The Alamo Drafthouse recently screened George Romero’s
classic Dawn of the Dead with the director himself, actor, make-up man,
stuntman Tom Savini, actor David Emege (Flyboy), and actor Scott Reiniger
(Roger) all in attendance. Yours truly
attended with a buddy that wants to remain anonymous; we will just call him my
favorite made up name “Marty”. I have never seen DoD on the big screen so
this was a real treat to view this low budget, cult classic and to listen to
the legendary director before it started.
Romero and the actors talked for almost an hour before the
lights went out as he talked about some great behind the scenes stories of
making this movie and some of his others.
Romero’s Knightriders kept coming up so I had to order that bad boy last
week to check out the one non horror Romero movie. Tom Savini has worked with Romero a lot over
the years and had much output to offer with all of Romero’s stories. Savini went
on to some of his own flicks with his directing the remake of Night of the Living
Dead and discussed From Dusk til Dawn too.
Sex Machine was pretty cool.
Now one hot topic that came up was AMC’s The Walking
Dead. These guys let us know that they
do not care for the show but did not really elaborate on why too much. Jealousy?
Getting screwed on royalties of some sort? I am
still curious about why the hate on the show. Romero even said he has been approached by executive
producer Greg Nicotero, (Nicotero worked on Romero’s Day of the Dead) to work
on the show but respectfully declined.
It was a fun evening and a great way to see a horror
classic. Bring on John Carpenter next
year!
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