Labeled "Trilogy of the Dead" until Land of the Dead, each film is laden with social commentary on topics ranging from racism to consumerism. The films are not produced as direct follow-ups from one another and their only continuation is the theme of the epidemic of the living dead. This situation advances with each film, showing the world in a worsening state, but each film is independent of its predecessor. This is exemplified by the fact that each movie is set within the era it is filmed, with Land of the Dead being set in modern times with current (as of 2005) technology such as game consoles, flatscreen televisions, and cell phones. The fifth film does not continue the depiction of progress, but shows events at the very beginning of a zombie outbreak, similar to the first film. The films portray how different people react to the same phenomenon, ranging from citizens to police to army officials and to citizens again. Each takes place in a world worsened since its previous appearance, the number of zombies ever increasing and the living perpetually endangered, but with each entry being a standalone film that is not directly continuing global events from the previous.[clarification needed]
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The plot of the film follows Ben (Duane Jones), Barbra Cole (Judith O'Dea), and five others, who are trapped in a rural farmhouse in Pennsylvania and attempt to survive the night while the house is being attacked by mysteriously reanimated corpses, known as ghouls or zombies.
Night of the Living Dead, directed by George Romero, is a 1968 independent black-and-white horror film. Ben (Duane Jones) and Barbra (Judith O'Dea) are the protagonists of a story about the mysterious reanimation of the recently dead, and their efforts, along with five other people, to survive the night while trapped in a rural Pennsylvania farm house.
Night of the Living Dead was the first feature-length film directed by George A. Romero. His initial work involved filming shorts for Pittsburgh public broadcaster WQED's children's series Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.[15][34] Romero's decision to direct Night of the Living Dead essentially launched his career as a horror director. He took the helm of the sequels as well as Season of the Witch, The Crazies (1973), Martin (1977), Creepshow (1982) and The Dark Half (1993).[35] Critics saw the influence of the horror and science-fiction films of the 1950s in Romero's directorial style. Stephen Paul Miller, for instance, witnessed "a revival of fifties schlock shock... and the army general's television discussion of military operations in the film echoes the often inevitable calling-in of the army in fifties horror films". Miller admits, however, that "Night of the Living Dead takes greater relish in mocking these military operations through the general's pompous demeanor" and the government's inability to source the zombie epidemic or protect the citizenry.[36] Romero describes the mood he wished to establish: "The film opens with a situation that has already disintegrated to a point of little hope, and it moves progressively toward absolute despair and ultimate tragedy".[37] According to film historian Carl Royer, Romero "employs chiaroscuro (film noir style) lighting to emphasize humanity's nightmare alienation from itself".[38]
The film and its successors spawned countless imitators that borrowed elements instituted by Romero: Tombs of the Blind Dead, Zombie, Hell of the Living Dead, The Evil Dead, Night of the Comet, The Return of the Living Dead, Night of the Creeps, Braindead, Children of the Living Dead, and the video game series Resident Evil (later adapted as films in 2002, 2004, 2007, 2010, 2012, and 2017), Dead Rising, and House of the Dead. Night of the Living Dead is parodied in films such as Night of the Living Bread and Shaun of the Dead, and in episodes of The Simpsons ("Treehouse of Horror III", 1992) and South Park ("Pink Eye", 1997; "Night of the Living Homeless", 2007).[64][65][66] The word zombie is never used, but Romero's film introduced the theme of zombies as reanimated, flesh-eating cannibals.[67][42]
Night of the Living Dead is the first of five ...of the Dead films directed by George Romero. Following the 1968 film, Romero released Dawn of the Dead (1978), Day of the Dead (1985), Land of the Dead (2005) and Diary of the Dead (2008). Each film traces the evolution of the living dead epidemic in the United States and humanity's desperate attempts to cope with it. As in Night of the Living Dead, Romero peppered the other films in the series with critiques specific to the periods in which they were released.
Return of the Living Dead sparked a legal battle with Romero, who believed Russo marketed his film in direct competition with Day of the Dead as a sequel to the original film. In the case Dawn Associates v. Links (1978), Romero accused Russo of "appropriat[ing] part of the title of the prior work", plagiarizing Dawn of the Dead's advertising slogan ("When there is no room in hell [...] the dead will walk the earth"), and copying stills from the original 1968 film. Romero was ultimately granted a restraining order that forced Russo to cease his advertising campaign. Russo, however, was allowed to retain his title.[85]
#30 Night of the Comet (1984) 79% #30 Adjusted Score: 80525% Critics Consensus: Valley Girl culture satire Night of the Comet gets lots of mileage out of its slapstick sci-fi zombie approach. Synopsis: After a rare comet sighting, teen sisters Regina (Catherine Mary Stewart) and Samantha (Kelli Maroney) find that they're among the... [More] Starring: Catherine Mary Stewart, Kelli Maroney, Robert Beltran, Geoffrey Lewis Directed By: Thom Eberhardt #29 Juan of the Dead (2011) 83% #29 Adjusted Score: 80210% Critics Consensus: Filled with wild splatter slapstick, Juan of the Dead also deftly uses its zombie premise as an undead Trojan horse for insightful political commentary. Synopsis: When the dead rise and attack the living, Juan starts a zombie-killing business, until he has to save his small... [More] Starring: Blanca Rosa Blanco, Elsa Camp, Antonio Dechent, Luis Alberto Garcia Directed By: Alejandro Brugués #28 Little Monsters (2019) 80% #28 Adjusted Score: 86571% Critics Consensus: Led by typically outstanding work from Lupita Nyong'o, Little Monsters is a horror/rom-com hybrid that proves the zombie genre still has fresh brains to savor. Synopsis: ... [More] Starring: Lupita Nyong'o, Josh Gad, Stephen Peacocke, Kat Stewart Directed By: Abe Forsythe #27 Wild Zero (2000) 100% #27 Adjusted Score: 24450% Critics Consensus: No consensus yet. Synopsis: Ace saves his heroes from alien invaders that turn people into zombies.... [More] Starring: Guitar Wolf, Drum Wolf, Bass Wolf, Masashi Endo Directed By: Tetsuro Takeuchi #26 Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island (1998) 88% #26 Adjusted Score: 29471% Critics Consensus: No consensus yet. Synopsis: Scooby (Scott Innes) and the rest of the Mystery, Inc., crew encounter creepy characters at a haunted house on a... [More] Starring: Scott Innes, Billy West, Mary Kay Bergman, Frank Welker Directed By: Jim Stenstrum #25 Resident Evil (2002) 35% #25 Adjusted Score: 38713% Critics Consensus: Like other video game adapations, Resident Evil is loud, violent, formulaic, and cheesy. Synopsis: Based on the popular video game, Milla Jovovich and Michelle Rodriguez star as the leaders of a commando team who... [More] Starring: Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez, Eric Mabius, Ryan McCluskey Directed By: Paul W.S. Anderson #24 Cemetery Man (1995) 61% #24 Adjusted Score: 61985% Critics Consensus: Cemetery Man will frustrate viewers seeking narrative cohesion or coherence, but this surreal blend of humor and horror should satisfy B-movie fans in the mood for quirk. Synopsis: Something is causing the dead to rise from their graves as flesh-eating zombies, and cemetery custodian Francesco Dellamorte (Rupert Everett)... [More] Starring: Rupert Everett, Francois Hadji Lazaro, Anna Falchi, Stefano Masciarelli Directed By: Michele Soavi #23 Deathdream (1974) 83% #23 Adjusted Score: 83220% Critics Consensus: No consensus yet. Synopsis: When a Vietnam war casualty (Richard Backus) returns to his parents (John Marley, Lynn Carlin), he prowls in search of... [More] Starring: John Marley, Richard Backus, Lynn Carlin, Henderson Forsythe Directed By: Bob Clark #22 28 Weeks Later (2007) 72% #22 Adjusted Score: 79293% Critics Consensus: While 28 Weeks Later lacks the humanism that made 28 Days Later a classic, it's made up with fantastic atmosphere and punchy direction. Synopsis: Six months after the original epidemic, the rage virus has all but annihilated the population of the British Isles. Nevertheless... [More] Starring: Robert Carlyle, Rose Byrne, Jeremy Renner, Harold Perrineau Directed By: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo #21 Versus (2000) 75% #21 Adjusted Score: 44723% Critics Consensus: No consensus yet. Synopsis: An escaped prisoner (Tak Sakaguchi) and a mysterious young woman (Chieko Misaka) face an onslaught of indestructible undead fighters in... [More] Starring: Tak Sakaguchi, Hideo Sakaki, Chieko Misaka, Kenji Matsuda Directed By: Ryûhei Kitamura #20 Night of the Creeps (1986) 75% #20 Adjusted Score: 75915% Critics Consensus: No consensus yet. Synopsis: Fraternity pledges (Jason Lively, Steve Marshall) pull a prank with a frozen body and let sluglike creatures loose on campus.... [More] Starring: Jason Lively, Steve Marshall, Jill Whitlow, Tom Atkins Directed By: Fred Dekker #19 I Walked With a Zombie (1943) 85% #19 Adjusted Score: 91017% Critics Consensus: Evocative direction by Jacques Tourneur collides with the low-rent production values of exploitateer Val Lewton in I Walked with a Zombie, a sultry sleeper that's simultaneously smarmy, eloquent and fascinating. Synopsis: Canadian nurse Betsey Connell (Frances Dee) is hired to care for Jessica Holland (Christine Gordon), a woman on a Caribbean... [More] Starring: James Ellison, Frances Dee, Tom Conway, Edith Barrett Directed By: Jacques Tourneur #18 Warm Bodies (2013) 81% #18 Adjusted Score: 88669% Critics Consensus: Warm Bodies offers a sweet, well-acted spin on a genre that all too often lives down to its brain-dead protagonists. Synopsis: A terrible plague has left the planet's population divided between zombies and humans. An unusual zombie named R (Nicholas Hoult)... [More] Starring: Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer, John Malkovich, Rob Corddry Directed By: Jonathan Levine #17 Planet Terror (2007) 76% #17 Adjusted Score: 76708% Critics Consensus: A cool and hip grindhouse throwback, Planet Terror is an unpredictable zombie thrillride. Synopsis: An ordinary evening in a small Texas town becomes a grisly nightmare when a horde of flesh-eating zombies goes on... [More] Starring: Rose McGowan, Freddy Rodriguez, Josh Brolin, Marley Shelton Directed By: Robert Rodriguez #16 Zombie Flesh-Eaters (1979) 41% #16 Adjusted Score: 42512% Critics Consensus: Zombi 2 is an absurdly graphic zombie movie legendary for some gory scenes and nothing in between. Synopsis: A New York reporter (Ian McCulloch) follows a woman (Tisa Farrow) to an island where a doctor (Richard Johnson) faces... [More] Starring: Tisa Farrow, Ian McCulloch, Richard Johnson, Al Cliver Directed By: Lucio Fulci #15 Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (1974) 86% #15 Adjusted Score: 87133% Critics Consensus: No consensus yet. Synopsis: A cop does not realize that those responsible for several murders are the living dead.... [More] Starring: Raymond Lovelock, Cristina Galbo, Arthur Kennedy, Aldo Massasso Directed By: Jorge Grau #14 World War Z (2013) 66% #14 Adjusted Score: 76491% Critics Consensus: It's uneven and diverges from the source book, but World War Z still brings smart, fast-moving thrills and a solid performance from Brad Pitt to the zombie genre. Synopsis: When former U.N. investigator Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt) and his family get stuck in urban gridlock, he senses that it's... [More] Starring: Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos, James Badge Dale, Daniella Kertesz Directed By: Marc Forster #13 Dawn of the Dead (2004) 76% #13 Adjusted Score: 82606% Critics Consensus: A kinetic, violent and surprisingly worthy remake of George Romero's horror classic that pays homage to the original while working on its own terms. Synopsis: When her husband is attacked by a zombified neighbor, Ana (Sarah Polley) manages to escape, only to realize her entire... [More] Starring: Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Jake Weber, Mekhi Phifer Directed By: Zack Snyder #12 Day of the Dead (1985) 86% #12 Adjusted Score: 88784% Critics Consensus: Day of the Dead may arguably be the least haunting entry in George A. Romero's undead trilogy, but it will give audiences' plenty to chew on with its shocking gore and scathing view of society. Synopsis: The living dead regroup above while humans (Lori Cardille, Terry Alexander, Joseph Pilato) sweat it out below in a Florida... [More] Starring: Lori Cardille, Terry Alexander, Joseph Pilato, Jarlath Conroy Directed By: George A. Romero #11 One Cut of the Dead (2017) 100% #11 Adjusted Score: 104449% Critics Consensus: Brainy and bloody in equal measure, One Cut of the Dead reanimates the moribund zombie genre with a refreshing blend of formal daring and clever satire. Synopsis: Real zombies attack a hack director and a film crew who are shooting a low budget zombie film in an... [More] Starring: Takayuki Hamatsu, Yuzuki Akiyama, Harumi Shuhama, Kazuaki Nagaya Directed By: Shinichiro Ueda #10 The Return of the Living Dead (1985) 91% #10 Adjusted Score: 93960% Critics Consensus: A punk take on the zombie genre, The Return of the Living Dead injects a healthy dose of '80s silliness to the flesh-consuming. Synopsis: When foreman Frank (James Karen) shows new employee Freddy (Thom Mathews) a secret military experiment in a supply warehouse, the... [More] Starring: Clu Gulager, James Karen, Don Calfa, Thom Mathews Directed By: Dan O'Bannon #9 Dead Alive (1992) 89% #9 Adjusted Score: 92045% Critics Consensus: The delightfully gonzo tale of a lovestruck teen and his zombified mother, Dead Alive is extremely gory and exceedingly good fun, thanks to Peter Jackson's affection for the tastelessly sublime. Synopsis: Overprotective mother Vera Cosgrove (Elizabeth Moody), spying on her grown son, Lionel (Timothy Balme), as he visits the zoo with... [More] Starring: Timothy Balme, Diana Peñalver, Elizabeth Moody, Ian Watkin Directed By: Peter Jackson #8 Re-Animator (1985) 94% #8 Adjusted Score: 98456% Critics Consensus: Perfectly mixing humor and horror, the only thing more effective than Re-Animator's gory scares are its dry, deadpan jokes. Synopsis: A medical student (Jeffrey Combs) brings his headless professor back from the dead with a special serum.... [More] Starring: Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Barbara Crampton, David Gale Directed By: Stuart Gordon #7 Rec (2007) 90% #7 Adjusted Score: 90664% Critics Consensus: Plunging viewers into the nightmarish hellscape of an apartment complex under siege, [Rec] proves that found footage can still be used as an effective delivery mechanism for sparse, economic horror. Synopsis: A reporter (Manuela Velasco) and her cameraman record the horrifying outbreak of a disease that turns humans into vicious cannibals.... [More] Starring: Manuela Velasco, Ferran Terraza, Jorge-Yamam Serrano, Carlos Lasarte Directed By: Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza #6 28 Days Later (2002) 87% #6 Adjusted Score: 94758% Critics Consensus: Kinetically directed by Danny Boyle, 28 Days Later is both a terrifying zombie movie and a sharp political allegory. Synopsis: A group of misguided animal rights activists free a caged chimp infected with the "Rage" virus from a medical research... [More] Starring: Cillian Murphy, Noah Huntley, Naomie Harris, Brendan Gleeson Directed By: Danny Boyle #5 Zombieland (2009) 89% #5 Adjusted Score: 98775% Critics Consensus: Wickedly funny and featuring plenty of gore, Zombieland is proof that the zombie subgenre is far from dead. Synopsis: After a virus turns most people into zombies, the world's surviving humans remain locked in an ongoing battle against the... [More] Starring: Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin Directed By: Ruben Fleischer #4 Night of the Living Dead (1968) 96% #4 Adjusted Score: 104051% Critics Consensus: George A. Romero's debut set the template for the zombie film, and features tight editing, realistic gore, and a sly political undercurrent. Synopsis: A disparate group of individuals takes refuge in an abandoned house when corpses begin to leave the graveyard in search... [More] Starring: Duane Jones, Judith O'Dea, Karl Hardman, Keith Wayne Directed By: George A. Romero #3 Train to Busan (2016) 94% #3 Adjusted Score: 100364% Critics Consensus: Train to Busan delivers a thrillingly unique -- and purely entertaining -- take on the zombie genre, with fully realized characters and plenty of social commentary to underscore the bursts of skillfully staged action. Synopsis: A man (Gong Yoo), his estranged daughter and other passengers become trapped on a speeding train during a zombie outbreak... [More] Starring: Gong Yoo, Jung Yu-mi, Ma Dong-seok, Choi Woo-sik Directed By: Yeon Sang-ho #2 Shaun of the Dead (2004) 92% #2 Adjusted Score: 99429% Critics Consensus: Shaun of the Dead cleverly balances scares and witty satire, making for a bloody good zombie movie with loads of wit. Synopsis: Shaun is a 30-something loser with a dull, easy existence. When he's not working at the electronics store, he lives... [More] Starring: Simon Pegg, Kate Ashfield, Lucy Davis, Nick Frost Directed By: Edgar Wright #1 Dawn of the Dead (1978) 93% #1 Adjusted Score: 94117% Critics Consensus: One of the most compelling and entertaining zombie films ever, Dawn of the Dead perfectly blends pure horror and gore with social commentary on material society. Synopsis: As hordes of zombies swarm over the U.S., the terrified populace tries everything in their power to escape the attack... [More] Starring: David Emge, Ken Foree, Gaylen Ross, Scott H. Reiniger Directed By: George Romero 2ff7e9595c
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