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Night of the Living Dead [1968]
Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1968
Running Times: 88 mins 53 sec [UK - video (Intervision)]
95 mins 39 sec
Format: black and white 35mm
Ratio: 1.37:1
Sound: mono
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Image Ten / Laurel
Producers: Karl Hardman, Russell W. Streiner
Production Manager: George Kosana
Production Director: Vincent D. Survinski
SCRIPT
Script: George A. Romero,
John Russo
Story: George
A. Romero
DIRECTION
Director: George A. Romero
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: George A. Romero
Photography: The Latent Image Inc
Assistant Camera: S. William Hinzman
Lighting: Joseph Unitas
Labs: WRS Motion Picture Laboratory, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, USA
EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editor: George A. Romero
MUSIC
Music: Capitol Records Stock
SOUND
Sound Engineers: Marshall Booth, Gary R. Streiner
Electronic Sound Effects: Karl Hardman
MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Karl Hardman, Hardman Associates Inc
Hair: Bruce Capristo
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Tony Pantanello, Regis Survinski
Title Sequence: The Animators
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Props: Charles O'Dato
MISCELLANEOUS
Continuity: Betty Ellen Haughey
Script Co-Ordinator: Jacqueline Streiner
LOCATIONS
Locations: Evans City, Pennsylvania, USA; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
USA; Zelienople, Pennsylvania, USA
CAST
Duane Jones [Ben]
Judith O'Dea [Barbra]
Karl Hardman [Harry Cooper]
Marilyn Eastman [Helen Cooper / bug-eating ghoul]
Keith Wayne [Tom]
Judith Ridley [Judy
Kyra Schon [Karen]
Charles Craig [newscaster / ghoul]
Bill Hinzman [cemetery ghoul]
George Kosana [Sheriff McClelland]
Frank Doak [scientist]
Bill 'Chilly Billy' Cardille [field reporter]
A.C. McDonald
Samuel R. Solito
Mark Ricci [Washington scientist]
Lee Hartman
Jack Givens, R.J. Ricci, Paula Richards, John Simpson, William Burchinal,
Dave James, David Barber [uncredited], Betty Ellen [uncredited], Tommy
Goodwin, Roger McGovern [uncredited] [ghouls]
Herbert Summer
Richard Ricci
Ross Harris
Al Croft
Jason Richards
Sharon Carroll
William Mogush
Steve Hutsko
Joann Michaels
Phillip Smith
Ella Mae Smith
Randy Burr
George A. Romero
[Washington reporter - uncredited]
John A. Russo [Washington military reporter / ghoul in house - uncredited]
Russell Streiner [Johnny - uncredited]
Vincent D. Survinski [posse gunman - uncredited]
SUMMARY
A small group of bickering survivors shelter in a farmhouse, hiding
from a small army of re-animated corpses who are roaming the countryside
eating human flesh. Relationships within the group break down as the
zombies repeatedly try to get into the farmhouse and the group slowly,
one-by-one, falls victim to the hungry mob.
CAPSULE REVIEW
Seminal black and white horror which effectively transformed the genre.
It signaled the end for the gothic horror of the 50s and 60s and paved
the way for the more visceral and ferocious horror of the 1970s. Its
technical deficiencies actually add to its grim atmosphere and many
of its images have become horror clichés in the years since. An important
film and one that retains its power even now. [Full
Review]
AVAILABILITY
UK
Theatrical Distributors: London Screen Distributors
Video Distributor: Intervision; Palace [colourised version]; Polygram;
Tartan
The first UK video release, on the Intervision label, had two cuts,
one of Barbara wandering in the woods and finding a musical box and
one to the scene in which she becomes hysterical while explaining to
Ben what happened to her brother. Subsequent versions and TV broadcasts
have been uncut.
USA
Theatrical Distributor: Walter Reade Organization; Continental
Video Distributor: Anchor Bay Entertainment; Video Treasures; Media
Home Entertainment; Nostalgia Merchant; Republic Pictures Corporation;
Something Weird Video; Spotlite Video; United Video; Vestron Video
Laserdisc Distributor: Elite [EE1114]; 3M; Collectible Classics; Elite
Entertainment; Image Entertainment [I6000]; Landmark; Republic [LV27460]
DVD Distributor: UAV Entertainment [40081]; Master Movies [5516]; Elite
Entertainment [EE1116]; Madacy Entertainment [DVD-9-9010]; Madacy Entertainment
[DVD-9-9010-1]; Elite Millennium Edition [EE1117 - includes: trailers;
TV spots; commentaries by George A. Romero and the entire cast; Night
of the Living Bread; original mono soundtrack; Dolby Digital 5.1 remix;
stills gallery; a history of The Latent Image Company; footage from
There's Always Vanilla; video interview with Judy Ridley; the last ever
interview with Duane Jones; foreign and domestic posters and collectibles;
original props; original shooting script; cast member's personal scrapbooks;
THX Optimizer; television spots and short films directed by George A.
Romero; liner notes by George A. Romero and Stephen King]
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Australia
Rating: M
Finland
Rating: K-18
France
Rating: -16
Switzerland
Rating: 16
UK
Rating: 18
USA
Rating: unrated
AWARDS
1999
National Film Preservation Board, USA
Inducted into National Film Registry
TIMELINE
1967
June
Day Unknown: Production begins
December
Day Unknown: Production ends
1968
October
1: USA - theatrical release
1969
June
20: UK - rated X by the BBFC [for theatrical release - with cuts]
1988
August
17: UK - television broadcast [on Thames Television]
1992
January
24: Finland - theatrical release
October
Day Unknown: UK - television broadcast [on Sky Movies]
1994
November
Day Unknown: USA - laserdisc release [Elite [EE1114]]
1996
May
Day Unknown: UK - television broadcast [on Channel Four]
1997
July
15: USA - DVD release [UAV Entertainment [40081]]
August
6: USA - DVD release [Elite Entertainment [EE1116]]
November
14: USA - DVD release [Master Movies [5516]]
1998
May
19: USA - DVD release [Madacy Entertainment [DVD-9-9010]]
December
22: USA - DVD release [Madacy Entertainment [DVD-9-9010-1]]
2000
January
30: UK - television broadcast [on BBC2]
October
30: UK - DVD release [Tartan Video]
November
9: Iceland - theatrical release
2001
December
27: UK - television broadcast [on Channel 4]
2002
March
12: USA - DVD release [Elite Millennium Edition [EE1117]]
September
5: UK - television broadcast [on Channel 4]
POSTER TAGS
They keep coming back in a bloodthirsty lust for HUMAN
FLESH!...
Pits the dead against the living in a struggle for survival!
They won't stay dead.
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
The Flesh Eaters - early title
Monster Flick - working title
Die Nacht der lebenden Toten - German title
Night of Anubis - shooting title
Night of the Flesh Eaters - pre-release title
Noc zywych trupów - Polish title
La noche de los muertos vivientes - Spanish title
A Noite dos Mortos-Vivos - Portugese title
La notte dei morti viventi - Italian title
La nuit des morts-vivants - French title
LINKS
SEQUELS
Dawn of the Dead
[1978]
Day of the Dead
[1985]
REMAKE
Night of the Living
Dead [1990]
FOOTAGE INCLUDED IN
100 Years of Horror [1996]
976-EVIL 2: The Astral Factor [1991]
The American
Nightmare [2000]
!Átame! [1990]
Creepy Classics [1987]
Document of the
Dead [1989]
Drive-In Madness!
[1987]
Fade to Black [1980]
Frankenstein and Me [1996]
Halloween II [1981]
Hollywood-Monster [1987]
Horrible Horror [1986]
The Horror Hall of Fame [1990]
Idle Hands [1999]
Mad Movies with the L.A. Connection [1985]
Mad Ron's Prevue's from Hell [1987]
Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of
the Terror [1991]
Night of the Living Dead: 30th Anniversary Edition [1999]
Stir of Echoes [1999]
Terror in the Aisles
[1984]
SEE ALSO
The Aftermath [1982]
Alien [1979]
The Alpha Incident
[1977]
Angst [2000]
Assault on Precinct 13 [1976]
Beetlejuice [1988]
Braindead [1992]
Brainscan [1994]
Children of the
Living Dead [2001]
The Convent [2000]
Coven [1997]
The Crazies [1973]
Cujo [1983]
The Dead Hate the Living [1999]
Double Feature [1998]
Dracula vs Frankenstein [1971]
Due occhi diabolici
[1990]
The Earth Dies Screaming
[1964]
The Evil Dead [1982]
Evil Dead II [1987]
The Faculty [1998]
From Dusk Till Dawn [1996]
Heavy Metal [1981]
Hollywood Shuffle [1987]
House of Dies Drear [1984]
Inferno dei morti-viventi [1981]
Invasion
of the Body Snatchers [1956]
Invisible Invaders [1959]
Kingdom of the Spiders [1977]
Lifeforce [1985]
Madhouse [1990]
Mosquito [1995]
Night of the Creeps [1986]
Night of the Living Bread
[1990]
The Night of the Living Duck [1988]
Night Shadows [1984]
No profanar
el sueno de los muertos [1974]
The Plague of the
Zombies [1966]
Psycho [1960]
Redneck Zombies [1987]
The Return
of the Living Dead [1985]
Return
of the Living Dead Part II [1988]
Revolt of the Zombies [1936]
The Stöned Age [1994]
The Stuff [1985]
Suspiria [1977]
El Último deseo [1975]
L'ultimo uomo della Terra [1964]
Waxwork [1988]
Wild Zero [1999]
Zombi 2 [1979]
KEYWORDS
zombies, sieges, viruses, end of the world, journalists, cannibalism,
basements, television, lynch mobs
Last Updated:
6 March, 2007
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