We finally watch George A. Romero's Resident Evil — the 2025 documentary unpacking one of horror's greatest what-ifs, and trace the whole messy story: Romero hired by Constantin Film in 1998, his meticulous approach to studying the game scene-by-scene, the commercial footage that proves he could have nailed the tone, and the moment "creative differences" quietly buried a zombie legend's game-faithful script. Along the way we get into the Biohazard origins, horror ratings pressure, and why studios keep chasing a PG-13 that imagined box office math demands instead of the movie the genre deserves.

Then we turn it into something bigger; the social critique running through Romero's entire Living Dead catalog, why zombies became cinema's sharpest tool for talking about race, consumerism, and survival, and why the horror community keeps attracting the most empathetic people in any room. This episode drops right before we head to Living Dead Weekend 2026 at the Monroeville Mall — the last year before the mall closes — and we're going in loaded with books from zombesties Sylvester Barzey, Rebecca Cuthbertson, Dia Van Gunten, and Laurie Calcaterra, bunking with Alice B. Sullivan, and looking forward to seeing Brandon Starocci of Avalon Comic.

LINKS & INFO

The Documentary

George A. Romero's Resident Evil (2025) — Official Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fiIdvhCLMI
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21990960/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_A._Romero%27s_Resident_Evil

Living Dead Weekend 2026 — June 12–14, Monroeville Mall

Official Site & Schedule: https://www.thelivingdeadweekend.com/
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/living-dead-weekend-june-2026-the-dead-will-walk-the-mall-tickets-1980534479944
Living Dead Museum at Monroeville Mall: https://monroevillemall.com/store/living_dead_museum

GreenMan — Pittsburgh Artist

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Authors

Alice B. Sullivan | Tomorrow Never Came + Elementary Undead | https://alicebsullivan.com/
Sylvester Barzey | Intense BIPOC-centered zombie horror | https://sylvesterbarzey.com/
Rebecca Cuthbertson | Waves of Undead | https://rcuthbertsonwrites.com/
Dia VanGunten | Pink Zombie Rose graphic novel series | https://www.diavangunten.com/
Laurie Calcaterra | Path of the Pale Rider comic (issues 1–4 trade paperback) | https://pathofthepalerider.wordpress.com/
Brandon Starocci | Avalon zombie comic series | https://avaloncomic.com/

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