Thread:Shanethefilmmaker/@comment-397235-20140904033414/@comment-397235-20150125135023

The way I prefer to look at it (the way which makes some modicum of sense) is Romero has two zombie cannons.

There's the first, which is:

Night of the Living Dead

Dawn of the Dead

Day of the Dead

and the second, which is:

Diary of the Dead

Survival of the Dead

Land of the Dead

Diary is very obviously a modern film so it can't be a parallel story to Night but it does feature the start of a global zombie outbreak (which is something we can only guess at in the first film). The film has its issues (namely it's one of those "found footage" movies but it's actually been edited, including music and a narrator, which spoils it somewhat as you know at least one character survived long enough to do some post production). Still, the characters are for the most part intelligent when they need to be, it's not obnoxiously political like Land (I suppose there's some griping about the news industry, but that's it, and it honestly comes off as fairly conservative and individualist).

If you get the DVD, there's even about half a dozen Romero-approved short films set within the same universe, one of which stars Teller of "Penn and Teller" fame. The novelty of that alone is incredible.