George Romero Only Likes Some Of The Zombies, Some Of The Time

According to recent tweets by CNN GeekOut! and Newsarama, last night’s season two premiere of The Walking Dead was watched by over 7 million viewers. Huge numbers! Wow, who didn’t see it last night? Well, me – but I had an excuse. I was catching up on Red while the DVR was recording The Walking Dead. Insert your “geriatric killers are kind of like zombies” joke here.

But, you know who also didn’t watch The Walking Dead last night?

George Romero.

Yup, the father of modern zombie horror as we know it is not a fan of The Walking Dead.

Although Romero hosted “FearFest” on AMC last night before The Walking Dead kicked off, he says he just “doesn’t get the hype”.

But, George, you kind of invented this sort of thing! Don’t you want to at least see how others are handling the genre?

“I haven’t seen any of the episodes,” Romero tells Zap2it.

And not only has he not watched the show, he tells us he turned down an offer to work on an episode.

Um, wow. Ok, but surely you’ve got to be excited that this particular piece of the horror universe that you, you know, pioneered is really taking off? Right?

“I’m not really a fan of the fact that they’ve become as popular as they’ve become because I used to think that I had them in my pocket somewhere,” says Romero. “And now they’re sort of all over the place and I’m not thrilled.”

Oh.

Well, I’ll just get off your lawn then. I have to go home and catch up on my television watching, anyway.