George A. Romero
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Toe Tags Featuring George A. Romero volume 1
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Cult movie writer/director George Romero -- best known for his work on the horror classics Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, and Day of the Dead -- writes an original horror tale in "Toe Tags"! Overnight, the world has been turned upside down, and zombies rule the day! It's up to a college professor named Hoffman, his assistant Damien Cross and his girlfriend to find out how and why the undead have taken over. But even if they do get to...
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"It begins with one body. In California, medical examiners Luis and Charlene discover a dead man who won't stay dead. It spreads quickly. In a midwestern trailer park, Greer, a Black teenager, and Fadi, a Muslim immigrant, battle newly risen friends and family. On a U.S. aircraft carrier, living sailors hide from dead ones while a fanatic preaches the gospel of a new religion of death. At a cable news station in Atlanta, the last surviving anchor...
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"This is one of the original stories of the zombie apocalypse. In it, a handful of survivors find refuge at a local mall, barricading themselves in. After a while, they realize that a mall is the perfect place to sit out the end of the world. They even start to enjoy themselves, but before long, the zombies begin to find their way in."--Jacket.
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In the third film in the saga of the undead from writer/director George A. Romero (Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Land of the Dead, Diary of the Dead, Survival of the Dead), a small group of scientists and soldiers have taken refuge in an underground missile silo where they struggle to control the flesh-eating horror that walks the earth above. But will the final battle for the future of the human race be fought among the living or have...
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A disparate group of individuals takes refuge in an abandoned house when corpses begin to leave the graveyard in search of fresh human bodies to devour. The pragmatic Ben (Duane Jones) does his best to control the situation, but when the reanimated bodies surround the house, the other survivors begin to panic. As any semblance of order within the group begins to dissipate, the zombies start to find ways inside -- and one by one, the living humans...
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Shows how Romero gathered an unlikely team of Pittsburghers - policemen, iron workers, teachers, admen, housewives, and a roller-rink owner - to shoot a revolutionary guerrilla-style film that went on to become a cinematic landmark, offering a profound insight into how our society worked in a singular time in American history.
11) Creepshow
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"Five shocking yarns, each a virtuoso exercise in the ghouls-and-gags style of classic '50s horror comics."--Container.
12) Haeckel's tale
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On a journey to visit his gravely ill father, a medical student finds shelter in the home of an older man and his seductive young wife who cannot be fulfilled by mortal hungers. Somewhere in the darkness of a nearby necropolis, a defiant necromancer will now summon them all to an orgy of the undead and unleash the ultimate depravity for those who do not heed the warning of 'Haeckel's tale'.
13) Land of the dead
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Zombies have become the dominant population, and they've begun to show signs of undead intelligence and gathering power. The wealthiest human survivors live comfortably in a luxury high-rise building that is barricaded within a safe zone. The wealthy ignore the horrors of the outside world while armed scavengers stage raids in the zombie-zone to gather much-needed food and supplies. Riley and Cholo are mercenaries-for-hire; Kaufman is their nefarious...
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In 1968 a young college drop-out named George A. Romero directed Night of the living dead, a low budget horror film that shocked the world, became an icon of the counterculture, and spawned a zombie industry worth billions of dollars that continues to this day. Birth of the living dead shows how Romero gathered an unlikely team of Pittsburghers - policemen, iron workers, teachers, ad-men, housewives and a roller-rink owner - to shoot a revolutionary...
16) Dawn of the dead
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When a mysterious virus turns people into mindless, flesh-eating zombies, a handful of survivors wage a desperate, last-stand battle to stay alive... and human!
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The most frightening movie ever made is now a novel!
Newsweek calls NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD a, "True Horror Classic."
Why does NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD hit with such chilling impact? Is it because everyday people in a commonplace house are suddenly the victims of a monstrous invasion? Or is it because the ghouls who surround the house with grasping claws were once ordinary people, too?
Decide for yourself as you read, and the horror grips you....
20) Creepshow 2
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The rotting Creep himself is back with three new gruesome tales of horror that will make your skin crawl: a cigar store wooden Indian comes to life to avenge the store owner's brutal murder at the hands of three punks in "Ol' Chief Woodenhead." Then four teenagers become the target of a terrifying, man-eating oil slick in "The Raft." The chills continue with "The Hitchhiker," the chilling tale of a woman who keeps running into, and over, the same...