A deceptively simple tale of a group of strangers trapped in a farmhouse who find themselves fending off a horde of recently dead, flesh-eating ghouls, George Romero’s claustrophobic vision of a late-1960s America literally tearing itself apart rewrote the rules of the horror genre, combined gruesome gore with acute social commentary, and quietly broke ground by casting a black actor (Duane Jones) in its lead role.
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD is available on Criterion Blu-ray/DVD 13 February 2018: https://www.criterion.com/films/29331-night-of-the-living-dead
