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George Romero Invented Modern Zombies. The recent news that George A. Romero had passed away after a short battle with lung cancer left both friends and fans devastated. Best known for his iconic Night of the Living Dead and its sequels, Romero also directed Creepshow, Monkey Shines, The Dark Half and a few other films as well. On top of his directing credits, he also served as a writer on additional projects and even appeared as an actor in a few roles. It was the Living Dead films, however, where Romero left his greatest legacy.

Night of the Living Dead is sometimes erroneously referred to as the first zombie movie, but there were other zombie movies that predated it. Depending on how. The Zombie Apocalypse trope as used in popular culture. Within the past couple days or hours, something very strange has happened. Maybe the Synthetic Plague. Zombieland is a 2009 American apocalyptic comedy horror film directed by Ruben Fleischer and written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick. The film stars Woody Harrelson.

Night of the Living Dead and Romero’s other works are more than just scary movies. Not only did they contain a significant amount of social commentary, they effectively invented the modern zombie – creating a set of rules that would come to be staples of zombie movies for decades to come. His work was like nothing that the public had seen before, and many horror directors still cite him as a chief inspiration. To honor the memory of George Romero, let’s look back on his films and see how he became the father of the modern zombie horror.

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What Came Before. White Zombie (1. 93. Night of the Living Dead is sometimes erroneously referred to as the first zombie movie, but there were other zombie movies that predated it. Depending on how strongly one wanted to argue it, The Mummy (the 1. Boris Karloff, which inspired multiple sequels and remakes) could be counted as a form of zombie film, since the titular mummy is a member of the walking dead. Even if you don’t count The Mummy (and other raising- the- dead classics like James Whale’s Frankenstein), the general consensus is that 1. White Zombie, based on the book The Magic Island by William Seabrook, was the first zombie movie.

Unlike Romero’s films, White Zombie (and other early zombie films such as White Zombie‘s 1. Revolt of the Zombies, 1.

King of the Zombies, 1. Voodoo Man and 1. Voodoo Island), White Zombie used voodoo to turn living people into zombies instead of having the dead come back to life. Even 1. 96. 4’s The Incredible Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed- Up Zombies, despite its titular promise of the creatures “stopping living” before becoming zombies, saw the affected individuals become zombies through hypnosis instead of an actual return from beyond the grave. That’s not to say that there weren’t a few films that featured a more modern take on zombies before the release of Night of the Living Dead in 1. Zombies of Mora Tau was released in 1. Both The Earth Dies Screaming and the notorious Plan 9 from Outer Space featured resurrected zombies in their plots as well, though in both cases it was aliens who brought the dead back to life.

Other films made use of mad scientists to resurrect the dead, making individual “zombies” that had transplanted brains or similarities in construction to Frankenstein’s monster. The Dead Shall Rise. While there were obviously some zombie films before Night of the Living Dead, Romero’s masterpiece didn’t borrow heavily from them. According to Romero himself, one of the biggest inspirations for Night of the Living Dead was Richard Matheson’s 1. I Am Legend (which has received three film adaptations of its own).

Romero claimed in a DVD commentary that he had written a short story as the basis for the film, which he has admitted at various points (including a 2. Cinema. Blend interview) “ripped off” I Am Legend: “When I did the first film, I didn’t call them zombies. When I did Night of the Living Dead I called them ghouls, flesh eaters. To me back then, zombies were just those boys in Caribbean doing the wet- work for Bela Lugosi.

So I never thought of them as zombies. I thought they were just back from the dead. I ripped off the idea for the first film from a Richard Matheson novel called I Am Legend, which is now back with us after a couple of incarnations prior.”Romero went on to explain how I Am Legend specifically influenced the return of the dead in Night of the Living Dead: “I thought I Am Legend was about revolution.

I said if you’re going to do something about revolution you should start at the beginning. I mean, Richard starts his book with one man left; everybody in the world has become a vampire. Watch Scooby-Doo And The Cyber Chase IMDB. I said we got to start at the beginning and tweak it up a little bit.

I couldn’t use vampires because he did so I wanted something that would be an earth- shaking change. Something that was forever, something that was really at the heart of it. I said, so what if the dead stop staying dead?”Of course, Night of the Living Dead wasn’t the first incarnation of the film that would eventually reshape the zombie horror genre. Romero’s first attempt at making the movie came in the form of a script for a horror- comedy called Monster Flick.

Romero wrote Monster Flick with Night of the Living Dead collaborator John Russo, and the script focused on aliens who were raising the dead and using them as a form of food. As Romero and Russo updated the script and fleshed it out into a three- part short story, it eventually morphed from an alien- centric comedy into the film we now know as Night of the Living Dead.«1.

Rest Easy, George R. R. Martin, a Computer Program Has Written The Winds of Winter For You. Looks like George R. R. Martin can take a breather. An engineer set up a neural network using all of the books in the A Song of Ice and Fire series to write part of the next installment, The Winds of Winter.

It may not make a lot of sense—or any sense, really—but hell, neither did that whole Sansa and Arya murder fake- out. Full- stack software engineer Zack Thoutt created a recurrent neural network to write The Winds of Winter, based on words, phrases, and characters from the rest of the series. Thoutt told Motherboard it’s a “long short- term memory” network, meaning it remembers information stored in the text, like character deaths. It’s not exactly accurate, though, as according to the new book Ned and Lord Mormont have returned from the grave. In order to accomplish a feat that not even Martin himself has been able to dachieve yet, Thoutt uploaded the first five books in the series into the network (almost 5,4. Here’s a small sample from Chapter One, narrated by Tyrion: The Hound found Jeyne Poole.

Ser Meryn Trant had sent King Yoren through the harbor, to summon the black brothers who had donned his horned veins. The fools he’d wed with him, had all been reborn. Why, I know? He was bleeding, covered his whole legs on shoulders of the snow. He will stand on deck for the fish a fortnight, and never kill one. A blade is no longer, yes, she thought, but he couldn’t take much food. He could not help himself at first rush.

Ghost came by, in a camp when Asha hunted to the night’s watch. Now the torches beneath them and the rose in his head or we’ve brought them out of the world.

He is stubborn and stupid, but his council never saved my brother as most. There must be five choices,” he pointed out. It is an effort. Mine uncle had do the same color. She could hardly count by death. It made Ned better stop until the fire was falling, standing beneath the arch of a shattered still distant field where the shadow tower paid the camp behind. The elder brother had known no sun and chunks of broken buildings and ash wailing towns; four hundred thousand ravens, his own torsos.

Behind them wore their black cloaks like their own yellow fish heroes wearing a rough- hewn figurehead, a black trout slashed on a huge chest, with colors crossed inside and forth their heads. Lords and nuts and mussels, cloaks of the shore, several hundred riders down beneath the honeywine, and at the foot of the five southron Kings of captured sit and fewer stepped toward the Kingslayer. He will not return yet at the ford, with above his first black band.“Only a hundred northmen will remain with them.

They’ll teach you Lord Rickard’s brother Joffrey. Tell me true, Cersei is known.

No one’s wasting your interest, you remember. Dead steel and sour cat and two times as well.”There are five chapters so far, and they’re all insane.

According to the neural network, Varys is going to poison Daenerys, Asha will start hunting the Night’s Watch, and Arya’s latest weapon of choice is her boot. But hey, it actually predicts a couple of things that fans also expect to happen on the final season of Game of Thrones, mainly that Jon Snow will ride a dragon and Jaime Lannister will kill his twin sister Cersei. However, all of that pales in comparison to the best part: The Winds of Winter has a new character! Greenbeard was waiting toward the gates, big blind bearded pimple with his fallen body scraped his finger from a ring of white apple. Watch Secrets Of The Clown Online IMDB. It was half- buried mad on honey of a dried brain, of two rangers, a heavy frey.“Six men wanted to kill one Stark, this grey o’ all of three.”According to the neural network, the latest addition to Westeros will be a man called Greenbeard, and all I want is everything about this character’s epic backstory. I’d like to imagine he’s a greenseer sent by the Children of the Forest to help Jon Snow battle the Night’s King, and he colored his facial hair green because he takes his role way too seriously.

You can read the rest of the stories here, presumably while sitting around waiting for Martin to catch up. Ten bucks says we’ll all have green beards by then.[Motherboard].