Halloween Month Movie A Night
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hippie_chickOct. 5
Night Of The Living Dead (1968)
Classic zombie movie... it established the genre! Heck there are still sequels coming up to this day, forty years later!
My mom related to me the first time she ever saw it. She and my father left me with a sitter (I was three at the time) and went to the drive in. There was a slight foggy sheen to the night, and the atmosphere just lent itself. Mom said that she was so freaked out upon returning home, she made my dad go in and put the lights on and check out the house before she'd get out of the car and come in.
Now the first time I saw it? I was thirteen. It came on TV very late at night and I didn't sleep for a week. I just remembered the creepy vibe, like you were watching home movies and newsreel footage. And this is LONG before The Blair Witch Project would come along and do that home movie thing to good effect. It sat with me, and still does. That rural Pennsylvania town could have just as easily been my own little Indiana abode.
OMG watch it now! This is the entire film. It's in the public domain, by the way.
Night Of The Living Dead (1968)
Classic zombie movie... it established the genre! Heck there are still sequels coming up to this day, forty years later!
My mom related to me the first time she ever saw it. She and my father left me with a sitter (I was three at the time) and went to the drive in. There was a slight foggy sheen to the night, and the atmosphere just lent itself. Mom said that she was so freaked out upon returning home, she made my dad go in and put the lights on and check out the house before she'd get out of the car and come in.
Now the first time I saw it? I was thirteen. It came on TV very late at night and I didn't sleep for a week. I just remembered the creepy vibe, like you were watching home movies and newsreel footage. And this is LONG before The Blair Witch Project would come along and do that home movie thing to good effect. It sat with me, and still does. That rural Pennsylvania town could have just as easily been my own little Indiana abode.
OMG watch it now! This is the entire film. It's in the public domain, by the way.
