Night Of The Living Dead Criterion Collection

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, combined gruesome gore with acute social commentary, and quietly broke ground by casting a black actor (Duane Jones) in its lead role. Stark, haunting, and more relevant than ever, Night of the Living Dead is back.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.SPECIAL FEATURESNew 4K digital restoration, supervised by director George A. Romero, coscreenwriter John A. Russo, sound engineer Gary R. Streiner, and producer Russell W. StreinerNew restoration of the monaural soundtrack, supervised by Romero and Gary Streiner and presented uncompressed on the Blu-rayNight of Anubis, a never-before-presented work-print edit of the filmNew program featuring filmmakers Frank Darabont, Guillermo del Toro, and Robert RodriguezNever-before-seen 16 mm dailies reelNew program featuring Russo on the commercial and industrial-film production company where key Night of the Living Dead filmmakers got their startTwo audio commentaries from 1994 featuring Romero, Russo, producer Karl Hardman, actor Judith O’Dea, and othersArchival interviews with Romero and actors Duane Jones and Judith RidleyNew programs about the film’s style and scoreNew interview program about the direction of ghouls, featuring members of the cast and crewNew interviews with Gary Streiner and Russell StreinerNewsreels from 1967Trailer, radio spots, and TV spotsEnglish subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearingPLUS: An essay by critic Stuart Klawans

Night Of The Living Dead - The Criterion Collection