Rifftrax - Night of the Living Dead

Full length movie with hilarious commentary by the stars of Mystery Science Theatre 3000!
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DVD Details

  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 36 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
  • Released: June 16, 2009
  • Originally Released: 1968
  • Label: Legend Films

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 130,375
...The best thing is that NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD isn't over-composed -- it just hurtles ahead with all its gruesomeness...
Los Angeles Times
Mar 15, 1991
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. Full Review
Village Voice
Sep 19, 2007
Rating: 5/5 -- Night of the Living Dead is a revolutionary moment in American independent cinema, a film that inspired countless of filmmakers to pick up a camera and attempt their dream with nothing more than a handful of friends, a shoestring budget, and a vision. Full Review
FanboyNation.com
Oct 29, 2018
A slightly tacky horror picture which makes quite an impact; partly, I suspect, by ingeniously playing off its own limitations. Full Review
The Spectator
Jul 18, 2018
The immediate, quasi-documentary feel, a result of budgetary constraints, actually served the film's horror, jolting audiences because it all seemed just a little too real. Full Review
Village Voice
Oct 12, 2017
Rating: 5/5 -- The movie remains unsettling after all these years because of its bleak simplicity. Full Review
eFilmCritic.com
Oct 16, 2018
Rating: 8/10 -- ...there's a strong element of social satire in this low-budget horror movie, and racism is not Romero's only target... Full Review
TheArtsStl
Feb 28, 2019

Description by OLDIES.com:

The classic zombie thriller that started it all - made new with a hilarious, rapid-fire commentary by Mike Nelson and the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000. Yes, the dead are walking, and hunger for human flesh. A group of panicked survivors hole up in a deserted farmhouse while an army of zombies encircles them - can they last the night?! Terror turns to laughter as Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett live through The Night of the Living Dead!

Product Description:

George Romero's NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD is a low-budget, homegrown classic that had great difficulty finding a distributor at the time of its release in 1968, and has since become 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 was an extremely sensitive issue in the United States.) The plot is simple: 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 keep trying to enter the house. Radio news reports tell of the plague taking over the eastern United States, while the ever-decreasing band of survivors rapidly loses ground in the battle to both keep peace with one another and stay alive.

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  • UPC: 844503001344
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