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NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968) featuring introduction by author Tom Fallows. His book "George A. Romero's Independent Cinema: Horror, Industry, Economics" will be available for sale and signing.FREE for Silver Cinema Club members on April 4! Log in to your Club account to reserve your free ticket. Not a member? Join today.
George A. Romero's 1968 classic is one of the horror genre's best and most influential films. The low-budget thriller broke the color barrier with the casting of an African American man (Duane Jones, GANJA & HESS) as the hero among a primarily white cast — the rational man of action defending a group of survivors in an abandoned farmhouse against an onslaught of unrelenting living dead in search of live flesh. Trapped in this nightmare with him are a young couple, a bewildered family of three and a young woman who loses her brother early on in a most unsettling manner. Flying in the face of convention and viewer expectations at every turn, NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD is as vibrant and socially relevant today as it was more than 50 years ago. NOT RATED
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About Tom Fallows
Tom Fallows is the writer of "George A. Romero's Independent Cinema." He holds a PhD in Film Studies awarded by the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom, and his research has explored a range of marginalized independent filmmakers, from home video guru Charles Band to father of the midnight movie Ben Barenholtz. Fallows also examined the rise of Blumhouse Productions in the acclaimed 2023 anthology "Indie TV: Industry, Aesthetics and Medium Specificity," and his award-winning work has been published in Horror Studies, the Journal of Popular Film & Television, the New Review of Film and Television and the Directory of World Cinema series. When not writing and researching, Fallows is the Manager, Multimedia and Digital Systems at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center.
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD also screens April 5–11 (no intro).
Part of George Romero's Independent Cinema series: For the full lineup visit: https://tinyurl.com/GeorgeRomeroIndieCinemaAFI
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center, 8633 Colesville Rd, Silver Spring, MD 20910-3916, United States,Silver Spring, Maryland
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