Review of Night of the Living Dead (1968) by Daniel C — 17 Feb 2013
This is probably the most important horror movie since Psycho. This movie is just plain creepy and eerie. The shadows and documentary feel is scary. This truly is a one of a kind film. It is the only film to date in which the regular audience consisted of adults and children, thinking it was a harmless horror movie with a great hero coming to save the girl at the end.
Man, were they shocked. To understand the powerful affect this movie had on society, just read Roger Ebert's review of the movie and how he watched the movie. After a month after this film was first released, The MPAA rating system came into affect, like the PG rating or Rated R.
The really strange thing about this movie is that even today, people get frightened of this movie. In reality, you can say that this is like the half-way point in horror history, it's shot in black and white, like the Universal horror films, but has extreme(well, not really) violence that is seen in today's modern horror films.
I thought the social commentary in a low-budget horror films was never done before, until I saw this movie. George A. Romero had an opportunity to sell his movie to a major studio, but they wanted to change the ending, and add a love story.
He and his fellow crew members said no and looked for a distributor who would not make them change the film. Every horror movie owes something to this movie and the zombie image would change forever. A must-see for anyone who watches horror movies.
Just lock your doors and windows before you do see this film.
This review of Night of the Living Dead (1968) was written by Daniel C on 17 Feb 2013.
Night of the Living Dead has generally received very positive reviews.
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