Critique: The Night Of The Living Dead

My final rating of the movie is three out of five stars because the sound effects were pretty good. The camera movements were good. The fight scenes were realistic and the characters didn’t fit their description but played their part

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.

Night of the Living Dead is about a group of people that take refuge in an abandoned house when zombies begin to emerge looking for fresh human bodies to devour. The main character Ben does everything he can to control the situation but when the zombies make their way to the house the other characters panic. Slowly, the zombies find their way inside, one by one, the characters become the prey of the deceased.

Overally, I loved it. A lot of things happened that I would not think was possible because I have been to previous performances. It was always an unexpecting experience being in the same room with the actors and actresses because

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

Audio: sound effects and music. If something action filled is about to happen, you will know it. Like any horror classic an eerie song begins to play before something action packed happens, to raise our emotional levels of suspense. Toying with our emotions is a horror classic, but “Night of the Living Dead” plays that eerie music before, during, and after every minute scary scene. After the first few songs the sense of suspense is long dead (longer than the “Ghouls”). Some added features to help kill your feeling of suspense and scare it out the door are the sound effects. The sound effects in “Night of the Living Dead” are so terrible they are hilarious. The two major sound effects that left an imprint in my mind are the sounds used to suggest someone being punched and the screaming of a certain character during their death scene. In nearly every fight someone or

On October 1, 1968, George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead was released in movie theaters. Although this film was released toward the end of the 1960s, the decade’s civil unrest translates into Romero’s film. Earlier that year, Martin Luther King, Jr., the iconic Civil Rights Movement leader, was assassinated, yet racial tension still ran high in the South, with small, local civil struggles occurring in many places. Far away, America’s youth was fighting the seemingly never-ending Vietnam War. Adam Lowenstein’s introduction to Shocking Representation discusses “The Allegorical Moment”, or “a shocking collision of film, spectator, and history where registers of bodily space and historical time are disrupted, confronted, and intertwined” (2). The representation on screen of this “historical trauma” complicates the distinction between time and space, causing viewers to experience similar sensations mimicking the original pain inflicted by the event. George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead presents the tragedy of the black soldier narrative during both the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War, drawing from this “allegorical moment”, and subsequently acquiring a larger black audience.

In David Sedaris’ short story, Nuit of the Living Dead, a satirical story develops through using a unique setting that interacts by allowing the main character to develop and express multiple stories. The multiple stories interact smoothly among each other due to two things. First, the diversity of the setting creates the opportunity to transition to new topics. Secondly, each story is connected due to the stories’ roots: common fears.

Starting first with Romero’s Night of the Living Dead, the most obvious social commentary aspect to the film is the ending. While everyone else has been killed by the undead, Ben survives the night in the basement, only to be shot by a member of the militia the next morning. This moment as well as the grainy newspaper photo montage reminds the audience of the race relations of the time, in particular, between southern police officers and black men. In addition, we see the subversive critique of 1960’s American society. Romero’s zombies have no cure; the good guys don’t win at the end, and the zombie apocalypse cannot be stopped. This shows the reflection of the shattering 1950’s optimism. The film takes on a pessimism approach; society is on the verge of collapse, and the authorities cannot be trusted or are too inept to deal with the

Sounds like the fireworks going off in the basement helped the audience get immersed into the show. The lights were usually had the whole stage illuminated and was kind of boring, but the way that they brought the lights on when a character would flip to turn the lights would add realism to the show. Props were used throughout the show and were well placed. In fact, I saw a radio that looked exactly the one that was in the show Annie performed by the Palm Springs High School Theatre which makes sense since they both take place during the same time period. The set looked very realistic and included nothing that was created in modern times like iphones or printers. Costumes were chosen very well in my opinion with my favorites being the police ones. Also, none of the clothing looked very modern. After taking a deeper look into the things that occurred to improve the show and how the actors looked, I think that the Palm Canyon Theatre improved the show and made the audience feel more

Considering The Changing Of Americans’ Fear In 1960s Most of white American are afraid of having their flesh eaten by zombies; however, the fact is that these mindless corpses are not interested in human flesh before Night of the Living Dead comes out in 1968. The film is directed by George Romero, and is widely famous for its social commentary. It directly challenge the representation of the zombie while simultaneously offering audiences an opportunity to analyse race relations in America in the 1960s. In the American history of the zombie, the zombie once portrayed a group of willing slaves who served to assuage the guilt felt by the white American slave owners; however, unlike previous representations of zombies, the aggressive zombie

Movies like “Night of the Living Dead” are always towards the people with color, class, and violences. The movie “Night of the Living Dead” is about how zombies attack and how six people are trying the serve in house with little to nothing but one gun. Mind you that the zombies and five out of six are caucasian, which leaves the other one and he's a african male. The african male named is Ben and to me I feel that he was seen as low class, everybody was either against Ben or with him, and towards the end I feel that violences was more brutal towards Ben because he is african. George the writer of “Night of the Living Dead” present us with this movie that shows us that african american are viewed as something different by the way the caucasian act towards Ben because of the way he dresses and because of his skin color, he also show us how african amercian don't get a chance to speak up and how african get brutal treatment with violence. Caucasian in this movie see african american as othering. Films writer are still making the point that african american are still viewed as something different in today's movies.

One thing I noticed was the main character William (Heath Ledger) had bright blond almost golden hair that I think helped symbolize he is the good guy as opposed to the villain in the movie Count Adhemar (Rufus Sewell) who had very dark hair and very unwelcoming eyes. Rufus is the perfect actor to play a bad guy because of his vilionis look and cocky attitude he made you want to hate him which is what you want in a villian. I thought the cast was very put together and seemed like they had a lot of

In 1968, George Romero unleashed his film Night of the Living Dead unto the world where zombies made their iconic debut as one of modern society’s prolific horror monsters. Since then, Night of the Living Dead has been regarded as a cult classic and like the virus featured in the film, the undead has spread infectiously throughout the horror genre for many more decades to come. Perhaps the reason of our over-use of zombies is because it epitomizes our subconscious fear of ourselves; the belief that humans will end humanity. Coincidentally or not, two years after the film’s release a roboticist named Masahiro Mori created a graph to showcase the feelings of “strangeness” that derive from zombies. Zombies were placed in an “uncanny valley” on the graph because they scored high in human

They were loud when they had to be and they weren't afraid to be bold with what they did. I could tell what kind of personality each character had. Aria portrayed the role of Olive and she was clearly a loud character. She was believable as a character. She was a very bold character and I think she stood out a lot because of that. Andrea played Florence and I think she showed emotion very well, like if she was upset or happy. I could clearly see what kind of personality she had. I also think that she was a bit quiet at times. Mackenzie played the role of Sylvie. I also think she did a wonderful job at her role. She was also clearly a loud person. I think she stood out a lot. I could see both Olive and Sylvie were good at showing the humor in things they said. They were both also good with emotion. Zoe played Renee. I think she was good at showing emotion and fit her character well too. Overall, I think it was just a good part for her personality. Melissa portrayed the role of Mickey and I liked how she showed attitude very well. She was also loud enough to hear all the time. Lastly, Sarah played Vera and it seemed like she played her character well. Her acting was good. I thought the acting was very good at the beginning when Sylvie screamed “Olive” when they needed help at the game. I liked this part because she was loud enough to be heard and it seemed like she practiced it enough to be good at it. I think that added to her character’s personality also. You could hear that she seriously wanted Olive to get out in the living