George A. Romero's archives have been cracked open — and what's inside will change everything you thought you knew about the father of the zombie film.

Tonight on Friday Night at the Morgue, Todd, Aaron, and Alpha Romero go page by page through Rue Morgue Issue #216. This one is stacked: a deep dive into the newly unearthed Romero archive featuring unproduced screenplays and unpublished works; Brandon Salisbury's look at what George A. Romero's RESIDENT EVIL could have been; a preview of TWILIGHT OF THE DEAD as it moves into pre-production; a conversation with DIABLO CODY and director ZELDA WILLIAMS on how they built LISA FRANKENSTEIN; Cody's look back at JENNIFER'S BODY; the new Black horror comic anthology SHOOK!; and a full 2023 year in review.

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Snake Plissken is coming back — and Zack Snyder is the man holding the eye patch. The news that Snyder is attached to reimagine John Carpenter's 1981 dystopian action classic has the horror and genre film community asking the big question: does the director of Dawn of the Dead (2004) and Army of the Dead have the sensibility to do this right, or is this the kind of Hollywood reboot that should never have left the drawing board?

Todd and Aaron break down what we know about the Escape from New York reimagining, what Snyder's track record tells us, and whether the DNA of Carpenter's original can survive in a modern blockbuster landscape. We dig into what made the original untouchable — Kurt Russell, the grimy New York aesthetic, Carpenter's score, and a punk-rock spirit that studios have been trying to bottle ever since — and we ask whether any filmmaker working today is truly equipped to carry that torch.

This is the conversation horror and action fans need to have before the hype machine kicks into overdrive.

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Aaron, Todd, Alpha Romero, and special guest Grandes Graveyard go page by page through Rue Morgue #230 (May/June 2026). The main event is OBSESSION — filmmaker Curry Barker's breakout feature has the horror community buzzing, but does it actually deliver? The panel digs into the film's spiral of love, possession, and bloodshed and comes away with very different takes. Plus how Barker's found-footage shocker MILK & SERIAL went viral on a micro-budget. Also on the docket: Black Zombie confronts Hollywood's century-long distortion of the zombie myth, Interview with the Vampire Season 3 takes Lestat full glam rock, horror gaming's obsession with repeating spaces, and all the departments including Cinemacabre, Reissued & Re-Animated, and Bowen's Basement.

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