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Night of the Living Dead Movie Review Summary

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When a zombie kills her brother and chases her, Barbra runs to a farmhouse for refuge. There, she meets Ben, who's also seeking refuge.
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Ben boards up all of the doors and windows.
They discover more people hiding in the basement. A young couple, Tom and Judy and Harry and Helen Cooper and their daughter, who's been bitten. Working together, they devise a plan. Ben, Tom and Judy will make it to the truck, fill it with gas and return for the others. However, the truck catches on fire and explodes, killing Tom and Judy. Ben fights his way back to the house through the army of zombies.
Panicking, Harry takes the only gun away from Ben, but Ben takes it back and shoots Harry who stumbles to the basement where he's eaten by his daughter.
The zombies break in and take Barbra.
Helen runs to the basement and is killed by her daughter.
Overrun, Ben is forced to barracade himself in the basement and is forced to shoot Harry and Helen, who have become zombies.
In the morning, Ben hears the police, who've killed the zombies and are searching for survivors.
One of the cops mistakes Ben for a zombie and kills him.
The review of this Movie prepared by Brandon Swenson




Barabara (Patricia Tallman) and her brother Jonnie (Bill Mosley) go to visit their mother when they are attacked by cannabilistic zombies awakened from death by a radioactive space probe. Barbara escapes and finds refuge in an isolated farm house where she would ultimately meet up with Ben (Tony Todd) and a diverse group of five other strangers. They spend the night fending off the relentless attack of a legion of zombies in hopes they can see the light of day. A contemporary version of the cult 1968 classic B&W film by George Romero, NOTLD 1990 (directed by brilliant make-up effects wizard Tom Savini) improves on the gore and characterizations with fantastic performances by Tom Towles as a completely obnoxious Harry Cooper, Patricia Tallman with an updated twist to the helpless heroin, and Tony Todd (Candyman, Final Destination 1&2) who adds more kick ass, take charge attitude to the "lets keep things cool, think things out" character of Ben.

The review of this Movie prepared by Bobby Blades




Radiation in the community causes corpses to reanimate and become zombies. Large portion of film spent trying to board up the house while fighting off hordes of zombies and thinking up ways to kill them for good.
The review of this Movie prepared by Ferris




The Dead rise from the Earth to eat the living, now a group of people are under seige in an abandoned farm house fighting for their lives!
The review of this Movie prepared by Ken Carper



Script Analysis of Night of the Living Dead

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Plot & Themes

Composition of Book Actual chase scenes or violence 40%Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzle 30%Feelings, relationships, character bio/development 30% **Fantasy or Science Fiction?**    -   fantasy story on present day Earth Horror film?    -   Yes Kind of Horror Story    -   the zombie chased me!

Main Character

Identity:    -   Male Age:    -   20's-30's Ethnicity/Nationality    -   Black (American)

Setting

Earth setting:    -   Polluted    -   20th Century (1950-1970) Takes place on Earth?    -   Yes Forests?    -   Yes Misc settings    -   small town

Writing Style

Accounts of torture and death?    -   explicit references to deaths Tone of movie    -   fearful

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