WTF Happened To George Romero's Road Of The Dead?

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  • Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
  • George A Romero is the godfather of all things zombie. He created what we know when we think of the standard, shambling zombie. So when The Walking Dead took the world by storm, the horror world turned to Romero to see if he'd return to the subgenre he helped to create. But with George's passing we never received his final opus. So join us today, as we cover the zombie film he was never able to make, with George A. Romero's Road of the Dead.
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Комментарии • 371

  • @ZombieFarmboy666
    @ZombieFarmboy666 2 года назад +140

    Land of the Dead is definitely a guilty pleasure movie of mine. Not great, but I like a lot of the characters and can watch it any time again.

    • @zotdead08
      @zotdead08 2 года назад +16

      John Leguizamo is great in it.

    • @SchardtCinematic
      @SchardtCinematic 2 года назад +12

      I consider Land of the Dead his magnum opus of his zombie films. Dawn of the Dead is my favorite of his. Not that mid 2000 remake

    • @ZombieFarmboy666
      @ZombieFarmboy666 2 года назад +1

      @@rosselliswilkinson I don't know. I thought he played a decent every-man that just happened to be decent at surviving.

    • @acloserlook5823
      @acloserlook5823 2 года назад +1

      @@ZombieFarmboy666 GR definitely wrote too much "badass" into Baker's acting style. It only worked in any sense because the benign protagonist allowed the antagonists room to firmly establish the dystopian theme.

    • @Derek8487
      @Derek8487 2 года назад +3

      I liked the movie.

  • @theeventhorizon6794
    @theeventhorizon6794 2 года назад +62

    If anything, I would love to see a proper remake of Day of the Dead based on the original screenplay that Romero never made due to budgetary decisions. I've read the 108 page 2nd draft and this film would have been like Raiders of the Lost Ark with Zombies. The script was much bigger in scope than the filmed version. It contained non-stop action, gore and better fleshed-out characters. The tone of it's social commentary was up there with Paul Verhoven's Robocop. It had a proper ending for the trilogy. I hope his original script gets made one day. In the proper hands, it would work today.

    • @Philo-ul2uq
      @Philo-ul2uq 2 года назад +4

      The backstory is humbling. The hostility between scientists and soldiers reflected the animosity betwixt studio and creators.
      The original script was much more hopeful.

    • @theeventhorizon6794
      @theeventhorizon6794 2 года назад +6

      @@Philo-ul2uq The original script would have properly ended the series as a trilogy.
      The finished product of DOTD is the black sheep of the series and I still love it, but his original script was even better.

    • @georgetaylor1273
      @georgetaylor1273 2 года назад +2

      Although never filmed for budgetary reasons, G.R.'s original script for 'Day' would've been a tour-de-force, non-stop action/gore Zombie film classic. The, (pardon the expression), gutted final-filmed version was actually quite good IMHO, but not exceptional...🧟 😏

    • @darkstar6909
      @darkstar6909 2 года назад +3

      There is no guarantee that if Romero made Day the way he wanted to that it wouldnt be more lackluster crap. George attempted to tame the zombies in every one of the latter zombie movies and they were all crap.

    • @bearnaff9387
      @bearnaff9387 2 года назад

      Is this the script that had scientists teaching zombies via educational videos?

  • @briancoll8321
    @briancoll8321 2 года назад +59

    The only time driving zombies worked for me was in the book The Rising and It’s sequel City of the Dead. And the only reason it even worked in the first place is that the zombies were reanimated corpses inhabited by demons set free from a void. The demons have their hosts memories and skills so if the host knew how to drive a car… so do they… and they’d run down survivors so that more of their brethren could be free from the void. Great books. 8/10. Highly recommended.

    • @tonylee4795
      @tonylee4795 2 года назад +9

      Wow! Thought I was the only one that read that series.

    • @briancoll8321
      @briancoll8321 2 года назад +2

      @@tonylee4795 I always enjoy reading Brian Keene’s books since he lives in Pennsylvania and will mention landmarks that I’m familiar with. Pretty sure he name dropped my college in The Rising or City of the Dead. At least that’s what I recall anyway haha

    • @michaelbruce6190
      @michaelbruce6190 2 года назад +4

      I loved those books, Brian Keene is great….Dead Sea was good as well.

    • @briancoll8321
      @briancoll8321 2 года назад +2

      @@michaelbruce6190 Yeah, Dead Sea was a lot of fun. Always wished they’d do some kind of sequel (I mean, there’s sort of a novella tie in), but considering the way the book ended, I can see why there isn’t one.

    • @AMMAZZARE
      @AMMAZZARE 2 года назад +1

      Those books are awesome.

  • @z-rex6068
    @z-rex6068 2 года назад +111

    I heard that his wife is actively trying to get his last script ‘Twilight Of The Dead’ made into a movie, whether it will actually happen is another thing entirely though.

  • @Hollywoodvampire
    @Hollywoodvampire 2 года назад +12

    " I saw one of those things sittin' in a car in D. C.
    tryin' to drive down Independence Avenue. It didn't make me wanna be its friend. " - Fisher from Day of the Dead

  • @jasonmckee9743
    @jasonmckee9743 2 года назад +65

    The original running zombies were from Return of the Living Dead back in 1985

    • @michaelbruce6190
      @michaelbruce6190 2 года назад +11

      ROTLD was an absolutely awesome zombie movie….this trash, had it ever gotten made, would have been an absolute disaster in every way.

    • @Lionslaysleeping
      @Lionslaysleeping 2 года назад +11

      RiP Clu Gulager. He was a legend.

    • @michaelbruce6190
      @michaelbruce6190 2 года назад +8

      @@Lionslaysleeping I hit the f***ing brain 🤣👍🏻

    • @markw.loughton6786
      @markw.loughton6786 2 года назад +14

      Nightmare city.

    • @jasonmckee9743
      @jasonmckee9743 2 года назад +2

      @@markw.loughton6786 never seen that one, any good?

  • @rflett5797
    @rflett5797 2 года назад +19

    Romero should have done an anthology type of movie of how people in other countries were dealing with zombie apocalypse. It could have been tied together with the different groups communicating through Ham radio. Maybe even talking to astronauts trapped on the International Space Station.

  • @karenporter4227
    @karenporter4227 2 года назад +27

    I think you're 100% correct. The last few entries Romero made were bad. Road Of The Dead would've been a bust too.

    • @boomstickcritique902
      @boomstickcritique902 Год назад +2

      Romero's dead series peaked with Dawn and after that, each new film got weaker and weaker despite the cult following Day has nothing on Night or Dawn it never did. Doesn't mean his films after were bad but none of them ever got to Dawn level again.

    • @Blannibal311
      @Blannibal311 4 месяца назад

      @@boomstickcritique902 Day is the second best movie. Night is a classic but the remake in many ways is better than the original.

  • @raz0rbladeapolo
    @raz0rbladeapolo 2 года назад +9

    The dialogue in Romero’s films is a lynchpin of his fandom. His social commentary comes through the characters via dialogue. The dialogue sounds human. It’s what makes his characters so memorable. Given he doesn’t do comedy quite as well as dramatic dialogue.

  • @Flip4910
    @Flip4910 2 года назад +10

    Land of the Dead was great saw it in theater absolutely loved it. Day of the Dead my absolute favorite zombie movie ever I wish he could have gotten to make that movie exactly the way he wanted and it was like 4 hours long.

    • @TheSpelledMilk
      @TheSpelledMilk 2 года назад +3

      Still have my ticket stub for Land of Dead & Diary of the Dead.

    • @boomstickcritique902
      @boomstickcritique902 Год назад +1

      Land is a fun popcorn movie and his last good film.

  • @The_Texorcist
    @The_Texorcist 2 года назад +37

    Zombies driving cars and racing each other, glad this was never made. Land of the Dead wasn’t that bad but still a noticeable drop off from the first three films. Though I think it’s still way better than Diary and Survival.
    Honestly I would have liked Savini to take on the series. I actually prefer Savini’s Night of the Living Dead remake to the original.

    • @michaelbruce6190
      @michaelbruce6190 2 года назад +2

      I absolutely agree with you, Savini would have been very good taking over for Romero, and his 1990 NOTLD was much better than the original.

    • @bobjohnson1633
      @bobjohnson1633 2 года назад +4

      I actually really liked diary of the dead. I don't know what was necessarily wrong with it. Survival, on the other hand...

    • @bearnaff9387
      @bearnaff9387 2 года назад

      I dunno, I would totally consider a version done on the old Masters of Horror series, under the name "Dead Man's Curve" perhaps, to be cheesy gold. Also, yes. Savinni's NotLD remake was amazing.

    • @jedi4049
      @jedi4049 2 года назад +2

      ​@@michaelbruce6190 Better? Respectfully disagree. It was a respectable remake. But Savini showed he is a capable director.

  • @oliverdavey5648
    @oliverdavey5648 2 года назад +7

    Savini's character in original DOTD was named Blades, BTW. Sorry to be that guy...

  • @actionjackson9201
    @actionjackson9201 2 года назад +1

    Wow Tom Savini I had the opportunity to meet him while living in Pittsburgh. All those movies are classic

  • @guyvizard549
    @guyvizard549 2 года назад +6

    "There's such a fine line between stupid and clever."
    -This is Spinal Tap

  • @snozberry87
    @snozberry87 2 года назад +6

    Please do a video on George Romero’s script for the Resident Evil movie that never got made.

    • @anubusx
      @anubusx 2 года назад

      Have you seen the Japanese commercial for RE2. Directed by Romero?

    • @anubusx
      @anubusx 2 года назад +1

      Really wish it got made. Better than what we got.

  • @Keth417
    @Keth417 2 года назад +2

    I had no idea about this. Romero (may he rest in peace), was a genius, but not a poet. A poet would know when-to-stop. Excellent video however. Thankyou!
    And btw, yep. I'm a big Diaries fan, but my favourite will always be 'Day'.

  • @jackmackakaheavyguyhaiku545
    @jackmackakaheavyguyhaiku545 2 года назад +5

    Based solely on what you told me of it, I'd say "Sometimes (a) dead (project) is better." It sounds awful as a George A. Romero film. As a run of the mill zombie flick, I'd give it a watch. But under the Romero umbrella? No thank you. He'd already made a couple of subpar films. Land I love almost as much as the trilogy. Diary was okay. Survival was a snore. His estate did the exact right thing. Road would've blown BECAUSE of the Romero name on it.

  • @de_dustybones
    @de_dustybones 2 года назад +2

    The driving zombies from Return of the Living Dead 2 were sick and I'm about it.

  • @DISMOTRON
    @DISMOTRON 2 года назад +2

    And apparently Romero's son is working on another movie, "Twilight of the Dead", I think... who knows if that project will ever materialize

  • @bigronnie9629
    @bigronnie9629 Год назад +2

    I enjoyed Land Of The Dead but paper money still existing made absolutely no sense. When I saw Dennis Hopper with two big briefcases of money I was like"You're kidding me Right"

  • @mkproductions2.042
    @mkproductions2.042 7 месяцев назад

    This sounds interesting I'd be up for it! George Romero reinvented the zombie genre & I love that!

  • @rickyb6086
    @rickyb6086 2 года назад +2

    Do you remember that 80's movie "Maximum Overdrive"? That movie terrified me as a kid! I couldn't imagine zombies driving around wreaking havoc on 4 wheels. But, if anyone could make that idea work, it would be Romero.

  • @youtubemusicowesmemoney8470
    @youtubemusicowesmemoney8470 2 года назад +4

    This sounds like a mix of Birman's idea and the undeveloped script of Day Of The Dead. That movie Romero called Dead Reckoning.
    His original idea of DOTD was that script, which is included with the Anchor Bay special edition DVD set. It features most of the same characters of Day, but they have domesticated some of the zombies and are using them to wage battles against outlaw gangs roaming the countryside. There's even a car chase scene running through a mass of snarling zombies.
    The budget was estimated to be around 20 to 35 million in 1980 dollars, and even with the success of Dawn of The Dead, he couldn't get the funding so he scaled his Dead Reckoning script back to what became Day of the Dead.

  • @markw.loughton6786
    @markw.loughton6786 2 года назад +13

    The dialogue in Romero's movies especially Night, Dawn and Day of the dead is fantastic 👌 so you are way off the mark there. no disrespect meant I enjoyed the vid, I just completely disagree with you on that aspect.
    The Living Dead novel, mixed feelings about that, I love Romero but you could tell Krause wrote most of it.
    in all honesty I'd love a sequel to Dawn with Ken Foree. but only if the script was right.

  • @godoftherobots
    @godoftherobots 4 месяца назад

    You're treating it as merely a derivative work. If Romero had a hand in script and dialogue, it deserves to be made and honored.

  • @jordanwhite352
    @jordanwhite352 Год назад +2

    I actually like the idea of zombies training to drive cars for entertainment of the wealthy. I mean problem with the script is that you could totally tell that they did understand the entire ending of land of the dead because the whole point is that big daddy and his zombie group see the surviving humans but still continue to go on their different direction. It's to show that both the humans and the zombies have at least organized to a point where the zombies got what they wanted. The surviving humans got what they wanted. There's no need for conflict. They're going to go there separate ways. The fact that Big Daddy would be still pursuing them defeats the whole ending of the land of the dead movie. It's my numbingly stupid.

  • @thebonefish
    @thebonefish 2 года назад +4

    Sometimes, dead is better.

  • @OctoberCrow1701
    @OctoberCrow1701 2 года назад +13

    Controversial, but GARomero peaked at Day of the Dead. He gave us such a rich and groundbreaking trilogy that would influence so many others which few would even touch upon on.

    • @GilbertSyndrome
      @GilbertSyndrome 2 года назад +5

      That's hardly a controversial statement. I think a lot of people prefer everything up until and including Day of the Dead.

  • @mattmedrala1947
    @mattmedrala1947 Год назад +1

    Romero did write Empire of the Dead, a graphic novel miniseries that depicts vampires ruling over both the living and the zombies in New York. I always felt like vampires were a logical extension of Romero's zombies regenerating, and it builds on the themes Day and Land had set up.

  • @hinken24
    @hinken24 2 года назад +1

    Dead reckoning in land of the dead was the silliest idea ever.

  • @awesomedallastours
    @awesomedallastours 2 года назад +7

    George Romero proved Quentin Tarantino's thesis about aging great directors making bad last films correct. His last 3 zombie films sucked ass.

    • @brettkihlmire573
      @brettkihlmire573 2 года назад +3

      Survival was definitely the worst of the series.

    • @melvert33
      @melvert33 2 года назад +4

      Not always, Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in America was his last, Sidney Lumet's last film was Before the Devil Knows Your Dead, Family Plot by Hitchcock and John Huston's The Dead, Leone's being the standout film there but Quentin can talk rubbish sometimes.

    • @kkarx
      @kkarx 2 года назад

      @@melvert33 Tarantino is dick but he was right about this. Leone was only 60 when he died and he did not make many movies in his career. I never liked Once Upon a Time in America. Visually stunning but that is about it. Screenplay and dialogues sucked.

  • @RobertHarbitzII
    @RobertHarbitzII 2 года назад

    I had heard of the possibility of this movie but I knew nothing about it. Thank you for this contact, I am now so very glad this movie was never made.

  • @stevek4070
    @stevek4070 2 года назад +1

    Zombie Mad Max sounds terrible. It gave me an idea that maybe they could make a movie called Path of the Death and go into the zombies slow change in a world that's finally rid of humanity. Would they all rot away like 28 days later or would they manage to persist on their own :) Thanks for talking about the book. I didn't even know about it :D

  • @Emulous79
    @Emulous79 2 года назад +2

    I like to think that Big Daddy is really Bobby Rhodes' character from Demons.

    • @anubusx
      @anubusx 2 года назад +1

      Love that film.

  • @SamLowryDZ-015
    @SamLowryDZ-015 2 года назад +7

    Land and Diary contained some good ideas - but the scripts lacked focus and films ended up concentrated on spectacle. Was that the studio leaning or George not having good people around him willing to say 'no' and feed into the creative process.

  • @user-zd9yn5mz1f
    @user-zd9yn5mz1f 2 месяца назад

    Actually, Romero's dialogue, while always lean, is often quite sharp and pointed. You can tell Romero dialogue when you hear it, and it is always worth investing viewer time.

  • @nomadichippie1930
    @nomadichippie1930 2 месяца назад +1

    I never liked smart zombies except for day of the dead, something about the that smart horde just felt right. But I love a more aggressive and relentless horde then smart. they will find a way in, it’s just a matter of time

  • @jjrbarnett
    @jjrbarnett 4 месяца назад

    I love Romero, but i wish he had made some other types of movies. He tried to make a Marvel Comics script called Copperhead. He wanted to make a Tarzan movie. His approach to action is underrated. He wanted to make The Stand. A western, a sci-fi opera, and The Mummy.

  • @lexxstrum
    @lexxstrum 2 года назад +2

    The "Blonde Lady" was called "Pretty boy" at least once in the movie, a couple times in the script or deleted scenes.
    Yeah, not sure what they were going with that.
    Also, it seems like they lost the thread about the ending of Land: Big Daddy was leading his horde to do their own thing, and they had no reason to follow Dead Reckoning anymore, as they were no longer a threat to his "people".
    We've all seen some shockingly bad zombie films, and Road does have an interesting hook, but you're going to have to redefine zombies, even past the slow evolving zombies.
    Here's an idea: rather than zombies driving, it's the recently infected. Make up some mumbo-jumbo about as you turn, you become more aggressive and your decision making becomes skewed, or maybe high amounts of Adrenalin keep the virus at bay, so the recently infected become action-junkies to stay human a bit longer, and the race is supposed to win supplies to keep their families safe. The race course is full of racers that turned, and traps.
    And it's all a metaphor for how the Rich use the middle class to improve their condition, so George's ghost will be happy.

    • @boomstickcritique902
      @boomstickcritique902 Год назад

      The correct sequel to Land would have to be something like Planet of the Zombies with them making there own society and there own social classes and even trading and selling with the humans and making a social commentary out of it.

  • @algernonsblackwoods5859
    @algernonsblackwoods5859 2 года назад +8

    Am I the only person who doesn't see 28 Days Later as a zombie movie? They are not undead, they don't eat brains, and it's clearly caused by a man made disease. It's a virus outbreak movie. I agree zombies should not run though.

    • @charlesdavis7285
      @charlesdavis7285 2 года назад +4

      You're not the only one. It's not a zombie film and I've read other comments stating the same thing.

    • @langdonledwig3734
      @langdonledwig3734 2 года назад +3

      I personally disagree about running zombies as it makes them feel more like a threat

    • @algernonsblackwoods5859
      @algernonsblackwoods5859 2 года назад +3

      @@langdonledwig3734 For me it's not a question of what makes them more of a threat, it's what makes sense. A body that's been through rigor mortis and decomposing isn't running anywhere. It's why they move in Night of the Living Dead the way they do. It makes no sense that once you die you become Usain Bolt.

    • @langdonledwig3734
      @langdonledwig3734 2 года назад +3

      @@algernonsblackwoods5859 fair point

    • @anubusx
      @anubusx 2 года назад +1

      I don't count it as a zombie film.

  • @professorpsoop
    @professorpsoop 2 года назад +1

    I'm surprised at the almost universal view that Romero's last few movies were not good. I think they were all excellent and unique in their own way.

  • @darthjatarra
    @darthjatarra 2 года назад +4

    Nope you'll absolutely right , if the director is retreading water it's not worth it

  • @ak-ub1ym
    @ak-ub1ym 2 года назад +4

    Surprised they didn't call it dead end 😅
    Would have made for great title.

  • @thesuperfatty
    @thesuperfatty 2 года назад +3

    ROW MARE OH

  • @forestpepper3621
    @forestpepper3621 7 месяцев назад

    Better to "try but fail", rather than to "not even try". "Zombie drag racing" does indeed sound crazy, and yet also kind of "bad ass" [and zombies driving cars has already occurred in at least one or two zombie films]. I personally enjoy a movie that is a "glorious failure", a movie that ultimately fails in overall execution, but where there is a palpable high level of energy and enthusiasm by everyone involved. At the end of the day, if a movie turns out bad, well that's just another title to forget; on the other hand, you may end up with a "guilty pleasure", a movie that is arguably crap and yet which we still love to watch because it's just so much fun. Zombie drag racers, start your engines. Fresh meat ahead!
    RIP George Romero.

  • @daoyang5988
    @daoyang5988 2 года назад +4

    R.i.p George Romero

  • @MrQdiddy85
    @MrQdiddy85 2 года назад +1

    He basically wanted to Death Race just more literal? Race of the Dead: Fate of the Furious Road

  • @carmelosgro6413
    @carmelosgro6413 2 года назад +1

    Driving is a complex task, I think it's a step too far to believe zombies can drive, however I would have watched it

  • @anonymousphantom9644
    @anonymousphantom9644 2 года назад +1

    The Road of the Dead that we end up getting is a flash game by Sickdeathfiend.

  • @Stereostupid
    @Stereostupid 10 месяцев назад

    Survival was out of steam and budget..i love George A Romero!!and land was awesome

  • @filthymcnasty5625
    @filthymcnasty5625 2 года назад +5

    When it come's to the running zombie how come return of the living dead doesn't get talked about.

    • @mammothchimp1774
      @mammothchimp1774 2 года назад

      Return was more of a parody film rather than true horror

    • @filthymcnasty5625
      @filthymcnasty5625 2 года назад +1

      @@mammothchimp1774 It still counts no matter what made up list on the internet.

    • @GilbertSyndrome
      @GilbertSyndrome 2 года назад

      @@mammothchimp1774 Technically it was a straight sequel to Night of the Living Dead with regards to the actual story it was based on, but they veered away from it being a straight sequel for obvious reasons.

  • @sirchromiumdowns2015
    @sirchromiumdowns2015 2 года назад +1

    It seems like the last few movies Romero made were done on shoestring budgets. He was an amazing director, and with the right backing, he could have made far better films.

    • @youtubemusicowesmemoney8470
      @youtubemusicowesmemoney8470 2 года назад

      Well, you do recall when Romero was doing his movies with Universal, starting with Creepshow?
      He did several medium budget films, Monkey Shines, The Dark Half, and a couple of others, but no studio would allow him to film with him getting final cut and a wide release in theaters. And certainly not those gut munching zombies! Land Of The Dead was funded by the Canadian flim consortium, and was shot there. Hollywood simply wasn't into Romero until he became cool because famous directors praised him and his work. Ed Harris was his biggest cheerleader, bless his heart!

  • @starangel7777
    @starangel7777 2 года назад +2

    Road of the dead would have been great... it would have been as visually interesting as day and story concepted as land... i hope road gets made... i also hope these movies get made aswel...
    1. Twilight of the dead
    2. Origins of the dead
    3. Death island (tom savini)

  • @scottarmstrong666
    @scottarmstrong666 2 года назад +3

    The re make of Dawn of the Dead is the best zombie movie ever made and maybe one of the best horrors of all time, in my view.😁

    • @kkarx
      @kkarx 2 года назад +1

      It a well made but rather a routine zombie movie. I watched it few times and I always get the same impression. You have fun during the movie but soon after forget anything about it. For me 28 weeks later left the biggest impact and then Fulcis Zombi.

    • @scottarmstrong666
      @scottarmstrong666 2 года назад

      @@kkarx the weird thing is, I saw it at the movies and thought it was pretty average, didn’t like that the zombies were fast, but then I watched it on DVD and for some reason I loved it. Have you seen the extra footage on DVD, Andy’s horrific days and the News room reporting on the outbreak. Yeah, 28 days and weeks was good, they were originally going to make 28 months later too, but it never happened. How was the bit in 28 weeks when the guy kills his wife after she infects him tied down on the bed, absolutely brutal.

    • @kkarx
      @kkarx 2 года назад +1

      ​@@scottarmstrong666 I think I only saw the cinama cut. I think of Dawn of the Dead more as of a zombie action movie than as of zombie horror. I will have to watch it one more time haha. It is really disappointing they canceled 28 months later. I did not like the 28 days later as it felt very much like minimalistic low budget B movie. It is really very hard to make a good zombie movie without being either too action like or too boring. What I liked about 28 weeks later was they could work with emotions and it is a good mix of horror and action. For isntance the scene you describe would not be as scary if it was not husband and wife. It kinda degrades towards the end but still it is very good.

    • @scottarmstrong666
      @scottarmstrong666 2 года назад

      @@kkarx watch the DVD dawn, not the blue ray though, it doesn’t have the extra footage, it goes for about 30 mins, it’s like another movie, it’s real good too. You’re right, it was an action Zombie movie.👍

    • @kkarx
      @kkarx 2 года назад +1

      @@scottarmstrong666 Thx 🤘

  • @zCREz
    @zCREz 2 года назад

    A spin off focusing on Bub would srsly be one of the coolest sequels in zombie history.

  • @Tarotlynx
    @Tarotlynx 2 года назад +1

    Road sounds like it would have been an unmitigated disaster.

  • @ChaosTicket
    @ChaosTicket 2 года назад

    I actually agree that zombies driving would make sense.
    Many horror films deal with the "outbreak" stage of events. They want to see people dying gory deaths, rising as zombies, and zombies eating people in a cycle. The Human characters are just fodder to be killed. George Romero making the first one actually made characters much more significant with lots of commentary, but there are still characters just to be zombie-chow. Most of the characters in the Walking Dead TV series are original characters that are just there to increase the pool of zombie victims.
    George Romero's films from Night-Dawn-Day-Land were all about the progression of zombies becoming more human as humans became more beastlike.
    There was a movie called Redcon-1 where it showed zombies quickly regaining memories to the point where zombie soldiers are driving military vehicles, capturing people, and not eating them.
    Another film that flipped the script was Daybreakers. In that film a Vampire Apocalypse happened so the world, or at least the large city where the film takes place Vampires have replaced humans. Vampires have homes, go to work, drink coffee with blood, and have polarized sun-proof glass on buildings, vehicles, and eye equipment.
    The one issue of "Evolving Zombies" is that people dont think Zombies should be able to. Its "Common Knowledge" that zombies are rotting corpses, despite most films really using virus infected mutants rather than undead., Undead Zombies would be like the end of 28 Days Later when all the zombies have rotted to the point where the cant move.

  • @Casey3-P-O
    @Casey3-P-O 2 года назад

    I've been imagining a zombie pumping gas for too long now. Thanks lol

  • @marrow01
    @marrow01 2 года назад +3

    Romiro who now??

  • @Merylstreep1949
    @Merylstreep1949 2 года назад +10

    Hard pass on this being a movie 🎬 🎞 🎥

  • @danielsweet858
    @danielsweet858 2 года назад +1

    They might as well let the undead race cars cause Romero had one riding a horse 😳
    I enjoyed Land of the Dead cause George had a decent budget to work with 🎃

  • @ddraig1957
    @ddraig1957 2 года назад +6

    Road of the Dead sounds dire. There are a lot of great zombie stories out there that deserve to be made in to movies. One of my favourites is Joe R Lansdale's "On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with Dead Folks".It's got a great sardonic,surreal vibe that's a great homage to Romero.

    • @players7686
      @players7686 2 года назад +1

      Lansdale what a great horror writer! My favourite horror short story is The Night They Missed the Horror Show by Lansdale. So nasty!

    • @anthonymede9216
      @anthonymede9216 2 года назад

      I read the first line and said FACTS.

    • @players7686
      @players7686 2 года назад

      Wow you have problems.🤪

  • @Stormbringer2012
    @Stormbringer2012 2 года назад +2

    All the movies that George Romero made after the Dawn of the Dead, were anti-humanist. that is to say, he basically made the zombies the good guys and the human into the bad guys. P.S One of the things that was missed in the Night of the Living dead was that the bald white guy was projected as the idiot, while the black guy was supposenly the smart one. In the end the bald guy was right to fortify the cellar and hold out till help arrived.

    • @GilbertSyndrome
      @GilbertSyndrome 2 года назад

      Not necessarily, most of the problems didn't arise til after the failed gas pump attempt when they'd unbarricaded the door.

  • @NIGHTMAREOFSOLOMON1
    @NIGHTMAREOFSOLOMON1 2 года назад +1

    In the original Day of the Dead one of scientists did mention he remembers seeing a zombie try to run him over with the car

  • @matthewpollock9685
    @matthewpollock9685 2 года назад

    "The Fast and the Festering"
    "Oozin' USA"
    "There's no surviving when the dead are driving"
    "Highway to Hell"

  • @stevebishop9468
    @stevebishop9468 2 года назад

    "I saw one of those things trying to drive down independence avenue...it didn't make me want to be it's friend." Dr. fisher, Day of the Dead.

  • @SymmbolZS
    @SymmbolZS Год назад +1

    Bruh,, I thought this was about the game
    "Road of the Dead" and
    "Road of the Dead 2"

  • @Onoma314
    @Onoma314 2 года назад

    The title seems to have been used for the Z movie - Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead ( Worth watching )

  • @MrJ1Horrordirector
    @MrJ1Horrordirector 2 года назад

    On this category you are the Best Narrator my G!
    Awesome work!!!!! Keeep It Up!!
    My Bro that Tom savini following big daddy!! Ufff one can only dream!!!! AND no youre no being harsh. You just want someone to do the right thing and that alright! The living dead its what we need!

  • @djtripnosys
    @djtripnosys 2 года назад

    Awesome video man. VEry obscure. Quality content. Buuuut....
    "Row-mee-row"? Dude, it's "Row-mare-row"

  • @shocbomb23
    @shocbomb23 2 года назад +1

    As someone who grew up as a kid in the 80's absolutely loving Romero's original trilogy how I wish he stopped there, everything he did after Land,Diary,etc is just straight garbage

  • @oliverkloshophdndrecords50
    @oliverkloshophdndrecords50 2 года назад +4

    Fully agree. I wasn’t a huge fan of Land. Diary was okay. Survival wasn't good either tho.
    The best should be left alone. Night, dawn, and day. With a special note to Tom Savinis 1990 night remake too. That was good af.
    ... I mean. Freaking Tony Todd.

  • @JasonSum1979
    @JasonSum1979 2 года назад +1

    i understand Land of the Dead is very divisive but, in many ways it’s the perfect way to bookend the Original Trilogy (This sounds really bad to continue where Land left off doesn’t seem to fit seeing how that film ends) i’m glad the film never happened Romero’s Legacy doesn’t get nearly enough credit on the pop culture scale without Fulci, Romero, & O’Bannon there would be no Walking Dead, Left 4 Dead, Resident Evil etc. these 3 men changed what Zombies could and would become

    • @raymondknight5298
      @raymondknight5298 2 года назад

      Fulci? what the itallian ripoffs, they were terrible. He didnt make any impact, those movies sucked.

    • @blackirish6868
      @blackirish6868 2 года назад +3

      @@raymondknight5298 Zombie, The Beyond and Gates of Hell are classics.

  • @mgkpraesi
    @mgkpraesi 4 месяца назад

    His early Movies are epic..the later, not so much.

  • @imaadahere
    @imaadahere 2 года назад

    Amazing how two letters make such a huge difference Zombie Drag Race vs Zombie drag racers

  • @gaylordfocker7990
    @gaylordfocker7990 2 года назад +3

    Land and Diary were absolute garbage so we probably didn't miss much. I wish he would've partnered with Capcom and did the Resident Evil series instead.

    • @RoyCyberPunk
      @RoyCyberPunk 2 года назад

      Diary? Don't you mean day of the dead?
      In any case it's obvious from The Day Of The Dead onwards that Romero always intended for the zombies in his universe to become smarter and self aware again over time so what I mean is that its no accident but the problem is the execution falls short. Why all of a sudden zombies get self awareness and why? What changed?

    • @gaylordfocker7990
      @gaylordfocker7990 2 года назад +3

      @@RoyCyberPunk No, Diary of the Dead. The garbage attempt at found-footage. If you don't even know Romero's film catalog, don't speak.
      Day of the Dead was awesome. There's only a trilogy in my eyes. Night, Dawn, and Day.

    • @RoyCyberPunk
      @RoyCyberPunk 2 года назад

      @@gaylordfocker7990
      Geesh I was just asking and my point about his overarching plot of zombies becoming self aware since Day Of The Dead is valid @$$w!p€, bye 👋...

  • @guybrushgetchell2945
    @guybrushgetchell2945 7 месяцев назад

    Had it been made while Romero was still alive, I’d have given it a watch. Having seen Survival recently it’s obvious that perhaps the flame behind previous films had since burned out. I didn’t hate it, but it wasn’t anything special. I feel the same would’ve been with this movie.

  • @rondelby2482
    @rondelby2482 2 года назад

    I would have been disappointed in it if it had been made. The countryside is best place for zombies such as in the 1st one he did. Too much action, tanks and fancy guns do not attract me. In Dawn of the dead, the airport scenes were great because it was in the countryside. I did like the shopping mall scenes very much. Another thing is some of the dialog for example "when there is no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth" and the ominous music with it is outstanding. Keep the zombies out in the country mostly and more similar dialect. Drop a lot of the action scenes. Bring back the music from the original. In the remake when Johnny says "There coming to get you Barbara" the ominous music started. More of stuff like that. Make the zombies harder to kill. Thats my feed on everything..

  • @johnwalsh4857
    @johnwalsh4857 2 года назад +1

    well having watched zombie movies since 1981, I actually loved Diary of the Dead but dont care for Land of the dead and Survival of the dead. My ranking of the romero dead movies from best to worse are: Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead , NIght of the Living dead, Diary of the Dead, Land of hte Dead, Survival of the Dead.

  • @scottedwards2618
    @scottedwards2618 2 года назад

    Thank You Mr. Romero.

  • @HorrorMetalMaestroRedrusty66
    @HorrorMetalMaestroRedrusty66 2 года назад +5

    people just gotta hate lol, they aren't really happy if they aren't hating something. (for example, it's ROW MARE O, not ROME EAR O ya dipstick...lol ) are they amazing? no, are they alright silly fun zombie flicks, yeah.

  • @urbanentertainmentgodz
    @urbanentertainmentgodz 2 года назад +1

    I want to see his resident evil script get made

  • @GassySmell
    @GassySmell 2 года назад

    Blades is the zombie name played by Tom Savini. Machete is different movie that stars Danny Trejo.

  • @redmist78
    @redmist78 2 года назад +3

    Romiro? I know Romero.

  • @John-qu8zv
    @John-qu8zv 2 года назад

    If George A Romero didn't make the movies the way he did I don't think I would have watched any of them. They were perfect t he way he did them. I've seen other zombie movies and a few of them were just like the way he did them.

  • @vesuvianvillain
    @vesuvianvillain 2 года назад

    Wait it’s been George Aye Rimeero this whole time? We had no idea..

  • @agnethaladuff8559
    @agnethaladuff8559 2 года назад +1

    Road of the Dead would have been a great movie and the zombies being dead for so long that their instinct start to come back. There could be Canadian Zombies skating on ice, Chinese Zombies using chopsticks to eat and British Zombies re-colonizing foreign countries.

  • @michaelarrington8529
    @michaelarrington8529 2 года назад

    I needed more 2 fitting titles to those sagas 1) Morning of the dead and finally 2) Evening of the dead.

  • @KINGCORLEONE11
    @KINGCORLEONE11 Год назад

    What do you call a zombie drag Racer? A Paul Walker... 😂😂

  • @willmgames1775
    @willmgames1775 2 года назад

    I really Iiked Land of the Dead. I saw it in the theater.

  • @chris6789100
    @chris6789100 Год назад

    Lets be honest he got lucky with night and Dawn after that it went straight into the gutter. One more thing Day is liked for the special effects not the plot or dialog.

  • @larrytolson4135
    @larrytolson4135 2 года назад

    Simon Baker would make a good Professor in a Gilligan’s Island reboot.

  • @GilbertSyndrome
    @GilbertSyndrome 2 года назад

    I've no idea why nobody has tried to adapt the novel of Return of the Living Dead into a movie based solely on Russo's story... A lot of the material is actually pretty close to Walking Dead.

  • @snake_eagle
    @snake_eagle 2 года назад

    Tom savini zombie should be in every zombie and vampire movie... 👍🏾

  • @BlackAdder1970
    @BlackAdder1970 4 месяца назад

    Bub should have been the only exception to a "smart zombie"

  • @zionix15432
    @zionix15432 2 года назад

    Land had it's moments, diary was ok and survival was barely watchable. Unfortunately, Romero's movies weren't getting better with age.

  • @kenhood9388
    @kenhood9388 2 года назад

    You believe it should have stopped at day of the dead..you are my brother.

  • @jamesnygiants55
    @jamesnygiants55 2 года назад

    They already used this concept in both wyrmwood movies

  • @Spooky_515
    @Spooky_515 2 года назад

    I liked diary of the dead and the one after. Should’ve done another one showing what a zombie outbreak would like like in modern day America

  • @NIGHTMAREOFSOLOMON1
    @NIGHTMAREOFSOLOMON1 2 года назад +1

    Well in The Return of the Living Dead the zombies there were like the first ones to run