George Romero's 1968 masterpiece still haunts us today. It is a very scary film that turned zombies from duds to scary studs. Realizing that zombies couldn't be very scary because of their slow gait, Romero made them frightening because they were out there in mass quantities!! They were unstoppable, except by burning, or complete dismemberment. The graveyard zombie sequence is still a favorite. The movie sets up a white man to be our hero, and then kills him within the first 10 minutes. His sister runs off, hysterical, and takes refuge in a farmhouse. In the farmhouse we meet the real hero, a take-charge African-American (practically unheard of at the time). He struggles for control against another man in the house, while the zombies pound away at the house. Truly frightening.

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