...” work. It may also be viewed as Romero's demystification of the horror film's conventions. alternative strategies The Crazies film Romero 1973 fantasy Gagne Paul R Gornick Michael Gothic Jack’s Wife film Martin film personal entrapment technical problems There’s Always Vanilla film uneven...

...This chapter reviews Survival of the Dead (2009), another horror film by George A. Romero. Survival of the Dead, Romero's sixth installment in his zombie saga, is a modest, low-budget film providing audiences with desired scary moments but ones that do not dominate...

...This chapter looks at the horror films Bruiser (2000) and Land of the Dead (2005). Bruiser represented a necessary artistic break for Romero before he went on to capture the best of both his cinematic worlds involving accessibility and subversiveness...

...This chapter examines George A. Romero's traditions as a filmmaker. Romero was hailed as the director of Night of the Living Dead (1968), a film popularly associated with initiating the gore and special effects syndrome affecting contemporary horror films such as Scream...

...This chapter considers the film Dawn of the Dead (1978) and its intrinsic relationship to literary naturalism. Widely regarded as a “gross-out” horror film relying on the EC Comic tradition, Dawn of the Dead unconsciously refers to naturalist elements associated...

... represented by zombies who replace an existing social order of humans. Ironically, the moral is that nothing really changes at all. Day of the Dead continues the radical tradition of the American family horror film in revealing psychic darkness existing within the midst of an institution...