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Night of the Living Dead
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures.
- Horror films.
- Genre:
- Feature films
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (streaming video file) (97 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
- Place of Publication:
- Janus Films (The Criterion Collection) 1968
- [San Francisco, California, USA] Kanopy Streaming 2019
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- digital
- video file MPEG-4 Flash
- 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***
- Participant:
- Duane Jones, Judith O'Dea
- Notes:
- Title from title frames
- Film
- In Process Record
- Originally produced by Janus Films (The Criterion Collection) in 1968
- OCLC:
- 1125072954
- Publisher Number:
- 6793497 Kanopy
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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