“When we made 'Night of the Living Dead,' we got riddled. There was this famous article Roger Ebert wrote just blasting the film because he had gone to see it at some screening where there were all these kids in the audience. I don't know why that happened. We didn't make the movie for kids.”

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.