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Night Of The Living Dead
1968
In director George Romero's NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, seven people secluded in a Pennsylvania farmhouse face relentless attacks by reanimated corpses seeking to eat their flesh. The group, which includes a married couple and their daughter, a pair of young lovers, and an African American man, try to keep their sanity as the .. Read more
| Starring | Judith O'Dea, Duane Jones, Karl Hardman, Keith Wayne |
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| Director | George A Romero |
| Genres | Horror |
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Night Of The Living Dead
In director George Romero's NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, seven people secluded in a Pennsylvania farmhouse face relentless attacks by reanimated corpses seeking to eat their flesh. The group, which includes a married couple and their daughter, a pair of young lovers, and an African American man, try to keep their sanity as the living dead try endlessly to enter the house until they are laid to rest by burning or a severe blow to the head. As they listen to news reports of the zombie plague taking over the eastern United States, the ever-decreasing band of survivors loses ground in their battle to both keep peace with one another and stay alive.
Romero's low-budget, homegrown classic went from being unable to find a distributor to becoming one of the most influential horror films of all time. Aside from its visceral impact years before realistic gore became the fashion, the film is also important for its portrayal of a black man as the protagonist during a time when race relations were an extremely sensitive issue in the United States. Romero's choice for the ending of his film also made a shocking and bold statement about the issue.
| Starring | Judith O'Dea, Duane Jones, Karl Hardman, Keith Wayne, Russell Streiner, Marilyn Eastman, William Hinzman, Judith Reilly |
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| Director | George A Romero |
| Studio | CINEMA CLUB |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 36 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 37 mins Watch now: 1 hr 36 mins |
| Certificate | DVD: , Watch Online: |
| Genres | Horror |
| Language | DVD: English Blu-ray: English Watch Online: English |
| Subtitles | DVD: None |
| Released | DVD: 30 Oct 2000 Blu-ray: 29 Sep 2008 Watch now: 08 Apr 2009 Production year: 1968 |
| Watch now | Subscribe and watch this as part of an unlimited package. |
| Format | DVD |
Night Of The Living Dead (1968)
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Gruesome horror comic with effective moments; the director was still doing the same schtick ten years later. One of the most influential, and most imitated, of modern horror movies.
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With its radical rewriting of a genre in which good had always triumphed over evil, Romero's first feature shattered... read more on Time Out
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They're coming for you, Barbara...
This is an essential piece of Cinema. The film that coined the expression 'Video Nasty'. Ok, so it looks a bit dated now, the acting's a bit hammy, but it was made in 196bloody8! Check out other horror films of this era and you'll see how graphic and controversal this film was. This film is as influential to modern horror films as the beatles are to modern pop music. And it's sequels only got better..
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BEST OF THE ZOMBIE FESTS!
Horror master George A Romero's first film in his zombie series. In short, a virus starts to wake the dead. It seems as if the government are getting it under control, but, well, they're not. The plot is simple yet taut with tension but it's the execution that makes it!
Forget the newbies, go for the original, the best, the utter classic! It may be more than 30 years old but it's still got a real scare factor with some of the most terrifying zombie's you'll see! -
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Arquette to 'star' in Night of The Living Dead
- 05 Aug 2009
Actress Patricia Arquette is to be inserted into her favourite horror movie as part of a special Halloween episode of her spooky TV drama Medium. The show's executive producer, Glenn Gordon Caron, has bought the rights to George Romero's Night of the Living Dead and plans to use the film as a backdrop for the upcoming special. He says, "We're going to insert Patricia into it. It's going to be sort of the landscape of her dreams during that particular episode." And horror film fan Arquette is... Read more
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