Two siblings named
Barbara (Judith O'Dea) and Johnny
(Russell Striener) travel up to a
graveyard to visit their mother's
tombstone as a storm is about to occur
and then while Johnny is teasing Barb
about the dead rising he encounters a
zombie and the zombie attacks and kills
him as the dead start rising due to a
satellite from Venus causing a radiation
.
Barbara hides out in a farmhouse where
there she meets a man named Ben (Duane
Jones) as he is hiding out in the
farmhouse for the same reason as they try
to lock themselves in.
They listen to the radio to find out on
how to stay safe from this hellish
nightmare and the radio announcer tells
people these zombie's are also eating the
people's flesh.
Ben discovers that the zombie's don't
like fire and also some other survivors
come to the farm house for safety but
however the dead are finding ways of
getting in.
A
very interesting zombie flick and one of
the most original one's too that inspired
many others.
The zombie's mostly looked like people
with pale faces but that was the time
when people didn't have great effects
with the make up etc.
It starts off wonderfully and perfect for
a drive in movie.
It does give you a fear thinking your
world could be extinct by the living
dead.
Followed by decades of sequels like
Dawn of the Dead, Day of
the Dead and Land of the
Dead as well as two remakes.
The acting was great for
it's time as Judith O'Dea was a
natural and shows great acting skills
especially when she starts tripping out
after realising what is happening.
Although she nebver stuck to acting after
this film years later she became a cult
item and nowadays occasionally acts in
other people's indepdendent horror films.
Duane Jones is wonderful trying
to portray a man who tries to stay calm
and sane from this incident. He also
shows great aggression towards Karl
Hardman's character and his hatred
towards him for acting like a scumbag.
Karl Hardman's role is someone
you'd love to hate and he does it very
well.
A rotting corpse
is in a farmhouse.
Zombies eat people's body parts and guts.
George A. Romero
knew how to direct a classic zombie
horror film as this was my favourite work
of his.
With his direction of Judith O'Dea and
Russell Striener is convincing
enough that the terrifying events are
about to unravel.
He shows great camera shots of one of the
zombie's attacking Striener's character
as well as them invading the farmhouse
outside in the field.
He directed child actress Kyra Schon
terrifically when she transforms into a
zombie with her angry looking
expressionless face when she attacks her
character mother Marilyn Eastman and
shows great stabbing scenes with echoey
effects. Ahh yessss! Terrrifically!!!!
Next up Karl Hardman is about to rise up
as a zombie before being shot in the head
and it looks great and then Eastman is
lying there bloodied suddenly her eyes
open which has fine timing too with the
camera shot on her.
The music is excellent by Scott
Vladmir Licina as he plays chilling
keyboard effects during the beginning of
this film as well as at certain times
during the outside events around the
farmhouse with the zombie's.
He
also showed terrific thumping type sounds
during the canniballistic moments and is
shown during other zombie events in the
farmhouse.
This man is a true legend.
Johnny:
Hey, come on, Barb. Church was this
morning.
[pause as lightning is seen]
Johnny: I mean, prayin's for
church.
Barbara: I haven't seen you in
church lately.
Johnny: Well, there's not much
sense in my going to church.
Johnny:
[in a creepy voice] They're coming
to get you, Barbara!
Barbara: Stop it! You're ignorant!
Johnny: They're coming for you,
Barbara!
Barbara: Stop it! You're acting
like a child!
Johnny: They're coming for you!
[points to the cemetery zombie]
Johnny: Look, there comes one of
them now!
Barbara: He'll hear you!
Johnny: Here he comes now! I'm
getting out of here!
Barbara:
Don't you understand? My brother is
alone!
Ben: Your brother is dead.
Barbara: NO! My brother is NOT
dead!
Newscaster:
It has been established that persons who
have recently died have been returning to
life and committing acts of murder. A
widespread investigation of funeral
homes, morgues, and hospitals has
concluded that the unburied dead have
been returning to life and seeking human
victims. It's hard for us here to be
reporting this to you, but it does seem
to be a fact.
Harry
Cooper: [to Barbara] Now you'd
better watch this and try to understand
what's going on.
[Ben looks at him]
Harry Cooper: I don't want
anyone's life on my hands.
Helen Cooper: Is there anything I
can do...?
Ben: I don't wanna hear any more
from you, Mister! If you stay up here,
you take orders from ME! And that
includes leaving the girl alone!
[to
Harry Cooper after having been locked
outside]
Ben: I ought to drag you out there
and FEED you to those things!
Barbara:
You can't start the car, Johnny has the
keys!
Field Reporter:
Chief, if I were surrounded by eight or
ten of these things, would I stand a
chance with them?
Sheriff McClelland: Well, there's
no problem. If you have a gun, shoot 'em
in the head. That's a sure way to kill
'em. If you don't, get yourself a club or
a torch. Beat 'em or burn 'em. They go up
pretty easy.
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