Thanks to the brilliant debut Night of the Living Dead (1968), director and screenwriter George Romero is considered the creator of the modern zombie, a metaphor for the profoundly consumerist and capitalist society we live in, that was perfectly shown years later in Dawn of the Dead (1978); this movie was distributed in Italy as Zombi, with a different editing made by Dario Argento and a soundtrack once again composed by legendary Goblin.