Review of Night of the Living Dead (1968) by Michael H — 01 Nov 2014
George Romero's remarkably assured debut, made on a shoestring, about a group of people barricaded inside a farmhouse while an army of flesh-eating zombies roams the countryside, deflates all genre clichés.
It traded the expressionistic sets of the traditional fright flick for a neorealistic styleâ??Romero's use of natural locations and grainy black and white gave his gorefest the look and feel of a doc.
And this was not Transylvania, but Pennsylvaniaâ??this was Middle America at war, and the zombie carnage seemed a grotesque echo of the conflict then raging in Vietnam. In this first-ever subversive horror movie, the resourceful black hero survives the zombies only to be killed by a redneck posse, and a young girl nibbles ravenously on her father's severed armâ??disillusionment with government and patriarchal nuclear family is total.
This review of Night of the Living Dead (1968) was written by Michael H on 01 Nov 2014.
Night of the Living Dead has generally received very positive reviews.
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