Directed & Cinematography by: George A. Romero Written & Edited by: John A. Russo & George A. Romero Starring: Duane Jones .... Ben Judith O'Dea .... Barbara Karl Hardman .... Harry Cooper Marilyn Eastman .... Helen Cooper Keith Wayne .... Tom Judith Ridley .... Judy Kyra Schon .... Karen Cooper Release Dates: Theatrical: October 1, 1968; Reykjavik International Film Festival: September 30, 2005 Rating:

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.

DVD Features:

• Available Audio Tracks: English (DTS 5.1), English (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
• Commentary by: Mike Nelson of Mystery Science Theater 3000Unknown Format
• Includes all-new color version and restored black-and-white version
• "Separated at Death": celebrity zombie game
• Vintage horror trailers

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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.