Night of the Living Dead Gallery added !

Over one year old and we didn't have a gallery for the movie that started it all. I lower my head in shame. But now we have it. A gallery with 16 pictures for George Romero's masterpiece Night of the Living Dead. It's hard to imagine how shocking this film was when it first broke on the film scene in 1968. There's never been anything quite like it, though it's inspired numerous pale imitations.

Part of the terror lies in the fact that this one's shot in such a raw, unadorned fashion it feels like a home movie, and all the more authentic for that. Another is that it draws us into its world gradually, content to establish a merely spooky atmosphere before leading us through a horrifically logical progression that we could hardly have anticipated.

The story is simple. The dead to walk, and hunger for human flesh. Once bitten, you become one of them. And the only way to kill a Zombie is by a shot or blow to the head. We follow a group holed up in a small farmhouse to fend off the inevitable onslaught 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 establishes its savagery as a necessary condition of life. Marked by fatality and a grim humor, it gnaws through to the bone, then proceeds on to the marrow.

Be sure to check out all pics in our Night of the Living Dead Gallery.