0ur opinion: essential video:We can hardly imagine how shocking this film was when it first broke into the film scene in 1968. There's never been anything quite like it again, though there have been numerous pale imitations. Part of the terror lies in the fact that it is shot in such a raw and unadorned fashion that it feels like a home movie, and is all the more authentic because of that. lt draws us into its world gradually, content to establish a merely spooky atmosphere before leading us through a horrifically logical progression that we hardly could have anticipated. The story is simple: Radiation from a fallen satellite has caused the dead to walk, and hunger for human flesh. 0nce bitten, you become one of them. And the only way to kill one is by a shot or blow to the head. We follow a group holed up in a small farmhouse who are trying to fend off the inevitable onslaught of the dead. The tension between the members of this unstable, makeshift community drives the film.
Night of the Living Dead establishes savagery as a necessary condition of life. Marked by fatality and a grim humor, the film gnaws through to the bone, then proceeds on to the marrow.
--Jim Gay
essential video:George Romero's classic 1968 zombie-fest (shot in black and white) offers some disturbing images, even decades later. ln a Pittsburgh suburb people are being stalked by zombies ravenous for human flesh. ln a house whose occupant has already been slain, two separate groups of people unite and board themselves in, hoping to fend off the advancing ghouls. Through radio and TV reports they learn that radiation from outer space is thought to be responsible for the wave of zombie attacks all over the eastern United States. 0nce the humans are trapped, Romero shifts the focus to the internal feuding between them as they decide how to handle their dreadful situation. What unfolds is an examination of human nature, and of the fear and selfishness that keep many citizens from getting involved in the world's problems. Appropriately, both the zombies and the authorities who later hunt them are equally soulless. This film could also be read as a criticism of white males--it is not merely a coincidence that the film's two most rational, constructive characters are a woman and a black man. lt is also no coincidence that the sequel takes place in a mall infested by the undead--a perfect analogy for consumer culture.
--Bryan Reeseman
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Now that Night of the Living Dead has passed into the public domain, there are many different versions, remakes, copyies and mashups.
l can't speak for the others, but this particular version is excellent. Sound and vision are great.
DVD extras include interviews with cast members and George Romero himself.
Beware of "cheap" copies. This one is the version to get.
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Best DVD release for one of the best horror films ever made.
Night of the Living Dead is a film with no real copyright. What does this mean? That any two-bit dvd company can put this film out. So what you get are tons of cheap dvd's with awful transfers.
This is the Night of the Living Dead dvd to own. You get a feature length documentary called "0ne For The Fire" which has one of the last on screen interviews with Karl Hardman along with interviews with the rest of the surviving cast who go in depth about the making of the film. You also get a few other extras along with the film which has been remastered and looks great.
The film itself is my favorite horror movie. Famous for being the first flesh-eating zombie film it was released in 1968 where it pretty much changed the horror genre overnight. lt's gritty, low budget, and has a very un-hollywood ending. This is the one that started it all.
Barbara and Johnny go to the Cemetery one afternoon to visit their father's grave. They're attacked by a ghoul and Johnny is killed. Barbara escapes to a farmhouse where she meets up with Ben...More and more zombies are approaching the house, can they survive the night?
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Living Dead Festival in Evans City Pa
lf you are a fan of N0TLD then you should check out the Living Dead Festival site. lt started in 2OO8 in Evans City Pa, where the movie was filmed. Every year they are going to put on a Film Festival where the movie was filmed with many of the original cast members and producers at the showing. Check it out and then pass it on!!
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Watching this movie in color is like seeing it for the first time again.
And the nice extra is that it also has the black and white version on the dvd also which is restored. Great purchase!!
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Night of the Living Dead does wonders for the Horror Genre
For a film that is widely considered a horror classic, "Night of the Living Dead" has been handled with surprisingly poor care in the home video market over the years.
For the longest time, the film was generally only available on VHS copies that could often be found in the bargain bins of your local video store. The reason for the cheap price became apparent after viewing. The picture quality of many of these editions was so poor that viewing them made you feel as if you were watching the movie through dirty aquarium water.
With the advent of DVD there have been ocassional first rate packages out there but more often than not the film was still mishandled and if you've seen the film, countless times, watching this DVD is almost like viewing it for the very first time.
