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![]() With Duane Jones, Judith O'Dea, Keith Wayne Directed by George A. Romero With rare exceptions (before the '70s), horror films were pretty much in the league of their drive-in B-movie Sci-Fi counterparts, being low budget filler fodder. In 1968 Pittsburgh based commercial moviemaker George Romero rewrote the horror book with his production of this classic black & white zombie flick. At a time of hippie disillusion, the impending Vietnam War and a film industry taking new daring chances, he transcended the mere visceral thrill with underlying political layers. The basic survival plot of a group of strangers holed up together in a farmhouse, trying to keep the (inexplicable) risen dead from getting to them, escalates to a struggle amid themselves. With its dark tone and ![]() 5 / B - PB 1 2 3 4 5 6 A - B - C click below for Romero's Living Dead movies click below for the Return Of The Living Dead Trilogy click below for Dead Re-Makes |
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