Night of the Living Dead (1968)

Posted : 2 months, 1 week ago at Sep 11 1:30

This was almost the "Blair Witch Project" of it's time, in that had a very documentary realism style to it that was later further advanced by the shaky camera genre of recent years. And to my mind, it was the first time I had ever seen the depiction of zombies as truly scary. Because, let's be honest here. Even though everyone always makes fun of the fact that they're easy to escape, the truth is, if any of us were to be confronted by a husk of rotting flesh that stood upright, just the idea that we were actually witnessing one of the "living dead" would be enough to makes sh#t out our own skeletons. Or at least, scare us to a point of not being to think as straight as one would during such a situation. As it is convincingly depicted in the behavior of the various characters in The Liv...Read more

Rating : 10/10

Posted : 1 year, 10 months ago at Jan 20 19:04

**First of all, I'm not American or British, so forgive me, readers, if my English has a few mistakes. One of the greatest horror films ever made, the original Night of the Living Dead proves that you don't need astronomical budgets to develop a solid, well-done and most important for the genre, scary story. Initiating with a relatively simple story, the film develops into a complicated duel of opinions, egos, beliefs and emotions, turning up to make the people trapped inside the house, more dangerous than the flesh-eating zombies outside. George A. Romero is not a very well-known director outside the horror circle, but he has a solid filmography with great unknown little jewels that have a little political message, a little humor, some sarcasm and lots of blood, gore and explodin...Read more

Rating : 10/10