classic film.

have the milenium version, the one in the red with the grave on teh cover.

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I'm sad for the guy that he acted as..... I'm not acttuly sad for the actor

I never really thought they killed him because they thought he was a zombie. As I recall, he yelled to them quite clearly. I always thought they killed him because he was black, and with zombies running rampany, nobody would know the difference.

I felt someone should have survived the movie. Luckily the sequels afterwards makes up for it.

There is a racism rumour about the black hero being unexpectedly shot by the white gang - but I don't see what it is.

The ending is of course shockingly downbeat, but just like Return of the Living Dead (1 & 3), Seven and The Blair Witch Project these are downbeat endings to dark and excellent films - lighten up the finales and risk ruining the whole memory of the experience.

More seat-rattling, unhappy endings - less nicely wrapped up schmaltz, s'il vous plait.



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I remember thinking, "What kind of nut doesn't call out? He's gonna get himself shot."
I don't remember him calling out at all.

For me, NOTLD is about the seeds of hate spreading through the masses, turning people into animalistic shambling horrors. And one of the points made in NOTLD is that people in modern day America aren't that much better. The last thing you see is Ben getting shot by government commisioned zombie hunters. My theory on this is because Romero thinks nobody looks at people as people. And it's pretty true. Look how sympathetic he is toward the zombies in Land of the Dead, and what a pack of animals the bikers in Dawn of the Dead are. It's all about dehumanization. Ben, as a black man is no more of a person in the 60's than the zombies these guys shoot down. That's my interpretation at least.

Ive always thought the same thing

Or it could be about hoards of undead laying seige to some folks in a house overnight.