Night of the Living Dead (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray, 1968)

Description: Shot outside Pittsburgh on a shoestring budget, by a band of filmmakers determined to make their mark, Night of the Living Dead, directed by horror master George A. Romero, is a great story of independent cinema: a midnight hit turned box-office smash that became one of the most influential films of all time. 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, Romero’s claustrophobic vision of a late-1960s America literally tearing itself apart rewrote the rules of the horror genre, combining gruesome gore with acute social commentary and quietly breaking ground by casting a Black actor (Duane Jones) in its lead role.Night of the Living Dead was restored by the Museum of Modern Art and The Film Foundation, with funding provided by the George Lucas Family Foundation and the Celeste Bartos Preservation Fund. BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES **DOES NOT INCLUDE BOOKLET**New 4K digital restoration, supervised by director George A. Romero, coscreenwriter John A. Russo, sound engineer Gary R. Streiner, and producer Russell W. StreinerNew restoration of the monaural soundtrack, supervised by Romero and Gary Streiner and presented uncompressedOne 4K UHD disc of the film and two Blu-rays with the film and special featuresNight of Anubis, a work-print edit of the film Program featuring filmmakers Frank Darabont, Guillermo del Toro, and Robert RodriguezSixteen-millimeter dailies reelProgram featuring Russo on the commercial and industrial film production company where key Night of the Living Dead participants got their starts Two audio commentaries from 1994 featuring Romero, Russo, producer Karl Hardman, actor Judith O’Dea, and othersArchival interviews with Romero and actors Duane Jones and Judith RidleyPrograms about the film’s style and scoreInterview program about the direction of ghouls, featuring members of the cast and crewInterviews with Gary Streiner and Russell StreinerNewsreels from 1967Trailer, radio spots, and TV spotsPLUS: An essay by critic Stuart KlawansIllustration by Sean Phillips

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