10. Night of the Living Dead, 1968
“They’re coming to get you Barbara”
Shot beautifully in black & white even when color was available. The movie starts right into action, they don’t explain anything in the first act, you just have to deal with it. It focuses a lot in the human relation of the people trying to work together to survive, also the zombie action is amazingly eerie and with the shitty independent look it just feels even more awesome. It may feel slow at times but if you just sit tight and wait a bit,you are in for a treat.
This movie is a big deal in the horror genre for many reasons: this was one of the first films to graphically depict violent murders on screen also the casting of the protagonist Duane Jones; a black man was not something you would see frequently. When this movie came out they didn’t had a restriction system, so I bet a bunch of kids would’ve shit their pants on the theater.
Supposedly Romero had a big deal but with the condition of changing the ending to be more upbeat and add a love story subplot, which of course he didn’t, he stuck to his guns and got a great independent film.
It is very interesting that the undead are never referred as zombies. The best description the media can come up with in the film is “ghouls”.
This movie is in public domain, so you can watch it pretty much anywhere, on Google video, on You Tube, Internet Archive, etc. I bought my copy for about a dollar.
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