“In the 80 years since George Romero's Night Of The Living Dead ambled into public consciousness … ”
So Romero managed to insinuate his movie into the zeitgeist when he was six years old, 22 years before it was released. That’s one hell of a slow-burn viral marketing campaign.
Quote is from the preamble to an interview with Yeon Sang-ho, director of “Train to Busan” [which I loved] and the new film “Colony” [not yet seen].
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-20/yeon-sang-ho-colony-the-interview/106813376
Greg Egan
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