Review of Night of the Living Dead (1968) by Jim H — 04 Aug 2014

A family, a man, and a woman hold up in a farmhouse as they try to survive an attack of zombies.

I should forgive this 1968 classic for its poor special effects, its misogyny, its predictable character types, it plot holes, its overwrought performances, and its lack of any ethical raison d'etre. But I don't. The female characters are all useless fools, and why doesn't the old lady in the attic ever wake up and attack the group of survivors? If the dead are walking and she's dead, why isn't she walking? Was her brain damaged? If so, that wasn't clear.

Overall, while it's a horror classic, there have been improvements on this genre that have made it archaic.