Analysis Of Night Of The Living Dead

Zombies, as we know them today, have mortified movie viewers for the last forty six years. Modern zombies first appeared in George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead in 1968. These zombies were the slow moving, staggering ghouls that one has seen in countless films, but in 1985, Return of the Living Dead featured a new kind of zombie, the first fast moving and talking ghoul. Both Night of the Living dead 1968 and Return of the Living Dead 1985 feature the zombie as its villain, but Return of the living dead’s fast moving, talking zombies are a more modern take on the movie monster.

The horror genre has been captivating and enthralling the masses for centuries, but more recently in the twentieth century these morbid tales have moved from the old media of oral stories and literature to the new medium of horror pictures. Horror pictures still are not the end of the evolution of the horror genre, as this medium itself has experienced evolutions to satisfy an increasingly desensitized audience. To exemplify this evolution of horror pictures we will be taking a look at an occult classic from 1968 Night of the living dead and a new thriller The Walking Dead. Both horror pictures portray a zombie apocalypse and there are similarities and differences in the main characters, the zombies, and the worlds of the two pictures.

A few people are not impressed by the movie, and do not think that Hollywood should be changed. However, this movie was encouraging for many minority groups since usually the hero is white, while the villain is a person of color. The author of “‘Black Panther' inspires more than African Americans” declared, “Let me be brutally honest: If you are a minority, it's challenging to not be angry with Hollywood for the irresponsibly negative ways it has depicted blacks, Latinos, Muslims, Arabs and other minority groups -- all in the pursuit of making millions, if not billions, of dollars.” This is a clear example of how this movie was different from the others as it shows Africans as the heroes. Minority groups are almost never represented in movies which could make them angry. This movie was a change and by seeing how flourishing the movie was, other movies and casts will be

The film, “Night of the Living Dead”, is a horror movie taking place in the late 1960’s and set in a small town in Pennsylvania. The beginning scene opens with siblings, Barbara and Johnny arriving at a cemetery after three long hours of driving. Barbara and Johnny went to the graveyard to visit their late father's grave and as they were leaving Johnny decided to tease Barbara saying “They’re coming for you Barbara… look, there comes one of them now”. While they were walking to their car Barbara figured she would apologize to the man for what her brother had said but as she was about to speak the “man” grabbed her. When Johnny saw, he quickly ran to them and pulled the zombie away from his sister but he was then attacked by the living dead. During the struggle, Johnny fell and died from hitting his head on a gravestone. The zombie then went after Barbara in a long pursuit that only ended when she came up to an abandoned house. While in the house, Barbara saw more of the zombie people heading toward the house and found a dead body. Startled by the horrifying sight, Barbara ran outside in a hurry and almost ran into a man that was walking into the house. This man, Ben, had run out of gas and was forced to stop at the house to seek shelter. Ben quickly grabbed Barbara and got them both into the house to safety. After getting rid of the three zombies that were after them, Ben boarded up the windows and doors as soon as possible. Barbara decided to tell Ben what had happened to her before they met. Ben decided to turn on the radio and get the news of what was going on around them. In hope of finding something useful, Ben looked in a closet and found a gun and ammunition. As Ben was looking in the closet, two men, Harry Cooper and Tom, emerged from the basement, while Helen, Harry's wife, and Judy, Tom's girlfriend, remained to watch over Helen’s Injured daughter. After fighting about where the safest place to be was, they all came to the conclusion that Harry would go back down to the cellar while Tom and Judy stayed upstairs. A little while after, Harry and his wife Helen went back upstairs and the group got the TV going to get an update on what was happening. After they watched the telecast, the group cooperated

The 1968 cult classic, Night of the Living Dead, begins under the credits with brother and sister Johnny (Russell Streiner) and Barbara (Judith O’Dea) bickering about the long journey to rural Pennsylvania after arriving at a secluded cemetery to leave flowers on their father’s grave at their mother’s request. As they make their way back to the car, Johnny begins to tease Barbara. “They’re coming to get you, Barbara… They’re coming for you… Look, there’s one now!” A staggering, pale-faced figure (S. William Hinzman) approaches the two siblings and attacks Barbara. When Johnny comes to her rescue, he is killed during the struggle

Before the 1960s, blacks had little opportunity to enter into Harvard. Until that, the education reformed. This movie shows that they evaluated talented students by exam instead of descent. This is a big improvement. It made more blacks have access to the same education as others.

The true origins of zombies and the undead can likely be traced back to the stories men and women first told around campfires. They certainly date back to the origins of written language in tales such as the epic of Gilgamesh, and have taken on many different attributes through the generations. The shambling creatures that were first displayed in the movie titled “The Night of the Living Dead” are what many would consider today to be the ‘typical’ representation of the modern zombie story (Estes, 2012).

While not visually seen, personality changes are easy to spot like physical changes when a person or character is put in a position of danger and high stress. Giving people the responsibility of these high stress or deadly issues make great parts of people’s personality come to light. For instance, leadership is a common quality to see in people in these situations. In the

Movies are more than a form of entrainment. They are pieces of art that express social and political problems within the culture. The Black male character and culture has not always been a predominant figure in films like they are today. The display of the African American culture in film has progressed through the years. It has progressed by the change of racism displayed on screen, the character roles, and the emergence black figures and society in motion pictures. (How racism is depicted in the films- Black face-we would see it again) With movies such as Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, Shaft, Do The Right Thing, and Madea’s Family Reunion. People see the transformation of black cinema throughout the years. Films of the 60s, 70s, and 80s have significant differences from contemporary productions as the standards of culture shift in the decades. Before the audience can note the rise of black figures and standards in film. They must have recognition of the history of black cinema before its transition into the mainstream.

Night Of The Living Dead triggering the first boom of zombie movies in the 1960s and in the 1990s it seemed the living dead had finally been put to rest and buried for good. They were considered an underground subgenre for horror fans.

From my point of view, the film is interesting and touching, due to the brutality actions and discrimination black people suffered on the 1960´s decade. For me it was a great movie since I did not know a lot about the Civil Rights Movement, so it helped me to understand more the causes and why was it hard to achieve the equality for Black people. Moreover, I am against the terrible events some African Americans and Whites that supported the cause faced thanks to a society that did not want to move forward and accept that Blacks did matter too. Unfortunately, racism has not been eradicated at all from society. In our daily life, some of us have suffered from this terrible practice just because we have a different ethnicity, skin-color, religion, etc. Due to this, most part of the people of the minorities that have suffered from this, know how it feels to be socially “inferior” just because we are not white-skinned people or because we were not born in a first world country. Just as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in his speech at the Lincoln Memorial pronounced that he had a dream to see America free and as a place where everybody could coexist equally, I also share the dream and I hope someday Mexicans and all Latin Americans could be accepted for what we really and not because the ideals and prejudices some people believe

If a person is to view anything in a new way it would have to be compared to an old way, otherwise it will always be a new way. Enjoy the movie for what it is, take in the plot, get to know the characters, enjoy the ride, but afterwards become aware of the artists decisions. That is this only way for anyone to view any film in a new way. Perhaps it is only the character development a person can pay extra attention to, maybe its just the lighting, or the choice of set, or the genre used to tell a specific story. But becoming aware of all the other aspects that made the movie what it is, and not just using the movie as a means of escape to a different reality, forces a person to appreciate the movie so much more. It becomes invaluable knowledge once the viewer notices the amounts of decisions made by a plethora of different people to make the film that was just enjoyed. The reason this paper is about Suspiria and Night of the Living Dead is because of my personal enjoyment out of horror movies that aren’t just there for shock value, but force the viewer to think outside certain realms of reality and reflect on insane or unbelievable happenings or people, and use different tools, tricks and techniques to build those different realities, allowing people to have an experience. Both of these films have drastic differences, but easily recognizable goals; to use one vehicle to drive emotion from their audiences, whether it is effects of cinematography combined with music, or building characters and moral dilemmas to exemplify the human

Day of the Dead is a holiday celebrated in central and southern Mexico during the first and second of November. Families have combined this with their own ancient beliefs of honoring their dead loved ones.

The movie White Zombie by Victor Halperin revolves around a couple who is about to get married, a man who is jealous of the groom, and a voodoo priest. Neil Parker, and Madeline Short Parker are both getting married in Haiti, Charles Beaumont Talks to the local Voodoo Priest ‘Murder’ Legendre portrayed by Bela Lugosi and he tells Charles that in order to make Madeleine Parker his, He has to make her come in contact with the poison in the vial that he gives him, this is the plot in the movie but in the background there are zombie slaves, there is a scene in where Haitians are burying their own in a road and they are afraid that someone would resurrect their loved one and turn them into a zombie slave, the most famous scene in the movie is the first time we see the sugar mill and we see a zombie fall into a grinder while the rest of the zombies are mindlessly continuing their work, the movie takes place after the Haitian revolution and it shows that even after the revolution there are still people afraid that they would bring back their loved ones from their dead to become slaves in the afterlife

Since the beginning of film, people have been spellbound by horror movies. They seem to excite the viewer with emotions of fright, excitement and thrill. And since there have been horror movies there have been monsters to bring fright to the viewers during and after the movie. A common monster that can be found in multiple films is the zombie; also know as the living dead. One of the greatest living dead directors and screenplay writers would have to be George A. Romero. From his famous trilogy of living dead movies his final installment, Day of the Dead, proved to the world that zombies can be just as scary as any other horror monsters. He was thought as the only horror director that could make a good horror