knew Romero personally. met him at several festivals when I was working for comics and horror fest. cool guy.
I think he lost it (artistically) a few years ago, his latest works were ugly (Island of the dead had some great moments, despite asia argento and the "thinking Zombie") , but the trilogy, craze, martin, monkey shines, etc. were all good (more or less).
his conceptual work on Zombies was great and agreeable, despite the liberal overtone.
personally he was very smart and great fun to be around with.
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