Ben takes a chair outside and sets it on fire, again to scare off the attackers. Ben boards up the doors and windows from the inside with dismantled furniture and scraps of wood, meanwhile Barbara has a hysterical outburst. After subduing one of them, Ben sets the body on fire, scaring off the others. In a panic and attempting to flee the house, Barbara is found by Ben ( Duane Jones), who arrives in a pickup truck and attacks the mysterious figures with a tire iron. While exploring the empty house, she discovers a hideously mutilated corpse at the top of the stairs. She grabs a knife to use for self-defense and soon discovers that others like the man are outside. She abandons the car and runs into a nearby farmhouse to hide. Barbara flees in Johnny's car, but without the key, driving it downhill into a tree. While fighting the man, Johnny falls and hits his head on a gravestone, killing him. The man suddenly grabs Barbara and Johnny rushes to save her. William Hinzman) lumbers toward the pair. Johnny teases his sister, who is afraid of cemeteries, taunting, 'They're coming to get you, Barbara!' A pale-faced man (S. Night of the Living Dead (1968), is the first of five Dead films directed by George Romero, and twice has been remade, as Night of the Living Dead (1990 film), directed by Tom Savini, and as Night of the Living Dead 3D (2006).īickering siblings Johnny ( Russell Streiner) and Barbara ( Judith O'Dea) drive to a rural Pennsylvania cemetery to place a cross with flowers on their father's grave. Although it is not the first zombie film, Night of the Living Dead is the progenitor of the contemporary ' zombie apocalypse' sub-genre of horror film, and it influenced the modern pop-culture zombie archetype. society a historian described it as 'subversive on many levels'. Night of the Living Dead had a great impact upon the culture of the Vietnam-era United States, because it is laden with critiques of late-1960s U.S. In 1999, the Library of Congress registered it to the National Film Registry as a film deemed 'historically, culturally or aesthetically important'. On its release in 1968, Night of the Living Dead was strongly criticized for its explicit content.

George Romero completed the film on a $114,000 budget, and after a decade of cinematic re-releases, it grossed some $12 million domestically and $30 million internationally.

Ben ( Duane Jones) and Barbara ( Judith O'Dea) are the protagonists of a story about the mysterious reanimation of the recently dead, and their efforts, along with five other people, to survive the night while trapped in a rural Pennsylvania farm Night of the Living Dead, directed by George Romero, is a 1968 independent black-and-white horror film.

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