Night of the living dead

Genre: Horror/Thriller/Action
Year of release: 1968
Director: George A. Romero

My friend raved about this movie for ages and tonight I finally watched it. Not Bad best zombie movie I have seen, however I have not seen many good ones. This gets put up there on my favorite horrors list as the list is not very big only consisting of Psycho, the thing, the decent, dawn of the dead, Halloween, the exorcist and maybe a few more.

Night of the living dead is about well a night with the living dead, recently deceased people are coming back to life due to some radiation thingy ma boby, these zombies have a hunger for human flesh and are causing trouble by killing and eating people. The movie follows Barbara after her brother gets killed by a zombie she finds refuge in an abandoned house out in the middle of nowhere, a few other people join her in this house and they board it up so keep dozens of zombies out. The people do not get along very well and have some problems aside from surviving the night.

To begin with it all seemed very cliche and very average however it gets much much better. I think I did not like the beginning as the girl Barbara was a pretty stupid character and pretty badly acted Johnnie was good and it was pretty cool when he said "there coming to get you" however he was not in it for long and after that Barbara shows she is just one of the overly stupid her character is driving the fucking car straight into a tree. Maybe its just me who doesn't like her however for ages she is depressed and emo very effected by this entire experience she never gets over that there are zombies and that her brother is dead, she never helps and her character just gets annoying every one else was very cool and the movie improved extremely after Ben, Harry and Tom were introduced. This movie has amazing special effects for both its budget and its time and does not go over the top. The horror scenes were also very good more exciting than scary (like the decent which is the only movie I have actually been scared in lol) however that does not make them bad, very good horror scenes.

Ben was a great character acted quite well by Duane Jones his character is brave, smart and certain in his decisions and thoughts. His character helps the most and is the leader of the group in this house, he gets badly into an argument between Harry Copper about weather they should say on the ground level of the house being able to escape if the zombies do get in or lock and board them selves into the basement were they only have to cover one door. It was a good argument and very pondering it would personally drive me crazy this decision epically in these stressful situations.

The disfigurements of the zombies, the skin hanging off their faces and ect was very good. It looked realistic and believable not over the top. It looked quite scary. The scene of the zombies eating the people was very good, scary and disgusting quite gory however not overdone. The stabbing scene with the little girl is worth mentioning as it is scary as gory and looks good.

The action in this film was pretty awesome the scene near the end was exciting and quite thrilling. The hands coming through the house seems used in a lot of movies these days however it was good to see it done properly. As I watched I wanted Ben to make it through and every scene was on the edge of your seat hoping he would.

The zombies in this movie are great not smart not fast not strong but very effective. It makes you think and gives time for horror type moments as the zombies get closer and closer and closer. They could not have been much better however it took me a while to warm up to them. They are not the crappy over the top running smart zombies Hollywood is making right ... now and ... now but the classic style of cool zombies the way they should be done.

In conclusion a great horror movie, great characters great original ending, great effects even if it might be low budget.

8-8.5/10