Done To Death: Horror Movie Remakes, Rip-offs, and the Classics that inspired them

Me and Shannon talk about 2025's best case scenario nepo living dead movie.

Rich, Justin and special guest Timothy Mather come together once again to talk and draft a definitive and occasionally frustrating list of the best horror movies of 2025.

For the last of this season's Original Vs. Remake-style episodes, we're hanging by a thread without regular third co-host, Vanessa. A little bit like the folks in Romero's 1985 trilogy-capping, gore-gushing zombie classic, Day of the Dead. We also play with the format a little but there's still plenty of what you might've come to expect if this isn't your first listen.

The D2D Crew lights up some smokes in the recording studio and talk a lot about 1978 and 2004's Dawn of the Dead. Justin alludes to a checkered past that he's trying to leave behind, Vanessa got a little anxious because she couldn't find her chips, and I stand my the mistakes I made in life because they made me the man I am today.

We talk more Romero and focus in on his 1973 quarantine quagmire quassic along with the 2010 remake.

This week's episode was about Night of the Living Dead. Next week is about The Crazies. Today is about what happened in between.

It all starts here. We talk George A. Romero and Night of the Living Dead 1968 and Tom Savini's 1990 remake.

Happy Spooky Season to all and to all another bunch of Done To Death episodes in October! This October we'll do 4 of our Original Vs Remake-style episodes covering 4 of the the most well-known films in George A. Romero's filmography, alongside their "proper" remakes. It's Rich, it's Justin, it's Vanessa all back and we've even pulled a guest co-host or two along t...

Rich and special guest Shannon Candy take a broad overview of Land of the Dead, Diary of the Dead, and Survival of the Dead. These were Romero's final 3 films that also made up his second trilogy of Living Dead films.

Did you know that George A. Romero almost directed the first Resident Evil movie? Here's a tougher question: Did you know Brandon Salisbury DID direct George A. Romero's Resident Evil? It happened and we talked about it pretty much for the entire episode save for a fairly brief sidebar about teen heart-throbs of the 1990s.

We put a period on 2024 and let y'all know each of our 5 favorite horror movies of 2024. Justin's here for this one, too, as is Tim Mather, head curator of VHSGoreStore (@vhsgorestore on IG). Also, if you've got any room in your heart for an anthology of bleak sci-fi check out Panopticon: Volume 1 https://a.co/d/2WDwKZU And if you don't, definitely check it out and help throw off the algorithm.

Rich covers his Top 5 Holiday Horror films and rates them on a scale of how "Christmas-y" they are.

For this episode I run through the 5 most proper horror remakes of 2024. Plots are recapped, directors and actors of note from either the original or remake are discussed. Those 5 "remakes" are Nosferatu, Salem's Lot, Speak No Evil, The Crow, and Witchboard. They may not all fall under the purest definition of a proper remake but who's got time for purity.

Tony Todd passed away on November 6, 2024. He became a horror icon when he took on the title role of the 1992 classic Candyman, 2 years after he took on the role of Ben in the Romero-penned remake of Night of the Living Dead. I talk about a few of his other notable film and tv roles and close out the episode with an excerpt from a Q&A with Todd and Romero at DragonCon 2006. Here's a link to vi...

Like the films of George A. Romero but tire of the consummate craftsmanship on display in those films? Then maybe it's time to treat yourself to the films of John Russo, Bill Hinzman, Rudy Ricci, and Russell Streiner.

D2D retells the story behind how Night of the Living Dead became a public domain film.

Like the last one but with crew members instead of cast members.

Done to Death names names...over and over again as we run through and call out every actor/non-actor that appeared in multiple Romero films and then list off the overall top 25 repeat cast members.

We talk NOTLD lead Duane Jones' biography and filmography.

We start with a spirited defense of why I don't want to finish the Image Ten mini-series, followed by running down the available box office totals of George A.'s filmography and close it out with some inarticulate rambling that I probably should've just edited out.

No, we haven't merged with an Entourage podcast, though I suspect there could be some unspoken "drama" between George and John.

They're coming to get you bios on Russell and Gary Streiner.

We cover the bios of 2 more members of the Image-Ten group: Richard and Rudy Ricci.

The first part of an ongoing mini-series within the mini-sode universe which contains multitudes about Marilyn Eastman and Karl Hardman.

First ever mini-episode for the Done To Death Podcast. Consider this and subsequent minis as the appetizer to main course that'll be Done To Death: Season 2: Done of the Dead. Lots of research went into this upcoming season and a lot of it won't find its way into proper episodes, so these minis will be the digital graveyard where that information will now lie.