Night of the Living Dead

The ending came as a shock to me. Even after all the turmoil and torchure of seeing everyone die around him he finds a way to live. Surviving the night wasn't enough. How can you tell a savior that you are not a zombie? This was the ultimate downfall of man, he is in haste. I am proud of the producer though that he never once had the word "zombie" appear in the script of the movie. This movie is the original zombie movie, people don't have an idea of what zombies are in this time which built up a lot of suspense for the cast as well as the audience. I can imagine seeing this movie in theaters for the first time and imagining 'what the heck is going on?!' and was able to appreciate the vision of the director. With that said zombie movies today are different. The cast tends to know what zombies are from the culture they live in; it's as if you or me were to be attacked by zombies, we would figure it out pretty darn fast. This does take away from certain zombie movies and the director must find new ways to keep me entertained.

I want to comment on a few things I noticed in the movie, one of which being an incorrect discrepancy. The movie takes place in america, at night. The young lady even mentions "its 10 till three" giving us an exact frame of time reference. Although when they watch the television set the government officials, the same one that shoots the protagonist at the end, is in broad daylight. He even comments about 'working for the rest of the day and well into the night' giving us an even stronger hint that he is somewhere where it is daytime. This clearly doesn't match up.

I did notice however that many movies in today pay homage to George Romero by remaking certain shots in their adaption of their zombie movie. The turning of a protagonist against it's own, a survivor being ripped apart in the sea of zombies and even seeking shelter in the cellar of a building are all take-by-take remakes in today's films. Romero came up with the original idea that was so well thought out that you can see the fan-boys of today using these clips from what I speculate as 'reliving the fear as they once did'.