Video of the Day: George Romero on “The Incredibly Strange Film Show”

Posted by Scott Von Doviak

 Happy George Romero’s birthday! The maestro of the living dead is 69 years old today, which seems like as good a reason as any to dig this clip out of the YouTube vault. The Incredibly Strange Film Show, hosted by the peculiar Jonathan Ross, was a short-lived British program of the late ‘80s featuring such masters of schlock, underground and drive-in movies as Russ Meyer, Doris Wishman and the late, lamented Ray Dennis Steckler. In this episode, Ross visits Pittsburgh, PA, where he encounters a zombie pitching for the Pirates (they’d take him, believe me), along with Romero and cohort Tom Savini (who was prepping his own regrettable version of Night of the Living Dead at the time).

Hit the jump for the clip.


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Posted Feb 04 2009, 03:00 PM
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danrimage said:

The Incredibly Strange Film Show was amazing. For Brit film nerds of a certain age it was a life-changing experience, introducing us to (among others) Romero,John Waters, Alejandro Jodorowsky, David Lynch etc....Jonathan Ross was actually a really col guy and useful persona at one stage, long before he became the over-paid, self-obsessed, innuendo-heavy golden boy of  BBC Light Entertainment. He was far more comfortable and effective doing this sort of thing, rather than being awkwardly inserted into the mainstream the way he has.

February 5, 2009 4:14 AM

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