It may be TV’s highest-rated series and have a legion of fans, but it seems that legendary filmmaker John Carpenter isn’t too fond of AMC’s hit zombie drama The Walking Dead.
“[The Walking Dead] was a movie that George A. Romero made back in 1968,” said the Halloween and The Thing director on Marc Maron’s WTF Podcast. “And they have milked that, and they are still milking it.”
It is of course true that The Walking Dead owes a huge debt to George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead, but the same can be said of pretty much every zombie movie, TV show, comic book and video game since the 1968 classic.
What do you make of John Carpenter’s comments? Is The Walking Dead “milking it”? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below…
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Originally published July 6, 2016. Updated April 15, 2018.
