We can prove it, too.
How many follow ups are there toNight of the Living Dead?
Go on, guess.
If you answered three, then congratulations, youre one of the 12 people who rememberLand of the Dead.
If you answered five, then youre one of thetwopeople who actually watched of the last two Romero films.
But youre still wrong.
I count 28.28!Im not joking.
So why so many sub-series from just one, low-budget film?
Lets take a look.
Seriously, if you havent watched it, do so.
Its genuinely one of the most terrifying films ever made.
That lies in a title change.
This on top of the remakes, which of course required no permission.
1978sDawn of the Deadfollows the survivors of the apocalypse as they take refuge in an abandoned mall.
After a 20 year hiatus, the series returned withLand of the Dead.
The final film in the series isDay of the Dead 2: Contagium.
While none of theDeadfilms have strong continuity, this one has nothing, literallynothingto do withDay of the Dead.
So yeah, it goes in this series, technically.
Dont watch it though, its dreadful.
That novel was indeed picked up, and turned into a film byAlienandDark Stars Dan OBannon.
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And it was a success.
RussosLiving Deadseries
John Russo had more up his sleeve than justReturn.
Yeah, it doesnt sound good, does it?
No one anywhere likes this film.
This movie, being technically a new one, at least made Romero and Russo some money.
And he was right.
So right that it formed a series of its own.
This is one that gets confusing.
His CV includesJaws5(yes) andTerminator II(note the II, not 2).
I love him more than anything, ever.
Zombi 3had nothing to do withZombi 2aside from the vague idea of zombies and was a commercial disaster.
That said, the officialZombifilms are2,3, and4(notZombi, weirdly).
Not so in America.
They have anadditionalthree unofficial sequels.
It was also released in 1987, meaning it actually comes beforeZombie 4in the chronology.
There were even more movies that at one point or another were marketed asZombisequels.
There are about half a dozen films claiming to beZombi 3, for example.
I thinkMaryPoppinswas once marketed asZombi 47: Umbrellisimus.
Remakes
Our last category is remakes.
There are alotof remakes.
The first remake came in 1990, whenNight of the Living Deadwas remade by Tom Savini himself.
It stars Tony Todd, who is worth the price of admission alone.
From this point on, the floodgates opened.
The first shameless cash in actually wasDay of the Dead 2.
Ive talked about that, so lets move on.
Night of the Living Dead 3Darrived in 2006; that came about because the original had no copyright.
It had nothing to do with the original film except for the basic premise and was terrible.
It actually looks like it had less budget than the original.
The only tie to Snyders film is Ving Rhames, although he plays a different character anyway.
Were not done yet.
The latest release is another remake ofDay of the DeadcalledDay of the Dead: Bloodline.
It currently holds a 0% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
The rest of this paragraph basically writes itself.
Time will only tell.
Kind of like a zombie.
