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Night of the Living Dead


Night of the Living Dead is a 1968 American independent horror film written, directed, photographed and edited by George A. Romero, co-written by John Russo, and starring Duane Jones and Judith O'Dea. The story follows seven people who are trapped in a rural farmhouse in western Pennsylvania, which is besieged by a large and growing group of "living dead" monsters. The film was completed on a $114,000 budget and shot outside Pittsburgh, where it had its theatrical premiere on October 1, 1968. The film grossed
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Night of the Living Dead


-ray by Criterion Collection on February 13, 2018. "Night of the Living Dead" is the first of six " ... of the Dead" films directed by George Romero. Following the 1968 film, Romero released "Dawn of the Dead", "Day of the Dead", "Land of the Dead", "Diary of the Dead" and "Survival of the Dead". Each film traces the evolution of the living dead epidemic in the United States and humanity's desperate attempts to cope with it
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I Am Legend (novel)


its influence and that of its 1964 adaptation, "The Last Man on Earth", upon his seminal film "Night of the Living Dead" (1968). Discussing the creation of "Night of the Living Dead", Romero remarked, "I had written a short story, which I basically had ripped off from a Richard Matheson novel called "I Am Legend"." Moreover, film critics noted similarities between "Night of the Living Dead" (1968) and "The Last Man on Earth" (
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Living Dead


Living Dead is a blanket term for various films, series, and other forms of media that all originated from, and includes, the 1968 horror film "Night of the Living Dead" conceived by George A. Romero and John A. Russo. The loosely connected franchise predominantly centers on different groups of people attempting to survive during the outbreak and evolution of a zombie apocalypse. After the film's initial success, the two creators split in disagreement regarding where the series should head. Romero went on to direct five additional "Dead"
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Birth of the Living Dead


Birth of the Living Dead (sometimes known by its working title Year of the Living Dead) is a 2012 American documentary film directed by Rob Kuhns. It is about the 1968 horror film "Night of the Living Dead" and that film's legacy. It features interviews with "Night of the Living Dead" director George A. Romero, Elvis Mitchell, Jason Zinoman, Larry Fessenden, Gale Anne Hurd, and Mark Harris. Rob Kuhns interviews a range of authors, critics, and filmmakers about the impact, legacy,
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Night of the Living Dead (film series)


The Dead is a series of six zombie horror films created by George A. Romero beginning with the 1968 film "Night of the Living Dead" directed by Romero and co-written with John A. Russo. The franchise predominantly centers on different groups of people attempting to survive during the outbreak and evolution of a zombie apocalypse. The latest installment of the series, "Survival of the Dead", was released in 2009, with "Rise of the Living Dead", a prequel film written and directed by Cameron Romero (son
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Night of the Living Dead 3D


Night of the Living Dead 3D or Night of the Living DE3D is a 2006 horror film made in 3D. It is the second remake of the 1968 horror classic "Night of the Living Dead". The first remake was released in 1990 and was directed by Tom Savini from a revised screenplay by George A. Romero. Unlike the first remake, no one involved with the original is involved with this version. The original film was never properly copyrighted, and so it has fallen into the public domain, making this remake possible with
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Return of the Living Dead (film series)


Return of the Living Dead is a zombie film series of five films beginning with the 1985 film "The Return of the Living Dead". The series came about as a dispute between John A. Russo and George A. Romero over how to handle sequels to their 1968 film, "Night of the Living Dead". The two reached a settlement wherein Romero's sequels would be referred to as the "Dead" movies, and Russo's sequels would bear the suffix "Living Dead". Thus, each man was able to
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Diary of the Dead


The cast was great. They had a lot of theater experience. I think they could have gone from scene one all the way to the end of the movie, all in a single shot." The film is the fifth film in Romero's "Dead" series and there are some notable references to earlier Romero films, as when the news track from 1968's "Night of the Living Dead" is used in the scene where the cast is in Ben's garage; but the film is not a direct sequel
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Night of the Living Dead


reanimate" the 1968 film by replacing Romero's celluloid images with animation done in a wide variety of styles by artists from around the world, laid over the original audio from Romero's version. "Night of the Living Dead: Reanimated" premiered theatrically on October 10, 2009, in Ramsey, New Jersey at the Zombie Encounter and Film Festival. "Night of the Living Dead: Reanimated" was nominated in the category of Best Independent Production (film, documentary or short) for the 8th Annual Rondo Hatton Classic Horror
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Night of the Living Dead


. "Night of the Living Dead" premiered on October 1, 1968, at the Fulton Theater in Pittsburgh. Nationally, it was shown as a Saturday afternoon matinée – as was typical for horror films at the time – and attracted an audience consisting of pre-teens and adolescents. The MPAA film rating system was not in place until November 1968, so even young children were able to purchase tickets. Roger Ebert of the "Chicago Sun-Times" chided theater owners and parents who allowed children access to the film
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Night of the Living Dead (1990 film)


Night of the Living Dead is a 1990 American horror film directed by Tom Savini and starring Tony Todd, Patricia Tallman, and Tom Towles. It is a remake of George A. Romero's 1968 horror film of the same name. Romero rewrote the original 1968 screenplay he had originally co-authored with John A. Russo. Siblings Barbara and Johnny visit their mother's grave in a remote Pennsylvania cemetery. During their visit, Barbara is attacked by a zombie. Her brother comes to her defense, but is killed. Barbara flees
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Night of the Living Dead


2011 film "" relates the story of a group of horror film fans who become involved in a "real-life" version of the 1968 film. Due to the film's public domain status, several independent film companies have also done remakes of the film. Romero revolutionized the horror film genre with "Night of the Living Dead"; according to Almar Haflidason of the BBC, the film represented "a new dawn in horror film-making". The film has also effectively redefined the use of the term "
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Night of the Living Dead (song)


"Night of the Living Dead" is the fourth single by the horror punk band the Misfits. It was released on October 31, 1979, on singer Glenn Danzig's label Plan 9 Records. 2,000 copies of the single were pressed on black 7" vinyl. The night of its release the band performed at Irving Plaza in New York City and sold the single at the door. "Night of the Living Dead" is titled after the 1968 horror film of the same name, and the song's lyrics address the
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Messiah of Evil


of strait-laced, suit-wearing people. While their targets consist of a long-haired dandy and his two lovers. Newman places the film within a specific era of horror film, which he names "the American Nightmare". He defines it as the era starting with "Night of the Living Dead" (1968) and ending with "Dawn of the Dead" (1978). He defines it as an era where writer-directors started their own film projects, and then went in search of business
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Land of the Dead


. The film grossed over $40 million and is second behind "Dawn of the Dead" with the highest-grossing revenue (unadjusted for inflation) in the "Living Dead" series (not including the remakes), the two lowest being "Night of the Living Dead" (1968) and "Diary of the Dead" (2008). The film opened the MTV Saturday Horror block on February 27, 2010. Roger Ebert gave the film three stars out of four for what he considered its skillful and creative
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more than 25 languages and released across Europe, Canada and Australia. "Night of the Living Dead" grossed $30 million internationally, and "the Wall Street Journal" reported that it was the top-grossing film in Europe in 1969. Fifty years after its release, the film enjoys a reputation as a classic and still receives positive reviews, being regarded by many as one of the best films of 1968. In 2008, the film was ranked by "Empire" magazine No. 397 of "The 500 Greatest
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The Return of the Living Dead


With footage shown of the destroyed area, Glover describes the outcome to his superior officer, that the blast resulted in less than 4,000 dead and dismisses reports of acid rain, which soon restarts the zombie rising all over again. The film has its roots in a novel by John Russo also called "Return of the Living Dead". When Russo and George A. Romero parted ways after their 1968 film "Night of the Living Dead", Russo retained the rights to any titles featuring "Living Dead" while Romero was free
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Tom Savini


", "The Burning", "The Prowler" and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2". Savini directed "Night of the Living Dead", the 1990 remake of Romero's 1968 "Night of the Living Dead"; his other directing work include three episodes of the TV show "Tales from the Darkside" and one segment in "The Theatre Bizarre". As an actor and stuntman, he has appeared in films such as "Martin", "Dawn of the Dead", "Knightriders",
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The Walking Dead (season 1)


seeing George A. Romero's 1968 film "Night of the Living Dead" when he was fourteen years old. ""Night of the Living Dead" had this weird vibe that was almost - it was like pornography... It had this marvelously attractive, disreputable draw... I loved it immediately." Darabont recalls walking into a comic book store in Burbank, California and seeing "The Walking Dead" on the shelf in 2005. "Being that I've always had "the love of zombies genre," I of course
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Night of the Living Dead


masculinity" in this film is that Barbara, the main female lead, is portrayed as being weak and scared and not capable of defending herself. "Night of the Living Dead" entered the public domain in the United States because the original theatrical distributor, the Walter Reade Organization, neglected to place a copyright indication on the prints. In 1968, United States copyright law required a proper notice for a work to maintain a copyright. Image Ten displayed such a notice on the title frames of the film beneath the original title
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John A. Russo


John A. Russo (born February 2, 1939), sometimes credited as Jack Russo or John Russo, is an American screenwriter and film director most commonly associated with the 1968 horror classic film "Night of the Living Dead". As a screenwriter, his credits include "Night of the Living Dead", "The Majorettes", "Midnight", and "Santa Claws". The latter two, he also directed. He has performed small roles as an actor, most notably the first ghoul who is stabbed in
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Night of the Living Dead 3D: Re-Animation


outbreak under control. Sibling rivalry gives way to madness as Harold discovers Gerald’s dark secret–the freshly exhumed and zombified corpse of their father. The film also features a Sarah Palin spoof in the character of 'Sister Sara' (who works for a news outlet called 'Fixed News' which is apparently a spoof of "Fox News") and makes references to the original 1968 "Night of the Living Dead" film with comments such as "They're Romero zombies" and "Pittsburgh is the zombie capital.
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Hammer Film Productions


to see more explicit gore, more expertly staged, in relatively mainstream films. "Night of the Living Dead" (1968) had set a new standard for graphic violence in horror films. Hammer tried to compete as far as possible ("Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell", for example, features a scene where the Baron treads on a discarded human brain) but realised quickly that, if they could not be as gory as the new American productions, they could follow a trend in European films of the time
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Night of the Living Dead


battle with Romero, who believed Russo marketed his film in direct competition with "Day of the Dead" as a sequel to the original film. In the case "Dawn Associates v. Links", Romero accused Russo of "appropriat[ing] part of the title of the prior work", plagiarizing "Dawn of the Dead"'s advertising slogan ("When there is no more room in hell ... the dead will walk the earth"), and copying stills from the original 1968 film. Romero was ultimately granted a restraining
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Night of the Living Dead (film series)


of George) in the works. A sixth sequel taking place after "Land of the Dead", titled "Road of the Dead", is also in development. After "Night of the Living Dead" 's initial success, the two creators split in disagreement regarding where the series should head, and since the film was in the public domain, each were able to do what they liked with the continuity of their projects. Romero went on to direct five additional "Dead" films, while Russo branched into literary
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Night of the Living Dead: Darkest Dawn


Night of the Living Dead: Darkest Dawn, also known as Night of the Living Dead: Origins and Night of the Living Dead: Origins 3D , is a 2015 computer-animated horror film directed by Krisztian Majdik and Zebediah De Soto and produced by Simon West. The film is a re-telling of the original "Night of the Living Dead" in a contemporary setting. An animated re-telling of the original "Night of the Living Dead" film. Set in modern-day New York City rather than
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Evans City, Pennsylvania


Cemetery and the borough became popularly known as the place where the 1968 horror film "Night of the Living Dead" was filmed. The film's director, George A. Romero, also shot his 1973 film "The Crazies" in and around Evans City. Evans City Borough is represented by a municipal government of one Mayor and five Council members. Currently Dean Zinkhann serves as the Mayor of Evans City, and the council has the following members: Lee Dyer, Kim Armstrong, Faye Parenti, Matt Otto, and Shelley Natali
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Lee Hartman


, which was released in 1959. Hartman worked for Warner Bros. Animation during the 1990s. His animation for Warner Bros. included "Tiny Toon Adventures". Hartman began writing, in addition to animation, during the 1960s. In 1997, he published a series of short horror stories called "The Darkendown Tales." He also ventured into acting, appearing as a reporter in the 1968 horror film, "Night of the Living Dead" and as the voice of the Reporter in "Night of the Living Dead: Reanimated"
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Anna and the Apocalypse


) and "The Breakfast Club" (1985), as well as the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" episode "Once More, with Feeling". McPhail also said that "Anna and the Apocalypse" includes "nods" to the zombie films "Night of the Living Dead" (1968), "Dawn of the Dead" (1978), "The Evil Dead" (1981), "The Happiness of the Katakuris" (2001) and "Shaun of the Dead" (2004). The
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Night of the Living Dead


. As in "Night of the Living Dead", Romero peppered the other films in the series with critiques specific to the periods in which they were released. The same year "Day of the Dead" premiered, "Night of the Living Dead" co-writer John Russo released a film titled "The Return of the Living Dead" that offers an alternate continuity to the original film than "Dawn of the Dead". Russo's film spawned four sequels. "Return of the Living Dead" sparked a legal
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George A. Romero


George Andrew Romero (; February 4, 1940 – July 16, 2017) was an American filmmaker, writer and editor. He is best known for his series of gruesome and satirical horror films about an imagined zombie apocalypse, beginning with "Night of the Living Dead" (1968). This film is often considered a progenitor of the fictional zombie of modern culture. Other films in the series include "Dawn of the Dead" (1978) and "Day of the Dead" (1985). Aside from this series
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Days Gone Bye (The Walking Dead)


's adapting it." In his interview, Kirkman exclaimed that it was "an extreme validation of the work", and continued by expressing that "never in a million years could [he] have thought that if "Walking Dead" were to ever be adapted that everything would be going this well." "The Walking Dead" institutes elements from George A. Romero's horror film "Night of the Living Dead" (1968). Darabont admitted to becoming a fan of the film at age fourteen. He insisted
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Night of the Living Dead (1990 film)


, this one knows how to bring tired zombies back to life." "Variety" called it "a crass bit of cinematic grave-robbing". Owen Gleiberman of "Entertainment Weekly" rated it D– and wrote, "In the history of bad ideas, George Romero's decision to produce a color remake of his disturbingly frenzied 1968 zombiefest "Night of the Living Dead" has to rank right up there with New Coke." Kevin Thomas of the "Los Angeles Times" wrote, "While this "
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Horror film


film tells the story of a pregnant woman who suspects that an evil cult wants to take her baby for use in their rituals. Meanwhile, ghosts were a dominant theme in Japanese horror, in such films as "Kwaidan", "Onibaba" (both 1964) and "Kuroneko" (1968). Another influential American horror film of the 60s was George A. Romero's "Night of the Living Dead" (1968). Produced and directed by Romero on a budget of $114,000, it grossed $30 million
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Night of the Living Dead (song)


zombie plot of the film: ""You think you're a zombie, you think it's a scene/from some monster magazine/Open your eyes too late/This ain't no fantasy boy"". "Where Eagles Dare" shares its title with a 1968 World War II spy film. "Rat Fink" is a cover of a song by Allan Sherman from his 1963 album "My Son, the Nut", which itself is a parody of "Rag Mop". It was the only cover
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Bill Hinzman


Samuel William "Bill" Hinzman (October 24, 1936 – February 5, 2012) was an American actor and film director. Hinzman's first role was the cemetery zombie in the popular horror film "Night of the Living Dead" (1968). He reprised the role in new scenes that were filmed for the 30th-anniversary edition of the film. Hinzman also played roles in the films "Legion of the Night" (1995), "Santa Claws" (1996), "Evil Ambitions" (1996
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James Riffel


Titled "Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of the Revenge of the Terror of the Attack of the Evil, Mutant, Alien, Flesh Eating, Hellbound, Zombified Living Dead Part 2: In Shocking 2-D", a 1991 horror spoof. The movie where he used an alias name, Lowell Mason, was created by redubbing the 1968 horror classic "Night of the Living Dead" with comedic dialog, and by adding new clips. Although it was originally distributed to only
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Keith Wayne


from Chartiers-Houston High School. He graduated from Mansfield State College in Mansfield, Pennsylvania, where he majored in music and was a fixture in university theatrical productions. During his college career he led an extremely popular dance band, Ronnie and the Jestors. Wayne appeared in only one film, George A. Romero's 1968 horror classic "Night of the Living Dead". Following the completion of the film, he worked as a singer for a number of years with The Bill Roberts Show, Keith Wayne and the Unyted Brass
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Land of the Dead


and "Dead Reckoning" (the same as the military vehicle used in the film). Romero said in an interview that one of the first potential film studios (20th Century Fox) wanted the film to be titled "Night of the Living Dead". He refused, wanting to use the title "Dead Reckoning", and the studio then wanted to title it "Night of the Living Dead: Dead Reckoning". It turned out that Fox sought to own the rights to the "Night of the Living Dead
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Ganja & Hess


for starring in the 1968 film "Night of the Living Dead" (though he had bit parts in other movies). The film was screened at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival. It was remade by Spike Lee in 2014 as "Da Sweet Blood of Jesus". The film follows Dr. Hess Green (Duane Jones), a wealthy black anthropologist who is doing research on the Myrthians, an ancient African nation of blood drinkers. One night, while staying in Green's lavish mansion, richly decorated with African art,
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Night of the Living Dead


then took those selections and augmented them electronically". Sound tech R. Lococo's choices worked well, as film historian Sumiko Higashi believes that the music "signifies the nature of events that await". A soundtrack album featuring music and dialogue cues from the film was compiled and released on LP by Varèse Sarabande in 1982. In 2008, recording group 400 Lonely Things released the album "Tonight of the Living Dead", "an instrumental album composed entirely of ambient music and sound effects sampled from Romero's 1968 horror classic"
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Season of the Witch (1973 film)


desperately hammy (Anne Muffly) to the dangerously laid-back (Ray Laine)." The review concluded that "there is enough evidence here of Romero's quirky talent to maintain interest throughout" In a review of the "Season Of The Witch" home video, "The A.V. Club" compared the film to Romero's "Night of the Living Dead" stating that the film "looks significantly less impressive [...] Where "Night Of The Living Dead" sandwiched some undistinguished, talky bits featuring actors of widely
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Christopher Panzner


:Naissance is going to invert the adaptation process by taking existing live-action films and faithfully reproducing them in animation, in a totally original graphic style unique to every film. As astonishing as it might sound, this has never been done. The first Re:Naissance film is George A. Romero's 1968 cult horror classic "Night of the Living Dead". In 2008, Mr. Panzner was script supervisor for live-action, English-language thriller "Being Killed", directed by Volker Maria Arend for Munich-
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Living Dead


Kuhns. "Birth of the Living Dead" focuses on the impact "Night of the Living Dead" had on pop culture. Although the majority of the "Living Dead" media has been films, related projects have been released in other media. A handful of books and comics books take place in the "Living Dead" universe. As with the films, some of them are officially endorsed, while others are not. "Escape of the Living Dead" series "Night of the Living Dead" series The Walking
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Tombs of the Blind Dead


film boom of the early 1970s. Ossorio has stated that Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer's Gothic horror legend "El monte de las ánimas" (1862) and George Romero's "Night of the Living Dead" (1968) both influenced the creation of his film. Legend has that in the abandoned medieval town of Berzano, at the border between Spain and Portugal, the Knights Templar (a fictionalized version of the real-life order that was dissolved in the 14th century following charges of witchcraft and heresy) leave their tombs at
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Horror Hall of Fame


for this year are: Film - "Bride of Frankenstein" (1935). Film - "Alien" (1979). Publisher - Famous Monsters of Filmland. Film - "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" (1974). Publisher - EC Comics. Production Company - Universal Studios. Film - "Night of the Living Dead" (1968). The nominees for best film for Horror Hall of fame III were "The Addams Family", "Child's Play 3", "Alien 3", "
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Night of the Living Dead


film on a "minuscule budget". Slasher films of the 1970s and 80s such as John Carpenter's "Halloween" (1978), Sean S. Cunningham's "Friday the 13th" (1980), and Wes Craven's "A Nightmare on Elm Street" (1984) "owe much to the original "Night of the Living Dead"", according to author Barry Keith Grant. Since its release, some critics and film historians have interpreted "Night of the Living Dead" as a subversive film that critiques
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Danny Peary


volume book series "Cult Movies" (1981), "Cult Movies 2" (1983), and "Cult Movies 3" (1989). Peary’s informative and passionate dissection of such critically ignored (at the time) cult film hits as "Black Sunday" (1960), "Night of the Living Dead" (1968), "Aguirre, the Wrath of God" (1972), "The Conqueror Worm" (aka "Witchfinder General") (1968), "Once Upon a
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Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction


revolve around a post-apocalyptic future, and the plot is often a vehicle for varied scenes of hardcore pornography and softcore sexual imagery. Director George A. Romero's "Night of the Living Dead" (1968), and its five sequels, including "Dawn of the Dead" (1978) and "Day of the Dead" (1985), popularized the concept of a zombie apocalypse, focusing on the breakdown of American society in a world where the dead are reanimating as mindless, undead cannibals due to some unknown
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Living Dead


Fan of the Dead" is a 2003 52 minute documentary road-movie revealing the filming locations of "Night of the Living Dead", "Dawn of the Dead", "Day of the Dead" and "Night of the Living Dead" remake with exclusive interviews with the cast of the George A. Romero's trilogy. "Fan of the Dead" was released on DVD/Blu-ray in USA/Canada (Cheezy Flicks), France (Bach Films), Italy (Millennium Storm), Germany (
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Night of the Day of the Dawn


2, it is the first in the series to be publicly released. The movie was created by redubbing the 1968 horror classic "Night of the Living Dead" with comedic dialog, and by adding new clips. Although it was originally distributed to only 500 video stores in the United States, the film has since achieved cult status. "NOTDOT" was screened at the New York City Horror Film Festival in October 2005. With 41 words in its title, 168 characters without spaces, it holds the distinction of being cited
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Living Dead


to produce this film without the involvement of either Romero or Russo. This film is a sequel to "Night of the Living Dead 3D" and is not the same as "Night of the Living Dead: Reanimated" (2009) , which is an animated film using various techniques to retell the story of the original film. Directed by Ana Clavell and James Dudelson. While billed as a sequel to "Day of the Dead", as Taurus Entertainment Company holds the original's copyright, it has no actual ties to
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Birth of the Living Dead


and enduring popularity of "Night of the Living Dead". Romero describes the film's background, production, and distribution, including how it accidentally fell into the public domain. Fessenden describes "Night of the Living Dead"s aspects of postmodernist film, including an early commentary on horror films inside of a horror film – Johnny's taunting of his sister, Barbra, in the opening graveyard scene. Hurd cites the film as an influence on her own work as executive producer of "The Walking Dead". Mitchell, among other
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A Clockwork Orange (film)


-ray was reissued for the 40th anniversary of the film's release, identical to the previously released Blu-ray, apart from adding a Digibook and the "" documentary as a bonus feature. Along with "Bonnie and Clyde" (1967), "Night of the Living Dead" (1968), "The Wild Bunch" (1969), "Soldier Blue" (1970), "Dirty Harry" (1971), and "Straw Dogs" (1971), the film is considered a landmark
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The Mist (film)


"always had it in mind to shoot "The Mist" in black and white", a decision inspired by such iconic films as "Night of the Living Dead" (1968) and the "pre-color" work of Ray Harryhausen. While the film's cinematic release was in color, the director has described the black and white print (released on Blu-ray in 2008) as his "preferred version." The director revised the ending of the film to be darker than the novella's ending,
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Zombie film


not include films devoted to these types of undead. Victor Halperin's "White Zombie" was released in 1932 and is often cited as the first zombie film. A number of Zombie films were produced in late 1930s and in 1940s, including I Walked with a Zombie (1943). Inspired by the zombie of Haitian folklore, the modern zombie emerged in popular culture during the latter half of the twentieth century, with George A. Romero's seminal film "Night of the Living Dead" (1968). The film received
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Exploitation film


An exploitation film is a film that attempts to succeed financially by exploiting current trends, niche genres, or lurid content. Exploitation films are generally low-quality "B movies". They sometimes attract critical attention and cult followings. Some of these films, such as "Night of the Living Dead" (1968), set trends and become historically important. Exploitation films may feature suggestive or explicit sex, sensational violence, drug use, nudity, gore, the bizarre, destruction, rebellion, and mayhem. Such films
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Night of the Living Bread


Night of the Living Bread is a 1990 American independent short film comedic parody of "Night of the Living Dead", directed by Kevin S. O'Brien. Bread comes to life, spreads its condition throughout the United States, and preys on the living in this eight-minute film. Two people are attacked in a cemetery by slices of bread, which is hurled at them. The people escape in their car as more bread hurls itself at them from offscreen. They make it to a farmhouse where they and others are besieged
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Night of the Living Dead


gives "Night of the Living Dead" a 97% approval rating based on 65 reviews, with an average rating of 8.9/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "George A. Romero's debut set the template for the zombie film, and features tight editing, realistic gore, and a sly political undercurrent." "Night of the Living Dead" was awarded two distinguished honors decades after its debut. The Library of Congress added the film to the National Film Registry in 1999 with other films deemed "culturally, historically
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Flesheater


Flesheater, sometimes written as "FleshEater" or "Flesh Eater", is a low budget 1988 independent horror film, specifically a zombie film, by Bill Hinzman. Hinzman, who wrote, produced, edited, directed and starred in the film, is best known for playing the cemetery ghoul in George A. Romero's "Night of the Living Dead" (1968). The film starts with a group of kids taking a hayride in the country on Halloween. They pay the local farmer to take them to a secluded
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Richard France (writer)


a zombie (uncredited) in George A. Romero's original "Night of the Living Dead" (1968) and including, among others, as Dr. Watts in Romero's "The Crazies" (1973), as Dr. Rausch in the director's "Dawn of the Dead" (1979), and as a white slaver in Charles Ludlum's "The Sorrows of Dolores" (1986). He also appeared as the therapist in Scott B and Beth B's stylish low-budget 1982 noir film "Vortex"
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Duane Jones


the Sorbonne and studied acting in New York City. From 1972 to 1976, he oversaw the literature department at Antioch College. Jones was also a Phelps-Stokes exchange scholar in Niger and taught literature at Long Island University. He created English-language training programs for the Peace Corps and helped design Harlem Preparatory School, where he headed the English department. His role in 1968 movie "Night of the Living Dead" marked the first time an African-American actor was cast as the star of a horror film and one
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Living Dead


" as well. George A. Romero's "Dead" series includes: Remakes have been made for three of the original films with the involvement of some of the original cast and crew members: Directed by Tom Savini, former special make-up effects artist, who worked on "Dawn of the Dead" and "Day of the Dead" while George A. Romero rewrote the screenplay. The plot of the film follows closely the 1968 original, where Barbara, Ben, the Cooper family and Tom Landry and his girlfriend Judy
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Living Dead


" to reshoot extra sequences into the film. This version, which was officially named "Night of the Living Dead: 30th Anniversary Edition", added a subplot, alternate opening, and new score. Russo followed this with another Living Dead film, "Children of the Living Dead". While the two kinds are similar in appearance, there are certain distinguishing details: Romero's original "Night of the Living Dead" explains that an unknown phenomenon causes re-animation of the brain. Instead of being spread from person
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Night of the Living Dead


$12 million domestically and $18 million internationally, earning over 250 times its budget. "Night of the Living Dead" has been regarded as a cult classic by film scholars and critics, despite being heavily criticized upon its release for its explicit gore. It eventually garnered critical acclaim and has been selected in 1999 by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry, as a film deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". "Night of the Living Dead" led to five subsequent films between
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Bill Moseley


Darrell in the film "Pink Cadillac" starring Clint Eastwood. He then played the lead role of Ricky Caldwell in "". In 1990, Moseley appeared in four films: "Crash and Burn", "The First Power", "The End of Innocence", and, playing Johnny, in Tom Savini's remake of George A. Romero's 1968 zombie film, "Night of the Living Dead". In 1993, he had a small role in the cult hit "Army of Darkness" as the Deadite
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Exploitation film


), "The Gruesome Twosome" (1967) and "The Wizard of Gore" (1970). The first splatter film to popularize the subgenre was George A. Romero's "Night of the Living Dead" (1968), the director's attempt to replicate the atmosphere and gore of EC's horror comics on film. Initially derided by the American press as "appalling", it quickly became a national sensation, playing not just in drive-ins but at midnight showings in indoor theaters across the country. Foreign
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Zombie


or adventure themed works outside the horror genre. For example, the original "Jonny Quest" series (1964) and the James Bond novel and movie "Live and Let Die" both feature Caribbean villains who falsely claim the voodoo power of zombification in order to keep others in fear of them. The modern conception of the zombie owes itself almost entirely to George A. Romero's 1968 film "Night of the Living Dead". In his films, Romero "bred the zombie with the vampire, and what he got was
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Anthology film


various "sub-stories", as in "Intolerance" (1916), "Tales of Manhattan" (1942), "Flesh and Fantasy" (1943), "Dead of Night" (1945), and "The Illustrated Man" (1968). "Dead of Night" helped to popularize the format for horror films—although they had existed as far back as "Unheimliche Geschichten" (1919)—and British company Amicus made several such films in the 1960s and 1970s. The 1989 film "New York
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George A. Romero


the late 1960s. This is the production company that produced "Night of the Living Dead" (1968). Directed by Romero and co-written with John A. Russo, the movie became a cult classic and a defining moment for modern horror cinema. Among the inspiration for Romero's filmmaking, as told to Robert K. Elder in an interview for "The Film That Changed My Life", was the British film, "The Tales of Hoffmann" (1951) from the Powell and Pressburger team. The three films
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Night of the Living Dead


The magazine quoted Romero as saying, "I didn't want to touch "Night of the Living Dead"". Critics panned the revised film, notably Harry Knowles of "Ain't It Cool News". Knowles promised to permanently ban anyone from his publication who offered positive criticism of the film. A collaborative animated project known as "Night of the Living Dead: Reanimated" was screened at several film festivals and was released onto DVD on July 27, 2010, by Wild Eye Releasing. This project aims to "
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Dawn of the Dead (1978 film)


Dawn of the Dead (also known internationally as Zombi or Zombie) is a 1978 Italian-American independent zombie horror film directed by George A. Romero. It was written by Romero in collaboration with the Italian filmmaker Dario Argento and produced by Richard P. Rubinstein. It was the second film made in Romero's "Night of the Living Dead" series and shows in a larger scale the apocalyptic effects on society, though it contains no characters or settings from the film "Night of the Living Dead". In the film,
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Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream


Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream is a 2005 documentary film written and directed by Stuart Samuels, based on his book on the subject. The film chronicles the period between 1970 and 1977 in which six low-budget films shown at midnight transformed the way films are made and watched: "El Topo" (1970), "Night of the Living Dead" (1968), "The Harder They Come" (1973), "Pink Flamingos" (1972), "The Rocky Horror Picture Show
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Halloween (1978 film)


noting it as sociologically irrelevant but ceding its Hitchcock-like technique as effective and "the most honest way to make a good schlock film". Allen pointed out the stylistic similarities to "Psycho" and George A. Romero's "Night of the Living Dead" (1968). The following month, "Voice" lead critic Andrew Sarris wrote a follow-up feature on cult films, citing Allen's appraisal of "Halloween" and saying in the lead sentence that the film "bids fair to become the cult discovery
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The Frond Files


Jurassic Park." Gene's segment, "Fart School for the Gifted," spoofs the 1979 musical comedy film "Rock 'n' Roll High School" and plays on the "adults v. kids theme of '80s films." Also Mr. Frond's appearance is based on Principal Vader, also from "Rock and Roll High School". Tina's segment, "A Tale of Horror," is a homage to the 1968 zombie horror film "Night of the Living Dead," and as such is animated
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Night of the Living Dead (1990 film)


film. Without Romero on set, he clashed with the producers, who did not allow him to explore his vision for the film. To avoid an NC-17 rating, Savini had to cut several scenes from the film. Savini attributed the film's lack of popularity among horror fans to these cuts. A Blu-ray version was released in a limited edition of 3,000 in October 2012 by Twilight Time. Australian film distributor Umbrella Entertainment released a special edition of the film featuring a restored print, alongside the 1968 original on Blu
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Halfbreed Billy Gram


for almost two years. In 2008 "One for the Fire: The Legacy of Night of the Living Dead", a documentary written by Gram, was released. It celebrates the 40th Anniversary of the definitive horror film of Independent American Cinema. The film is included on the 40th Anniversary edition of "Night of the Living Dead" released by Dimension Films. The film was also included on the European Blu-ray release of George Romero's "Diary of the Dead", also from Dimension Films. The film "
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Night of the Living Dead (film series)


territory, writing "Return of the Living Dead", which was later loosely adapted into a film of the same name and would have its own franchise, and "Escape of the Living Dead". Labeled ""Trilogy of the Dead"" until "Land of the Dead", each film is laden with social commentary on topics ranging from racism to consumerism. The films are not produced as direct follow-ups from one another and their only continuation is the theme of the epidemic of the living dead. This
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Death Line


leads, David Ladd." Robin Wood of "The Village Voice" praised the film, writing that it "vies with "Night of the Living Dead" (1968) for the most horrible horror film ever. It is, I think, decidedly the better film: more powerfully structured, more complex, and more humanly involved. Its horrors are not gratuitous; it is an essential part of its achievement to create, in the underground world, the most terrible conditions in which human life can continue to exist and
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Inseminoid


"The Free Lance–Star" discerns elements of the novel "Dracula" (1897), the TV series "The Bionic Woman" (1976–78), and the films "The Thing from Another World" (1951) and "Night of the Living Dead" (1968) in the plot of "Inseminoid". Warren denies claims of an imitation, noting the discrepancies between the production schedules: when "Inseminoid" entered the shooting stage, "Alien", which had been filmed in closed studios, had
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Living Dead


CMV Laservision), Spain/Portugal (Manga Films), Great-Britain (Arrow Films) and Australia (Umbrella Entertainment). Additional credits: Music by Sebastian Munoz and Antonio Martino; Edited by Olivier Andre. Directed by Robert Lucas (as Robert L. Lucas) and Chris Roe. "One for the Fire: The Legacy of 'Night of the Living Dead' " is a 2008 documentary film made to celebrate the 40th anniversary of George Romero's "Night of the Living Dead". It features most of
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James Rolfe


the 1968 horror film "Night of the Living Dead". The film was shown at the Atlanta Horror Fest in October 2007. On May 5, 2006, Rolfe released a music video that included stock footage from a trip he had made to England and Scotland. The music used in his work was from the Black Sabbath single "Heaven and Hell". Rolfe also participated in the 48 Hour Film Project between 2004 and 2007. In the 2007 event, he was the Audience Award Winner for his film "Spaghetti Western
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Public domain in the United States


Currently, Paramount Pictures owns the copyright to the film. Charles Chaplin re-edited and scored his 1925 film "The Gold Rush" for reissue in 1942. Subsequently, the 1925 version fell into the public domain when Chaplin's company failed to renew its copyright in 1953, although the 1942 version is still under US copyright. The distributor of the cult film "Night of the Living Dead", after changing the film's title at the last moment before release in 1968, failed to include a proper copyright notice in
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Night of the Living Dead


audiences an uncomfortable, nihilistic glimpse unusual for the genre. Other prevalent themes included "disillusionment with government and patriarchal nuclear family" and "the flaws inherent in the media, local and federal government agencies, and the entire mechanism of civil defense". Film historian Linda Badley explains that the film was so horrifying because the monsters were not creatures from outer space or some exotic environment, "They're us." Romero confessed that the film was designed to reflect the tensions of the time: "It was 1968, man
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Hal Roach


" (1946), "Night of the Living Dead" (1968), and other popular films. In the 1980s, Hal Roach Studios produced "Kids Incorporated" in association with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Roach's old distributor in the 1930s. During the 1980s, Hal Roach Studios distributed its classic film library, as well as films in the public domain, on home video. 1986 saw the merger of Hal Roach Studios with the production firm of Robert Halmi into "Qintex Entertainment", named after Australian
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Hi-Q (production music)


Hi-Q was a brand and library of production music produced and distributed by Capitol Records in the early 1940s and late 1970s. It was used in several movies and other productions. Perhaps the most notable work to feature Hi-Q music was the 1968 film "Night of the Living Dead". The film's producer Karl Hardman used tracks from the library (some of which had been composed specially for the film), and then enhanced them by adding electronic effects, such as echo and reverb; this was unusual
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Jack Thomas Smith


learned every job in making a movie. I held the boom, worked the lights. You've got to check your ego at the door." After completing it, the two filmmakers sold it to Arrow Entertainment for $150,000, doubling their investment. Smith subsequently met John A. Russo, the writer of one of Smith's favorite films, the 1968 film "Night Of The Living Dead". Smith raised the financing for Russo's script for the 1996 horror film "Santa Claws", which is about a serial
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Night of the Dead (film)


of life, but they are now ghouls, in pain and hungry for the flesh of the living. When they escape their confinement, the whole institute is put at risk. "Night of the Dead" was produced by director Eric Forsberg's own production company, Cerebral Experiment. Forsberg sold his house to finance the film. It was shot on a single location. The original title for "Night of the Dead" was "Night of the Leben Tod", which later turned into "Night of the Dead:
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The Plague of the Zombies


Films' finest." "Time Out London" wrote, "perhaps a little tame these days, compared with modern gore-shock, but Gilling's Hammer chiller [...] is highly atmospheric." "The Hammer Story: The Authorised History of Hammer Films" wrote, "much has been said of "The Plague of the Zombies"' influence on genre landmark "Night of the Living Dead", made in 1968. A unique and shocking experiment in pushing the parameters of Hammer horror, "The Plague
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Russell Streiner


Russell Streiner (born February 6, 1940), also credited as Russ Streiner and Russell W. Streiner, is an American film producer and actor. Streiner is the older brother of actor/producer Gary Streiner. Streiner is perhaps best known for his role as Johnny in "Night of the Living Dead" (1968). He was also one of the producers of the film. Streiner has also produced "There's Always Vanilla" (1971), "The Booby Hatch" (1976), and the remake of
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Night of the Living Dead 3D: Re-Animation


Night of the Living Dead 3D: Re-Animation is a 2012 horror film prequel to the 2006 film, "Night of the Living Dead 3D". It stars Andrew Divoff (also a co-producer), Jeffrey Combs, Sarah Lieving and Denice Duff. Pyrophobic mortician Gerald Tovar, Jr. inherits the family mortuary and accidentally exposes hundreds of uncremated bodies to toxic medical waste. As the corpses reanimate, Gerald’s inheritance-seeking younger brother, Harold, unexpectedly shows up and stumbles upon Gerald trying to keep the zombie
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Independent film


As these tiny producers, theaters, and distributors continued to attempt to undercut one another, the B-grade shlock film soon fell to the level of the Z movie, a niche category of films with production values so low that they became a spectacle in their own right. The cult audiences these pictures attracted soon made them ideal candidates for midnight movie screenings revolving around audience participation and cosplay. In 1968, a young filmmaker named George A. Romero shocked audiences with "Night of the Living Dead", a new kind of
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Night of the Living Dead


a new colorized version. Technology critic Gary W. Tooze wrote that "The colorization is damn impressive", but noticed the print used was not as sharp as other releases of the film. In 2009, Legend Films coproduced a colorized 3D version of the film with PassmoreLab, a company that converts 2-D film into 3-D format. The film was theatrically released on October 14, 2010. According to Legend Films founder Barry Sandrew, "Night of the Living Dead" is the first entirely live action 2-D film to be converted to
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre


one of the most sustained and believable acting achievements in movie history." Patrick Taggart of the "Austin American-Statesman" hailed it as the most important horror film since George A. Romero's "Night of the Living Dead" (1968). "Variety" found the picture to be well-made, despite what it called the "heavy doses of gore". John McCarty of "Cinefantastique" stated that the house featured in the film made the Bates motel "look positively pleasant by comparison". Revisiting the
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Patricia Tallman


Romero on several films, including "Knightriders", "Monkey Shines", and "Creepshow 2" (in which Tallman performed stunts). In 1990, Tallman starred as Barbara in the Tom Savini-directed remake of the 1968 film "Night of the Living Dead". In 1992, she played the Possessed Witch under heavy make-up in the cult classic "Army of Darkness", as well as the Witch in the modern day scenes. In 1993, Tallman's most notable stunt work came as stunt
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Zombie


part of cinema since the 1930s, with "White Zombie" (directed by Victor Halperin in 1932) being one of the earliest examples. With George A. Romero's "Night of the Living Dead" (1968), the zombie trope began to be increasingly linked to consumerism and consumer culture. Today, zombie films are released with such regularity (at least 55 titles were released in 2014 alone) that they can be viewed as a separate subgenre of Horror film. Voodoo-related zombie themes have also appeared in espionage
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Night of the Living Dead


describes the black-and-white filming as "guerrilla-style", resembling "the unflinching authority of a wartime newsreel". Maddrey adds, it "seem[s] as much like a documentary on the loss of social stability as an exploitation film". "Night of the Living Dead" was the first feature-length film directed by George A. Romero. His initial work involved filming shorts for Pittsburgh public broadcaster WQED's children's series "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood". Romero's decision to direct "Night of
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28 Days Later


Resident Evil" turning round in my head." Early influences on Garland included the George Romero films "Night of the Living Dead" (1968) and "Dawn of the Dead" (1978), which he loved as a child, but he said he had largely forgotten about the zombie genre until he played the video game "Resident Evil" (1996), which reminded him how much he loved zombies after "having not really encountered zombies for quite a while". "28 Days Later" features scenes
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Judith O'Dea


Judith O'Dea (born April 20, 1945) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Barbra in the 1968 George A. Romero film "Night of the Living Dead". In addition to her signature role, O'Dea has appeared in the television movie "The Pirate" in the 1970s. She later took a break from acting to focus on raising her family. In the new century, O'Dea returned to acting in several low-budget horror films, including "Claustrophobia", "Evil Deeds"
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