Night of the Living Dead (Silver Screen Collector's Edition)
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Features
• Black & White
• DVD-Video
• NTSC
In Theaters : 01 October, 1968
DVD Release : 12 May, 1998 |
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Night of the Living Dead (Silver Screen Collector's Edition) description
We can hardly imagine how shocking this film was when it first broke into the film scene in 1968. There's never been anything quite like it again, though there have been numerous pale imitations. Part of the terror lies in the fact that it is shot in such a raw and unadorned fashion that it feels like a home movie, and is all the more authentic because of that. It draws us into its world gradually, content to establish a merely spooky atmosphere before leading us through a horrifically logical progression that we hardly could have anticipated. The story is simple: Radiation from a fallen satellite has caused the dead to walk, and hunger for human flesh. Once bitten, you become one of them. And the only way to kill one is by a shot or blow to the head. We follow a group holed up in a small farmhouse who are trying to fend off the inevitable onslaught of the dead. The tension between the members of this unstable, makeshift community drives the film. Night of the Living Dead establishes savagery as a necessary condition of life. Marked by fatality and a grim humor, the film gnaws through to the bone, then proceeds on to the marrow. --Jim Gay |
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Night of the Living Dead (Silver Screen Collector's Edition) Customer Reviews
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Romero's night of the zombie cannibals.
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I revisited this film before seeing George Romero's new film, [[ASIN:B0013FZUOW Diary of the Dead]], upon its theatrical release this weekend. Romero is best known as the director, writer, editor and actor in his "Dead Series" of five zombie-apocalypse films, which also offer his commentary on modern society. In the late Sixties, Romero and his friends kicked in roughly $10,000 each to produce the low-budget (i.e., $114,000) black-and-white zombie cult classic, Night of the Living Dead (1968). Duane Jones stars as Ben and Judith O'Dea as Barbra. The film tells the simple story of the mysterious reanimation of the dead and the efforts of Ben, Barbra and five others to survive the night while trapped in a rural Pennsylvania farmhouse that is under attack by ravenous, flesh-eating zombies. Meanwhile the radio reports an epidemic of mass murders in the eastern United States, and an emergency television broadcast reveals the hungry murderers are consuming their victims' flesh. One scientist believes the reanimation of the dead is the result of radiation emanating from a Venus space probe that exploded in the Earth's atmosphere. A gunshot or heavy blow to the head is recommended to stop the "ghouls." The film features disturbing images especially for the 1960s, and one can only imagine what it was like experiencing this horror film upon its initial theatrical release. (Roger Ebert has described the film's effect on the audience: "The kids in the audience were stunned. There was almost complete silence. The movie had stopped being delightfully scary about halfway through, and had become unexpectedly terrifying. There was a little girl across the aisle from me, maybe nine years old, who was sitting very still in her seat and crying.") Astute viewers saw Romero's film as much more than a simple zombie flick. It offers his critique of late-1960s Vietnam-era America; one film historian called the film "subversive on many levels." To date, Romero has made four sequels to his film: [[ASIN:B0002IQNAG Dawn of the Dead]] (1978), [[ASIN:B00008G8L9 Day of the Dead]] (1985), [[ASIN:B000B2YR7Y Land of the Dead]] (2005) and [[ASIN:B0013FZUOW Diary of the Dead]] (2008), and Night of the Living Dead has inspired countless other zombie films. This DVD edition (a must-have for any Romero fan) has been remastered to THX specifications from the best materials in Romero's possession, and offers many DVD extras.
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