Fresh
If [Romero's] original vision of the undead looks dulled by today's standards, his embedded political commentary on racism feels just as sharp.
Amos Barshad, New York Magazine/Vulture
Night of the Living Dead
If it doesn't scare you, you're already dead!
1968 · 1h 36m · R
Horror, Science Fiction
Directed by
George A. Romero
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Night of the Living Dead
Overview
A ragtag group barricade themselves in an old Pennsylvania farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls ravaging the Northeast.
Director and cast
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95%
Tomatometer
Fresh
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
Fresh
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
Fresh
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
Fresh
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
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