Dawn Of The Dead: The Argento Cut [Zombie]

Fascinating insight into how editing and score can affect a movie. It would appear that rather than fiddle with Romero’s cut, Dario Argento has assembled this from original elements which means despite the fact this is exactly the same Dawn Of The Dead, it feels like a completely different film with alternate takes, dialogue and score used throughout. Most interesting is that it no longer feels like a Romero movie, despite the fact that it is.

The Dark Half

Romero’s last movie, before studios would only give him money if his titles ended in ‘of the Dead,’ is a pretty decent doppelgänger slasher movie with some impressive sparrow wrangling in the back half.

Monkey Shines

By a long, long, long way this is easily the best movie about a quadriplegic and his homicidal simian that has ever been, or ever will be, put to the screen.

There's Always Vanilla

A young drifter who's a bit of a dick returns to his home town and embarks on a doomed relationship with an older model that is probably meant to reveal all sorts of messages about society in seventies Pittsburgh, but the only thing I really got from it is that relationships don't work out when you're a bit of a dick.

Season Of The Witch [Hungry Wives/ Jack’s Wife]

Extremely low-key portrayal of an ageing housewife’s journey into witchcraft.

The Crazies

Romero can’t quite decide whether he wants to make a movie about blundering authorities failing to contain a viral outbreak or about blundering civilians failing to escape a viral outbreak, though ultimately the overbearing nihilist tone renders such a decision moot.

Two Evil Eyes [ Due occhi diabolici]

 
A pair of adaptations; Romero turns Poe into a Tales From The Crypt episode whilst Argento turns Poe into a thunderous avalanche of hyper-stylised illogic.
 

Day Of The Dead

A total masterpiece.
What every zombie movie wishes it could be when it grows up.

Bruiser

A massive, non-stop 'What the fuck?' and rarely in a good way.

Dawn Of The Dead

Compulsively watchable zombie classic.
Shows just how far Romero has fallen; a very, very long way.

Survival Of The Dead

I was going to write some sarky guff about this cack-handed mess, but it is neither big nor clever to laugh at an old man shitting voluminously on his own legacy.
Somebody needs to tell Romero that it's time to stop now.

Night Of The Living Dead

Possibly the most important horror film ever made.
As you watch, you can see the relentless nihilism that now instructs the modern horror film literally tear its way through the german expressionist influences that made up the majority of the genre at the time. Incredible.