This is George Romero’s 1968 Zombie film “Night of the Living Dead”. It is the basis for most of this sort of stylized zombie. A lot of movies were based on the same premise of people hiding someplace and being inadequate to zombie attack.
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You can make your own DVD of Night of the Living dead by downloading it and burning it on to a disk. You need to download Night.iso
You can then give away copies to anyone you want because this is a public domain movie.
Here’s the trailer from George Romero’s remake Dawn of the Dead. It was more contemporary of my teenage years, being a 1978 film.
this is the best horror movie of all times
I was going to watch the film till I read donte’s comment. Now I’m too scared to.
This is pretty tame by 2007 standards, but get yourself a nice dark room and enjoy
I think Clémence should revise her English, instead of watching spooky movies
LOL
Wow!
This an incredible movie for it’s day!
Although it would be lame by today’s standards, it is a VERY dramatic film!
Drama content and horror content both rate an A1+
It seems to be a little slow moving at times, but it just adds to the dramatic effect.
Take time to watch and enjoy!
I’m no fan of horror films, but this one is well made.
Max
Thanks for reviving interest in a real classic. Couple of minor corrections (hope you don’t mind).
Night of the Living Dead wasn’t just the “basis for most of this sort of stylized zombie”….this film was the first of the zombie genre and all subsequent films that deal with flesh-eating corpses owe a tip of the hat to Romero. On the other hand, Romero was inspired by Richard Matheson’s landmark 1954 novel I AM LEGEND (which was about a plague of vampires that wipes out all of humanity).
Also, Romero didn’t do the remake of Dawn of the Dead. He wasn’t involved at all. The screenplay was by James Gunn and the film was directed by Zack Snyder (who went on to direct 300). The filmmakers consider the new Dawn more of a re-imagining thana remake since nothing except the location (a mall) is that same as the original film.
Romero himself went on to make four living dead entries after Night: Dawn of the Dead (1978), Day of the Dead (1985), Land of the Dead (2005), and Diary of the Dead (2007)
Thanks again for recommending Night of the Living Dead!
–Jonathan Maberry
Multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning author of
ZOMBIE CSU: The Forensics of the Living Dead;
GHOST ROAD BLUES and BAD MOON RISING
http://www.zombiecsu.com
http://www.jonathanmaberry.com
I think Kevin will correct you on a few things…
To start, this IS NOT the first Zombie film.
There are at least four earlier ones right her on Retrovision…
including “Last Man on Earth” with Vincent Price…
based on “I AM Legend”.
George Romero DID direct and write “Dawn of the Dead”! (1978)
It was remade in 2004 with James Gunn doing the screen play.
Still written by Romero.
You’re referring to films with the theme of Haitian/vodoo zombies, of which there were many. But of the flesh-eating ghoul genre this is indisputibly the first.
As far as Dawn of the Dead, we were discussing the 2004 remake, not the 1978 original. Romero had no involvement with the 2004 film and it was not based on his script. The movie was based on Romero’s ‘concept’ of survivors of the zombie apocalypse trapped in a mall. None of the characters or scenes of the original are represented in the 2004 film.
–Jonathan Maberry
Multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning author of
ZOMBIE CSU: The Forensics of the Living Dead;
GHOST ROAD BLUES and BAD MOON RISING
http://www.zombiecsu.com
http://www.jonathanmaberry.com
One final point, LAST MAN ON EARTH, with Vincent Price isn’t a zombie film. It’s a moderately accurate film adaptation of Matheson’s vampire story and the monsters in it are definitely vampires, not zombies.
–Jonathan Maberry
Multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning author of
ZOMBIE CSU: The Forensics of the Living Dead;
GHOST ROAD BLUES and BAD MOON RISING
http://www.zombiecsu.com
http://www.jonathanmaberry.com
It’s my opinion that Last Man on Earth characters are of the vampire variety. They sort of have zombie characteristics in that they were sort of created like zombies.
The movies here are labeled vampire and zombie by keyword, so you can browse them.
I think there is a difference between the vampire and voodoo zombie movies. I think you could also find inspiration from both forms of monsters in modern science fiction, such as the Alien trilogy and the Thing. The premise is the single character fights some inimitable force.
If you look at some of the voodoo zombie movies here, you’d see the nature of those is a little different in that the antagonist is an evil scientist or shaman.
The remake of this movie is the one that I can only watch during the day (also with the remake of Dawn of the Dead and the original Exorcist) otherwise I get horrible nightmares were I’m being chased, or where loved ones are possesed or living dead… :- , and believe me, I have high tolerance for horror. Like those movies, there’ll NEVER be anything of the like. These are pieces of art!