Night of the Living Dead

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Category: 18
All Genres: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Release Year: 1968
Country: USA
Runtime: 96
Rating: (0)
Languages: English
Director: George A. Romero
Sound: Mono
Taglines:

They keep coming back in a bloodthirsty lust for HUMAN FLESH!...

Pits the dead against the living in a struggle for survival!

They won't stay dead.

They're coming to get you...again!

Writing by: John A. Russo - (screenplay) (as John Russo) and
George A. Romero - (screenplay) (as George Romero)

Produced by: Anand Bhatt - executive producer (40th anniversary edition 2008)
Karl Hardman - producer
Russell Streiner - producer (as Russell W. Streiner)

Cast: Duane Jones - Ben
Judith O'Dea - Barbra
Karl Hardman - Harry Cooper
Marilyn Eastman - Helen Cooper / Bug-eating zombie
Keith Wayne - Tom
Judith Ridley - Judy
Kyra Schon - Karen Cooper
Charles Craig - Newscaster / Zombie
S. William Hinzman - Cemetery Zombie (original and new scenes) (as Bill Heinzman)
George Kosana - Sheriff McClelland
Frank Doak - Scientist

Music: Scott Vladimir Licina
Official Website: Visit Website

Plot Outline: A group of people hide from bloodthirsty zombies in a farmhouse.
Plot: The radiation from a fallen satellite might have caused the recently deceased to rise from the grave and seek the living to use as food. This is the situation that a group of people penned up in an old farmhouse must deal with.

Movie Quotes: Field Reporter: Are they slow-moving, chief?
Sheriff McClelland: Yeah, they're dead. They're all messed up.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
The credits play over still frames of the hunters dragging Ben out of the house with meat hooks. After the credits, there's a short scene of the hunters setting a pile of zombies on fire.

Goofs: We know about 26 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: When Jonny got out of his car he threw his driving gloves onto the dashboard, but a little later he takes them out of his pocket and puts them on.

Trivia: There are 56 entries in the trivia list - like these:
Bosco chocolate syrup was used to simulate the blood in the film.
The zombie hand that Tom (Keith Wayne) hacks up with a kitchen knife was made of clay and filled with chocolate syrup.
When the zombies are eating the bodies in the burnt-out truck they were actually eating roast ham covered in chocolate sauce. The filmmakers joked that it was so nausea inducing that it was almost a waste of time putting the makeup on the zombies, as they ended up looking pale and sick anyway.