NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD 
(1968)


(From Joe Bob's Ultimate B Movie Guide)


The ultimate zombie film, once voted "Greatest Drive-In Movie in the History of the World," George Romero's crude but compelling classic about an army of walking zombies that have taken over the eastern third of the United States and are closing in on a farmhouse in Pennsylvania can still make people dive under their seats (or their cars). It started as a second feature, but the public made it a word-of- mouth runaway hit. It remains one of the most unrelenting concoctions of terror, monsters, darkness, claustrophobia, paranoia and small-town evil in which blood relations turn on one another and the whole world is endangered and anyone can die at any moment. Banned in several cities. With Judith O'Dea, Russell Strenger, Duane Jones, Ken Hardman. (Some geniuses at the Hal Roach Studios put out a colorized version, but if Romero wanted the zombies in color, he would of MADE THE ZOMBIES COLORED.)

 

 

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