Romero's Living Dead

On the data. Two problems: the copyright, and the last three films. The copyright problem. When Night of the Living Dead was released the distributor changed the title on the prints and failed to include a copyright notice, which under the law at the time put the film immediately into the public domain. The result is that nobody owns it. It has been colourised, recut, re-scored, padded with new footage and sold in hundreds of versions, many of them awful, and anyone can make a film called Night of the Living Dead. So when you go looking for it, check what you are getting. The last three films do not run in a straight line. Land of the Dead follows on from the first three. Diary of the Dead then goes back to the very beginning of the outbreak with a new cast and a found footage format, so it is a restart rather than a fourth chapter. Survival of the Dead follows Diary. Romero described this himself and it still confuses people. The remakes are unusually good for remakes. Tom Savini, who did the effects on the originals, directed the 1990 version of Night. Zack Snyder's 2004 Dawn of the Dead is a different film with the same setting and is well regarded. There are also a great many films with Living Dead in the title that have nothing to do with any of this, including the Return of the Living Dead series, which is a separate comedy franchise born out of a legal split between Romero and his co-writer.

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