Bruiser 2000  R, 95 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: George A. Romero
Cast: Jason Flemyng, Leslie Hope, Peter Stormare, Nina Garbiras, Andrew Tarbet, Tom Atkins, Jonathan Higgins, Jeff Monahan, Marie Cruz, Balazs Koos
George A. Romero is at it again in this thriller/ horror flick. Henry (Jason Flemyng) is a real "97-pound weakling" who allows others to walk over him. His boss (at the magazine called "Bruiser") is having an affair with Henry's wife, and his best friend and advisor is ripping him off. One day Henry awakens to find that he has no face–just a blank whiteness where the face belongs. Now he can get revenge on those who have wronged him. A sort of fun tongue-in-cheeker with a social message.
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The Crazies 1973 R, 103 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
aka: Code Name: Trixie
Director: George A. Romero
Cast: Lane Carroll, Will MacMillan, Harold Wayne Jones, Lloyd Hollar, Richard Liberty, Lynn Lowry, Richard France, Edith Bell, Harry Spillman, Will Disney
A plane carrying an untested, top secret biological warfare virus crashes near a small town in Pennsylvania, infecting the city's water supply with the virus. Exposure results in instant death or irreversible insanity. While scientists frantically search for a cure, the Army is sent in–complete with biologically-safe suits–to round up the city's inhabitants and isolate them in the local school. Non-infected citizens attempt to escape from both the Army personnel and local authorities. A strong anti-government, anti-military statement.
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 Creepshow 1982  R, 122 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: George A. Romero
Cast: Hal Holbrook, Adrienne Barbeau, Fritz Weaver, Leslie Nielsen, E.G. Marshall, Carrie Nye, Viveca Lindfors, Ted Danson, Ed Harris, Gaylen Ross, Stephen King, Warner Shook, Robert Harper, Jon Lormer, Don Keefer
Five different stories–each revolving around a fatal flaw–make up this movie. The fifth story, for example, is about a neat freak who literally lives in a completely sterile environment and encounters, of all things, cockroaches. The screenplay is by Stephen King from the story "The Crate." King has a bit part in one of the stories. Naturally, macabre entertainment.
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The Dark Half 1993  R, 124 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: George A. Romero
Cast: Timothy Hutton, Amy Madigan, Michael Rooker, Julie Harris, Robert Joy, Rutanya Alda, Chelsea Field, Kent Broadhurst, Royal Dano, Beth Grant
Stephen King's novel is brought to life in this film about author Thad Beaumont (Timothy Hutton), who uses the pseudonym "George Stark" when he writes horror stories. Beaumont learns that "Stark" does not want to be put away between stories.
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Dawn of the Dead 1978 R, 125 min.
Genre: Action / Horror / Thriller / Sci-Fi
Director: George A. Romero
Cast: Gaylen Ross, Ken Foree, Scott H. Reiniger, David Emge, David Crawford, David Early, George A. Romero, Tom Savini, Richard France, Howard Smith, Daniel Dietrich, Fred Baker, James A. Baffico, Rod Stouffer, Jese Del Gre
A grotesque onslaught of human flesh is portrayed in this film as corpses hunt for their favorite meal: human flesh. SWAT team members Peter (Ken Foree) and Roger (Scott H. Reiniger) are sent in with their units to destroy zombies in a Pittsburgh housing project. They secure the building and then flee to a TV station where they escape by helicopter with station employees Francine (Gaylen Ross) and Stephen (David Emge). They land on top of a shopping mall where the zombies have gathered, and, to make matters worse, a gang of bikers arrive on the scene. Now, the enemies are not only zombies but bikers as well. The gore is mostly confined to the first and last half-hours, but even with the gore, it is a well-made film. "Day of the Dead" follows as a sequel.
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 Day of the Dead 1985 N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller / Sci-Fi
Director: George A. Romero
Cast: Lori Cardille, Terry Alexander, Joseph Pilato, Jarlath Conroy, Richard Liberty, Sherman Howard, Anthony Dileo Jr., Gary Howard Klar, Ralph Marrero, John Amplas, Phillip G. Kellams, Taso N. Stavrakis, Gregory Nicotero, Don Brockett, William Cameron
This is the third film of Director Romero's zombie series. The first two, "Night of the Living Dead" and "Dawn of the Dead," were near-classics. A small group of scientists and military personnel are all who are left of "live" people and are holed up underground. They seek a way to reverse the process that produced the zombies and bring them back to life.
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Diary of the Dead 2007 R, 94 min.
Genre: Fantasy / Horror / Thriller
aka: George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead
Director: George A. Romero
Cast: Michelle Morgan, Joshua Close, Shawn Roberts, Amy Ciupak Lalonde, Joe Dinicol, Scott Wentworth, Philip Riccio, Chris Violette, Tatiana Maslany, Todd Schroeder, Daniel Kash, Laura DeCarteret, Martin Roach, Megan Park
Debra Moynihan (Michelle Morgan) narrates this saga of University of Pittsburgh filmmaker student Jason Creed (Joshua Close) who sets out with a group of students to shoot a low-budget horror film in the Pennsylvania woods. Suddenly, the media reports that the dead are rising from their graves, and Jason and his cohorts–Tracy (Amy Ciupak Lalonde), Gordo (Chris Violette), Tony (Shawn Roberts), and Professor Maxwell (Scott Wentworth)–load themselves and equipment into Mary's (Tatiana Maslany) van and prepare to report what is really happening. They use their camera to shoot and a laptop to edit the real story into a documentary that they title, "The Death of Death."
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Hungry Wives 1973  R, 89 min.
Genre: Horror / Drama
aka: Season of the Witch
Jack's Wife
Director: George A. Romero
Cast: Jan White, Raymond Laine, Ann Muffly, Joedda McClain, Bill Thunhurst, Neil Fisher, Esther Lapidus, Virginia Greenwald, Dan Mallinger, Jean Wechsler
Unhappy housewife Joan (Jan White) is married to Jack (Bill Thunhurst) who is always away on business, and their 19-year-old daughter Nikki (Joedda McClain) is preparing to move away from home. As a solution to her boring lifestyle, Joan turns to witchcraft and sinks into a bizarre world where tragedy awaits.
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Knightriders 1981  R, 145 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Drama
Director: George A. Romero
Cast: Ed Harris, Gary Lahti, Tom Savini, Amy Ingersoll, Patricia Tallman, Martin Ferrero, Stephen King, Christine Forrest, Warner Shook, Brother Blue, Ken Foree, Don Berry, Cynthia Adler, John Amplas
"King" Billy (Ed Harris) leads a group of motorcyclists who dress in medieval regalia while performing great jousting stunts and selling crafts at local fairs. All goes well–for awhile. But, when financial problems, mean cops, and dealing with near-fame take a toll on the troupe, will Billy be able to keep them together? 2 User Reviews
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| | depyman190 09/17/2009 | | Great movie, saw it years ago, can't find it now |
| | patchlee 06/10/2009 | | killer movie seen it when i was a kid and still love it today |
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Land of the Dead 2005 R, 93 min.
Genre: Action / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
aka: George A. Romero's Land of the Dead
Director: George A. Romero
Cast: Simon Baker, John Leguizamo, Dennis Hopper, Asia Argento, Robert Joy, Eugene Clark, Joanne Boland, Tony Nappo, Jennifer Baxter, Boyd Banks, Maxwell McCabe-Lokos, Shawn Roberts, Jasmin Geljo, Tony Munch, Pedro Miguel Arce
When only an electrified chain-link fence separates the zombies from the city's residents, can Riley (Simon Baker), Slack (Asia Argento), and Charlie (Robert Joy) stop the zombies from eating hearts and other "treats" torn from the bodies of their terrified victims?
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Martin 1977 R, 95 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: George A. Romero
Cast: John Amplas, Lincoln Maazel, Christine Forrest, Elayne Nadeau, Tom Savini, Sarah Venable, Fran Middleton, Al Levitsky, James Roy, George A. Romero
Seventeen-year-old Martin (John Amplas) thinks he is a vampire–at least he feels the need for blood and uses razor blades to get it from female victims. He also has become a radio call-in celebrity with stories of his "adventures." Set in a crumbling steel city neighborhood, Romero has put together a good, but often gory, tale.
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Monkey Shines: An Experiment in Fear 1988 R, 113 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
aka: Monkey Shines
Director: George A. Romero
Cast: Jason Beghe, John Pankow, Kate McNeil, Joyce Van Patten, Christine Forrest, Stanley Tucci, Janine Turner, Stephen Root, William Newman, Tudi Wiggins
A young active man (Jason Beghe) suffers an accident that leaves him paralyzed from the neck down. Coming to his rescue is his best friend (John Pankow) who offers him a trained monkey from his science lab. The monkey is supposed to help as companion and errand runner. Everything goes well until–the monkey takes on more than anticipated.
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 Night of the Living Dead 1968  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller / Sci-Fi
Director: George A. Romero
Cast: Judith O'Dea, Duane Jones, Karl Hardman, Marilyn Eastman, Keith Wayne, Judith Ridley, Russell Streiner, Kyra Schon, Charles Craig, George Kosana, S. William Hinzman, Frank Doak, Bill "Chilly Billy" Cardille, A.C. McDonald, Samuel R. Solito
This film has developed a cult following and is the story of hungry corpses coming back as zombies to kill and eat human beings. The story begins with Barbara (Judith O'Dea) and her brother Johnny (Russell Streiner) visiting a Pennsylvania cemetery and being attacked by the zombies. Johnny is killed, and Barbara takes refuge in a farmhouse where she joins six other people. In a futile attempt for survival, they try to keep their sanity while warding off the zombies. But, nothing appears to work, and radio news reports tell about devastation occurring in the eastern United States.
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 The Silence of the Lambs 1991  R, 120 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Jonathan Demme
Cast: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Brooke Smith, Kasi Lemmons, Diane Baker, Roger Corman, Ted Levine, Anthony Heald, Charles Napier, George A. Romero, Tracey Walter, Frankie Faison, Paul Lazar, Dan Butler
FBI recruit Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) is given quite an assignment for her first case. In order to get a psychological profile of the killer she is pursuing, she must go to Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) who is himself a homicidal maniac locked in a cell for eight years. The film received five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Director, Actress (Foster), and Actor (Hopkins) and was nominated for two other awards.
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There's Always Vanilla 1972  R, 92 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: The Affair
Director: George A. Romero
Cast: Raymond Laine, Judith Ridley, Johanna Lawrence, Richard Ricci, Roger McGovern, Ron Jaye, Bob Wilson, Louise Sahene, Christopher Priore, George Kosana
After serving in Vietnam, Chris Bradley (Raymond Laine) returns to Pittsburgh where his father (Roger McGovern) wants him to work in the family's baby food business. But Chris has other ideas and carries on a "going-nowhere" affair with model Lynn (Judith Riley)
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Two Evil Eyes 1990 R, 120 min.
Genre: Horror / Comedy / Thriller
Director: Dario Argento, George A. Romero
Cast: Adrienne Barbeau, Ramy Zada, E.G. Marshall, Harvey Keitel, Madeleine Potter, Bingo O'Malley, Martin Balsam, Kim Hunter, Sally Kirkland, John Amos, Jeff Howell, Holter Graham, Tom Atkins, Jonathan Adams
European horror master Dario Argento teams up with George A. Romero ("Night of the Living Dead") to present two adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe's tales: "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" and "The Black Cat." The latter is the better of the two, though both reduce the stories to plenty of gore. Previously made by Roger Corman in 1962 ("Tales of Terror" with Vincent Price).
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| 1. Bruiser (2000)
2. The Crazies (1973)
aka: Code Name: Trixie
3. Creepshow (1982)
4. The Dark Half (1993)
5. Dawn of the Dead (1978)
6. Day of the Dead (1985)
7. Diary of the Dead (2007)
aka: George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead
8. Hungry Wives (1973)
aka: Season of the Witch
aka: Jack's Wife
9. Knightriders (1981)
10. Land of the Dead (2005)
aka: George A. Romero's Land of the Dead
11. Martin (1977)
12. Monkey Shines: An Experiment in Fear (1988)
aka: Monkey Shines
13. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
14. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
15. There's Always Vanilla (1972)
aka: The Affair
16. Two Evil Eyes (1990)
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