And then there were even unofficial remakes, such as 28 Days Later (2002), which substantially borrowed much of the plot from Day of the Dead.
There was also Romero’s remake of the original Night of the Living Dead (1990), as directed by Tom Savini, his makeup effects man on the sequels. First there was Dan O’Bannon who made an independent sequel Return of the Living Dead (1985) out of a complicated legal settlement over Night of the Living Dead, which proved popular enough to produce two sequels. Nevertheless, the popularity of the Dead films is something that would not go away. Romero made a third entry, the greatly underrated Day of the Dead (1985), but this was not a success and for the next two decades he appeared to abandon attempts to make a fourth Dead film. Dawn of the Dead was equally successful, becoming a midnight cult classic, being groundbreaking in its gore effects and was muchly imitated.
Night of the Living Dead revolutionized the horror film – it was the first independently made horror film to become a mass success, it broke down a huge number of taboo barriers and clichés with grim regard, it came loaded with looming metaphors of social collapse, as well as produced a great many imitators. Dawn of the Dead 1978 was actually the second entry in a trilogy of zombie films that George Romero began with Night of the Living Dead (1968). Dawn of the Dead is a remake of George Romero’s cult classic zombie film Dawn of the Dead (1978).
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