation.

The ''Living Dead'' Series is a series of horror films initiated and largely directed by Creator/GeorgeARomero, starting in 1968. It is primarily responsible for [[TropeCodifier codifying the modern trope]] of [[OurZombiesAreDifferent zombies]] as [[EverythingsDeaderWithZombies shambling, flesh-eating undead]] whose awakening typically brings about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.