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Stephen King fans have yet another adaptation to look forward to, as The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon has found a director. Announced earlier this year with writer Christy Hall attached, Lynne Ramsey (We Need to Talk About Kevin, You Were Never Really Here) will direct. Village Roadshow will release the flick, with Christine Romero (wife of […]

It's hard to deny the continued cultural impact of George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968), which gave birth to the modern zombie genre as we know it. Already remade four previous times, the latest comes from CineTel Films, according to Bloody Disgusting. The studio was responsible for the latest incarnations of the […]

George A. Romero is horror royalty, and usually that means that all of the filmmakers work is readily available to watch. Not so with the Night of the Living Dead director's film The Amusement Park. Lost over time, the film has been found and restored in 4K by IndieCollect in New York. The whole thing […]

SYFY continues its push into the world of straight-to-series, giving 10-episode orders for a series adaptation of George A. Romero's classic zombie film Day of the Dead from Creepshow producer Cartel Entertainment. In addition, Blue Ice Pictures' (Ginny and Georgia) The Surrealtor was also given a series greenlight – with both set for 2021 debuts. […]

Shudder's horror anthology series Creepshow recently shoveled the final pile of dirt on its first season's coffin when it also learned that it's returning for a second (or "sequel") season – not a bad way to head into the holidays and the new year. Executive produced by showrunner Greg Nicotero (​The Walking Dead), the series […]

The only thing more fitting than Shudder's horror anthology series Creepshow having its season-ender on Halloween is choosing "Devil's Eve" to offer fans a special treat. AMC Networks' premium streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural has officially ordered a second season of the horror anthology series. Executive produced by showrunner Greg Nicotero (​The […]

AMC Networks' horror-based service Shudder is filling our fall seasons with some serious old-school frights with Creepshow, the premium streamer's horror anthology reboot of the 1982 film of the same name. Executive producer and segment director Greg Nicotero's (The Walking Dead) six-episode series continues creeping and crawling along this week with "Night of the Paw" […]

AMC Networks' premium streaming service Shudder is getting ready to introduce an entirely new generation of scream fans to some old-school horrific thrills-n-chills with upcoming horror anthology Creepshow. Sounds familar, right? It should since it's based on the 1982 horror classic, written by Stephen King and directed by the legendary George A. Romero. It was […]

Creepshow was released by Scream Factory not that long ago, with new features, new transfers, and a cool slipbox package with a book! They were nice enough to send a copy over for us to take a look at, so let's see how it all turned out. Film: 🍿🍿🍿🍿 The George A. Romero/Stephen King horror […]

Welcome to The Weekly Static, a desperate attempt at comedy (fingers, toes and every other available and cross-able body part crossed) thinly disguised as look-back at the week that was in the land of television. The goal of The Weekly Static? Why, that's a simple three-point answer: ●  to offer a blunt, honest perspective on a handful […]

Film fans from around the world are still reeling from the news that iconic filmmaker George Romero, considered by many to not just be the father of the modern zombie film but one of the biggest influences in modern horror overall, passed away at the age of 77 following an aggressive battle with lung cancer. […]

The Los Angeles Times is reporting that the  family of George Romero, creator of the modern-era zombie and horror film genre, has told him that the filmmaker has died at the age of 77. He passed following a brief but aggressive battle with lung cancer, according to a statement given to the Times by is […]

FEMALE GAZE Heidi MacDonald attacks the Comics Journal's almost all-exclusive male credits and focus. And does a little Gendercrunching on a number of issues. As you can see, R. Crumb is so important that he gets not only a 200 page analysis in #301, but an extensive history of his lawyer, Albert Morse, in #302. […]

George A. Romero at NYCC's Cup of Joe panel announced a new detail for his New York zombie comic, Empire Of The Dead. Two kinds of undead.  Romero is using vampires, to show the societal structure of the city, the haves and the have nots, the vampires and the zombies…

Bleeding Cool first told you about George A. Romero's secret Marvel zombie project in October 2012.  Then, Marvel teased it last February.  Now, USA Today has additional info on the 15 issue mini-series, which will launch in January with artwork by Alex Maleev: the iconic horror director is taking his zombies to his hometown of […]

The original zombie epic returns with a fresh and violent picture of the end of the world courtesy of David Hine in today's Night of the Living Dead: Aftermath #3! Las Vegas is a city of the dead now.  The zombie epidemic hits new heights as the government tries to cover up the extent the […]

The original zombie epic continues a decade after the classic first film with today's Night of the Living Dead: Aftermath #2!

Night of the Living Dead, makes it's return today, Halloween, with an all-new on-going series, Aftermath! Horror Master, David Hine (Crossed, The Darkness, Spawn), launches the new series a decade after Romero's first film. Set in the excess of the late 1970s, we follow the world as it has evolved with the zombie threat, a disaster they […]

Will Halloween be the Day of the Undead at your local comic shop?

On Halloween, Avatar Press will launch its new, ongoing Night of the Living Dead: Aftermath series. To support the launch of this monthly horror series, Avatar is reprinting classic NOTLD tales as a value-priced Day of the Undead graphic novel ($2.99 for 64 pages), plus offering a variety of promotional items to retailers to encourage […]