Stay put, or keep moving?

In Night of the Living Dead (1968), George Romero’s horror classic, the driving tension between Ben and Harry is whether to fortify the ground floor of the farmhouse, or head to the cellar? And so the world was introduced to what would become a staple trope of the zombie sub-genre: stay put, or keep moving? What was particularly ingenious about Romero’s idea was that his films (and the many that…