Night of the living dead /
Shot outside Pittsburgh on a shoestring budget, by a band of filmmakers determined to make their mark, NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, directed by horror master George A. Romero, is a great story of independent cinema: a midnight hit turned box-office smash that became one of the most influential films of...
| Uniform Title: | Night of the living dead (Motion picture : 1968) |
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| Other Authors: | , , , , , , , |
| Format: | Video |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | In English with optional English subtitles. |
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[San Francisco, California, USA] :
Kanopy Streaming,
2019.
Janus Films (The Criterion Collection), 1968. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to this streaming video (Kanopy) |
| Summary: | Shot outside Pittsburgh on a shoestring budget, by a band of filmmakers determined to make their mark, NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, directed by horror master George A. Romero, 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. "*George Romero's remarkably assured debut, made on a shoestring, about a group of people barricaded inside a farmhouse while an army of flesh-eating zombies roams the countryside, deflates all genre clichs.*" - Elliott Stein, ***The Village Voice*** |
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| Item Description: | Title from title frames. Originally released as a motion picture in 1968. This version produced and distributed by Image Ten. Full screen (1.37:1 aspect ratio). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (streaming video file) (97 minutes): .flv file, sound, black and white |
| Production Credits: | Photography, The Latent Image, Inc. ; editor, George Romero. |