George Romero died

On July 16, the American-Canadian film director George Romero died in Toronto at the age of 77.

According to Variety , the cause of death was lung cancer.

George Romero was born in 1940 in New York, graduated from the University of Carnegie-Mellon in Pittsburgh (1960), in 1968 he shot his first full-length film for $ 114, “Night of the Living Dead), which gathered $ 30 million and laid the foundation for a whole direction in the movie- Zombie-Horror. In 1999, the “Night of Living Dead” was included in the library of Congress in the National Register of Films.

Subsequent films of George Romero were not very successful. The situation changed in 1978, when he returned to the topic of the zombie - the film "Dawn of the Dead", with a budget of $ 1.5 million, raised $ 55 million.

Also among the works of the director “Knight-Rights” ( Knightriders , 1981), “Kaleidoscope of horrors” ( Creepshow , 1982), “Day of the Dead”, “Two evil views” ( Due Occhi Diabolici , together with Dario Arjento), Earth, Earth, Earth Dead "( Land of the Dead , 2005) and" Diaries of the Dead "( Diary of the Dead , 2007).

George Romero’s last film, Survival of the Dead, was released in 2009.