NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (RETRO)
Director: George A. Romero
Feature film | United States | 1968
88 min | Stereo
56th Hof International Film Festival
2022
|8|16|35| – HoF Classics on Film
A small town in the Midwest is the bloody scene of a battle of life and death. A battle against a horde of man-eating zombies who share an insatiable hunger for human flesh. Led by the gruesome Ghoul, a zombie-like monster brought back to life, they attempt to storm an isolated house, the last refuge of the surviving inhabitants. Desperate, a handful of people have taken refuge there, barricading themselves in. Panic breaks out when the first zombies enter the house, attack some victims and turn them into their own kind. The last hope – police and National Guard – is still far away. The few remaining survivors will need to help themselves in order to survive. But time is running out. One by one, they fall victim to the man-eaters.
With DUANE JONES, JUDITH O’DEA, KARL HARDMAN, MARILYN EASTMAN, KEITH WAYNE, JUDITH RIDLEY, KYRA SCHON, RUSSELL STREINER
Screenplay GEORGE A. ROMERO, JOHN A. RUSSO, Production KARL HARDMAN, RUSSELL STREINER, Music WILLIAM LOOSE, Cinematography GEORGE A. ROMERO, Editing GEORGE A. ROMERO, JOHN A. RUSSO