The one that started it all (well, for me, at least). This classic
should remain Black & White but since I have the colorized version and
hadn't seen it yet I decided to go color. At first it felt as if I was
watching an opaque Wes Anderson movie and the way he gets his actors to
act as in a "trance-like state", quoting the radio announcer in our
movie. Some light did make it through and may have gone unnoticed in the
original version. If you watch closely at the part where our
hero-for-naught Ben torches the recliner and opens the door you can see
daylight outside, .... but, its supposed to be night..... YIKES !
I was so busy watching all the colorized details that I almost failed to notice that Johnny's tie was pink. I never would have guessed that. Imagine if NOTLD had been released in color originally? The world would not be as we know it now. WHOA, enough of that.
It's not just because this is the grand ol' daddy of them all but more in the way I stumbled on it and became an avid zombie fan. Two 12/13 year old kids being left home alone while the rest of the family went on a week long road trip. Back in those days you could do that. Come 11:00 p.m. and we decide to see if we could catch a scary movie on the tube. We didn't have T.V. Guide and we cut right into the first 30 seconds with absolutely no pre-prep. We didn't even know if it was a horror movie. Fifteen minutes later we were double checking all doors and windows. We called an older friend as instructed by our parents in case of an emergency but no answer. The family lived down the block and we began to suspect something was wrong since they weren't answering the phone. We decided to risk it all and go to their house at 3 or 4 o'clock since getting any shut-eye was impossible. Armed with a baseball bat and a BB rifle. Of course they did not answer the door and we had to make it back to our house, one looking ahead and another looking behind us. I did not sleep for days. We had never heard of zombies and there is no mentioning of zombies in the movie. No other movie has scared the bejesus out of me like that. Not even the Exorcist. But Dawn Of The Dead 78 and Suspiria came close. About a year later I saw "Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things" and then Dawn 78.
Johnny V.
I was so busy watching all the colorized details that I almost failed to notice that Johnny's tie was pink. I never would have guessed that. Imagine if NOTLD had been released in color originally? The world would not be as we know it now. WHOA, enough of that.
It's not just because this is the grand ol' daddy of them all but more in the way I stumbled on it and became an avid zombie fan. Two 12/13 year old kids being left home alone while the rest of the family went on a week long road trip. Back in those days you could do that. Come 11:00 p.m. and we decide to see if we could catch a scary movie on the tube. We didn't have T.V. Guide and we cut right into the first 30 seconds with absolutely no pre-prep. We didn't even know if it was a horror movie. Fifteen minutes later we were double checking all doors and windows. We called an older friend as instructed by our parents in case of an emergency but no answer. The family lived down the block and we began to suspect something was wrong since they weren't answering the phone. We decided to risk it all and go to their house at 3 or 4 o'clock since getting any shut-eye was impossible. Armed with a baseball bat and a BB rifle. Of course they did not answer the door and we had to make it back to our house, one looking ahead and another looking behind us. I did not sleep for days. We had never heard of zombies and there is no mentioning of zombies in the movie. No other movie has scared the bejesus out of me like that. Not even the Exorcist. But Dawn Of The Dead 78 and Suspiria came close. About a year later I saw "Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things" and then Dawn 78.
Johnny V.