![]() ![]() Part of the film’s legacy is borne on the shoulders of its lead, Duane Jones, an African American actor chosen to play the film’s hero, Ben, based on the strength of his audition and not because of the color of his skin. ![]() But after a few weeks of playing in local theaters and drive-ins, Night of the Living Dead didn’t go away. Because of its black-and-white presentation, the movie had a documentary feel: “you are here, this is now.” Audiences weren’t quite ready for its arrival. It was intentionally evocative of Richard Matheson’s classic tale, I Am Legend, but it became so much more.Īt first, the film was reviled by critics comparing it to base pornography, thanks to the unflinching sequences of cannibalism and violence. A small group of panicked humans, trapped inside a dilapidated Pennsylvania farmhouse surrounded by a ravenous horde of reanimated corpses, each other’s instincts conflicting - sometimes violently - as they struggle to survive the night. ![]() Russo, Russell Streiner and seven other members of the “Latent Image” team created something that will outlive us all. The film was created in the hopes of making a modest financial return to fund more high-minded art films. The 77-year-old filmmaker died July 16 after a brief battle with lung cancer. George Romero was known affectionately and colloquially as “The Godfather of the Zombie Movie,” thanks to a little black-and-white shocker he’d co-written, co-produced and directed in 1969 called, Night of the Living Dead. ![]()
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