Monkey Shines

#12 in my ranking of George A. Romero's filmography. Trying once again to leave the zombie picture behind, George Romero spent years trying to get different projects off the ground, most notably an adaptation of Stephen King's Pet Semetary that never came to fruition. He did eventually get his next film moving with this adaptation…

Day of the Dead

#14 in my ranking of George A. Romero's filmography. I do not understand the reappraisal Day of the Dead has gotten in the years since its release. It is...not a good movie. Like, at all. It's bad. Characters are threadbare in all the wrong ways while they posture heavily. There's no real story. The world-building…

Creepshow

#8 in my ranking of George A. Romero's filmography. George Romero and Stephen King were good friends and found a way to work together beyond King making an obnoxious cameo in Knightriders. They also have a shared love for the EC series Tales from the Crypt. So, without actually paying for the rights, the two…

Knightriders

#2 in my ranking of George A. Romero's filmography. There's something key in understanding an artist when they take up a project after a big success. Dawn of the Dead was the film that finally got George Romero out of debt and the ability to command decent budgets, and what did he do with that…

Red Sonja

#5 in my ranking of films adapted from Robert E. Howard's works. So, this is sort of Robert E. Howard material. He did create a character named Red Sonya, but she was never set in the Hyborian Age in Howard's writing. She was modified by Barry Windsor-Smith and Roy Thomas from the sixteenth century gun-totting…