From venue changes and the pandemic to political backlash and the threat of litigation, Salem Horror Fest founder and director Kay Lynch has never been one to back down. The festival’s seventh annual event, which kicked off last night at Salem’s Peabody Essex Museum, was further proof of her resilience.
After its original headliner, Hocus Pocus star Kathy Najimy, canceled with less than 48 hours notice, the festival’s entire opening night ceremony was restructured. On lieu of the original $50 ticket charge, the program was made free (with the option to make a donation), costing the festival an untold amount of money.
But the show must go on — and it did so in spectacular fashion with horror icon Linnea Quigley sitting down for a live interview, while the Hocus Pocus screening was replaced by The People’s Joker, previously scheduled to be the festival’s closing film.
Kay Lynch
Following...
After its original headliner, Hocus Pocus star Kathy Najimy, canceled with less than 48 hours notice, the festival’s entire opening night ceremony was restructured. On lieu of the original $50 ticket charge, the program was made free (with the option to make a donation), costing the festival an untold amount of money.
But the show must go on — and it did so in spectacular fashion with horror icon Linnea Quigley sitting down for a live interview, while the Hocus Pocus screening was replaced by The People’s Joker, previously scheduled to be the festival’s closing film.
Kay Lynch
Following...
- 4/26/2024
- by Alex DiVincenzo
- bloody-disgusting.com
Salem, Massachusetts brews up more Halloween activities than you can shake a broom at each October, so it was logical for Salem Horror Fest to take place during the spookiest month of the year. For its sixth installment, however, the festivities have moved to the spring, making it much easier to attend without throngs of tourists.
If last night’s opening night ceremony — headlined by a screening of Candyman with Tony Todd in attendance — is any indication, horror lovers will show up any time of the year. Held at the Peabody Essex Museum, the event kicked off with poignagnt opening remarks by festival director Kay Lynch. She briefly outlined the evolution of Salem Horror, which was born out of her desire for catharsis after the 2016 election.
With folk horror being a common theme among some of this year’s programming, Kier-La Janisse was enlisted to deliver a keynote address. Much like how her essential documentary,...
If last night’s opening night ceremony — headlined by a screening of Candyman with Tony Todd in attendance — is any indication, horror lovers will show up any time of the year. Held at the Peabody Essex Museum, the event kicked off with poignagnt opening remarks by festival director Kay Lynch. She briefly outlined the evolution of Salem Horror, which was born out of her desire for catharsis after the 2016 election.
With folk horror being a common theme among some of this year’s programming, Kier-La Janisse was enlisted to deliver a keynote address. Much like how her essential documentary,...
- 4/21/2023
- by Alex DiVincenzo
- bloody-disgusting.com
Last month, it was announced that MGM acquired the worldwide distribution rights for a sequel to George A. Romero’s 1968 classic Night of the Living Dead (watch it Here), with Nikyatu Jusu (Nanny) on board to direct the film from a screenplay by Latoya Morgan (The Walking Dead) and Romero’s ex-wife Christine Romero and their daughter Tina Romero producing. Now Deadline has broken the news that Night of the Living Dead is also getting an audio series podcast follow-up called The Dead, and this project is coming to us from the George A. Romero Foundation and the Cinedigm-backed Bloody Disgusting.
The Dead will tell new stories and expand characters from the Night of the Living Dead universe. The podcast series will consist of 24 episodes, which will be released through the Cinedigm Podcast Network. As Deadline notes, “Writers will be chosen to pen the stories following an application process through which the George A.
The Dead will tell new stories and expand characters from the Night of the Living Dead universe. The podcast series will consist of 24 episodes, which will be released through the Cinedigm Podcast Network. As Deadline notes, “Writers will be chosen to pen the stories following an application process through which the George A.
- 1/31/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
First announced by Deadline, Bloody Disgusting is expanding upon George A. Romero‘s Night of the Living Dead universe with a brand new scripted audio series titled The Dead.
Deadline details, “The classic horror franchise is getting a scripted podcast series, The Dead, that will tell new stories and expand characters from the universe.”
The Dead will be set in the film’s world and comes from Cinedigm-backed Bloody Disgusting, which is co-producing with the George A. Romero Foundation.
Being distributed by the Cinedigm Podcast Network, The Dead will feature 24 episodes and a full cast. Deadline explains, “Writers will be chosen to pen the stories following an application process through which the George A. Romero Foundation will select the best candidates. The Bloody Disgusting team will then work with the selected writers to produce stories.”
“We strive to work with amazing storytellers, and George A. Romero is one of the...
Deadline details, “The classic horror franchise is getting a scripted podcast series, The Dead, that will tell new stories and expand characters from the universe.”
The Dead will be set in the film’s world and comes from Cinedigm-backed Bloody Disgusting, which is co-producing with the George A. Romero Foundation.
Being distributed by the Cinedigm Podcast Network, The Dead will feature 24 episodes and a full cast. Deadline explains, “Writers will be chosen to pen the stories following an application process through which the George A. Romero Foundation will select the best candidates. The Bloody Disgusting team will then work with the selected writers to produce stories.”
“We strive to work with amazing storytellers, and George A. Romero is one of the...
- 1/31/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Exclusive: George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead universe is expanding with a new audio series.
The classic horror franchise is getting a scripted podcast series, The Dead, that will tell new stories and expand characters from the universe.
The original 1968 film was directed by Romero from a screenplay by Romero and John Russo. It follows seven people trapped in a farmhouse in western Pennsylvania, who are under assault from zombies.
It has spawned five sequels and a slew of spinoffs.
The Dead will be set in that world and comes from Cinedigm-backed Bloody Disgusting, which is co-producing with the George A. Romero Foundation.
It will feature 24 episodes as well as a full cast and will be distributed by the Cinedigm Podcast Network.
Writers will be chosen to pen the stories following an application process through which the George A. Romero Foundation will select the best candidates. The...
The classic horror franchise is getting a scripted podcast series, The Dead, that will tell new stories and expand characters from the universe.
The original 1968 film was directed by Romero from a screenplay by Romero and John Russo. It follows seven people trapped in a farmhouse in western Pennsylvania, who are under assault from zombies.
It has spawned five sequels and a slew of spinoffs.
The Dead will be set in that world and comes from Cinedigm-backed Bloody Disgusting, which is co-producing with the George A. Romero Foundation.
It will feature 24 episodes as well as a full cast and will be distributed by the Cinedigm Podcast Network.
Writers will be chosen to pen the stories following an application process through which the George A. Romero Foundation will select the best candidates. The...
- 1/31/2023
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: As reams of Comic-Con attendees mill around dressed as flesh eaters or take part in zombie-themed events, filmmaker Greg Nicotero and his Monster Agency Productions has teamed with Jimmy Miller’s Mosaic to mount a movie about the making of George Romero’s 1968 film Night of the Living Dead. From unlikely origins and a budget around 115,000, the film hatched the whole zombie genre and is regarded as arguably the greatest horror movie ever.
Nicotero is one of many creatives in film, TV and video games who’ve benefited from Romero’s pioneering in the carnivorous-corpse genre. He has directed 39 episodes of The Walking Dead, including the series finale he’s still finishing. Although he’s got a long list of genre credits, Nicotero actually learned his craft on Romero’s films. They are both from Pittsburgh — and so, for that matter, is Miller — and they all knew each other well.
Nicotero is one of many creatives in film, TV and video games who’ve benefited from Romero’s pioneering in the carnivorous-corpse genre. He has directed 39 episodes of The Walking Dead, including the series finale he’s still finishing. Although he’s got a long list of genre credits, Nicotero actually learned his craft on Romero’s films. They are both from Pittsburgh — and so, for that matter, is Miller — and they all knew each other well.
- 7/21/2022
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Just about one year ago, Shudder unearthed George A. Romero‘s long-lost The Amusement Park from the 1970s, bringing it to their streaming service. Now it’s coming to Blu-ray. Romero’s The Amusement Park gets a Blu-ray release from Shudder on September 13! Back in 2019, the late George A. Romero‘s wife, Suzanne Desrocher-Romero, had teased that a […]
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- 7/8/2022
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Suzanne Desrocher was tending bar in Toronto when she noticed that the tall guy with white hair was becoming a regular. “I had spied him and thought he was some kind of an artist.” She didn’t know who he was at first. An ex-boyfriend finally made a proper introduction one night. His name was George A. Romero and he was in town making the movie Land of the Dead, then in post-production. Did Suzanne wanna come over and watch it? “I was a bit nervous about it. I’d heard he was a zombie director and that wasn’t my kind of thing, I thought it was gonna be trash. I wanted to polite,” she said with a laugh. “He shut the TV off and said, ‘What did you think?’” I told him, ‘It’s not that bad!’ He roared with laughter. I couldn’t have reviewed the film better.
- 6/9/2021
- by Scout Tafoya
- The Film Stage
In 1968, George A. Romero directed Night of the Living Dead, a tiny independent horror film that went on to change the face of its genre and make a permanent mark on film history itself. Five years later, Romero’s two decidedly un-Dead-like follow-ups—There’s Always Vanilla (1971) and Season of the Witch (1972)—had already vanished quickly into obscurity. He was still several years away from directing Dawn of the Dead and again becoming a worldwide horror sensation.
Perhaps simply looking to put food on the table while getting his next project (The Crazies) up and running, Romero was receptive when approached by the Lutheran Society, who wanted to create an educational film about society’s poor treatment of the elderly. With a script by Walton Cook (one of the rare Romero projects he did not write himself), Romero’s only work for hire, called The Amusement Park, was apparently so...
Perhaps simply looking to put food on the table while getting his next project (The Crazies) up and running, Romero was receptive when approached by the Lutheran Society, who wanted to create an educational film about society’s poor treatment of the elderly. With a script by Walton Cook (one of the rare Romero projects he did not write himself), Romero’s only work for hire, called The Amusement Park, was apparently so...
- 6/8/2021
- by Don Kaye
- Den of Geek
For cinephiles and fans of George A. Romero, you will not want to miss out on tonight's virtual premiere of The Amusement Park, and we have all the details on how and when to tune in for the live watch and panel:
To celebrate the premiere of the George A. Romero’s “lost” and restored film, The Amusement Park, Shudder is hosting a live watch followed by a virtual panel on the film and its place within the pioneering independent filmmaker’s influential body of work.
The screening will be available to Shudder members via the Shudder TV feed in the U.S. and Canada on Tuesday at 8:05pm Et, as well as on demand to Shudder members worldwide. Immediately following at 9pm Et on Shudder TV and on Shudder’s YouTube channel, the panel “Reviving Romero’s The Amusement Park” will feature a conversation between Suzanne Desrocher Romero,...
To celebrate the premiere of the George A. Romero’s “lost” and restored film, The Amusement Park, Shudder is hosting a live watch followed by a virtual panel on the film and its place within the pioneering independent filmmaker’s influential body of work.
The screening will be available to Shudder members via the Shudder TV feed in the U.S. and Canada on Tuesday at 8:05pm Et, as well as on demand to Shudder members worldwide. Immediately following at 9pm Et on Shudder TV and on Shudder’s YouTube channel, the panel “Reviving Romero’s The Amusement Park” will feature a conversation between Suzanne Desrocher Romero,...
- 6/8/2021
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Producer Suzanne Desrocher-Romero is in the process of completing her late husband George A. Romero’s first attempt at filmmaking, which tells the story of an African American father and his son.
Although the horror pioneer is often dubbed “Godfather of Zombies,” the unnamed 21-minute silent short – thought to have been shot in 1961 – remains ghoul-free.
The film got shelved, according to Desrocher-Romero, when the “Night of the Living Dead” director’s commercials company Latent Image started getting more work and remained untouched.
Desrocher-Romero, who founded the George A. Romero Foundation (Garf) – dedicated to preserving the director’s legacy – two years ago, is now in the process of “knitting together” a narration and some music for the film, which she hopes to release on the festival circuit later this year.
The narration comprises of a poem, “Romero’s Elegy” (also now the film’s title), which was written by Romero’s...
Although the horror pioneer is often dubbed “Godfather of Zombies,” the unnamed 21-minute silent short – thought to have been shot in 1961 – remains ghoul-free.
The film got shelved, according to Desrocher-Romero, when the “Night of the Living Dead” director’s commercials company Latent Image started getting more work and remained untouched.
Desrocher-Romero, who founded the George A. Romero Foundation (Garf) – dedicated to preserving the director’s legacy – two years ago, is now in the process of “knitting together” a narration and some music for the film, which she hopes to release on the festival circuit later this year.
The narration comprises of a poem, “Romero’s Elegy” (also now the film’s title), which was written by Romero’s...
- 6/5/2021
- by Ann-Marie Corvin
- Variety Film + TV
Arriving on Shudder on Tuesday, June 8th is a recently restored version of George A. Romero’s The Amusement Park, an industrial film that Romero directed on behalf of the Lutheran Society which showcased the horrors of how elderly people are treated by society 46 years ago (and still remains potently vital storytelling today). Daily Dead recently had the opportunity to speak with George’s wife, Suzanne Desrocher-Romero, about the restoration process that helped preserve The Amusement Park after all these years as well as her thoughts on the unsettlingly surreal film. Suzanne also discussed wanting to not only preserve George’s legacy through the efforts of the George A. Romero Foundation, but also supporting and showcasing the talents of other filmmakers out there as well.
So great to speak with you today, Suzanne. I'm a genre journalist and The Amusement Park is probably one of the most horrifying things I've watched all year thus far.
So great to speak with you today, Suzanne. I'm a genre journalist and The Amusement Park is probably one of the most horrifying things I've watched all year thus far.
- 6/3/2021
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Horror movie fans might get the chance to see George A. Romero’s long lost 1973 feature “The Amusement Park” on the big screen. According to a report published this week from Bloody Disgusting, Yellow Veil Pictures has come on board the project to handle the movie’s worldwide distribution rights. Producer, and Romero’s widow, Suzanne Desrocher spearheaded a 4K restoration of the film alongside the George A. Romero Foundation. The restoration was completed by IndieCollect in New York.
“The Amusement Park” stars Lincoln Maazel as “an elderly man who finds himself disoriented and increasingly isolated as the pains, tragedies, and humiliations of aging in America are manifested through roller coasters and chaotic crowds.” Romero was originally commissioned to direct the project by the Lutheran Society, which wanted to create a film to raise awareness about ageism and elder abuse. The director delivered an allegory about growing old that Desrocher...
“The Amusement Park” stars Lincoln Maazel as “an elderly man who finds himself disoriented and increasingly isolated as the pains, tragedies, and humiliations of aging in America are manifested through roller coasters and chaotic crowds.” Romero was originally commissioned to direct the project by the Lutheran Society, which wanted to create a film to raise awareness about ageism and elder abuse. The director delivered an allegory about growing old that Desrocher...
- 6/26/2020
- by Zack Sharf
- Thompson on Hollywood
Horror movie fans might get the chance to see George A. Romero’s long lost 1973 feature “The Amusement Park” on the big screen. According to a report published this week from Bloody Disgusting, Yellow Veil Pictures has come on board the project to handle the movie’s worldwide distribution rights. Producer, and Romero’s widow, Suzanne Desrocher spearheaded a 4K restoration of the film alongside the George A. Romero Foundation. The restoration was completed by IndieCollect in New York.
“The Amusement Park” stars Lincoln Maazel as “an elderly man who finds himself disoriented and increasingly isolated as the pains, tragedies, and humiliations of aging in America are manifested through roller coasters and chaotic crowds.” Romero was originally commissioned to direct the project by the Lutheran Society, which wanted to create a film to raise awareness about ageism and elder abuse. The director delivered an allegory about growing old that Desrocher...
“The Amusement Park” stars Lincoln Maazel as “an elderly man who finds himself disoriented and increasingly isolated as the pains, tragedies, and humiliations of aging in America are manifested through roller coasters and chaotic crowds.” Romero was originally commissioned to direct the project by the Lutheran Society, which wanted to create a film to raise awareness about ageism and elder abuse. The director delivered an allegory about growing old that Desrocher...
- 6/26/2020
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
A cornerstone and true gentleman of the horror genre who is unfortunately no longer with us, George A. Romero's legacy will live on forever through his seminal work and infectious good nature, and those priceless traits will be commemorated today when the late Master of Horror receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Updated: We've now been provided with official details on the Walk of Fame ceremony, which will include guest speakers Edgar Wright and Greg Nicotero, as well as a statement from Romero's manager and friend, Chris Roe, who was instrumental in ensuring that Romero received the star that he truly deserves.
Here's what Roe, who is the director of the Romero Star Campaign, had to say about the ceremony:
"It has been a very long journey to make this day happen and so many have given their support. With George’s star ceremony on Hollywood Blvd.
Updated: We've now been provided with official details on the Walk of Fame ceremony, which will include guest speakers Edgar Wright and Greg Nicotero, as well as a statement from Romero's manager and friend, Chris Roe, who was instrumental in ensuring that Romero received the star that he truly deserves.
Here's what Roe, who is the director of the Romero Star Campaign, had to say about the ceremony:
"It has been a very long journey to make this day happen and so many have given their support. With George’s star ceremony on Hollywood Blvd.
- 10/25/2017
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
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