George A. Romero

Adam also says the early Romero zombie films are a rare case of sequels you can watch without having seen the ones before, while they gradually build a timeline. On Night of the Living Dead, Adam says the film was quite pissed off with the world, and he passes on stories of Romero's goodwill with locals, such as the police sending cars and dogs for shots.

In their own words

• Adam And it's just glazed over like every other fucking thing. But, um, but yeah. And so it's weird because George Romero kind of recreates zombies. And what they are now and he kind of recreates horror because it becomes much more realistic. And it's.

  Ep 99 Night of the Living Dead

• Adam Obviously you've got the remake version, which because And again, this was the reason that I wanted to show you this, Chris, is because it was the really rare. There's a really the George A. Romero zombie films certainly initially, it's a really rare thing where you get sequels that are. You don't have to have seen the ones before. But what it does do is it gradually gives you the timeline of the.

  EP 110 Dawn of the Dead

• Adam Yeah. You know. I mean, I know George Romero said later on or like in later life, he was like, maybe we should have altered the script in that sense. But I think they almost like, they almost like the opposite where they were like, Our film's quite pissed off with the world.

  Ep 99 Night of the Living Dead

• Adam Wow. And and again, a lot of it was like him saying about. You know like George Romero saying about how much goodwill that they had. Like the police like the local police like sent a couple of cars down and their dogs. So they could get like those shots of like when they're going across the fields with the dogs and everything.

  Ep 99 Night of the Living Dead

• Adam So. He just let them use it. And apparently when he said to George Romero that they were gonna demolish it. Uh George Romero just went, well, you've come to the right people then. And, um, so they could just do what they wanted with it. And actually, what they had to do is they had to go in and again a bit like Halloween. They had to go in and clean it up to make it look like someone lived there.

  Ep 99 Night of the Living Dead