Night of the Living Dead
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.
4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration, supervised by director George A. Romero, coscreenwriter John A. Russo, sound engineer Gary R. Streiner, and producer Russell W. Streiner
- New restoration of the monaural soundtrack, supervised by Romero and Gary Streiner and presented uncompressed
- One 4K UHD disc of the film and two Blu-rays with the film and special features
- Night of Anubis, a work-print edit of the film
- Program featuring filmmakers Frank Darabont, Guillermo del Toro, and Robert Rodriguez
- Sixteen-millimeter dailies reel
- Program 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 others
- Archival interviews with Romero and actors Duane Jones and Judith Ridley
- Programs about the film’s style and score
- Interview program about the direction of ghouls, featuring members of the cast and crew
- Interviews with Gary Streiner and Russell Streiner
- Newsreels from 1967
- Trailer, radio spots, and TV spots
- PLUS: An essay by critic Stuart Klawans
Illustration by Sean Phillips
Collector's Sets
Collector's Set
4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration, supervised by director George A. Romero, coscreenwriter John A. Russo, sound engineer Gary R. Streiner, and producer Russell W. Streiner
- New restoration of the monaural soundtrack, supervised by Romero and Gary Streiner and presented uncompressed
- One 4K UHD disc of the film and two Blu-rays with the film and special features
- Night of Anubis, a work-print edit of the film
- Program featuring filmmakers Frank Darabont, Guillermo del Toro, and Robert Rodriguez
- Sixteen-millimeter dailies reel
- Program 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 others
- Archival interviews with Romero and actors Duane Jones and Judith Ridley
- Programs about the film’s style and score
- Interview program about the direction of ghouls, featuring members of the cast and crew
- Interviews with Gary Streiner and Russell Streiner
- Newsreels from 1967
- Trailer, radio spots, and TV spots
- PLUS: An essay by critic Stuart Klawans
Illustration by Sean Phillips
Cast
- Duane Jones
- Ben
- Judith O’Dea
- Barbra
- Karl Hardman
- Harry Cooper
- Marilyn Eastman
- Helen Cooper
- Keith Wayne
- Tom
- Judith Ridley
- Judy
- Russell W. Streiner
- Johnny
- Kyra Schon
- Karen Cooper
- Charles Craig
- Newscaster
- S. William Hinzman
- Cemetery ghoul
- George Kosana
- Sheriff McClelland
- Frank Doak
- Dr. Grimes
- Bill “Chilly Billy” Cardille
- Field reporter
- George A. Romero
- Don Quinn
- A. C. McDonald
- Washington general
- Mark Ricci
- Washington scientist
- Samuel R. Solito
- Washington scientist
- Lee Hartman
- News reporter
- Jack Givens
- Ghoul
- R. J. Ricci
- Ghoul
- Paula Richards
- Ghoul
- John Simpson
- Ghoul
- Herbert Summer
- Ghoul
- Richard Ricci
- Ghoul
- Ella Mae Smith
- Ghoul
- Vincent D. Survinski
- Posse gunman
Credits
- Director
- George A. Romero
- Produced by
- Russell W. Streiner
- Produced by
- Karl Hardman
- Screenplay by
- John A. Russo
- Screenplay by
- George A. Romero
- Edited by
- George A. Romero
- Production director
- Vincent D. Survinski
- Production manager
- George Kosana
- Photographed by
- The Latent Image Inc.
- Sound engineers
- Gary R. Streiner
- Sound engineers
- Marshall Booth
- Special effects
- Regis Survinski
- Special effects
- Tony Pantanella
- Makeup
- Hardman Associates Inc.
- Lighting supervisor
- Joseph Unitas
- Title sequence
- The Animators
Edition introduction to Night of the Living Dead
Trailer for Night of the Living Dead
