I have a 80's version of night of living dead

you and the rest of us, but do you have the other savini classic children of the living dead?

90's.

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i have the origianall black and white night of the living dead.its pretty kool

I love the scene where Kyra kills her mother, that truelly shocked audiences back then.

I love little children zombies.

Of course. I love the old man who makes his tomatoe soup out of his denture water, class act.

Buy.com

$3.99

one of the greatest horror films ever made.

i know the first version is free on the net.
try google.

Night of the Living Dead in Public Domain
 

This is pretty old news. But I learned not to long ago that NOTLD - the original - fell into the public domain. I've heard it was due to a legal fluke and a simple error on Romero's part. A number of site have some fairly controversial re-edits out there. The Survivor's Cut is the one that most people look at with utter contempt or adore.
Does anyone have any links to Romero's opinion on re-edits and re-releases of his movie?
One one hand, it was his creation. A brilliant work of art that launched a thousand ships so to speak. Part of me sees it as tragic - and the re-makes as blasphemy.
But another part of me thinks that fans getting the opportunity to create their own edits and share them - like fan fiction - is kinda neat.
So I'm torn.

i havent heard about this. what is the survivors cut?

Sad state of affairs. Yesterday I got that and House on Haunted Hill on one DVD...at the dollar store. I also found out looking around for stock footage a few months ago that rights to Nosferatu could be bought for four hundred dollars. I wish there were an organization for preserving the rights to classic horror movies.

You'd be surprised how many horror movies are public domain...

'Profundo Russo' ('Deep Red') from Dario Argento is in public domain as well. Legally, you could buy any one of the movies at your local cut-out bin, copy it and sell as your own as long as you don't use the menus or artwork that are included on the DVD. A legal loophole over the music being copywritten is another matter (hence 'A Wonderful Life' was snatched out of public domain a few years ago by Turner Networks) so I'd suggest checking into that before opening up your online custom DVD store. I've done a lot of research on this since I want to make an updated version of 'Plan 9 From Outer Space' and often have public domain movies playing on tv in background of my films.
'NOTLD' fell into public domain when the title screen was changed at the last minute. Back then, the copyright to the film had to be properly displayed. Guess what the title editor forgot ? The rest is history.
CK
PS Avoid the '30 Year Anniversary Edition' with "newly added footage". The newly added footage is recently shot stuff, bad scripting and horrible acting (including this version's composer). Worse yet, other scenes have been cut down or deleted all together. John Russo did a terrible disservice to the film's legacy.

WOW,that's just sad.

night of the living dead
 

I'm sorry but did anyone else besides me feel bad for the black guy in the night of the living dead? I mean he fights zombies all night and then when he gets out of the house he gets shot because the guys thught he was a zombie. I just always felt bad for him.

Did He get out of the house?
I thought He got shot while looking out the window.
Well regardless, I feel Your pain and have always felt bad for Him. :(

Your right.... He was shot looking out the window but like he got out of the basemant with dozens of zombies on the other side.

Yep. That certainly comes as a shock the first time you see the film. One of my favorite endings of all time... Waaaaay ahead of it's time, in my opinion.

I never felt bad for him because he's just an actor and wasn't actually killed after a night of horror, but I can see how you (and many others) can sympathize with the character making it through all that shit just to be taken out by humans at the end.

Anyways, I love the ending. Return of the Living Dead has a similar ending too, which I also loved.

classic film.

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

:rolleyes:

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.

I think Romero's inclination to put political subtext into him films is pretty blatant. I think he wanted to make a scary picture, but by adding some social context, there was more to linger in the viewer's mind afterward. I think his most common and best loved theme is the inability for people to co-operate and communicate. maybe he's postulating that the only way humans could ever co-exist peacefully is if they were chiseled down to a common objective (in this case, living flesh). i don't think he means to SAY anything, he's just showing the situations that arise in the social arena.

yeah, he didnt call out to anyone. he woke up the next morning, walked up the stairs, opened the cellar door and there were no zombies. he walked around the house for a second and looked out thw window where it showed a group of locals with rifles looking to kill zombies, they shot him on sight, without calling to him, and without the guy calling out to the them. i think they killed him because they thought he was a zombie, not because he was black.

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i have the original night of the living dead, its black n white. i havent watched all of it yet . what i have seen of it looks ok

great classic zombie movie, I love all romero stuff, I know he tries to put political stuff in his movies & thats fine with me, I can see the political stuff but it doesn't bother me, I don't get bothered with it, if he wants to try putting little political stuff in thats fine, when It comes down to it the general idea an story behind the movie is great an the characters are all great so thats all that matters to me!