It played internationally under many alternate titles, including Let Sleeping Corpses Lie and Don't Open The Window. That said, the key zombie film to emerge from this era was a Spanish/Italian co-production called The Living Dead At Manchester Morgue. There are many memorable films that carved out their own corners of the Romero zombie sandbox, including Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things, Messiah Of Evil, Sugar Hill and Shock Waves. Lucio Fulci would key in on the hopelessness of the former and grue of the latter with Zombie, sparking a series of post- Dawn zombie flicks that would set the subgenre's tone on an international scale at least until 28 Days Later.But what happened during that decade between the Night and the Dawn? Students of zombie horror know that plenty happened. Ten years later he'd revisit the genre with Dawn Of The Dead, expanding the scope, commentary and the intensity of the gruesomeness. George Romero reinvented the zombie film in 1968 with Night Of The Living Dead, replacing gothic atmosphere and voodoo elements with science, shocking violence and dark commentary on the human condition.
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