Flickdaddy's on Night of the Living Dead

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"They're coming to get you, Barbara." Forever this is that ironic phrase branded in the minds of anyone who watched George Romero's original zombie horror, Night of the Living Dead. No movie before it had ever featured zombies as the living dead. In fact nowhere in the movie do you hear them called 'zombies'. Night of the Living Dead is a monster-in-the-house thriller, which has three components: A supernatural monster, a closed environment, and a sin that the monster is punishing characters for.

The supernatural monster is, of course, a zombie. The zombies have come back from the dead to eat and/or scare the pants off of anyone they come across. The closed environment is the farmhouse that the six characters take refuge in. The sin is a little more complicated to describe, though. In the opening scene, Barbara and her brother are visiting their father's grave site and Johnny is telling Barbara that he doesn't go to church anymore. This is the beginning of the disparity between the older generation and the younger. The sin of this movie is that the 1960s youth and young adults were throwing off the traditions of their parents.

Night of the Living Dead was released in 1968, and was directed by George A. Romero. This movie was a low budget movie for the time and so it made it hard for them to get big name actors. In fact for many of the actors this was the only famous movie they made throughout their career. Although it was a low budget black and white film made during the beginnings of color tv, the movie went on to become a cult classic. It is even ranked as one of the scariest movie in history on Bravo. Later when the owners changed the name of the movie they forgot to change the copyright so the movie is now available to watch or download for free.

After this movie was released the director made 5 more Dead movies. There has also been remakes and parodies of Night of the Living Dead. To this day Night of the Living Dead is considered one of the fathers of zombie movies, and has influenced the whole genre of zombie horror.