Night of the living dead, directed by George A Romero stared Duane Jones, Judith O’Dea, Karl Hardman and others. The movie was released in 1968 and was one of the first ever “Zombie” movies. The Movie starts with Barbra (Judith O’Dea) and her brother at a cemetery, placing a wreathe over their father’s grave. While Barbra and her brother are walking back to their car, a strange pale man is sulking towards them. Barbra walks nervously by the man when, he grabs her and attempts to bite her neck. Barbra’s brother tosses the strange man of her, but the man is too strong. The man grabs a hold of Barbra’s brother and smashes his head on a gravestone, killing him. Barbra runs of through a field and finds a house to escape the zombie, and later joins up with other survivors from the un-dead.
The acting in this movie was fabulous. The story was easy to follow but certainly draws the audience into the movie. Part of this is thanks to well played roles of the characters. Judith O’Dea played exceptionally well the role of a distressed woman after seeing her brother brutally murdered and chased by the un-dead and Duane Jones (Ben) played his role of a quick thinking street though. Ben is very resourceful, for example he rips apart furniture to provide wood to board up windows and doors and finds a gun and ammo. The copper family, in my opinion portrays the stereotypical American family. They are motivated by personal gain, oppose to teamwork suggested by Ben.
This movie was fantastic! Never before until this movie had I seen a zombie/survival movie aside from “Zombieland”. Great story, great character development, great movie. This would be a great movie for anyone to watch likely above the age of 10.
5/5 stars
Shane Sullivan
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