Romero embarked upon his career in the film industry while attending Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. He directed and produced television commercials and industrial films for The Latent Image, in the 1960s, a company he co-founded with friends John Russo, and Russell Streiner. The trio grew bored making commercials and wanted to film a horror movie during this period. They wanted to capitalize on the film industry's "thirst for the bizarre", according to Romero. He and Streiner contacted Karl Hardman and Marilyn Eastman, president and vice president respectively of a Pittsburgh-based industrial film firm called Hardman Associates, Inc. They pitched their idea for a then-untitled horror film. A production company, conceived by Romero, called Image Ten, was formed that included Romero, Russo, Streiner, Hardman, and Eastman. The initial budget was $6,000 with the ten members of the production company, investing $600 each for a share of the profits. Another ten investors were found when it was found that another $6,000 was required but this was also soon found to be inadequate. Image Ten eventually raised approximately $114,000 for the budget ($ today).
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Night of the Living Dead (New Motion Picture Score)
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- 1 Bird PetersonOpening Credits 1:24
- 2 Bird PetersonThey're Coming To Get You Barbara 4:08
- 3 Bird PetersonInside the House 3:44
- 4 Bird PetersonTwo of Them 2:37
- 5 Bird PetersonBurning the Body 5:32
- 6 Bird PetersonThings Get Worse 8:32
- 7 Bird PetersonThe Others 7:22
- 8 Bird PetersonFrom Worse To Worser 17:38
- 9 Bird PetersonFire 6:40
- 10 Bird PetersonThe Feeding 6:24
- 11 Bird PetersonFear Takes Over 3:52
- 12 Bird PetersonThe Cellar 4:12
- 13 Bird PetersonThe Next Day 3:19
Night of the Living Dead
(1968)5
| Country | |
| Runtime | 1 hr 36 min |
| Budget | $114 000 |
| Premiere: World | $240 082 October 31, 1968 |
| USA | $89 029 |
| Other countries | $151 053 |
| Box Office – Budget | $126 082 |
| Premiere: USA | $89 029 October 1, 1968 |
| first weekend | $5452 |
| theaters | 8 |
| rollout | 28 days |
| Digital: World | September 1, 2008 |
| Parental Advisory | Frightening & Intense Scenes, Violence & Gore, ... |
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| Also Known As | La noche de los muertos United States |
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A ragtag group of Pennsylvanians barricade themselves in an old farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls that are ravaging the Northeast of the United States.Сast and Crew
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The dead have risen from their graves to give hugs to everyone they meet! Horror!!! The film is a classic at its best, and it is still interesting to watch, even if due to its endless quotation in popular culture, there is no intrigue left in the plot. A nice old horror movie.
The idea of fear of the unknown looks interesting, but what stands out is the harsh ending and its racist overtones. It especially takes on a new meaning if you imagine that the shooter and the sheriff clearly saw who they were shooting at.
A very simple chamber film. So this is what the first zombies were like. There wasn’t even a concept of zombies back then. As stated – the living dead. As elsewhere, the theory works here – it is not the zombies that are no less dangerous, but the people who are trying to survive.
It has long been a classic film in which for the first time (allegedly) Zombies are shown almost as we are accustomed to, the film passes the test of time with difficulty, but I give it a 7 because of its significance for the genre.
A surprisingly solid film. The dialogue is rather crude, but Romero is confident in the territory of expressive silent cinema, and the script is clear. It’s clear that after watching a hundred remakes, it doesn’t quite work, but it’s still a wonderfully immersive experience.
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