Refresh for updates Horror legend George A. Romero was remembered by Stephen King, Eli Roth and other colleagues today, with King even crowning Romero his “favorite collaborator.” Hostel director Eli Roth posted a series of tweets praising the Night of the Living Dead, saying a “direct line” could be drawn from that…

George A. Romero, the director who all but invented the modern zombie genre with his 1968 horror classic Night of the Living Dead, has died at 77 of lung cancer. Infused with social commentary and a realistic, midnight-movie terror, Romero’s brazenly stark thriller, and the sequels that followed, made as large an…

George Kosana, who played Sheriff McClelland in George A. Romero’s zombie classic Night of the Living Dead, has died. He was 81. His longtime friend John Russo, who co-wrote the seminal black-and-white film, wrote on Facebook that Kosana died Friday and had been battling various illnesses. Kosana, who played the same…