Russo) inspired the zombie genre that has become newly popular this millennium (it is a contemporary symptom of our subconscious social anxiety), his film, for all that, was not ahead of its time. Although Romero’s premise (co-written with John A.
It might help to examine the reasons why.ĭirector George Romero consciously evoked racism’s rapacity and America’s horrific history of racially motivated lynching. Yes, the film is that blunt, that crude but scholars from Robin Wood to Richard Dyer have noted its sophistication, which now appears superior to Hollywood’s current politically correct racial alarums - the meretricious product of today’s rampant racial self-deceptions.