Night of the Living Dead
Night of the Living Dead is a 1968 American independent zombie horror film directed, photographed, and edited by George A. Romero, written by Romero and John Russo, and produced by Russell W. Streiner and Karl Hardman. The film's ensemble cast — which includes Duane Jones, Judith O'Dea, Marilyn Eastman, Karl Hardman, Judith Ridley, and Keith Wayne — star as a group of people trapped in a farmhouse in rural Pennsylvania, under assault by flesh-eating reanimated corpses. Although the monsters that appear in the film are referred to as "ghouls", they are credited with popularizing the modern portrayal of zombies in popular culture.
Plot
Siblings Barbra and Johnny drive to a cemetery in rural Pennsylvania to visit their father's grave, where a pale man in a tattered suit kills Johnny and attacks Barbra. Fleeing to a nearby farmhouse, she finds the resident's corpse lying half-eaten on the stairs. A growing horde of ghouls surrounds the house as a stranger, Ben, arrives and initially mistakes Barbra for the homeowner. After driving back several ghouls, he boards the windows and doors. While searching the home for supplies, he locates a lever-action rifle upstairs.
More details
| author | George A. Romero John A. Russo |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Pennsylvania |
| director | George A. Romero |
| editor | George A. Romero |
| genre | horror science fiction social thriller |
| keywords | drive east coast east coast of the united states flee hear kill lever-action rifle living dead mass murder medical supplies molotov cocktail morning news broadcast posse posse comitatus radiation search sibling space probe trowel venus winchester model 1894 young daughter |
| musicBy | William Loose |
| producer | Karl Hardman Russell W. Streiner |
| productionCompany | Image Ten |
| publisher | Walter Reade |
| recordedAt | Pittsburgh |
| theme | exploitation guerrilla filmmaking independent social thriller splatter zombie |