Five Great Films From The Master of Modern Zombie Movies

“Night Of The Living Dead” (1968)
After years of directing commercials and industrial films, “Night Of The Living Dead” was Romero’s first feature film, initially financed when he persuaded a handful of friends to go in with him on a case of film stock. If the movie sometimes betrays its low budget and the inexperience of its cast, it’s still a genuinely creepy film experience, as the living squabble among themselves in a remote farmhouse while ... more 

“Night Of The Living Dead” (1968)
After years of directing commercials and industrial films, “Night Of The Living Dead” was Romero’s first feature film, initially financed when he persuaded a handful of friends to go in with him on a case of film stock. If the movie sometimes betrays its low budget and the inexperience of its cast, it’s still a genuinely creepy film experience, as the living squabble among themselves in a remote farmhouse while the blank-faced dead unrelentingly close in on them. Hundreds of movies have borrowed from “NOTLD,” but few are as grim and unsettling. less