I felt real terror in that neighborhood theater last Saturday afternoon. I saw kids who had no resources they could draw upon to protect themselves from the dread and fear they felt.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
19 Sep 2007
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Over its short, furious course, the picture violates so many strong taboos -- cannibalism, incest, necrophilia -- that it leaves audiences giddy and hysterical.
– Dave Kehr,
Chicago Reader,
19 Sep 2007
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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 cliches.
– Elliott Stein,
Village Voice,
19 Sep 2007
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Although pic's basic premise is repellent -- recently dead bodies are resurrected and begin killing human beings in order to eat their flesh -- it is in execution that the film distastefully excels.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
3 Oct 2008
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If [Romero's] original vision of the undead looks dulled by today's standards, his embedded political commentary on racism feels just as sharp.