“Made in Pittsburgh on a budget of $114,000, Night of the Living Dead made $30 million and became a cult classic,” writes Variety’s Pat Saperstein. Romero died while listening to the score of one his favorite films, 1952’s The Quiet Man, with his wife, Suzanne Desrocher Romero, and daughter, Tina Romero, at his side, the family said.” “Romero died Sunday in his sleep following a ‘brief but aggressive battle with lung cancer,’ according to a statement to The Times provided by his longtime producing partner, Peter Grunwald. Romero, father of the modern movie zombie and creator of the groundbreaking Night of the Living Dead franchise, has died at 77,” reports Tre’vell Anderson for the Los Angeles Times.
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