Martin (1977)
[7] Director George Romero (Night of the Living Dead) often said Martin was his favorite among his films. John Amplas stars as Martin, a painfully shy and sullen young man who looks to be twenty years old, but claims to…
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
[9] Ten years after Night of the Living Dead, which pretty much invented zombies as we now know them, George Romero went back to the well and made a sequel that I like even better. As the dead rise to…
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
[9] When cosmic radiation transforms the dead into flesh-eating ghouls, a ragtag team of survivors make a last stand at a remote Pennsylvania farmhouse where tensions rise between the living as much as from the growing zombie horde. Co-writer/director George…
Creepshow 2 (1987)
[7] It's not quite as good as its predecessor, but Creepshow 2 is still a fun horror sequel. George Romero (Dawn of the Dead) returns as the screenwriter, adapting story ideas by Stephen King, but he turns the directing duties over…
Monkey Shines (1988)
[8] After an accident leaves him quadriplegic, a man (Jason Beghe) struggles to find a reason to stay alive. He finds hope in an adorable capuchin monkey trained to help him with his every-day activities. The man and the monkey…
Dawn of the Dead (2004)
[6] Zack Snyder (300, Man of Steel) made his feature directorial debut with this remake of George Romero's 1978 classic zombie sequel. This time around the rag-tag team of survivors holed up in a mall during the zombie apocalypse includes…
Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990)
[6] A paperboy is imprisoned by a woman (Deborah Harry) who plans to cook and eat him, but he's able to delay her meal by telling her three tales of terror. Tales from the Darkside: The Movie is a somewhat…
Creepshow (1982)
[8] George Romero directs an anthology from Stephen King in this homage to colorful horror comics of the 1950s. All five tales are pretty good. In Father's Day, a deceased patriarch comes back to life to torment his heirs. Then…