Rent Night of the Living Dead (1968)

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Rent Night of the Living Dead (aka Laugh Track: Night of the Living Dead / Monster Flick / Night of Anubis) Online DVD & Blu-ray Rental
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Synopsis:
A deceptively simple tale of a group of strangers trapped in a farmhouse who find themselves fending off a horde of recently dead, flesh-eating ghouls, Romero's claustrophobic vision of a late-1960s America literally tearing itself apart rewrote the rules of the horror genre, combined gruesome gore with acute social commentary, and quietly broke ground by casting a black actor (Duane Jones) in its lead role. Stark, haunting, and more relevant than ever, 'Night of the Living Dead' is back.
Actors:
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Directors:
Producers:
Karl Hardman, Russell Streiner
Writers:
John A. Russo, George A. Romero
Aka:
Laugh Track: Night of the Living Dead / Monster Flick / Night of Anubis
Studio:
Moonstone Pictures
Genres:
Classics, Horror, Thrillers
Collections:
10 Films to Watch if You Like: Halloween, A Brief History of Hammer Horror, Films to Watch If You Like..., Horror, A Brief History of Film..., Top 10 Films By Year, Top 100 AFI Thrills, Top Films, Top Films of 1968, Top Horror Franchise Films, What We Were Watching in 1971
BBFC:
Release Date:
13/05/2002
Run Time:
90 minutes
Languages:
English Dolby Digital 3.0, French Dolby Digital 1.0 Mono, Italian Dolby Digital 3.0, Spanish Dolby Digital 3.0
Subtitles:
None
DVD Regions:
Region 0 (All)
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Full Screen 1.33:1 / 4:3
Colour:
B & W
Disc 1:
This disc includes the main feature
Disc 2:
Document of the Dead and 'Night of the Living Dead' Documentary
BBFC:
Release Date:
26/02/2018
Run Time:
96 minutes
Languages:
English LPCM Mono
Subtitles:
English Hard of Hearing
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Full Screen 1.37:1
Colour:
B & W
BLU-RAY Regions:
B
Bonus:
  • Night of Anubis, a never-before-presented work-print edit of the film
  • New program featuring filmmakers Frank Darabont, Guillermo del Toro, and Robert Rodriguez Never-before-seen 16 mm dailies reel
  • New program featuring Russo on the commercial and industrial-film production company where key Night of the Living Dead filmmakers got their start
  • Two audio commentaries from 1994 featuring Romero, Russo, producer Karl Hardman, actor Judith O'Dea, and others
  • Archival interviews with Romero and actors Duane Jones and Judith Ridley
  • New programs about the film's style and score
  • New interview program about the direction of ghouls, featuring members of the cast and crew New interviews with Gary Streiner and Russell Streiner
  • Newsreels from 1967
  • Trailer
  • Radio Spots
  • TV Spots
Disc 1:
This disc includes the main feature
Disc 2:
This disc includes special features
BBFC:
Release Date:
07/10/2024
Run Time:
96 minutes
Languages:
English Mono
Subtitles:
English Hard of Hearing
DVD Regions:
Region 2
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Full Screen 1.37:1
Colour:
B & W
BLU-RAY Regions:
B

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Classic Zombie Horror - Night of the Living Dead review by GI

Spoiler Alert
13/06/2024

Reputed to be the most profitable independent film ever made, made on a shoestring budget and hugely influential this is still a classic of the horror genre and set the rules for zombie films ever since. Despite claims on it's behalf this is not the first real zombie film (for example Hammer Films had released Plague of The Zombies two years earlier) but it certainly included narrative tropes that have been part of the zombie culture ever since, such as cannabilism, they only die by head shot etc. In 1968 the cannabilistic elements in this film were truly shocking and the film is still today very gory and tense. It's a simple story, yet very well told with a completely unknown cast, a brother & sister visit their father's grave where a strange old man attacks them. The girl escapes pursued by the man and seeks refuge in an old farmhouse where a group of strangers are also hiding from an epidemic of recently dead corpses which are coming alive and have a craving for human flesh. They soon become besieged and like all films where a disparate group are trapped the dynamic is in their fight with each other in the stress of trying to survive. Director George A. Romero cleverly cast a young black actor (Duane Jones) in the lead, a very bold move in the USA at the time and his character dominates the group. Like all great horror films this is about the state of American society in the 1960s and it's a sharp condemnation. As a film, today, it's a masterpiece of simple film making and one of the best American horror films of all time.

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