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It’s always been a personal bugbear that George A. Romero’s (RIP) Day of the Dead (1985) is rarely as lauded as its forebears (1968’s Night of and 1978’s Dawn). Poor box-office returns, inadequate marketing and decidedly mixed reviews at the time saw Day unfairly labelled as an underwhelming climax to …

“What happened is true! Now the movie that’s just as real!” screamed the posters for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre in 1974. It’s likely that most people in the mid-1970s thought that shouty tagline was just hollow hyperbole, a whopping great fib designed to give this unknown horror flick some …