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Night of the Living Dead (1968)
The film follows characters Ben, Barbra, and five others trapped in a rural farmhouse in Western Pennsylvania when corpses begin to leave the graveyard in search of fresh human bodies to devour.
10 December 1928, Farrell, Pennsylvania, USA
4 January 1940
7 September 1922, Smithfield, Pennsylvania, USA
December 2, 1928 in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, USA
22 July 1913, Pennsylvania, USA
7 April 1943
14 February 1940, McKeesport, Pennsylvania, USA
19 April 1905, Pennsylvania, USA
October 14, 2011
The original and the best.
September 19, 2007
I felt real terror in that neighborhood theater last Saturday afternoon. I saw kids who had no resources they could draw upon to protect themselves from the dread and fear they felt.
October 07, 2013
If [Romero's] original vision of the undead looks dulled by today's standards, his embedded political commentary on racism feels just as sharp.
October 07, 2013
Director George A Romero redefined the meaning of horror for fear-sated audiences in the 1960s with this seminal classic.
September 19, 2007
George Romero's remarkably assured debut, made on a shoestring, about a group of people barricaded inside a farmhouse while an army of flesh-eating zombies roams the countryside, deflates all genre clichés.
January 23, 2013
Subjects us to the kind of unrelenting nightmare we only wish we could wake up from.
January 26, 2006
Chuckle, if you can, during the first few minutes; because after that laughter catches in the throat as the clammy hand of terror tightens its grip.
October 14, 2012
It's pitch perfect in writing, mood, and scares, and still holds up to scrutiny, no matter how harsh.
September 19, 2007
Over its short, furious course, the picture violates so many strong taboos -- cannibalism, incest, necrophilia -- that it leaves audiences giddy and hysterical.
October 09, 2012
It's a virulent portrait of an America in flux and decay, from the flag billowing near the graveyard at the start to its disturbing depiction of a lynch-mob mentality. But Night also transcends its period through sheer intensity.
July 04, 2015
Carve[s] open the guts of American culture, using violence and even the horror genre itself as a tool rather than an end.
October 03, 2008
Although pic's basic premise is repellent -- recently dead bodies are resurrected and begin killing human beings in order to eat their flesh -- it is in execution that the film distastefully excels.
