The graveyard sequence that opens Night of the Living Dead is, to me, perhaps the most frightening in all zombiedom. It's also one of my favorites in all of horror.Man, I really need to pony up the dough for the remastered edition. My $1.99 copy sucks.
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Could be worse. My only copy is from one of those cheapo royalty-free-only distributors, and it has a huge freaking logo taking up nearly a fifth of the screen.
they're coming to get you, barbara!
I wholeheartedly support buying the Dimension release of Night of the Living Dead. It certainly has nothing to do with the Classic-Horror.com quote on the back. Nuh-uh.
See, this scene is one of the main reasons that I flat out refuse to live in a house near a graveyard.
Oh how I wish I were joking!
One of my favorite moments in my favorite film ever (Barbara's absolutely terrifying demise and the whole Karen-With-Trowel thing top the list, though). Stacie, I can't recommend the Dimension super-deluxe edition that came out last year - the making-of documentary is incredible and the scenes of Judith O'Dea and Russell Streiner walking around the very same cemetery now made me all misty and moist-eyed with geeky happiness.
Ugh, I even posted about that DVD release before it came out! It's been on my list forever. The problem is, when I'm looking to buy something, I think, "Well, I already HAVE the movie so I'll get something new..." and then I pop in the version I have and I think "AAAGH I must get the new version!" And around and around I go.
What an amazing movie. I always knew I loved it, but it wasn't until I read Kim Newman's analysis of it in "Nightmare Movies" (a wonderful book if you can find it) that I truly grew to appreciate how subversive and important it was.
Just stay away from that 30th anniversary travesty edition.
I totally agree with Pierce. Graveyards scare the crap out of me. Also zombies.
As for this scene, I agree that's it is amazing. It's not like zombies were into running at this point in movies, but think about times you've seen weird/creepy stuff and wanted to run away but then didn't want to feel "stupid" later for overreacting. This feels so real!
am i the only person in the world who thinks the colorised version is better than the black and white version.
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