Nathan Tyree: Zombies are Coming

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Night of the Living Dead spawned two film series:

The Dead and The Living Dead

The Dead includes:

Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Land of the Dead and Diary of the Dead.

These films split apart to seed several new series. First:
In Europe Dawn of the Dead was released as Zombi.
Zombi was followed by Zombi 2 and Zombi 3. Then Lucio Fulci (who directed the Zombi films) went on to make City of the Dead (not technically a sequel, but heavily inspired by Romero’s work).

Dawn of the Dead was recently remade.
There will soon be a sequel to the remake of DotD.

Day of the Dead was followed by Day of the Dead Contagion (an unauthorized sequel, which was then followed by Children of the Living Dead).

Day of the Dead is also being remade.

Night of the Living Dead has been remade twice: Once as a shot for shot remake and once in 3-D.

Then we have the Living Dead.
The Genealogy is simpler here:

Return of the Living Dead followed by
RotLD2 through RotLD5.

None of this even begins to consider the homage, rip off, inspired by, etc films that were to follow George A. Romero’s classic horror film.

Should we talk about Zombie Holocaust? How about 28 Days Later? Junk. Maybe? Shaun of the Dead?

Why am I thinking about zombies? It’s that time of year.








Dawn of the Dead and Return of the Living Dead

Zombi 2 Day of the Dead Return of the Living Dead 2

Zombi 3 Day of the Dead Contagion Land of the Dead RotLD 3

Dawn of the Dead (remake)
RotLD4&RotLD5
Dawn of the Dead 2

Diary of the Dead

Night of the Living Dead 3-D

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