Night of the Living Dead (40th Anniversary Special)
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DVD Details
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 36 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 20, 2008
- Originally Released: 1968
- Label: Lisa's Skus
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Judith O'Dea & Duane Jones | |
Performer: | Karl Hardman, Marilyn Eastman, Keith Wayne, Judith Reilly, William Hinzman & Bill Hinzman | |
Directed by | George A. Romero | |
Screenwriting by | John A. Russo & George A. Romero | |
Produced by | Russell W. Streiner & Karl Hardman | |
Director of Photography: | George A. Romero |
Entertainment Reviews:
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.
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Village Voice
Although pic's basic premise is repellent -- recently dead bodies are resurrected and begin killing human beings in order to eat their flesh -- it is in execution that the film distastefully excels.
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Variety
...Second only to PSYCHO among influential horror films... -- Rating: A+
Entertainment Weekly
What's truly remarkable is how, after half a century and an uncountable number of zombie films, novels, comics, TV shows, and video games, you can watch the original Night of the Living Dead and it still feels fresh and terrifying.
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Under the Radar
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...
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TheArtsStl
Rating: 3.5/4 --
It's tame of course by today's standards, but that, combined with he cynical racial component, was viewed as an all-out attack on "civilized" American society in general.
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Scene-Stealers.com
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.
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FanboyNation.com
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.
Description by Genius Products:
"The granddaddy of modern flesh-eating zombies" (Marjorie Baumgarten, The Austin Chronicle), George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead still sets the standard for all indie fright flicks. This 40th Anniversary Edition, authorized by the director himself, reanimates the landmark tale of five strangers who struggle desperately against hordes of the walking undead. Remastered and loaded with all-new Special Features, Night of the Living Dead remains "a bona fide classic...still very scary after all these years" (Jason Jones, Classic-Horror.com).
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