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4K Ultra HD Blu-ray

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Night of the living dead

Call Number

  • 4K BLU-RAY SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY (CEN)

Edition

4K UHD + Blu-ray special edition.

Languages

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Performers

Duane Jones, Judith O'Dea, Karl Hardman, Marilyn Eastman, Keith Wayne, Judith Ridley.

Publication Information

[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2022]

Physical Description

3 videodiscs (96 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (illustrations ; 17 cm.)

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

"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 in its lead role."--Container

Notes

This is a 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray and requires a 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray player; it will not play in standard Blu-ray or DVD players. For full 4K UHD effects, a 4K Ultra HD TV with HDR and a high-speed HDMI (category 2) cable are required.

"This film was restored by The Museum of Modern Art and The Film Foundation"--Opening frames.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1968.

Special features: 4K digital restoration, supervised by director George A. Romero, coscreenwriter John A. Russo, sound engineer Gary R. Streiner, and producer Russell W. Streiner ; restoration of the monaural soundtrack, supervised by Romero and Gary Steiner and presented uncompressed ; one 4K UHD disc of the film and two Blu-rays with the film and special features ; Night of Anubis, a work-print edit of the film ; program featuring filmmakers Frank Darabont, Guillermo del Toro, and Robert Rodriguez ; 16mm dailies reel ; program featuring Russo about the commercial and industrial-film production company where key Night of the Living Dead filmmakers got their start ; two audio commentaries from 1994 featuring Romero, Russo, producer Karl Hardman, actor Judith O'Dea, and others ; archival interviews with Romero and actors Duane Jones and Judith Ridley ; programs about the film's style and score ; interview program about the direction of ghouls, featuring members of the cast and crew ; interviews with Gary Streiner and Russel Streiner ; newsreels from 1967 ; trailer, radio spots, and TV spots.

Contents

  • [Disc one.] 4K UHD
  • [Disc two.] Blu-ray one
  • [Disc three.] Blu-ray two.

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