![]() ![]() The two shared a love of of EC horror comics and parlayed that into a film, 1982’s Creepshow.ĮC Comics (or Entertaining Comics) was a brand of funny books founded in 1944 and found success in the early ’50s publishing horror, sci-fi, mystery, and thriller comics with titles like The Vault of Horror, The Haunt of Fear, and Tales from the Crypt. ![]() Not a runaway success by any means, the movie afforded Romero the opportunity to direct another movie, helped in no small part by his friendship and partnership with a little author named Stephen King. ![]() Despite being released unrated and therefore unable to advertise in many papers, Romero’s 1978 film Dawn of the Dead was a massive, gigantic hit, and he was given a significant budget for his next movie, 1981’s Knightriders, a strange passion project about a group of bikers who treat their gang like it’s Camelot. In truth, it’s his initial zombie trilogy– Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, and Day of the Dead–for which he’ll always be remembered, but for a brief time in the early ’80s, Romero was a legitimate mainstream box office director, who managed to turn out another film for which he’s owed much more than he gets. ![]() Romero was and will ever be a legend, wholly under appreciated in his time, and even when he was given his due during his life, it was always with the caveat that he probably wouldn’t be able to get another movie funded unless it was a zombie picture. ![]()
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