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NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEADUnited States | 1968 | BD | 96 minutes | Black & White | English
Director: George A. Romero
Cast: Duane Jones, Judith O’Dea, Karl Hardman, Marilyn Eastman, Keith Wayne, Judith Ridley, Russell W. Streiner, Kyra Schon, Charles Craig, S. William Hinzman, George Kosana, Frank Doak, Bill “Chilly Billy” Cardille, George A. Romero, A. C. McDonald, Mark Ricci, Samuel R. Solito, Lee Hartman
Shot outside Pittsburgh on a shoestring budget, by a band of filmmakers determined to make their mark, NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, directed by horror master George A. Romero, is a great story of independent cinema: a midnight hit turned box-office smash that became one of the most influential films of all time. A deceptively simple tale of a group of strangers trapped in a farmhouse who find themselves fending off a horde of recently dead, flesh-eating ghouls, Romero’s claustrophobic vision of a late-1960s America literally tearing itself apart rewrote the rules of the horror genre, combining gruesome gore with acute social commentary and quietly breaking ground by casting a Black actor (Duane Jones) in its lead role.
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