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List Price: $4.98 Our Price: $4.98 Features • Black & White • DVD-Video • NTSC In Theaters : 01 October, 1968 DVD Release : 15 May, 2001 |
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Night of the Living Dead 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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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | A Great Social Commentary of the Late 1960's, without the Complexities of the Counterculture |
| This movie is just great. To clarify my title, Here we have young Romero and Russo, slightly older than your typical counterculture representative. In an arguable statement, I believe they dodged the "We are going to change the world" mentality of the late 60's and brought us a bare bones, practical, albeit entertaining, depiction of what was going on in the US and other parts of the world. That's getting deep. On the surface, we have the redefining of a genre (horror), monster/creature (zombies) and the impact that movies could have on you in general (forcing you to look over your shoulder when your alone in the dark, for the rest of your life). The Night of the Living Dead is not particularly scary, though, I admit, I watched this grainy version of the movie with shoddy sound during the day. Not to mention the blinds were wide open. But 'tis how I watch most horror movies. I am a wuss. Nonetheless, I can only imagine, that this movie was incredibly scary for its time. Kudos to the Romero/Russo vehicle. And kudos to Duane Jones, playing one of the first portrayals of a black man/person as a human being. | |
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