Look, it’s no secret that NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD is good. In fact it’s bloody good.

For some time I’ve been aware of the three trilogies the single filmed spawned. One from the original’s director George Romero, one from the original’s co-writer John Russo, and an Italian one, mostly directed by Lucio Fulci, that came out of Dario Argento’s re-edit of Romero’s DAWN OF THE DEAD (also brilliant).

I decided to have a play with a new application I’ve found called MINDNODE by ‘mapping out’ all these sequels. What I uncovered was a mess of both official and unofficial releases. Sequels, prequels, additional trilogies, unrelated films accidentally becoming marketed as new instalments in the already saturated (and by this stage very artistically diluted) chain of films that connect some way with the original.

Here is a link to a PDF of, what I’ve called, the WEB OF THE LIVING DEAD. (Yes, thank you, the name is brilliant, isn’t it?)

This isn’t necessarily finished either. It’s fairly light on information and may be missing a film or two. It could even be wrong, though I think it is pretty accurate. If you have any suggestions, by all means email me and if I’m ever stupid enough to open up this can of undead worms again, I’ll update it.

Thanks be to MINDNODE for supplying some pretty cool (free!) software.

Enjoy.