“I wanted 'Night of the Living Dead' to look naturalistic, but we weren't able to do it because we were shooting with a blimped 35mm camera, which is automatically static.”

American and Canadian filmmaker, writer, editor, and actor

George A. Romero was an American and Canadian filmmaker, writer, editor, and actor. He was widely regarded as a major figure in horror cinema, especially for his work on zombie films. He was often described as an icon of the genre and as the father of the zombie film. His reputation rests on reshaping horror film language through a body of work that made zombies central to modern popular culture.