Night of the Living Dead

I am no fan of the zombie genre. Mainly because I feel it has run its course. It has just become tired and formulaic. There are many fans of "The Walking Dead" which is all well and good, I have no problems with that, but I have avoided it because as I said I think the genre has run out of new ideas.However I am a huge fan of the movie that invented the zombie genre. The original version of "Night of the Living Dead" has stood the test of time for five decades now. Everything works in this movie, the script, the cast and the genuine moments of pure horror. It is very easy to see why this movie is considered a classic. Watch it once and you will see why.One day at dusk a young lady named Barbara and her brother John take a long drive to a Pennsylvania cemetery to put flowers on their father's grave. Soon after they complete the task a strange man suddenly approaches them and attacks Barbara. Johnny intervenes to fight off the man but is killed when his head strikes a gravestone. The man, who appears to be totally delirious then goes after Barbara. Barbara manages to make her way to an isolated farmhouse where she meets a stranger named Ben. Soon more people acting as oddly as the man who attacked Jon and Barbara begin to appear. Ben begins to barricade the house and the two work to try to stay alive until help arrives.I have mentioned previously the reasons why I feel this movie is so terrific. Now it is even more terrific now that it is available on this DVD in color. The colorization is very well done and adds another quality to a great movie. It even makes it, in my opinion, even better. Any fan of this movie should see the colorized version. They won't be disappointed.If you have not seen the original version of "Night of the Living Dead" do so by all means. If you have seen it, make sure you see it in color. You will enjoy the movie even more.One last note. The 1990 remake of "Night of the Living Dead" is actually very good too. Obviously not as good as the original classic, but worth your time. I would recommend you buy or rent that movie as well.

My husbands favorite movie

This movie is a classic and has always been on my top 5 list of scary movies! I especially like it in color and the ones who colorized this did a magnificent job! I REALLY liked the outdoors segments of this in color which showed the red convertible, the old dusty roads, and the spooky cemetery trees in all their glory, and I loved seeing Barbra's pretty blue eyes for the first time! But once we get into the farmhouse, the colors looked great but the furniture/walls did an awful lot of clashing! We have a gray ceiling, blue walls, pink curtains, a purple chair next to an orange chair, and yellow table cloths! The only thing that matched in the entire living room was the purple couch across from the chair! Made me feel like telling Ben - "hey - don't set that pretty purple chair on fire"!! LOL!So I assume since they were filming this originally in black and white that they didn't care about the color mixtures of furniture in the house - since in b & w everything comes across as either gray or white! But it's still lots of fun to see this in color!There is a tad bit of nudity in this... I remembered seeing the back-side of a zombie woman in the b & w version, but this color version gives us about a 2-second glimpse of her bare chest which I don't remember seeing before! That along with the cannibalism, violence and frightening scenes would definitely warrant an R-rating, especially back in 1968!So all in all a fantastic movie and one of the best scary ones you're gonna find anywhere! I definitely recommend it to anybody who loves the genre!

I have only owned about 2 or 3 versions of this film and I have to say this is probably the best. For the price you really cant go wrong with both versions the black and white and color. Its not like its in high definition or anything but the quality is good enough for me to say its almost the best I have seen for an older version of this. Not much more can be said about Night of The Living Dead but it is the all time classic zombie movie that paved the way for so much garbage zombie films and the good ones. No doubt in my mind that a company is trying to make more money off a good movie with a new version but at least this one is worth it. Special features are rather disappointing but I think it makes up for it by the commentary track. Odds are if you have never seen this movie and this is your 1st than you might be disappointed by the claustrophobia of the whole film except the beginning but for me I enjoyed that aspect of being in one place. The zombies move about the pace of a turtle so I think it would be fun to play with these zombies over the current run after you aggressive type. You might find yourself wondering why anyone is scared of them except for they want to eat you. I have to say though that a slower pace and claustrophobia is a good feeling in a movie for me especially a zombie movie. Overall in my opinion this is still the definitive zombie movie (not so much the dvd) for me.

Good quality

I been a fan of Romero's films since the first one "Night of the living dead", However I did not know until recently they had a remastered colored version of this until I seen it on a streaming app. I was surprised to find this on DVD, I am going to add it to my Romero collection. Great movie to have in both color and black and white.

When I got mine in the mail I said to myself that I'm going to watch the B/W version 1st and compare them.... After maybe 15 minutes of watching the b/w version, II was totally bored... the fact being I have seen that version so many times.... So I started watching the colorized version... I couldnt believe how different it was to watch... I wasn't bored at all.... It was like me watching the movie for the 1st time... the only thing different was it being in color... I'm still going to watch the b/w version because it is a tru-classic.... After watching the colorized version a few times... I will go back to the b/w classic version...

You can never go wrong with the master or his masterpiece. Restored and colourized. This is one of the best horror films ever made and one of the best colourized jobs I've seen. Hilarious audio commentary by the star of mystery science theatre 3000. R.I.P Master Genius.