For over 40 years George A. Romero has presented the cinema audience with a world of hellish nightmares infested with flesh eating zombies, vampires, and psychotics. While the world he has presented has been increasingly deranged and apocalyptic it is also a world that looks eerily familiar... [ read more ]
- Friday, Sept. 19th - 7pm: Opening Night Celebration Screening: “Night of the Living Dead”
- Saturday, Sept. 20th - 12pm: Film Screening: “Season of the Witch”; 2pm: Film Screening: “Martin”; 9pm: Midnight Dread Zombie party & costume contest, Midnight screening of "Diary of the Dead"
- Sunday, Sept. 21st - 12pm: Seminar: "One on One"
with George A. Romero; 2pm: Film Screening: "Dawn
of the Dead"; 4pm: Film Screening: "The Crazies"
Honorary Event Chair: Anthony Foxx
Event Chair: Steve Partridge
Born and raised in the Bronx, George Romero grew up feeling he had an artistic view that was not freely realized making 8mm films in his native New York. A view that would eventually lead to his direction of two of the greatest modern America horror films of all time (Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead). By the time he had reached college age... [ read more ]
