My love for the old classic movies is what sparked me to take a look at this zombie classic. “Night of the living Dead” by George Romero, I am sure this is the first of its kind, the start of the zombie movie genre.” There coming to get you Barbara”.

Being that I am not able to compare this zombie movie to the movies of today, because it is the first of its kind, at that time they did not have such extensive computer generated equipment, so I will take it for what it is worth.

 Plot the dead has arisen and is walking the earth, attacking and cannibalizing anyone who comes in there path, which the movie does not waste time getting to the point, the first zombie comes out in a cemetery and attacks a brother and sister, which the sister gets away, the brother is knocked out and turns into a zombies dressed in not tattered and torn clothes but some are fully dressed. Many scenes are dark, the music plays a very important role in intensifying the fears, I think that was a way that they made the movies seem scary during that time.

What did surprise many was the lead part was played by a black man; this was one of the worries of some that putting a black man in the lead it would not get such a good response but that did not matter, the movie was a hit and did not take away from the concept of the zombie plot.

Acting was acting for that era, but today I would have said the acting sucked. The scenes of zombies eating legs and arms as if they were chicken bones, would have been truly gross today, it had a fair amount of blood, but because it was black and white was hard to tell.

Film quality was foggy, but clear, sound good.

The final scene as the posse went around killing the zombies, kind looked liked they were preparing for a lynching and the head man as usually black rim glasses and smoking cigs with a black suit and shot gun.

If you want to get in to checking out some classics I do recommend this.