Tightly controlled scenes avoid the pointlessness and repetition of the nouveau zombie films, limning class struggle in unexpected ways
In expiation for his pusillanimity in the opening reel
They discouraged people from seeing it, but Romero’s images proved to be indelible
Romero cast an African American in the lead, and he shifted the horror genre’s dynamic, aligning it with black-and-white anti-war documentaries like Emile de Antonio’s In the Year of the Pig, also released in 1968, and distinguishing it from the lurid color horror movies Roger Corman and Hammer Fil…
[...] In film and television, his distinctive oeuvre has obsessed cinephiles, fans of the outré, and film academics, giving rise to the adjective Lynchian, a word, as Lim points out, that many have tried to define but that the culture at large has decided means “weird.” Lim boils the Lynchian down …
