![]() You just didn't see movies like that, it left me with an utterly cold feeling. That moment is trippy on its own seeing a child murder her mother.Īnd then of course the ending, everyone dies. ![]() In the case of the little girl eating her mother, that is almost an afterthought compared to the Psycho envisioned stabbing that preceeded it. Its more ghastly and macabre than anything, and of course there's that solid spook music to go along with it. Instead in Night of the Living Dead, two characters are blown up, and the ghouls eat the cooked remains. Usually someone is getting torn in half and they're screaming their head off and they get to see the color of their own intestines and what not. And both times they're fairly removed scenes compared to the cannibalism you see generally in other zombie movies. You constantly hear about these beings eating people, but you only see it happen twice in the film. Its a very different sort of story from the ones I generally watched like War of the Worlds, or The Thing From Another World. Its strange and mysterious and no one really knows anything. The movie is almost like a campfire story, alot of the story comes through the radio and tv broadcasts when the main characters aren't constantly fighting. The movie has such a look and energy about it. All expectations are immediately shattered. Johnny dies in the first minutes of the film, which as a ten year old boy, I thought would be the hero. Instead here, everything is chaotic, the picture is gritty, I don't recognize a single person. Clean pictures, the camera is usually a static thing, and even if it moves, its generally nice and smooth. Watching more mainstream films and alot of them growing up, you get used to a certain look. Its a movie with strange geometry, wild shot composition. Then at like 1 in the morning, by myself, I popped in Night of the Living Dead and my little ten year old self saw something he'd never seen before in his life. ![]() Jekyll and Hyde was quite good, I still think its the best take on that story, Barrymore is excellent and completely transforms as that character. So late that night after everyone had gone to bed. He wouldn't let me watch The Exorcist, I was too young for that. Hyde, the 1920 silent version with John Barrymore (he knew I liked older movies and what rental store would rent out such an old film is beyond me), and Night of the Living Dead. He went to one of the video rental stores after and rented some movies, The Exorcist, Dr. My older brother came home from the job he hated, being the China-Wok in town. It was 1998 and I was ten, living at my old house before the family moved the next year. I feel like Night of the Living Dead is one of those movies where just about anyone remembers where they were when they saw it for the first time. Helen's Death/Dawn/Posse In The Fields/Ben Awakes Truck On Fire/Ben Attacks Harry/Leg Of LegĮffects – Karl Hardman –George Hormel / William Loose / Seely / Ib Glindemannĭiscovery Of TV/Preparing To Escape/Tom & Judy Although this same music had been used more than a decade earlier in low-budget efforts such as Teenagers from Outer Space, The Hideous Sun Demon and The Killer Shrews, it would become forever known as the soundtrack to Night of the Living Dead."Ĭhoice bits of dialogue are also included in this collection. The internets sez: " Since their meager budget did not allow for an original music score, producer Karl Hardman selected cues from the Capitol Hi-Q production music library which Romero masterfully edited into the film. I think this speaks for itself, doesn't it? ![]()
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