Episodes
Friday Nov 01, 2019
#11 - George A. Romero - Night of The Living Dead (1968)
Friday Nov 01, 2019
Friday Nov 01, 2019
If you ever find yourself needing to look up synonyms for the word “zombie”, the first suggestion will in fact be “George A Romero”. Thats because our friend George virtually invented the zombie genre with his 1968 groundbreaking first film, “Night of The Living Dead”.
This first film didn’t just launch a career though, it launched an entire GENRE. Popular modern entertainment like The Walking Dead, 28 Days Later, and even everyones favourite ITV2 re-run Shaun of the Dead, all wouldn’t exist without the path George blazed. And ironically, he did it all without a single utterance of the word zombie. He just used ham for guts and chocolate sauce for blood instead.
George went on to create every single possible film title that could come from his original like “Dawn of The Dead”, “Day of The Dead”, “Land of The Dead”, “Diary of The Dead”, and “Survival of The Dead”. Thats commitment and we very much like that here on YNFYF.
The good news on this ep is Louis is back, bringing fan-favourite wheezey laughs and such deep insightful critique you’d wonder why a major news publication hasn’t yet hired him to review BBC mini-series. The bad news is Sparrow was unavailable for this episode, and we very much felt the hole created by his absence. We mention it many, many, many times. He’s back on next weeks film.
Also, In our short of the week section, Benas gets deep discovering the meaning of life as we cover “My Boy” by Charlotte Reagan.
Anyway, that’s enough from us. Happy listening.
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