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Night of the Living Dead (1968)

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Night of the Living Dead (1968)	comment	Night of the Living Dead is a 1968 horror film directed by George A. Romero, who co-wrote the screenplay with John Russo. Romero's first feature film and the first entry in the Living Dead Series, it became one of the most influential horror films ever produced, while inaugurating the Zombie Apocalypse subgenre in the process.It's worth noting that these "Living Dead" aren't called zombies yet. The film identifies them as "ghouls", a corpse-eating creature adapted into Western culture since Arabian Nights with on-and-off popularity. The "Living Dead" are different from traditional ghouls in that they're the flesh-eating dead whose brains have been reactivated, presumably due to the radioactive fallout from an exploding space probe. It would be Romero's next film, Dawn of the Dead that would first drop the word "zombie", still not actually referring to his "Living Dead", but playing a huge role in getting the public to perceive zombies as flesh-eating corpses. Romero also commented on the increasing social tensions manifest in America during the 1960s—as the film demonstrates, the living had as much to fear from each other as they did from the undead.This film is in the Public Domain despite its relatively recent vintage due to a screwup. In 1968, U.S. copyright law required a properly displayed copyright notice in order for a work to properly secure and maintain its copyright. While this film did display such a notice on the title frames of its original title—Night of the Flesh Eaters—the initial distributor, The Walter Reade Organization, neglected to place a copyright notice on the title card after it became Night of the Living Dead. By the time the filmmakers noticed the oversight, they could do nothing about it. As a consequence, anyone with the resources to distribute the film can do so without legal repercussions; this means you can legally view or download the film for free on Internet sites such as the Internet Archive and YouTube.After Night of the Living Dead became an unexpected success, Romero and Russo discussed making a sequel; after disagreeing on the direction it should take, they each decided to do their own version. Romero made the equally-successful Dawn of the Dead and not-quite-as-successful Day of the Dead. Russo took more of a Black Comedy approach with the Return of the Living Dead pentalogy, which single-handedly introduced the concept of zombies eating brains. Both series have modern sequels: Romero directed the fourth film of his franchise (Land of the Dead) in 2005, then made a quasi-reboot (Diary of the Dead) and its sequel (Survival of the Dead), while Russo's Return of the Living Dead films strayed from the "comedic" angle to Gorn. In 1999, Russo—again without Romero's involvement—re-edited the original 1968 film for a 30th anniversary release, incorporating newly-shot footage and a new music score. This altered version received its own sequel, Children of the Living Dead, in 2001.All three films in the original Living Dead trilogy have received remakes, each with varying degrees of success. Romero himself wrote and produced a faithful remake of Night in 1990, with his close friend Tom Savini directing. Night also received a second remake, filmed in 3-D, in 2006, although Romero had no involvement with this version, which departs fairly radically from the original film. In November 2018, it was reported that a direct sequel to the 1968 film (adapted from an unproduced script written by Romero and Russo) had entered development, but nothing has been heard since.Night of the Living Dead remains one of the most iconic horror films of all time. Numerous movies, television shows, video games, novels, and comic books owe their origin to this pioneering work of zombie horror. And you know you made an excellent horror film when Mister Rogers, of all people, thought of it as a fun movie.The movie has also received a number of remakes, and an Animated Adaptation.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_113480b7	comment	Canon Foreigner: Owen and Gerald Tovar, Jr. are the only characters in the film not present in the original.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: George Romero appears as one of the TV reporters interviewing the military spokesmen in Washington. Screenwriter John Russo plays the ghoul that Ben kills with a tire iron.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_12ef566e	comment	Splatter Horror: Romero's efforts to replicate the violence and atmosphere of EC Comics on the big screen shocked audiences of the day and popularized the splatter subgenre.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_141a6acb	comment	Madness Mantra: "You can't start the car, Johnny has the key." "Oh, is it ten to three? We won't have long to wait, now, it's ten to three..."
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Barbra, who spends half the movie in a catatonic daze.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_144ec68f	comment	Negated Moment of Awesome: Barbra finally snaps out of her catatonia and runs to save Mrs. Cooper from the ghoul horde breaking into the house, but goes back into her catatonia the moment she sees her zombified brother Johnny, who drags her outside into the horde, where she is presumably devoured almost immediately afterward.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: Arguably the first film in the horror genre to establish the unrelentingly bleak atmosphere of violence and chaos that future horror films would become (in)famous for. Most horror films, before and at the time, were silly and often badly-acted with cardboard level special effects. It was also highly uncommon to find a horror movie with a genuine Downer Ending (or at least one that actually made sense).note Well, it's more of a Bittersweet Ending in this film's case, but it leaned more towards the bitter side.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_15800db3	comment	All Are Equal in Death: During the end credits, we see Ben's body laid next to that of the cemetery ghoul as they're prepared for burning.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_16fdd774	type	Losing a Shoe in the Struggle
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_18ce8f1d	comment	Full-Frontal Assault: As shown in the poster, there's a brief scene of a naked female ghoul among the horde that invade the house. It's shown from behind so you don't really see much.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_1b122c5d	comment	Scare Chord: A number of them are used throughout the film.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_1c7555f1	type	The Virus
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_1c7555f1	comment	The Virus: Ghoul bites spread a deadly infection that cause victims to rise again, but all of the recent dead have risen. In fact, it's arguable whether the bite is actually the cause. There's equal evidence to suggest that the bite merely kills because it's laden with lethal bacterianote Truth in Television; even the cleanest human mouth delivers bites that can rapidly go septic or cause diseases and it's the radiation that started the rise in the first place that causes the plague-killed body to then rise itself.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_1c79ae8c	type	Those Two Guys
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_1c79ae8c	comment	Those Two Guys: Tom and Judy are pretty separated from the other characters and the story at large. They hardly interact with anyone else but each other, and the only thing very memorable about them is their fiery explosive death and the sloppy ghoul clean-up crew.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_1da5941e	comment	For that matter, unless you shove fire in their faces (which causes them to snarl), the ghouls are completely silent. This is in stark contrast to the loud, ghostly moans or feral growls they make in the sequels and other subsequent zombie fiction.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_20f689e9	comment	Adaptational Villainy: The first zombie in the film is given a new backstory as a child killer.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_21889507	comment	The houseful of strangers are forced to work together until conflict ultimately breaks them apart. This became a defining point of zombie movies, as the living's lack of ability to work together ultimately proves their downfall. Some have interpreted this aspect of the film's story as Romero's metaphor for the difficulties faced by America in The Vietnam War, or the West generally in the Cold War.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Or "woman" in this case, as Barb is the only character in the film with an ounce of common sense. Ben too, but to a slightly lesser extent.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_281de59f	comment	Extremely Short Timespan: The title does not use the word "night" in a figurative sense.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_2854b56d	type	Uncertain Doom
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_2854b56d	comment	Uncertain Doom: While the obvious intent and most logical implication is that Barbra was Devoured by the Horde, she is not actually seen dead or even being bitten. As such, a few unofficial followups and spin-offs for the film have her surviving in various ways.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_2be15316	type	Ambiguously Jewish
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_2be15316	comment	Ambiguously Jewish: Barbara and Johnny place a cross on their father's grave and talk about going to church, but Johnny's imitation of their grandfather has a strong Yiddish accent, suggesting that they might have Jewish ancestry, perhaps on their mother's side.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_32768814	comment	Kick The Son Of A Bitch: The first zombie seen in the film is revealed to have been a child killer, with the parents of the girl he killed actually volunteering to pay for his burial (instead of having the state cremate him) just so that they could spit on his corpse before it's buried.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_33576bdb	type	The Sheriff
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_33576bdb	comment	The Sheriff: Sheriff McClelland, who heads the local ghoul-hunting posse.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_33e48eb9	comment	Hysterical Woman: Barbra spends half of her time being hysterical until she is knocked out by Ben. She then spends rest of her time in quiet near-catatonia.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: In the 2021 Japanese dub, this is not the first time we hear Jun'ichi Suwabe (Ben) having to deal once again with the undead.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_3ef2e095	comment	Beware the Living: Codified here with Ben's death at the hands of the redneck ghoul-hunting posse.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_405f6f52	comment	Recycled Soundtrack: The score consists of stock music from Capitol Records' "Hi-Q" production library, much of which had previously been used in such earlier B-movies as Teenagers from Outer Space, The Devil's Messenger, and The Hideous Sun Demon.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Everyone is killed by the ghouls, except for Ben. Ben himself is mistaken for a ghoul and shot dead by the militia group mopping up the last of the ghouls. On the bright side, the ghoul apocalypse gets cleaned up pretty easily. Unless you consider the subsequent Living Dead films to be in the same universe as this one, in which case it doesn't.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_4160410d	type	Damsel in Distress
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_4160410d	comment	Damsel in Distress: Barbra is often accused of being this, though she does succeed in running away from most of the ghouls. It's just that when things calm down, she goes slightly catatonic. Trauma can do that to a person.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_4783acfa	comment	Bait the Dog: Sheriff McClelland and his posse seem like a good thing when they're first seen on the news but end up thinking the Sole Survivor is a ghoul, and shoot him.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_48081842	comment	The Stinger: A shot of a burning pile of bodies follows the end credits.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_4aa98555	comment	Evil All Along: Gerald reveals that he was the one who created the zombies in an attempt to bring his father back to life.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_4ac8b81f	type	Humans Are the Real Monsters
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_4ac8b81f	comment	Humans Are the Real Monsters: The living characters seem to prefer either being at each other's throats, lacking any common sense, or both to mount any credible offense against the ghouls. And then there's the ending where Ben, the Sole Survivor, gets shot by a posse of policemen who couldn't bother to check if he's still alive.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: Barbra, an attractive Ingenue who's endearing despite her uptight personality, gets attacked by a ghoul, watches her brother die, finds a skeletonized corpse, and then finally goes into a panicked daze.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_4d3827ef	type	Not Quite Saved Enough
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_4d3827ef	comment	Not Quite Saved Enough: This film is perhaps the prototypical example. In a movie filled with groundbreaking departures from tradition, this trope was perhaps the most significant. After a heroic struggle, Ben is left the only survivor of a night of mayhem and horror in the farmhouse. The next morning he awakes to the sound of a rescue party approaching the house, but as he peers through the boarded-up windows for a glimpse of his potential saviors, they mistake him for just another ghoul and perfunctorily shoot him in the head. The movie ends with a sequence of still images of Ben's lifeless, anonymous corpse impaled on a meat hook and dragged to a human bonfire. No one ever knows who he was or what he went through to survive the night . . . of the living dead.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: Unlike the subsequent films in the Living Dead Series, this one is in black and white and lacks the subtle humor and action elements of the sequels. More notably, there is at least a Hand Wave given for the ghouls' existence (exotic radiation from an exploding space probe) while the sequels don't even bother with that. The first ghoul seen is also able to move fast (for a corpse) in contrast to the later ghouls, who have an obvious Zombie Gait. The very first ghoul in the film picks up a rock and uses it to break open a car window to get to Barbara. Every other instance of ghouls interacting with inanimate objects in the sequels are done with no real reason outside of muscle-memory, and even then that's just a theory that survivors are working with. The only exceptions to this were Bub from Day of the Dead (who was being domesticated) and Big Daddy from Land of the Dead (whose intelligence went beyond mindlessly hunting living humans). For that matter, unless you shove fire in their faces (which causes them to snarl), the ghouls are completely silent. This is in stark contrast to the loud, ghostly moans or feral growls they make in the sequels and other subsequent zombie fiction. While Ben is fending off a small group of ghouls, he strikes one in the face with a tire iron. The ghoul in question clutches at its face, as if in pain, or even just acting upon reflex. They also back away in fear in the presence of fire. All later films in the series depict ghouls as having no survival instincts of their own, completely indifferent to any sort of damage (enacted or potential) their bodies receive. The ghouls' eating habits have them either closing their eyes to chew their food or look around rather than the sequels where they have Jabba Table Manners and often messily eat. The ghouls have a way of giving up on pursuing their victims, even when they knew the living were inside the house, none of them try to break inside or even walk up on to the front porch, instead keeping their distance, even when there isn't fire around. Later when Ben flees inside after the failed escape attempt and he and Cooper close and barricade the door again, the ghouls are battering on the door to get inside. Not long later, they seem to give up and wander away. They only attack the house en mass at the end. A far cry from the relentless zombies in Dawn of the Dead who are still trying to get into the mall as the weeks and months pass, or the zombies in Day of the Dead outside surrounding the military base's fence and gates still trying to get in. By the time morning rolls around the situation seems pretty much under control, compared to the Zombie Apocalypse of the later films. Due to the convoluted film history of ghouls and zombies, the Living Dead are identified as ghouls in this film.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_506bf16a	type	Sex Signals Death
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_506bf16a	comment	Sex Signals Death: Judy and Tom have sex in Henry's barn, in which their sensual moaning end up attracting the zombies. Tom gets Devoured by the Horde trying to save Judy who locked herself in a truck, while Judy herself gets half of her face eaten off by a zombie that managed to grab her through the back window.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_54616909	type	Cavalry Betrayal
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_54616909	comment	Cavalry Betrayal: An accidental version. Ben manages to survive the night in a house besieged by ghouls. In the morning, the Sheriff's posse that systematically kills the ghouls is approaching. Ben comes out and is shot down because the members of the posse think that he is a ghoul.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_55172a70	type	Zombie Gait
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_55172a70	comment	Zombie Gait: The living dead tend to walk in a shambling manner.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_55cd4012	type	"Everybody Dies" Ending
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_55cd4012	comment	"Everybody Dies" Ending: Nobody in the film survives.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_598513bb	type	Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_598513bb	comment	Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Johnny and Barbra have shades of this in the beginning when they visit their father's grave with the former complaining about how long it took for them to drive up there and acting rather childishly when taunting Barbra about how the undead is coming to get her and the latter acting more mature and calm, even referring to Johnny as "ignorant" at one point.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: Subverted with the sheriff's posse effectively taking down the ghouls with very little problems. Also an inversion in proving they're a little too good at it when they mistakenly shoot Ben and never realize he wasn't a ghoul.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_59f4d283	type	Ominous Music Box Tune
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_59f4d283	comment	Ominous Music Box Tune: Barbra finds a music box, which plays a soothing little tune that seems completely at odds with the chaos happening outside the house.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_5b565147	type	Meaningful Background Event
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_5b565147	comment	Meaningful Background Event: The very first ghoul in the movie can be seen shambling around the cemetery well before it attacks Barbra and Johnny.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_60414102	type	Zombie Apocalypse
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_60414102	comment	Zombie Apocalypse: The trope maker. The recent dead return to life and attack the living. Due to being such an early example, many common aspects of the trope are not found in this film.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_627264e0	type	Death Glare
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_627264e0	comment	Death Glare: Ben gives the cowardly Cooper a withering one after kicking in the locked door after Cooper refused to open it for him. With the ghoul horde right behind him, Ben waits long enough to lock and barricade the door again before acting on it.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_62907b90	type	Bottle Episode
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_62907b90	comment	Bottle Episode: Made for a small budget, and almost the entire film takes place in or around a single house.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_69681e01	type	Big Brother Instinct
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_69681e01	comment	Big Brother Instinct: Johnny bitches about having to make the trip to the cemetery and teases Barbra mercilessly, but when she's attacked by the first ghoul he immediately springs to her defense.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_697b1af	type	Jump Cut
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_697b1af	comment	Jump Cut: There's a blatant one when Harry and Helen are talking in the cellar, because the distributor felt that scene was too long, and Romero was forced to trim it awkwardly.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_6af8ebb5	type	Death by Falling Over
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_6af8ebb5	comment	Death by Falling Over: Johnny is knocked down by a ghoul and hits his head on a gravestone, killing him.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Cooper was right about barricading the basement, as evidenced when Ben (the one most against it) survives the night that way.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_6d657b7a	type	Burn the Undead
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_6d657b7a	comment	Burn the Undead: Fire is an effective means of dispatching the living dead and is recommended by the radio emergency broadcasts.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_6db06839	type	The Stoner
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_6db06839	comment	The Stoner: Everyone on Henry's farm, on accounts of him being a weed farmer in this version. Owen is probably the most noteworthy example, who smokes a blunt for most of the first half of the film.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_71105dfc	type	Everybody Smokes
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_71105dfc	comment	Everybody Smokes: Ben, Harry, and Helen all light up cigarettes to ease their tension.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_7453bc5b	type	Spared by the Adaptation
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: In Empire of the Dead, commissioned by Romero himself, we learn Barbra was saved by Ghoul Johnny, who dragged her away from the rest of the undead horde to keep them from eating her.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_74d9d78f	type	Hate at First Sight
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_74d9d78f	comment	Hate at First Sight: Ben and Harry Cooper take an instantaneous dislike to one another that never abates over the course of the film. In-universe, this is mainly due to their incompatible viewpoints regarding the proper course of action to take.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_762b9223	type	Played for Laughs
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_762b9223	comment	The ghoul attacking Barbra and Johnny in the cemetery also counts. The first few minutes of the film are just a brother and sister bickering. We know it's a horror film, but we just assume that the shocks will come later on and this opening scene is going to be Played for Laughs... except, no, that creepy guy really is a murderous ghoul. Even if you've seen it multiple times, it's still very jarring.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_76a08cd6	type	Friend or Foe?
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_76a08cd6	comment	Friend or Foe?: In the end, Ben is shot down because the members of the posse think that he is a ghoul.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_76cbbc0b	type	George Lucas Altered Version
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_76cbbc0b	comment	George Lucas Altered Version: Producer and co-writer John A. Russo oversaw this new version, adding a new score, new special effects, and scenes shot 30 years after the original was released. Harry Knowles threatened to ban anyone who complimented this version on his Ain't It Cool News site.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_780a078e	type	Self-Made Orphan
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_780a078e	comment	Self-Made Orphan: Ghoul Karen eats her father's corpse, then kills and (presumably) eats her mother.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_7870735b	type	From Bad to Worse
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_7870735b	comment	From Bad to Worse: Things really start going to hell beginning with Tom and Judy's death.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_7a81a554	type	Incongruously-Dressed Zombie
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_7a81a554	comment	Incongruously-Dressed Zombie: Undressed, rather: Romero had a nude model wandering around with a morgue ID tag tied to her wrist.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_7c4f6612	type	Comic-Book Adaptation
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_7c4f6612	comment	Comic-Book Adaptation: FantaCo Enterprises released a four-issue adaptation in 1991.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_82a64c4b	type	Adaptational Nice Guy
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_82a64c4b	comment	Adaptational Nice Guy: Henry in this version is a far more nicer guy than in either the original or the 1990 remake, being perfectly willing to help Barb (even if he does think her story about the zombies is crazy) and provides support to the rest of the crew.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_8409a385	type	Exactly What It Says on the Tin
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_8409a385	comment	Exactly What It Says on the Tin: It's a movie about a single night during which the dead become alive.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_84764598	type	Dramatic Thunder
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_84764598	comment	Dramatic Thunder: The appearance of the first ghoul in the cemetery is heralded by this.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_8504b817	type	Where the Hell Is Springfield?
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_8504b817	comment	Where the Hell Is Springfield?: The house is a few miles away from the town of Willard, Pennsylvania, which is completely fictional. The only concrete details about the location is that it's around 150-200 miles from Pittsburgh (going by Johnny's mention of a "three-hour drive" back to the city in the opening scene) and you can still receive Pittsburgh TV stations pretty well over-the-air. The cemetery and farmhouse were both actually in Evans City, about a half-hour north of Pittsburgh in Real Life.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_86bbf6b5	type	Newscaster Cameo
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_86bbf6b5	comment	Newscaster Cameo: Bill Cardille, a Pittsburgh TV personality best known as Horror Host "Chilly Billy", appears as the TV reporter interviewing Sheriff McClelland. Charles Craig, who plays the primary newscaster in the film, had real-life experience reporting the news on a Cincinnati radio station.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_8806e0dd	type	Action Dress Rip
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_8806e0dd	comment	Action Dress Rip: Occurs as Barb attempts to flee from a horde of zombies. She doesn't ditch the high heels, though.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_88abba17	type	Horror Host
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_88abba17	comment	Bill Cardille, a Pittsburgh TV personality best known as Horror Host "Chilly Billy", appears as the TV reporter interviewing Sheriff McClelland.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_8a16409a	type	Shovel Strike
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_8a16409a	comment	Shovel Strike: Rev. Hicks is rescued from the first zombie when it gets whacked on the back with a shovel.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_8ae880f7	type	Deconstruction
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_8ae880f7	comment	Deconstruction: Ironically, the work that codified the Zombie Apocalypse was also a deconstruction. Outside of the farmhouse; once the military, police, and general public are able to understand and accept what's going on; the hordes of the undead are put down pretty easily.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_8ba9512b	type	Our Zombies Are Different
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_8ba9512b	comment	Our Zombies Are Different: Night of the Living Dead has a key place in the history of how zombies changed from semi-dead servants to cannibalistic undead in mainstream perception. The "zombies" of the film are only referred to as ghouls and audiences at the time did not perceive them otherwise, but starting around 1980 Night of the Living Dead came to be seen as being about zombies and part of an emerging horror subgenre. As an early "zombie" film, the ghouls don't fit the "slow, dumb shambler" model that is associated with Romero's zombies. Among others, they reach for a car's door handle, they pick up a rock to smash against a window, they deliberately smash a car's headlights, and one of them runs. The Coopers' zombified daughter also uses a garden shovel to kill her mother and several zombies pick up tools, such as the aforementioned rock, and one uses Ben's discarded makeshift torch to break down the door.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Gerald Tovar, Jr. Considering he was the one who started the outbreak in the first place, betrays Barb and Ben and tries to turn them into zombies as well, it's hard to feel sorry for Gerald when Barb manages to sick his own zombies on him.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_9059bd5d	type	Peek-a-Boo Corpse
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_9059bd5d	comment	Peek-a-Boo Corpse: After escaping the ghoul from the cemetery by entering a house, Barbra tactically explores her impromptu shelter. She finds the chewed corpse of the house's owner upstairs, which sends her into a near-catatonic state.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_913dc5d2	type	Women Drivers
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_913dc5d2	comment	Women Drivers: Barbra makes it all of about 100 feet in the car before crashing it into a tree. (She was just coasting after taking the emergency brake off. After all, Johnny has the key.)note This scene was a Throw It In! moment in the script, as the car had gotten a fender dented between shoots and an explanation had to be quickly contrived.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_916c72b3	comment	Rule of Symbolism: While Romero always maintained that Duane Jones had simply given the best audition and the story was never meant to be a political statement, there's something to say for sure about a story filmed right around the time of the Civil Rights Movement, about the breakdown of societal norms, where the (debatably) Only Sane Man is an intelligent and pragmatic black man, who outlives his companions only to be killed by the police.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_92264449	type	Jabba Table Manners
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_92264449	comment	The ghouls' eating habits have them either closing their eyes to chew their food or look around rather than the sequels where they have Jabba Table Manners and often messily eat.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_9245d989	comment	Sinister Minister: Reverend Hicks has become incredibly unhinged after his near-fatal encounter with the living dead, now convinced that the zombies are demons from hell and a sign of the apocalypse.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_95be648c	type	Creepy Basement
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_95be648c	comment	Creepy Basement: Subverted. The cellar is the one truly safe place... at least until Karen turns.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_9afa05c7	type	Family-Unfriendly Death
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_9afa05c7	comment	The Family-Unfriendly Deaths of Tom and Judy provides the page quote for this trope.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: Barbra gets over her catatonic state and saves Mrs. Cooper from the ghouls that grab at her. Unfortunately, it comes at the cost of her own life.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: Fire is one of the only things ghouls are afraid of, and is one of the methods used to make sure they either stay dead or the recently deceased don't become them.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_9c5e78d0	type	Kill the Cutie
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_9c5e78d0	comment	Kill the Cutie: And how. Poor, poor Barbra...
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_9ee065ab	type	Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_9ee065ab	comment	Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday: The film takes place the night after the dreaded switch to gasp daylight savings time.note Based on the December 1966 calendar seen on the wall in the house, some fans have determined that the movie is supposed to take place on April 30, 1967, the "spring forward" day that year.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_9f00986d	type	Gut Punch
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_9f00986d	comment	Gut Punch: The Family-Unfriendly Deaths of Tom and Judy provides the page quote for this trope. The ghoul attacking Barbra and Johnny in the cemetery also counts. The first few minutes of the film are just a brother and sister bickering. We know it's a horror film, but we just assume that the shocks will come later on and this opening scene is going to be Played for Laughs... except, no, that creepy guy really is a murderous ghoul. Even if you've seen it multiple times, it's still very jarring. In the cellar, Karen eating her father and stabbing her mother. A totally shocking case of Enfant Terrible, chillingly presented, that horrifies Helen as much as it does the audience.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_a02ab916	type	Practical Voice-Over
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_a02ab916	comment	Practical Voiceover: Radio and television broadcasts are used throughout the film to outline the contours and extent of the ghoul outbreak.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_a080d7a9	type	Door Handle Scare
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_a080d7a9	comment	Door Handle Scare: Barbra is sitting in the living room while Ben busies himself boarding up the windows without her. She listens to the radio report about the flesh eaters roaming the countryside. The radio almost increases in volume with no other sound in the scene. She then hears a couple of bangs behind the unchecked door beside her. The camera cuts back and forth between her face and the door. The knob doesn't turn, but the music swells as Harry and Tom suddenly emerge from the cellar, causing Barbra to scream and bring Ben running.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_a0a005d1	type	Protagonist Journey to Villain
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_a0a005d1	comment	Protagonist Journey to Villain: Re-Animation, the prequel, is one for Gerald.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_a32334b4	type	Canon Discontinuity
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_a32334b4	comment	Canon Discontinuity: The re-edit seemingly tries to shut Dawn and Day out of the continuity by adding an extra segment to the ending that indicates the zombie plague has been restricted to small, periodic outbreaks, instead of the outright zombie pandemic that wipes out 99.999975% of the world's population by the time of Day. Supposedly this was meant as a lead-in to the subsequent Children of the Living Dead, though neither the events of the theatrical or 30th Anniversary cut are ever referenced in that one, beyond some vague similarities between the cemetery zombie's new backstory and that of Abbot Hayes, the Big Bad of Children.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_a4cd4fc6	type	Cruel Twist Ending
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_a4cd4fc6	comment	Cruel Twist Ending: Ben, the Sole Survivor, is killed after being mistaken for a ghoul.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_a6123b72	type	Enfant Terrible
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_a6123b72	comment	In the cellar, Karen eating her father and stabbing her mother. A totally shocking case of Enfant Terrible, chillingly presented, that horrifies Helen as much as it does the audience.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_a68421bb	type	Animated Adaptation
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_a68421bb	comment	Animated Adaptation: Night of the Animated Dead, released in 2021. Featuring retraux character designs modeled after the 1968 cast, it's Bloodier and Gorier than the original and adds a few new sequences, notably showing a flashback to Ben's escape before arriving at the house, but cuts the film down from 90 minutes to 60.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_a696c783	type	Event Title
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_a696c783	comment	Event Title: One of the most famous in history. Just about every modern film that uses "Night of.." or "..of the Dead" in its title are referencing either this movie or its just as famous sequel.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_a6c99b08	type	Shoot Out the Lock
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_a6c99b08	comment	Shoot Out the Lock: Upon arrival at the gas pump, the key does not work. Ben simply shoots the lock.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_a74bd88e	type	Taxidermy Terror
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_a74bd88e	comment	Taxidermy Terror: Barbra wanders into the house's trophy room, where the mounted heads seriously freak her out. Although not as much as the corpse. Or the ghoul. Or Ben. (Of course, given all that Barbra has just been through in the previous few minutes, the trophies of dead animals would be a justifiably startling sight.)
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_aa30e350	type	Sole Survivor
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_aa30e350	comment	Sole Survivor: Probably the best-known subversion in film history, though technically Ben is the only one to survive the eponymous night.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Barbra's reaction after the graveyard zombie kills Johnny then looks up at her, knowing she's next.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_ae2b8366	type	Possessing a Dead Body
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_ae2b8366	comment	Possessing a Dead Body: At the end, the unhinged Reverend Hicks declares to a reporter that the zombies are human corpses possessed by demons from hell. This is clearly supposed to be a crazed rant however, and is never proven one way or the other.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_b02f21f	type	Digital Destruction
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_b02f21f	comment	Digital Destruction: Many felt that the restoration job on the 30th Anniversary Edition was actually a little too effective and made the film's low budget painfully obvious, and that the murky public domain prints actually do a lot to enhance the film's mood. That's probably the least of the Anniversary Edition's problems...
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_b0cd3349	type	Fridge Brilliance
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_b0cd3349	comment	One powerful Fridge Brilliance interpretation has the film as a metaphor for the Civil Rights Movement. A black man taking the role of hero, variously opposed, aided, betrayed, or ignored in his struggle to survive against the ghoul hordes by the white people around him.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_b4ac1655	type	Molotov Cocktail
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_b4ac1655	comment	Molotov Cocktail: Harry tosses Molotov cocktails to clear a path to the truck when Ben and Tom make a break for it.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Reverend Hicks — who, by the way, is near a dozen or so guys shooting at the zombies with actual weapons — thinks that preaching at one of the zombies (the one that Barbra and Johnny encountered at the start of the film, in fact) will achieve something. Needless to say, it doesn't, and he gets bitten before the other guys take the zombie out. Subverted, as Hicks somehow proves immune to being bitten.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_bc5ddda5	type	Thematic Series
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_bc5ddda5	comment	Thematic Series: The sequels this movie spawned were all loosely connected.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_bd32bff	type	Hungry Menace
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_bd32bff	comment	Hungry Menace: The ghouls seem to exist only to devour the flesh of the living.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_be6f7ae7	type	Brief Accent Imitation
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_be6f7ae7	comment	Brief Accent Imitation: When Johnny tells the story of scaring Barbara when they were children, he imitates their grandfather with an Alter Kocker accent.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_bf46684b	type	Title of the Dead
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_bf46684b	comment	Title of the Dead: Like the original film.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_bf74d357	type	Ugly Guy, Hot Wife
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_bf74d357	comment	Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: The Coopers.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_c14ca4e0	type	Zombie Infectee
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_c14ca4e0	comment	Zombie Infectee: Karen Cooper was bitten by a ghoul before she was taken to the basement. After taking a long time dying, she rises up, eats her father's corpse and kills her mother.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_c1b2c63f	type	Dull Surprise
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_c1b2c63f	comment	Dull Surprise: In a new scene added to the film's ending, a reporter interviews Reverend Hicks as a posse goes around shooting zombies in the cemetery, but she does so in a manner that you might expect someone to report on a country fair, not the possible End of the World as We Know It.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_c2393191	type	Show Within a Show
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_c2393191	comment	Show Within a Show: Various characters are shown watching the original 1968 film on television.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: Cooper orders Helen to go back down into the cellar in the third act, wanting to keep her safe. At this point their daughter has become a ghoul. The irony comes that if Helen had stayed upstairs she probably would have survived. And of course, the biggest one of all. After spending the majority of the film flatly refusing to consider holing up in the basement as Cooper suggests, and deriding Cooper as an idiot for wanting to do so, when his boarding up of the house completely fails, not only is that where Ben finds safety, but we discover that Cooper was right all along, and even though a horde of ghouls swarmed the house, they were unable to break through the door to get to Ben.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_c3648b87	type	Teeth-Clenched Teamwork
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_c3648b87	comment	Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: The houseful of strangers are forced to work together until conflict ultimately breaks them apart. This became a defining point of zombie movies, as the living's lack of ability to work together ultimately proves their downfall. Some have interpreted this aspect of the film's story as Romero's metaphor for the difficulties faced by America in The Vietnam War, or the West generally in the Cold War. One powerful Fridge Brilliance interpretation has the film as a metaphor for the Civil Rights Movement. A black man taking the role of hero, variously opposed, aided, betrayed, or ignored in his struggle to survive against the ghoul hordes by the white people around him.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: Ben survives the night in the basement, comes up the stairs to find the house empty of ghouls, and it seems clear he's about to be rescued by Sheriff Mc Clelland and his ghoul-hunting posse. Then they mistake him for a ghoul and shoot him through the head.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_c54d550d	type	Novelization
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_c54d550d	comment	Novelization: Written by John Russo. Russo also wrote a sequel novel titled Return of the Living Dead where the ghouls return following a catastrophic bus crash, which was later the (very loose) basis for the film of the same name.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_c5b47b36	type	Offscreen Moment of Awesome
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_c5b47b36	comment	Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Ben's story of running down ghouls with a truck and his clash with them at Beekman's Diner, which would clearly have been far beyond the film's budget to actually show.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_c5f0119c	type	Insane Troll Logic
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_c5f0119c	comment	Insane Troll Logic: In his rant at the end of the film, Reverend Hicks says that the dead should be spiked through their hands and feet, as was done to Jesus on the cross, to prevent them from coming back to life. Even though it's clearly meant to be a crazy rant, you'd think Hicks would remember that one of the most famous things about Jesus is the Resurrection, in which he came back to life.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_c6fe99cf	type	Creepy Cemetery
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_c6fe99cf	comment	Creepy Cemetery: The film opens with Johnny and Barbra arriving at an isolated rural cemetery to put a wreath on their father's grave. Even before the first ghoul shows up, the place seems very sinister and unsettling with all the shadowy trees and old gravestones jutting out of the ground.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_c728ea66	type	Fear Is Normal
Night of the Living Dead (1968) / int_c728ea66	comment	Fear Is Normal: In one scene of the movie, Ben tries to comfort Barbara by saying that he knows she's afraid and that he's afraid of the Zombie Apocalypse which is taking place as well.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968)	hasFeature	The Extremist Was Right / int_2dfaf313
Night of the Living Dead (1968)	hasFeature	The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You / int_2dfaf313
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Night of the Living Dead (1968)	hasFeature	The X of Y / int_2dfaf313
Night of the Living Dead (1968)	hasFeature	Title of the Dead / int_2dfaf313
Night of the Living Dead (1968)	hasFeature	Trash the Set / int_2dfaf313
Night of the Living Dead (1968)	hasFeature	Undead Child / int_2dfaf313
Night of the Living Dead (1968)	hasFeature	Unsafe Haven / int_2dfaf313
Night of the Living Dead (1968)	hasFeature	We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties / int_2dfaf313
Night of the Living Dead (1968)	hasFeature	What Do You Mean, It's Not Political? / int_2dfaf313
Night of the Living Dead (1968)	hasFeature	While Rome Burns / int_2dfaf313
Night of the Living Dead (1968)	hasFeature	Zombie Apocalypse / int_2dfaf313
Night of the Living Dead (1968)	hasFeature	Zombie Gait / int_2dfaf313
Night of the Living Dead (1968)	hasFeature	Genre Popularizer / int_2dfaf313

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