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Night of the Living Dead (1968)

Horror | 96 minutes
3,49 893 votes

Genre: Horror

Duration: 96 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: George A. Romero

Stars: Duane Jones, Judith O'Dea and Karl Hardman

IMDb score: 7,8 (146.010)

Releasedate: 4 October 1968

Night of the Living Dead plot

"If it doesn't scare you, you're already dead!"

The world is suddenly engulfed by an epidemic of the living dead, feeding on the living. A group of people can hide in a secluded farm. They are under constant attack, but tensions are also growing from within...

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Actors and actresses

Harry Cooper

Helen Cooper

Karen Cooper / Corpse in House

Newscaster / Zombie

Zombie (as Bill Heinzman)

Self - Field Reporter (as Bill 'Chilly Billy' Cardille)

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Noodless

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A classic that finally gets a rating.

Once set up, but didn't get any further than halfway through. Now completely, but I must confess that there was another breaking moment somewhere in the middle where my attention slackened a bit.

The opening is good and once in the house it is quite well set up. The moment the other people came up from the basement, the film started to get a bit monotonous because the focus was mainly on the relationships between themselves than on the zombies. Once the focus is back on the zombies, the story gets more interesting again. A few unexpected events follow which fortunately makes it not all that predictable. I also appreciate the final scene. Night of the Living Dead (1968) is the beginning of a trilogy directed by George A. Romero. Dawn of the Dead (1978) and Day of the Dead (1985) followed later. The cast does not impress much, especially the ladies remain somewhat in the background. This movie gets a 6.5/10

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avatar van Alathir

Alathir

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Quite entertaining in itself. It's not all spectacular, but the discussions back and forth are good. The characters aren't too stupid. It ends a bit unlucky for everyone actually. It is also noticeable that the main character is a black man. That must have been special for that time. Maybe some kind of statement. Anyway, he did that well. Despite the fact that the film is largely single location, it is not that bad. Atmosphere is good, a bit of tension, good soundtrack. It has some Hitchcock touches here and there. Never really filmed explicitly, that reminds me of Psycho and the world famous shower scene. Yes, quite nice and curious about other films by Romero, of which I only saw number 1 after all the films I saw.

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Roger Thornhill

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Like the original Texas chainsaw massacre, this film benefits from the raw image quality that gives the whole thing a documentary-like unsentimentality. Actually, the film does a lot of good: the dialogues flow logically from the situation with relevant reasoning that makes sense, the music is effective (even if it is public domain and not specially written for this film), the sound -design is effective, the interviews with walking experts and soldiers look realistic, there is no humor or satire to give the film a comic undertone and thus put the viewer at ease, and the gloomy atmosphere continues until with the last shot inescapable. Last but not least, the actors play strong, especially Duane Jones as the articulate (and handsome-looking) Ben, Judith O'Dea as Barbra (realistic in shock), and Karl Hardman as the hot-tempered Harry Cooper who doesn't always make the right choices (which would he do with his pee in the basement?). But hey, in the end it's still a zombie film (and even one that is directly or indirectly responsible for the boom of walking corpses with minimal motivation that has since flooded horror cinema), and that makes this film interesting for me from a historical point of view rather than compelling in terms of entertainment value.

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