Friends and fans of horror movie director George Romero may attend a memorial to Mr. Romero at the Mount Pleasant Funeral Centre on Monday, July 24 from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. He died Sunday at age 77 from lung cancer. The director is credited with reshaping the zombie film genre with his classic Night of the Living Dead (1968) and its sequels. He also directed a number of other horror films including Monkey Shines and The Dark Half. Romero moved to Toronto in 2004 where he shot many of his later films.
