Night of the Living Dead. Night of the Living Dead Reappraising an Undead Classic Romero's canonical work remains timely decades later Stephen Harper Introduction There has been an veritable outbreak of zombie films in the last few years, from Hollywood blockbusters Resident Evil (Anderson, 2002) and Resident Evil 2: Apocalypse (Witt, 2004), to British films such as 28 Days Later (Boyle, 2002) and the zombie spoof Shaun of the Dead (Wright, 2004).
26 Things We Learned From the ‘Night of the Living Dead’ Commentary. October continues, and we’re moving to our next batch of favorite on-screen monsters.
This week we’re talking about zombies and all the glorious ways George Romero changed that sub-genre forever. Originally an urban legend in Voodoo culture, the term “zombie” was forever married to an image of mobs of the undead searching for flesh to sink their rotting teeth into. It’s a friendly image, no doubt. We’ve already turned our eardrums over what Romero had to say on the commentary track for Dawn of the Dead, the sequel to this groundbreaking classic, but now we’re going back to the source.
This time around, Romero has brought along two members of the cast and his co-writer, John Russo, so the conversation should be a bit livelier than creatures they all had a hand in creating on screen. Night of the Living Dead. Night of the Living Dead in 30 seconds with bunnies.