C'è panico in tutta la nazione quando i morti tornano improvvisamente in vita. Il film segue un gruppo di persone che si barricano in una vecchia fattoria nel tentativo di rimanere al sicuro... Leggi tuttoC'è panico in tutta la nazione quando i morti tornano improvvisamente in vita. Il film segue un gruppo di persone che si barricano in una vecchia fattoria nel tentativo di rimanere al sicuro da questi mostri carnivori assetati di sangue.C'è panico in tutta la nazione quando i morti tornano improvvisamente in vita. Il film segue un gruppo di persone che si barricano in una vecchia fattoria nel tentativo di rimanere al sicuro da questi mostri carnivori assetati di sangue.
- Premi
- 7 vittorie
- Zombie
- (as Bill Heinzman)
- Field Reporter
- (as Bill 'Chilly Billy' Cardille)
- Zombie
- (as R.J. Ricci)
Trama
Lo sapevi?
- QuizThis is one of the most profitable independent movies ever made. Made for $114,000 (equivalent to $941,800 in 2022), it grossed approximately $30 million (equivalent to $247.8 million in 2022) - over 263 times its budget.
- BlooperThe first time the dead body is seen at the top of the stairs, the face has been eaten away. Later when the body is being dragged away, the rug conveniently covers the face, but the face can be seen for a split second, and it is clearly normal.
- Citazioni
Johnny: [in a creepy voice] They're coming to get you, Barbra!
Barbra: Stop it! You're ignorant!
Johnny: They're coming for you, Barbra!
Barbra: Stop it! You're acting like a child!
Johnny: They're coming for you!
[points to the cemetery zombie]
Johnny: Look, there comes one of them now!
Barbra: He'll hear you!
Johnny: Here he comes now! I'm getting out of here!
- Curiosità sui creditiThere is no on-screen copyright notice, nor any of the usual legal disclaimers typically found in movie credits; this is the main reason the film has been in the public domain since its release.
- Versioni alternativeDespite being billed as a collectors' edition and containing many extras, the UK Contender DVD appears to be missing several sequences including most of the cannibalism scenes following the attack on the car, as well as heavily reducing the trowel murder from 14 blows to three. None of these cuts were imposed by the BBFC as all video/DVD releases in the UK have always been uncut.
- ConnessioniEdited into The Epic of Detective Mandy: Book Two - Spoof of the Living Dead (1991)
The story begins with Barbara (Judith O'Dea) and her brother visiting the grave of a friend of their mother, and takes off almost immediately, as they are attacked by a horde of cannibalistic zombies. Narrowly escaping, but losing her emotional balance in the process, Barbara escapes to a house a bit farther down the road where she meets Ben (Duane Jones), the hero of the film. They discover a family with a sick little girl and a young couple in the basement of the house and they all get to work barricading themselves in and preparing weapons and other defenses. The rest of the story concerns the group dynamics between these survivors as the dead close in on their refuge, the story of what is going on in the rest of the USA - revealed through TV reportage and radio broadcasts, and sheer survival. The human side of this film is an interesting and accurate character study concerning what happens to people whose very lives are threatened.
The horror of this film is, unlike a lot of its recent descendants, less a matter of blood and gore than a matter of the real active horror of realistically depicted scenes of murder, death and cannibalism. Though the black and white footage involving blood and gore is certainly effective, there may not be quite enough of it for today's average horror fan. The photographic techniques of this film are innovative and powerful - showing just enough of the sheer hideousness of the film's basic concepts to disturb viewers, but not enough to allow them to detach from the film's protagonists.
I strongly recommend this film to anybody interested in the art of film making, and to those who enjoy the horror genre, though it is hard to imagine any serious horror fan who hasn't already seen this.
- mstomaso
- 15 mag 2005
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- Paese di origine
- Siti ufficiali
- Lingua
- Celebre anche come
- Night of the Living Dead
- Luoghi delle riprese
- Evans City Cemetery, Evans City, Pennsylvania, Stati Uniti(opening scenes - cemetery)
- Azienda produttrice
- Vedi altri crediti dell’azienda su IMDbPro
Botteghino
- Budget
- 114.000 USD (previsto)
- Lordo Stati Uniti e Canada
- 236.452 USD
- Fine settimana di apertura Stati Uniti e Canada
- 5.452 USD
- 15 ott 2017
- Lordo in tutto il mondo
- 236.452 USD
- Tempo di esecuzione1 ora 36 minuti
- Colore
- Mix di suoni
- Proporzioni
- 1.37 : 1