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  • The Amusement Park (2019)
    Review preview for The Amusement Park

    For many fans, this will be the last ever chance to see a Romero film for the first time. It won't disappoint.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    An elderly gentleman goes for what he assumes will be an ordinary day at the amusement park, only to find himself in the middle of a hellish nightmare instead.
  • The Crazies (1973)
    Review preview for The Crazies

    The simplicity of the location, with its gentle green hills and thin woodland, makes it feel as if it could be anywhere, yet Romero positions his camera so as to generate maximum tension from it.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    The military attempts to contain a manmade combat virus that causes death and permanent insanity in those infected, as it overtakes a small Pennsylvania town.
  • Dawn Of The Dead (1978)
    Review preview for Dawn Of The Dead

    Dawn Of The Dead is an astounding work that holds up to this day.

    David Graham · 5 out of 5
    During a zombie apocalypse, a small group of survivors seeks refuge in an abandoned shopping mall.
  • Day Of The Dead (1985)
    Review preview for Day Of The Dead

    It's rare for such a talky movie to be so exciting, but the wired performances combine with the visceral effects and confident direction to create an utterly absorbing experience.

    David Graham · 4.5 out of 5
    Trouble flares in a small military base where some of the last survivors of a zombie apocalypse are holding out as scientists search for a solution.
  • Diary Of The Dead (2007)
    Review preview for Diary Of The Dead

    Romero has started all over again as though his other films exist in some parallel universe. Just to prove anything a younger director can do, he can do better, the whole thing is shot cinema-vérité style.

    Tony Sullivan · 4 out of 5
    Film students try to record the end of civilisation as they know it when the dead begin to walk. Plus read our with George A Romero.
  • George Romero Between Night And Dawn (2017)
    Review preview for George Romero Between Night And Dawn

    There's not a zombie in sight, and one of the films isn't in the horror genre at all, but they all illustrate the director's skill and flair.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A box set featuring the best of the celebrated director's early work.
  • George A Romero's Land Of The Dead (2005)
    Review preview for George A Romero's Land Of The Dead

    Appallingly developed characters and situations decay and rot onscreen.

    Scott Macdonald · 3 out of 5
    The creator of the zombie genre returns with an allegory of Bush's abuses in Iraq.
  • Knightriders (1981)
    Review preview for Knightriders

    Knightriders represents the venerable director’s most personal and intimate work.

    David Graham · 4 out of 5
    The head of a mediaeval re-enactment troupe begins to lose his grip on reality.
  • Martin (1977)
    Review preview for Martin

    An incredibly powerful work.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    A young man who believes he's a vampire goes to stay with a relative who plans to destroy him.
  • Night Of The Living Dead (1968)
    Review preview for Night Of The Living Dead

    Though shot on cheap black-and-white film stock, NOTLD was the film that would turn the whole horror genre blood red, with its innovative use of graphically realistic gore effects.

    Anton Bitel · 4.5 out of 5
    Film that set the template for the modern zombie movie.
  • Queens Of The Dead (2025)
    Review preview for Queens Of The Dead

    Tina Romero is in her element.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    On what should be a fun night at a Brooklyn warehouse party, an outbreak of flesh-eating zombies forces a ragtag group of drag queens, partygoers and party-throwers to band together and somehow survive the night.
  • Season Of The Witch (1972)
    Review preview for Season Of The Witch

    There's a lot to appreciate in this bold, experimental piece of filmmaking.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A frustrated housewife seeks a solution to her problems in witchcraft.
  • Survival Of The Dead (2009)
    Review preview for Survival Of The Dead

    It would be overly enthusiastic to say that Survival is a true return to form after the relative misfire of Diary, but it is difficult to deny that Survival is a pretty good piece of genre filmmaking.

    Daniel Hooper · 3 out of 5
    Two tribes go to war in an undead apocalypse.
  • There's Always Vanilla (1971)
    Review preview for There's Always Vanilla

    From the lurid costumes to the playful street art, cheesy innuendo and precocious embrace of materialism, it's bold and brash and destined to stick in the memory like fondue in an old shag carpet.

    Jennie Kermode · 2.5 out of 5
    A young man seduces a stranger and gradually becomes dependent on her.

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