LOS ANGELES, Oct. 24 (UPI) -- Tina Romero says she honored her late father, George Romero's, zombie rules in her own movie Queens of the Dead, in theaters Friday. Romero invented the modern zombie genre with 1968's Night of the Living Dead.
A 2004 remake of Romero's Dawn of the Dead popularized running zombies, which Romero said her father opposed. In a recent Zoom interview with UPI, Romero said slow, shambling zombies were the most important rule to her father, who died in 2017.
"No running zombies," Romero said. "Gotta be slow. That's the no. 1 important rule."
Still, Tina Romero found it challenging to ensure her zombie extras were slow enough to pass her father's test. Even after all of her father's films, and episodes of The Walking Dead since 2010, Romero had to direct her zombies to slow down.
"You gotta be slow, slower than you think," she said. "I like to tell people to pick two parts of their body that don't work. Maybe it's your neck and your shoulder and you just have to hold those two pieces as if they're dead and try to shuffle forward."
