  George A. Romero mini-bio:George Andrew Romero is an American director, writer, editor and actor. He is best known for his Dead Series, a tetralogy of horror movies (with a fifth installment in production as of October 2006) featuring a zombie apocalypse theme and a commentary on modern society. Romero's films during the nine years after 1968's Night of the Living Dead were less popular: There's Always Vanilla (1971), Jack's Wife / Season of the The Witch (1972) and The Crazies(1973). In 1978, Romero returned to the zombie genre with Dawn of the Dead (1978). Romero made a third entry in his "Dead Series" with Day of the Dead (1985), which was less popular at the box office.    During this period, Romero also made Knightriders (1981), another festival favorite about a group of modern-day jousters who reenact tournaments on motorcycles, and the successful Creepshow (1982), written by Stephen King, an anthology of tongue-in-cheek tales modeled after 1950s horror comics. Throughout the latter half of the 1980s and 90s, Romero made various films, including Monkey Shines (1988) about a killer monkey, Two Evil Eyes (1990), an Edgar Allan Poe adaptation in collaboration with Dario Argento, the Stephen King adaptation The Dark Half (1992) and Bruiser (2000), about a man whose face becomes a blank mask. Romero had a cameo appearance in Jonathan Demme's Academy Award-winning The Silence of the Lambs in 1991 as one of Hannibal Lecter's jailers.       Universal Studios produced and released a remake of Dawn of the Dead in  2004, with which Romero was not involved. Later that year, Romero kicked off the Dc Comics title Toe Tags with a six-issue miniseries titled The Death of Death. Based on an unused script that Romero had previously written as a sequel to his "Dead Trilogy". Typical of a Romero zombie tale, his films include an ample supply of both gore and social commentary. Romero, who as of now lives in Toronto, Ontario and has applied for perminant residency there, filmed a fourth "Dead" movie in that city titled Land of the Dead. The movie's working title was "Dead Reckoning". Its $16 million production budget was the highest of the four movies in the series.  In June 2006, Romero began his next project, called Zombisodes. Broadcast on the web, they are a combination of a series of "Making of" shorts and story expansion detailing the work behind the film Diary of the Dead. Shooting began in Toronto in July 2006. 
Some critics have seen social commentary in much of Romero's work. They view Night of the Living Dead as a film made in reaction to the turbulent 1960s, Dawn of the Dead as a satire on consumerism, Day of the Dead as a study of the conflict between science and the military, and Land of the Dead as an examination on corporate greed and terrorism .
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