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Night Of The Living Dead (1968)

Hitting theaters as the unrest of the ’60s drew to a climax, George Romero’s original zombie classic Night Of The Living Dead took the notion of a world turned upside down to its visceral extreme. As if the overturning of accepted notions had seeped down to a biological level, the dead prey on the living without hesitation, and the film’s many imitators, even its fine sequels, have done little to dull the impact of Romero’s original. Shot in creepy black and white, the film’s technical proficiency is rendered all the more remarkable by the production team’s lack of previous feature experience and its budgetary constraints. To this day, it still represents the apex of low-fi chills.

Updated 10/05/2009