Movie Information
Overall Rank: 265
Average Rating: 3.1/4
# of Ratings: 510
Theatrical Release Date: 09/01/1968
Language: English
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: George A. Romero
Actors: Duane Jones, Judith O'Dea, Karl Hardman, Keith Wayne, Judith Ridley, Marilyn Eastman
Plot: A group is stranded at a farm house after the dead begin to rise and crave human flesh.
Quick Movie Reviews
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4/4
Logan D. McCoy - wrote on 06/06/2019
A horror classic that forever shaped the zombie genre.
Rating of
2.5/4
Indyfreak - wrote on 10/26/2018
Low budget but claustrophobic horror classic that benefits from a strong lead performance by Duane Jones.
Full Movie Reviews
Rating of
3.5/4
"Night Of The Living Dead" by Yojimbo
Yojimbo - wrote on 03/31/2012
A young woman and her brother are attacked in a cemetery by a strange shambling figure, and she flees to a remote house where a motley crew of survivors are holing up against a horde of flesh eating zombies. George Romero's Night of the Living Dead is the seminal zombie film that spawned an entire genre, and is an abject lesson that strong ideas can make a brilliant film without a big budget to back it up. Duane Jones is great as the pragmatic hero who keeps a cool head and sets about survival as a job of work, and Romero's choice of a black actor to play the hero was clearly a conscious one. It's a story of the whole fabric of society unraveling; a black man taking centre stage and ordering middle class whites around, the system is shown to be ineffectual and run by bickering …
Rating of
4/4
Night of the Living Dead (1968) review
Daniel Corleone - wrote on 11/22/2011
Zombies roam around looking to feed which emanated from radioactive contamination from a space probe that exploded in the Earth's atmosphere. Brother and sister Barbara (Judith O'Dea) and Johnny (Russell Streiner) visit a cemetery when a "ghoul" attacks them. Barbara escapes and is rescued and protected by Ben (Duane Jones). In the cellar Harry (Karl Hardman) and Helen Cooper (Marilyn Eastman), their daughter Karen (Kyra Schon), and a couple Tom (Keith Wayne) and Judy (Judith Ridley) meets Ben.
Sometimes simplicity is the best way to convey a horror film thru tastefully created gore and solid acting. The story is vital to make this picture work. Topics involving survival, leadership, compromise and staying calm in dire situations were well displayed. The film composes of a …
Rating of
3.5/4
Ground Breaking Horror
ZJW - wrote on 01/23/2008
Night of the Living Dead set the standard and for all intensive purposes wrote the rulebook on how to effectively craft a Zombie film. Romero's now classic film was very controversial upon its release and many films took aspects of this film in hopes of creating an equally effective horror film.
The gore in this film is something that drew much attention upon its release. While not as gut wrenching as one would expect to see in today’s landscape of "horror" this film featured many scenes that at the time were visually disturbing. This film also features many scares that would be duplicated countless times over the years by just about every horror movie. The action and suspense sequences in the film are also very well orchestrated – this being something many films failed to …
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