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George romero between night and dawn7/4/2023 Picture: Arrow undertook its own restorations of the three films for this set. Hacked about by its distributors and released in various different cuts, the film was even marketed as a softcore exploitation flick called Hungry Wives.ġ973's The Crazies is another of Romero's brutal (and blackly comic) allegories concerning societal breakdown – this time caused by the accidental release of a military bio-weapon – and is both an entertaining film in its own right and a trial run for several of the ideas and themes he would end up refining in Dawn of the Dead. More interesting still is 1973's Season of the Witch, a mini-masterpiece of suburban witchcraft with a strong feminist subtext. Notable as one of only two films that he directed and didn't write, 1971 counterculture comedy There's Always Vanilla doesn't quite hold together, but is still far from being the 'total mess' Romero later deemed it to be. This revealing set houses three of the four films Romero shot between his 1968 debut Night of the Living Dead and its 1978 follow-up Dawn of the Dead (1978's Martin sadly remains MIA on Blu-ray). Romero will always be remembered as the 'father of the zombie film', his 40-year career as a filmmaker understandably dealt with more than just the undead. While the huge influence his Night of the Living Dead/ Dawn of the Dead/ Day of the Dead trilogy had on horror cinema ensures that the late George A.
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