Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #18041 in DVD
• Released on: 2006-10-16
• Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Box set, Black & White, Full Screen, PAL, Special Edition
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 2
• Running time: 96 minutes

Synopsis
George Romero's Night of the Living Dead is a low-budget classic that had great difficulty finding a distributor at the time of its release in 1968, and has since become one of the most influential horror films of all time. Aside from its visceral impact years before realistic gore became the fashion, the film is also important for its portrayal of a black man as the protagonist during a time when race relations were an extremely sensitive issue in the United States. The plot is simple: seven people, secluded in a Pennsylvania farmhouse, face relentless attacks by reanimated corpses seeking to eat their flesh. The group, which includes a married couple and their daughter, a pair of young lovers, and an African-American man, try to keep their sanity as the living dead try endlessly to enter the house. Radio news reports tell of the plague taking over the eastern United States, while the ever-decreasing band of survivors rapidly loses ground in the battle to both keep peace with one another and stay alive.

Customer Reviews

BEST OF THE ZOMBIE FESTS!


My first experience of Romero was through a haze of smoke watching Dawn of the Dead on late night TV. Expecting the usual late night horror flick to wash over me as I lost interest and drifted into unconsciousness I was gripped by an altogether different experience. An experience which dragged me completely into his world and despite poor special effects by today's standards evoked a true sense of dread which I shared with the main characters as they fought to preserve what they knew as their world dissolved around them. So impressed with the second of Romero's Dead quadrology that I had to explore the remaining films, and what better place to start than at the beginning. Night of the Living Dead throws you right in the mix straight away, he gives you no time to question what you are seeing around you just like the central characters all you can do is react! The lead character Ben is black not unusual in today's films but much more significant in 1968. This fact now passes audiences straight by now times have changed for the better but it was these differences Romero sought to highlight. We all know zombies are stupid, slow, and clumsy and when whacked over their thick heads they die. We on the other hand are clever, we drive cars, play football and laminate our floors so what's all the fuss about? Well zombies aren't vain, their not prejudiced, their one united force with a common purpose, they want to eat our brains nothing else. In Romero's films it's your own personal decisions that become yours and everyone else's undoing when faced with this ceaseless enemy. Very much the influence of the cold war drove this message but it still resonates today. The internal barriers in any society can be far more dangerous than any other external and some what vilified enemies, Bush and Saddam anyone? At a time when all Americas ills where blamed on Communism or the Civil Rights movement Romero reminded people that it was their society too and one day they would have to accept responsibility for it as individuals. Maybe the political landscape hasn't changed quite so much in 40 years?

Completely Misleading!
Dont get me wrong before i start, i am a absolute romero nut and love zombie films, night of the living dead is my favourite movie of all time, i even run a website dedicated to it, now what i dont like about this item is the way it is advertised is very, VERY misleading... for a start its one disk only IT IS NOT TWO DISK as i found out when i received mine from amazon... secondly i resent the fact its advertised as a special edition, there are absolutly no special features apart from the documentry which is available on other DVD's, if you want this movie i advise the special edition version which comes in a metal tin, it has lots of features and is well worth the price. this one, STINKS.