{"id":26390,"date":"2017-10-04T01:39:21","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T05:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=26390"},"modified":"2017-09-23T03:01:44","modified_gmt":"2017-09-23T07:01:44","slug":"night-of-the-living-dead-1968-50th-anniversary-blu-raydigital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/04\/night-of-the-living-dead-1968-50th-anniversary-blu-raydigital\/","title":{"rendered":"Night of the Living Dead (1968): 50th Anniversary [Blu-ray\/Digital]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>With the unfortunate death of George A. Romero this year, now is the best time to re-visit \u201cNight of the Living Dead.\u201d It\u2019s hard to believe what one small mistake could have done to alter history, as Romero\u2019s accidental omission of the copyright sign for \u201cNight of the Living Dead\u201d allowed his horror masterpiece to become public domain, and for his idea of the zombie to become open game for anyone and everyone with an imagination. Just imagine if Romero had copyrighted the concept of the flesh eating zombie and we probably wouldn\u2019t have about eighty percent of the zombie movies we have today.<\/p>\n

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That said, \u201cNight of the Living Dead\u201d is still one of the greatest horror movies ever made, and one of the most important statements about humanity and class warfare that Romero would become known for, eventually. If you haven\u2019t yet seen it, \u201cNight\u201d is set on a farm house where a young girl named Barbra narrowly escapes a deadly confrontation with an undead ghoul in a graveyard. Barbra is saved by a young African American man named Ben, who reveals that the entire mass of Pennsylvania near Pittsburgh is being overrun by flesh eating ghouls. Forming an uneasy pact with the owners of the farm house, and a dysfunctional married couple whose daughter was bitten by one of the ghouls, the group has to fend off the living dead and survive the night.<\/p>\n

That is if they don\u2019t turn on one another first. \u201cNight\u201d is still a viciously compelling horror film filled with subtle overtones about the widening social class gap in America, and the hysteria and paranoia that can emerge from times of crisis. Romero perfected the idea of guerilla filmmaking, using his low budget to his advantage, as \u201cNight\u201d tends to feel like a documentary some times and an endless nightmare other times. We\u2019re never quite sure how the world outside the farm Barbra and Ben are stuck in are dealing with this epidemic, but the implications of pandemonium reveal these characters are damned if they stay in the house, and damned if they attempt escape.<\/p>\n

The 50th<\/sup> Anniversary Blu-Ray from Mill Creek comes uncut, and with a Digital code that allows you to redeem the movie to view on any digital platform. You can find the movie just about anywhere online, but it\u2019s good to have, just the same.<\/p>\n