Last weekend was Halloween. A night for creeps. An evening of shrieks. For some scream queen royalty, they got one of the more unpleasant kinds of frights. Richard Driscoll, who crowdfunded a sequel to the 1985 punk zombie classic Return of the Living Dead , published the new film on his website. This came to the surprise to the original cast, who were attached to star in the follow-up. Instead it seems Driscoll opted to use AI to generate the film, leaving fans and alumni more aghast at him than the flesh eating ghouls.

“This is not what we signed up for,” says Beverly Randolph on the Caffeinated Horror Dude podcast . “We got to get something out there because there’s so much hate on us right now.”

Due to some erroneous paperwork, George A. Romero’s original Night of the Living Dead was released directly into the public domain in 1968. Because of this, it enabled any director and studio, including Romero himself, to develop ‘sequels’ to the series regardless of legal claim.…