Night of the Living Dead
George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead is the big kahuna of zombie movies, that’s for sure. The 1968 classic horror flick scared the living daylights out of kids and adults alike when it showed up. Roger Ebert recalls the scene at one theatre as kids sat in stunned silence during the movie’s more grotesque moments. When Night of the Living Dead premiered, you see, the MPAA wasn’t enforcing ratings just yet.
Romero’s movie was heavily criticized at the time for the amount of blood and gore, but it pales in comparison to much of today’s rougher fare. Even so, it’s an incredibly chilling and exciting motion picture that really captures the inevitable and unstoppable threat of the zombies. Night of the Living Dead spawned a whole series of films and offshoots, some of which were handled by Romero himself and others delivered by Romero’s co-writer John Russo and director Dan O’Bannon.







