Review of Night of the Living Dead (1968) by Dave Kehr for Chicago Reader — 14 Mar 2011
Made for pennies in Pittsburgh. Its premise—the unburied dead arise and eat the living—is a powerful combination of the fantastic and the dumbly literal. Over its short, furious course, the picture violates so many strong taboos—cannibalism, incest, necrophilia—that it leaves audiences giddy and hysterical.
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This review of Night of the Living Dead (1968) was written by Dave Kehr and published by Chicago Reader on 14 Mar 2011.
Night of the Living Dead has generally received very positive reviews.
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