Night of the Living Dead (1968) watch along
Added 2024-10-18 16:00:26 +0000 UTCHey Everyone!
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Let me tell y'all! I loved this movie! Night of the Living Dead (1968) has this raw, gritty feel that totally pulled me in. The black-and-white cinematography adds so much to the atmosphere—it’s eerie and claustrophobic in the best way. It also made the makeup so amazing. I was really impressed with how it builds tension, especially for a movie of its time. Plus, the social commentary that is woven into the story. It’s so much more than just a zombie movie. The ending left me stunned! Seriously, it’s a classic for a reason.
I really enjoyed this! I hope you do too! Leave all your comments down below!
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Comments
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Clay F
2024-10-22 21:20:19 +0000 UTCOne of the greatest horror movies, and I think a turning point for the genre. So much has been debated about that ending since they cast the very black Duane Jones in Ben's role. Romero has stated he didn't intend any deeper meaning, but you can kinda see it with a mob of white people shooting a black man dead. The ambiguity of whether or not they knew Ben was a zombie doesn't help. I'd be down for you watching more Romero movie. I think Creepshow would be at the top of that list. Great reaction.
Jeb Manning
2024-10-22 00:05:26 +0000 UTCWhat an ending! I forgot it was like that. Been a while. Awesome watch along and thanks for sharing it. Great movie. Looking forward to watching Let the Right One In. Starting it now. Definitely my favorite month of the year for movies.
Eric Lucas
2024-10-20 04:16:30 +0000 UTCThe birth of the modern zombie. I saw the trailer for this as a child when I was with my family at the local drive-in. Scared the crap out of me. Pretty impressive first feature for a guy doing tv commercials in Pittsburg. Although I think he did do a film segment for Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood (no relation). And just to set the record straight, the working title for the film was not Ghouls Just Want to Have Fun. Great poll pick and awesome reaction. Get Day of the Dead in the line-up and your lust for viscera will be sated.
James Rogers
2024-10-19 07:45:51 +0000 UTCA few years ago I was fortunate enough to chat with John Russo, who wrote the film. I asked him what I thought was the most important question: Should zombies be fast or slow? His reply was, "Slow zombies, fast food." Fun Facts: The lead wasn't written as black, he was just the best actor that auditioned. It was just a bonus that he was black, in 1968. The filmmakers were just the owners and family of an industrial film company who thought they'd try making a horror film for drive-ins. Their budget was small, but they did know how to make movies. That's why Romero's direction and cinematography are impeccable. The farm house is gone now, but the basement still exists, as it wasn't the house's basement. It was the basement of their production offices in Pittsburgh! You'll notice that in the film they do refer to the living dead as "Ghouls", which is correct. Mr. Russo didn't know who started calling them "zombies". Anyway, this is the seminal, canonical "zombie" film. "They're coming to get you, Barbra!"
Kinokind
2024-10-19 06:28:43 +0000 UTCGotta love the master Tom Savini
Catchermag
2024-10-19 03:28:45 +0000 UTCThe 1990 remake is quite good!
David Crabtree
2024-10-19 03:21:07 +0000 UTCGreat points and movie references. I’ll add if I can the second adaptation of Last Man On Earth, Omega Man with Charlton Heston. And as a Hammer Horror Fanatic, the wonderful Plague of the Zombies. Plague came out two years before NOTLD, but famously the latter movie signaled a death knell of sorts to the Gothic Horror era that Hammer specialized in. Hammer was all but dead five years after NOTLD. The stark realism of the New Hollywood movement with films like this and Texas Chainsaw killed it. Bringing the same early definition of Zombie into more modern horror, even though it’s over 35 years old, Wes Cravens Serpent and the Rainbow……my very first favorite horror movie. I was young and it’s since been replaced many times but it holds a special place in my undead heart. Also I talk too much lol
Catchermag
2024-10-19 03:10:04 +0000 UTCPrior to the 1960s, zombies were not depicted as the living dead. As far back as the early 30s, if you saw the word zombie in the title, it meant people hypnotized or under a spell of voodoo, with most of those movies taking place in some remote tropical island. My favorite of these is I Walked with a Zombie (1943), directed by Jacques Tourneur (Out of the Past, Curse of the Demon) and produced by Val Lewton. The two are also responsible for creating Cat People, another early horror favorite. I Walked with a Zombie was just given the Criterion treatment this month, paired with another Lewton production, The Seventh Victim. Vincent Price starred in The Last Man on Earth in 1964, which some argue was the first "zombie as undead" movie, resulting from the plague, but many consider Night of the Living Dead to be the true beginning to the modern definition of zombies as we understand them. I won't spoil the Price film by going into why, but it's painfully obvious if anyone has seen that one.
Shawn Goforth
2024-10-19 02:52:33 +0000 UTC"They're coming to get you Barbara!" There's a funny call back to this in Shaun of the Dead, when Shaun is on the phone with his mum (Barbara), telling her they're going to come pick her up, Ed says in the phone, "We're coming to get you Barbara!"
David Crabtree
2024-10-19 01:04:52 +0000 UTCWoo hoo! I am ready to hear the word "Johnny"a lot! 🤣 starting now!
Toc
2024-10-19 00:54:40 +0000 UTCMy first watch. I liked it. That was a tragic ending (for Ben). I think Ben was mistaken for a zombie? Diversity is desirable now and especially in 1968 with a character that is a good strong leader. The Hays Code was apparently officially abandoned by the film industry in 1968. Replaced by the MPAA film rating system still in use today. The Hays Code's days were numbered after a 1952 US Supreme Court case that granted movies First Amendment protection of free speech.
Clay F
2024-10-18 21:24:43 +0000 UTC
