Release date: October 1st 1968.
Story: When visiting the grave of their father, Barbra Blair and her brother Johnny are attacked by what at first they believed to be a mad man. The mad man kills Johnny but Barbra manages to escape and finds a abandoned farmhouse. But as she looks around to see if it is safe, she runs into Ben who protects her from the many mad people who it turns out are zombies. And (as they barricade themselves inside and nail boards across the windows) they find that they are not the only ones that have taken shelter in the house. As more and more people emerge from the cellar. Can they set aside their differences and help each other as waves of man eating zombies threaten to brake into the house? Watch the movie and find out.
My thoughts: Even though this isn't the first movie to show zombies (White Zombie and I walk with a zombie came out decades earlier) this was the first one to make them popular. This is the first in the zombie series created by George A. Romero. There is a lot of suspense and drama in this movie and the zombies are both frightening and shocking. This movie will be celebrating its 50th anniversary this year (along with Godzilla's Destroy all Monsters) and I'll be looking forward to see how it will be celebrated.
My score: Four stars.
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