Night of the Living Dead
Night of the Living Dead is a 1968 American independent black-and-white horror film and cult film directed by George A. Romero Night of the Living Dead was heavily criticized during its release because of its explicit content, but received critical acclaim and was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry as a film deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant. reviewers cited the film as groundbreaking. Pauline Kael called the film "one of the most gruesomely terrifying movies ever made — and when you leave the theatre you may wish you could forget the whole horrible experience. . . . The film's grainy, banal seriousness works for it — gives it a crude realism".[62] A Film Daily critic commented, "This is a pearl of a horror picture which exhibits all the earmarks of a sleeper.
Since the release, critics and film historians have seen Night of the Living Dead as a subversive film that critiques 1960s American society, international Cold War politics and domestic racism. Elliot Stein of The Village Voice saw the film as an ardent critique of American involvement in Vietnam, arguing that it "was not set in Transylvania, but Pennsylvania — this was Middle America at war, and the zombie carnage seemed a grotesque echo of the conflict then raging inVietnam
Pauline Kael, 5001 Nights at the Movies (Henry Holt and Company, 1991
Elliot Stein, "The Dead Zones: 'George A. Romero' at the American Museum of the Moving Image", The Village Voice(New York), January 8–14, 2003
http://www.filmsite.org/posters/psyc2.jpghttp://www.filmsite.org/reddot.gif Alfred Hitchcock's powerful, complex psychological thriller, Psycho (1960) is the "mother" of all modern horror suspense films - it single-handedly ushered in an era of inferior screen 'slashers' with blood-letting and graphic, shocking killings
The master of suspense skillfully manipulates and guides the audience into identifying with the main character, luckless
Since the release, critics and film historians have seen Night of the Living Dead as a subversive film that critiques 1960s American society, international Cold War politics and domestic racism. Elliot Stein of The Village Voice saw the film as an ardent critique of American involvement in Vietnam, arguing that it "was not set in Transylvania, but Pennsylvania — this was Middle America at war, and the zombie carnage seemed a grotesque echo of the conflict then raging inVietnam
Pauline Kael, 5001 Nights at the Movies (Henry Holt and Company, 1991
Elliot Stein, "The Dead Zones: 'George A. Romero' at the American Museum of the Moving Image", The Village Voice(New York), January 8–14, 2003
http://www.filmsite.org/posters/psyc2.jpghttp://www.filmsite.org/reddot.gif Alfred Hitchcock's powerful, complex psychological thriller, Psycho (1960) is the "mother" of all modern horror suspense films - it single-handedly ushered in an era of inferior screen 'slashers' with blood-letting and graphic, shocking killings
The master of suspense skillfully manipulates and guides the audience into identifying with the main character, luckless