Elaine Lamkin’s Sword of the Ultimate Darkness Award
September 26th, 2008
After MUCH thought on this, I would have to award The Sword of Ultimate Darkness to George Romero’s seminal 1968 film, “Night of the Living Dead”. Sure, there were amazing horror films prior to “NOLTLD” but Romero brought horror into our homes. Literally. No more worrying about crumbling castles in Transylvania, crazed scientists and their laboratories in Germany or desert tombs and their curses in Egypt. Now the horror was right next door or actually within your own home. And by bringing horror home, so to speak, Romero opened the door for folks like Thomas Tryon, Stephen King, Robert McCammon, Dan Simmons, Jack Ketchum, James Herbert and a HOST of other writers of what I like to call “domestic horror” (rather lacks a fearsome-ness but…). And filmmakers such as David Cronenberg, John Carpenter, Wes Craven, Tobe Hooper, etc., etc. To paraphrase AC/DC, for those of us who like to shock, we salute you, George.
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