Somewhere between EC Comics and Michael Powell, Orson Welles and the news, political passion and pulp, George A. Romero has crafted himself a unique path in American cinema. Horror is his language, the tool he uses to tell tales about the world around us – with zombies, of course, being his monsters of choice. George A. Romero and his daughter Tina Romero are guests of the Festival.

Programmed by Giulia D’Agnolo Vallan, an Italian film writer and curator living in New York, and the US programmer for the Venice Film Festival. She is a guest of the Festival.

Feature Films

	CRAZIES, THE (M) (USA, 103 min) All hell is about to break loose.… A plane crash in Evans City leads to a poisonous spill in the local water supply. Side effects of the top secret deadly bacteria on the local population inclu… More >
	DAWN OF THE DEAD (R) (USA, Italy, 125 min) "Dawn of the Dead is one of the best horror films ever made - and, as an inescapable result, one of the most horrifying." - Chicago Sun-Times… The second instalment in George A. Romero's &lsquo… More >
	DAY OF THE DEAD (R) (USA, 97 min) Gore becomes almost conceptual art in this third (and unduly underestimated) chapter of the ‘Dead' series.… Written as a colossal finale to the series, but downsized at the last minute du… More >
	DIARY OF THE DEAD (USA, 95 min) Real zombies move slow.… Taking a shot at Zack Snider's accelerated version of the living dead, Romero returns for the fifth time to his own franchise with a trip back to the future. A film ful… More >
	JACK'S WIFE (USA, 100 min) “I dare anyone to come up with a feminist film of this era so shattering as well as ambivalent about the nature of liberation.” – film critic Tom AllenThe film that George Romero ha… More >
	KNIGHTRIDERS (M) (USA, 95 min) “The last film of the 60s. So sincere it takes your breath away.” – film critic Kent Jones… Ed Harris leads a carnival troupe whose specialty is medieval jousting on motorcycl… More >
	LAND OF THE DEAD (MA15+) (USA, 94 min) The dead shall inherit the earth.… Partially rewritten after 9/11, Land of the Dead is the only film of the ‘Dead’ series produced by a major studio.While the rich and powerful live… More >
	MARTIN (R) (USA, 95 min) “First I will save your soul, then I will destroy you.”… Just as he demythologised the zombie with his ‘Dead’ series, Romero here disinters the vampire with his own remi… More >
	NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (M) (USA, 90 min) “Together with Psycho, this is the movie that extracted horror cinema from its mortal embrace with Gothic romanticism.” – John Carpenter… Inspired by Richard Matheson’s … More >