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If it doesn't scare you, you're already dead!
A group of people try to survive an attack of bloodthirsty zombies while trapped in a rural Pennsylvania farmhouse.
Night of the Living Dead
1968 Directed by George A. Romero
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Duane Jones Judith O'Dea Karl Hardman Marilyn Eastman Keith Wayne Judith Ridley Kyra Schon Charles Craig S. William Hinzman Bill Cardille John Simpson George Kosana Frank Doak A.C. McDonald Samuel R. Solito Mark Ricci Lee Hartman Ross Harris Steve Hutsko Phillip Smith Randy Burr Jack Givens Richard Ricci Rudy Ricci Paula Richards Herbert Summer William Burchinal Al Croft Jason Richards Show All…
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Elävien kuolleiden yö, Night of Anubis, ナイト・オブ・ザ・リビングデッド, ナイト・オブ・ザ・リビングデッド／ゾンビの誕生, 生ける屍の夜
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"it seems to be a sudden, general explosion of mass homicide... eyewitnesses say they are ordinary looking people, some say they appear to be in a kind of trance..."
a violent sickness intrudes a nation, fuelling its anxieties, exacerbating its tensions, eroding any and all social bonds that (barely) keep us from savagery—and still a police state is maybe the scariest result. this is brutally stark filmmaking and perhaps the most ferocious, unflinching portrait of the american psyche in the heat of the vietnam war and civil rights movement. rest in peace romero, you will be sorely missed.
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So this really aged well.
I was a bit afraid that with the whole Apocalyptic Running Zombie direction Zombie films were headed this would feel old and tired, but it most assuredly doesn't.
I am not sure if I remember correctly but I seem to recall that Romero was inspired by the novel 'I am Legend' when he was thinking of this film. The feeling of being alone, surrounded by monsters is a strong concept and it is executed to perfection in this film. This is not a full out horror fest most of us are used to. Much like the zombies themselves, it is determined and relentless.
And that's the thing, this film emanates a 'this has never been…
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Watched this for a podcast (not sure i can say which but i'll update when I can) and I honestly found the first 30 minutes or so pretty boring– it doesn't help that it reminds me of every student film it likely influenced– but the "resolution" is still so good it's hard to complain. Also, it's like 96 minutes! The way movies should be!
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johnny starts out being an absolute dick to barbra, but then the moment a threat arrives, he throws himself at a zombie with no regard for his own safety to protect her, and this is possibly the most accurate depiction of siblings
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George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead is immeasurable, not just in terms of stature within the realm of horror cinema, but in ways that reflect the grand unraveling of its respective time-period. Tragically disturbing, beautifully grainy, and relentlessly bleak; Romero's film is an unforgettable beginning to the modern Zombie subgenre.
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Prescient & downright discouraging that in the wake of a national crisis we submit to a police state that still ultimately buries the other in the name of "peace". Whenever systems break down we build the same systems right back up. All of this is delivered under the guise of a Zombie narrative, but it is also the story of the United States of America for the last sixty years. The scariest thing in this movie is the fact that even if you survive an apocalypse you're still at the whims of our sociopolitical functions. Jump to 2017 and Jordan Peel's "Get Out". The most horrifying image in that movie is the red and blue of the police arriving on a crime scene where our hero cannot be seen as such in the lens of the police state. We know what those colours mean in America for black men & women. The Snake eats its tail. America is the walking corpse.
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Rotten Tomatoes: 97%
Metacritic Metascore: 89
IMDB: 7.999/100
Release Date: 04 October 1968
Distributor: New Line Cinema - Anchor Bay
Budget: $114K
Worldwide Gross: $30M
Total Film Awards: 6#32 - Coronavirus 108
Shudder RankedJohnny: "They are coming to get you, Barbara..."
SYNOPSIS: A ragtag group of Pennsylvanians barricades themselves in an old farmhouse to remain safe from a bloodthirsty, flesh-eating breed of monsters who are ravaging the East Coast of the United States.
A film laced with fear, dread, social commentary and layered with an atmosphere so thick it could smother the air.
Night of the Living Dead follows Barbara as on a trip to her father's grave she and her brother are attacked by a listless person…
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