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Night of the Living Dead 50th Anniversary

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  • Original Trailer

Movie Info & Cast

Synopsis

Fathom Events and Living Dead Media are bringing George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead 50th Anniversary to select cinemas nationwide for a special two-day event, featuring an exclusive introduction from George C. Romero and Andrew Romero. Shot outside Pittsburgh on a shoestring budget, by a band of filmmakers determined to make their mark, Night of the Living Dead is a great story of independent cinema: a midnight hit turned box-office smash that became one of the most influential films of all time. A deceptively simple tale of a group of strangers trapped in a farmhouse who find themselves fending off a horde of recently dead, flesh-eating ghouls, Romero’s claustrophobic vision of a late-1960s America literally tearing itself apart rewrote the rules of the horror genre, combined gruesome gore with acute social commentary, and quietly broke ground by casting a black actor (Duane Jones) in its lead role. Stark, haunting, and more relevant than ever, Night of the Living Dead is back.

Cast

  • Duane Jones
  • Judith O'Dea
  • Karl Hardman
  • Keith Wayne
  • Judith Ridley
  • Marilyn Eastman
  • Kyra Schon
  • Charles Craig
  • George Kosana
  • Russell Streiner

Atom User Reviews

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Verified Review
#seeingitagain
#original

Reallygreat showing, the trivia and pre-show were all excellent and fairly well done. all in all a really nice showing!

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Ashley G
Verified Review
#creepy

Great film the one that started it all! Was so cool to see it on the big screen!

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William B

Metacritic

100

This is the great American nightmare, in which neither families, friends, neighbors, nor lovers can save you, and no matter what you try and no matter where you go, it won’t stop until you do. There is nothing more terrifying than that.

Michael Roffman
Consequence
88

The movie had stopped being delightfully scary about halfway through, and had become unexpectedly terrifying. There was a little girl across the aisle from me, maybe nine years old, who was sitting very still in her seat and crying.

Metacritic review by Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
50

Night of the Living Dead is a grainy little movie acted by what appear to be nonprofessional actors, who are besieged in a farm house by some other nonprofessional actors who stagger around, stiff-legged, pretending to be flesh-eating ghouls.

Metacritic review by Vincent Canby
Vincent Canby
The New York Times