Across nearly two decades, Snyder has become an auteur lightning rod, capable of sparking support and criticism with equally startling passion. Seventeen years later, Snyder returns to the genre with Netflix's Army of the Dead, and to say the filmmaker's career has been a 'bit eventful' in the interim is understatement enough to spark its own apocalypse in the comments.

Romero's bitingly satirical zombie flick Dawn of the Dead.

In 2004, hotshot commercial director Zack Snyder made a major splash with his directorial debut, a remake of George A.