send more paramedics

As much as I love Romero's slow zombies, this one does a good job of explaining the fast zombie phenomenon and their desire for brains much better than those "not really dead" fast zombies of other films.

A movie with zombies and humor that's actually good? Simpler times.



Back in high school I met the tar man's sister. My brush with fame!

So many good times watching this movie. I've seen it probably 15 different occasions with different people in my life, and it has always been met with joy.

Very articulate for not having lips

DO YOU WANNA PARTAY? IT'S PARTY TIME!

There is a roky erickson song in here too somewhere, i think where the old guy pushes himself into the crematorium?

This was written and directed by Dan O'Bannon, the guy who co-wrote Alien and a few other cult movie type things. (he was also in John Carpenter's first movie, Dark Star)
Connecting this film to the original NOTLD via the story about the military fuck-up was apparently not kosher with Romero and he sued to stop the production but since the copyright on NOTLD had lapsed at the time, he couldn't really do anything about it.

It took the rest of the zombie movie industry almost 20 years to catch up to this.

When people ask me about food I'm eating, I like to tell them that it "makes the pain stop"

I own this on DVD and actually watched it Thursday because it takes place around the fourth of July. I also watched "Frogs" and "Jaws" for the same reason.

I capped it all off with "JFK".

It was raining, Thursday. It's been raining for a week and will likely rain for another week. We couldn't cook out or shoot off fireworks.

Pretty sure this is a dupe, but it is a highly appropriate and necessary dupe.

As a wee child in catholic school, the concept presented in this movie of lying in your grave in pain and feeling yourself rot was deeply disturbing to me. I figured cremation would hurt a whole lot worse, but dammit, you wouldn't feel a thing afterwards.