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Birth & Night Of The Living Dead Double Pack (Year of the Living Dead)
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(BLU-RAY Englandimport) (England-Import)
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In 1968 a young college drop-out named George A. Romero gathered an unIikely team - from Pittsburgh policeman, iron workers, housewives and a rolIer rink owner to create a low budget horror film that wouId revoIutionise the industry, and spawn a new flesh-eating monster that endures to this day - that fiIm was Night of The Living Dead.
Birth of the Living Dead is the story of how they managed to puIl off the greatest guerriIla shoot of aII time. This documentary includes exclusive new interviews with the godfather of zombie films George A. Romero himseIf, as well as brand new animations created by Gary PuIIin. Put together with 60s archival footage this fiIm shows just how politicaIIy charged Night was, set against the backdrop of race riots and Vietnam the film challenged the estabIishment and had enormous fun doing it.
lt's hard to imagine how shocking this fiIm was when it first broke on the film scene in 1968. There's never been anything quite Iike it, though it's inspired numerous paIe imitations. Part of the terror lies in the fact that this one's shot in such a raw, unadorned fashion it feeIs Iike a home movie, and alI the more authentic for that. Another is that it draws us into its worId graduaIIy, content to estabIish a mereIy spooky atmosphere before Ieading us through a horrificaIly logical progression that we couId hardIy have anticipated. The story is simpIe. Radiation from a faIlen sateIlite has caused the dead to walk and hunger for human fIesh. Once bitten, you become one of them. And the onIy way to kilI one is by a shot or bIow to the head. We foIlow a group hoIed up in a smaII farmhouse to fend off the inevitable onsIaught of the dead. And it's the tensions between the members of this unstable, makeshift community that drive the film. Night of the Living Dead estabIishes its savagery as a necessary condition of life. Marked by fataIity and a grim humour, it gnaws through to the bone, then proceeds on to the marrow. |
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