Eight out of ten is about the right score for this live action cartoon that blew the head off the end of the seventies, much like our shopping mall heroes lopped the heads off their shuffling brain-eating adversaries -- Given director Romero's mostly uninspired prequel and sequels to this entry in the Dead filmography, it seems a fair guess that his collaborator on this project, gonzo Euro-horror meister Dario Argento (Suspiria, etc), had a firm hand in how GOOD this zombiefest manages to be. Even the soundtrack comes courtesy of Argento's resident electro-goth soundkillers Goblin.
And lawd-nose Mr. Argento can safely be said to have the most twisted sense of humor SINCE the director of the freakout flick that Mr. Duncan cites by way of likeminded comparison, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls instigator Russ Meyer (tho it should be noted that film's script by nascent critic Roger Ebert deserves at least half the praise).
Romero's sense of humor -- such as it seems -- has never progressed much beyond his jaded 1988 "Experiment in Horror" known as Monkey Shines, ie "When in doubt, hire a monkey," a Hollywood mansion-saver that even Clint Eastwood has succumbed to. Notwithstanding Romero's supervisory capacity over occasional chuckles buried within episodes of Tales From the Darkside or Masters of Horror (probably also more due to collaborators than Romero's own soggy so-called wit) --
And lawd-nose Mr. Argento can safely be said to have the most twisted sense of humor SINCE the director of the freakout flick that Mr. Duncan cites by way of likeminded comparison, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls instigator Russ Meyer (tho it should be noted that film's script by nascent critic Roger Ebert deserves at least half the praise).
Romero's sense of humor -- such as it seems -- has never progressed much beyond his jaded 1988 "Experiment in Horror" known as Monkey Shines, ie "When in doubt, hire a monkey," a Hollywood mansion-saver that even Clint Eastwood has succumbed to. Notwithstanding Romero's supervisory capacity over occasional chuckles buried within episodes of Tales From the Darkside or Masters of Horror (probably also more due to collaborators than Romero's own soggy so-called wit) --
