Remake was pretty good too.

"Dawn" is intentionally not as scary as "Night," because "Dawn" is much more in the EC comic-style that Romero liked so much. Between that and "Creepshow," no filmmaker better captured that EC sensibility like Romero did.

I think that was his one really good major studio experience. "Creepshow" was only distributed by WB and "The Dark Half" ran into Orion's bankruptcy problems.

Zombie fights shark, right?

Never seen it, heard it's bizarre. And unfortunately, Romero had to drop out of directing "Pet Semetary" to do it.

Before he came along, when people thought of zombies, they thought of the Hatian version; staring corpses working as slaves. After him, everyone thinks of zombies as undead ghouls after living flesh that only can be killed by a tap to the brain. That was all him.

You could have a good marathon comprised of Stephen King adaptations that he was involved in but (a) never came to pass and got made by others (like "The Stand") or (b) had to leave before shooting started (like "Pet Semetary").

Romero tended to set his films in the Pittsburgh area, even those he didn't shoot there ("Land of the Dead," for example, is set in downtown Pittsburgh, which, surrounded on three sides by the river, makes an idea stronghold against zombie hordes"),

Pretty much his entire career was outside the system, even the stuff like his King collaborations/adaptations that were distributed by major studios.

Don't forget Creepshow!

Ah, damnit. The horror genre suffers a great loss. On the other hand, hearing it was because of lung cancer doesn't surprise me. George did like his smokes.

Clancy Brown: Guy from Ohio playing a crazed ancient Russian.

Ah yes, I remember that trailer. It's pretty convincing since McAdams and Murphy have really good chemistry together in the movie until he lets slip about his real motivations.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but is Bruce Payne the blue lips guys with the major case of Shatner line-reading in "Dungeons and Dragons?"

Close, but nothing tops "Children of Men." Those tracking shots are astounding.

To be fair to "Constantine," the supporting cast is pretty awesome. Tilda Swinton, Dijimon Hounsou, even Shia are pretty good. (Michelle Monaghan pre-"Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" breakout was featured in a deleted scene.) And Peter Storemare is one of the best depictions of the Devil ever.

I don't. Despite it having a bunch of actors I like.

Hurt got an Oscar nod for what is essentially an extended cameo. He totally earned it.

"Welcome! I was killing my brother earlier today,..whoops!"

Notes on a couple of these films: