night of the 'LIVING DEAD'?!?!?!..what would you do?

I'd fire up the weber grill and break out the barbeque sauce and see how "Grilled Zombie " tastes!!!!!

If there's any possibility to escape, i would took my car, took my family and my cat (if they are not already zombies), and ruuuun fast!

if not, i'll probably lock inside my house. I don't think they could climb until my balcony, so I could remain there until we run over of food. An try to call somebody out of the town, in case the phone lines aren't collapsed (maybe i could use skype ;p).

Just another think... maybe the water is also contaminated with the virus... But i must run the risk...

And try to remain there until someone come and rescue us. Do the zombies live forever or something? maybe they kill themselves (c'mon, they can't be organized!) in a few days, no?

Or maybe i could just shoot myself, but here its very difficult to find a weapon...

(maybe i could use skype ;p)

Anyone else seen the Dawn of the Dead remake? The internet didn't go down for quite a while according to special features.. xD


My best friend, my boyfriend, and my father and I all think about that. Of course, all three are strangely separate, but we talk about it, either my dad and I, my best friend and I, and... very rarely my boyfriend and I. It's great though. My dad will be walking through the city and we'll be looking at various places "Oh, excellent hideout. And look at that, just cross four roof tops and work your way down and you can get into that walgreens there..." or my best friend and I plan our Canadian retreat where we would flee North where nothing happens (kidding, no offense meant to any Canadians, but you guys are wonderfully chilled out) get a three story concrete building + two story basement of guns, food, bombs and other such things... and yeah. o.o Acre of land, top story would have a watch tower where he and I would take turns watching, and I would be like "OHGODZOMBIE" and hide on the top floor in a corner keeping the movable/blockable stair case... moved and blocked. Plus ladder thing in case of emergancies.


Seriously, we have this entire thing layed out. It's the best ever. There's an outside stair case, too that goes from the top floor to the basement. Only way to get there. <.< Could be a bad thing, but you know, we shall keep guns with us at like... all times if something happens.

Better not be like the remake. No RUNNING zombies, thanks. Lack of blood flow = tired/dead/tense muscles = slow, dammit, not fast! Whee, zombie. <.<;

:: end zombie-freak-fanaticism ::

I know one thing I wouldn't lock myself in a shack with broken windows and wait. ..... hahhaah. Do you know they shot that movie with a video camera and it only cost the filmmakers $1500.


You'd love "venom" it s a great living dead movie. I consider myself a horror movie buff.


The whole story:

Other blood is actually Bosco chocolate syrup.


The zombie hand that Tom (Keith Wayne) hacks up with a kitchen knife was made of clay and filled with chocolate syrup.


When the zombies are eating the bodies in the burnt-out truck they were actually eating roast ham covered in chocolate sauce. The filmmakers joked that it was so nausea inducing that it was almost a waste of time putting the makeup on the zombies, as they ended up looking pale and sick anyway.


The gas pump was not bolted to the ground when the actress who played Barbra, Judith O'Dea, runs into it at the start of the film. She did it with so much force she almost tipped it over on the cameraman.


One of the working titles for this film was "Night of Anubis". Anubis is the god of embalming/mummifying in the ancient Egyptian (Kemetan) religion.


One of the working titles for this film was "Night of the Flesh Eaters". Originally, the beings attacking the characters were extraterrestrial in origin, either aliens or humans possessed by an alien pathogen, presumably covering a NASA satellite returning from Venus. Eventually, it was decided that the dead would rise and devour the living, presumably due to radiation that was carried by a NASA satellite returning from Venus.


Though the radiation of a detonated satellite returning from Venus is theorized to be the cause of the dead rising and attacking the living, according to the filmmakers, the actual cause is never determined.


Columbia Pictures was the only major Hollywood studio interested in distributing this film, but eventually passed because it was in black-and-white at a time when movies had to compete with new color televisions. Ironically, Columbia did distribute the 1990 color remake. American International Pictures (AIP) considered releasing the film, but wanted George A. Romero to shoot an upbeat ending and add more of a love story subplot.


During the filming of the cemetery sequence, shot on two separate days, an unexpected accident caused a fast change of script. The car driven by Barbara and Johnny into the cemetery was actually owned by the mother of Russell Streiner. Unfortunately, sometime between the two filming sequences, someone ran into the car and put a dent in it that would easily be visible on camera. George A. Romero rewrote the scene so the car would come to a stop by crashing into a tree.


In the scene where Ben is nailing wooden boards to the door, small numbers can be seen on them. These were written on the backs of the boards so they could be removed and replaced in between shots, preserving continuity. Some numbers are visible because some of the boards were nailed on backwards.


Tom Savini was originally hired by George A. Romero to do the makeup effects for this film. The two were first introduced to each other when Savini auditioned for an acting role in an earlier film that never got off the ground. Romero, remembering that Savini was also a makeup artist (he had brought his makeup portfolio to show to Romero at the audition), called Savini to the set of his horror movie. However, Savini was unable to do the effects because he was called to duty by the US Army to serve as a combat photographer in Vietnam.


The word "zombie" is never used. The most common euphemism used to describe the living dead is "those things," mostly by Cooper.


Bill 'Chilly Billy' Cardille, who played the television reporter, was indeed a local Pittsburgh TV celebrity. Known as "Chilly Billy" Cardille, he hosted a horror movie program on Channel 11 and occasionally reported the news.


S. William Hinzman and Karl Hardman, two of the original $300 investors had small roles due to a shortage of available talent. Another investor was a butcher, who provided some blood and guts.


Actor/co-producer Karl Hardman (Harry Cooper, the father in the basement), also served as makeup artist, electronic sound effects engineer, and took the still photos used for the closing credits.


When the writers decided to base the film on zombies, they brainstormed about what would be the most shocking thing for the zombies to do to people and decided on cannibalism.


During production, the film's title was still being chosen. The working title was simply "Monster Flick".


The character of Ben was originally supposed to be a crude but resourceful truck driver. After Duane Jones auditioned for the part, director and co-writer George A. Romero re-wrote the part to fit his performance.


George A. Romero has readily admitted that Herk Harvey's Carnival of Souls (1962) was a big influence in his making of this film.


The main house did not have a true basement but a dirt potter's cellar, and thus had no long staircase leading down to it. Because of this, the basement scenes were filmed in the editing studio's cellar.


In the 30th Anniversary Edition, the car that drops off Debbie Rochon at the medical center is driven by Marilyn Eastman (Helen Cooper) and owned by Karl Hardman (Harry Cooper).


The music used in the film was from a Capitol/EMI Records Hi-Q stock music library, on which the copyright was in the public domain, and cost the filmmakers $1500. It was originally used in Teenagers from Outer Space (1959).


Uses the same music as The Killer Shrews (1959)


When the movie was in its scripting stage, John A. Russo had developed an idea that was basically described as "teenagers from outer space". This version was not filmed, but the version that was filmed uses stock music from the movie Teenagers from Outer Space (1959).


One of the Walter Reade Organization's publicity stunts was a $50,000 insurance policy against anyone dying from a heart attack while watching the film.


The film's world premiere was at the Fulton Theatre in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on 1 October 1968 (At 8PM, admission by invitation only). The film was met with a standing ovation.


The only real mishap to happen during filming involved producer and actor Russell Streiner's (Johnny's) brother, Gary Streiner. After the scene where Duane Jones sets the chair on fire, it was Gary's responsibility to extinguish the flames and set the chair ablaze again to preserve continuity, ensuring that smoke would be seen emanating from it near the end of the film. At one point Gary's sleeve caught on fire and, as he ran in terror, S. William Hinzman (in full zombie makeup) tackled him to the ground and helped extinguish the flames, saving him from major injury.


George A. Romero was the one operating the camera when S. William Hinzman (the cemetery zombie) attacks Barbara in her car by smashing the window with a rock. When Hinzman shattered the window, the rock barely missed Romero.


Some of the groans made by S. William Hinzman when he's wrestling with Russell Streiner in the cemetery are authentic. During the struggle, Streiner accidentally kneed Hinzman in the groin.


The Evans City Cemetery was the cemetery used in the original version of the film, but it could not be used for the 30th anniversary edition. Before filming the new footage, a tornado had torn through the Evans City Cemetery, and ironically, it unearthed several graves.


The Chevy truck seen in the new footage is not the same one seen in the original footage. The filmmakers for the new footage were fortunate enough to find a truck owned by a local resident that bore a near-perfect resemblance to the original truck. The owner was kind enough to let them borrow his truck for the film.


During the filming of the new footage for the 30th anniversary edition, actor/composer Scott Vladimir Licina (Reverend John Hicks) suffered a heat stroke in the cemetery and was hospitalized for a few days.


The house used for this film was loaned to the filmmakers by the owner, who planned to demolish it anyway, thereby ensuring that they could do whatever they wanted to the house.


There were two trucks used in the film. The first one used in the beginning of the film would not start for the trek-to-the-gas-pump scenes and had to be replaced. Unfortunately, they forgot to break the headlights.


While writing the script, George A. Romero and John A. Russo were trying to think of a manner in which to destroy the zombies. Marilyn Eastman joked that they could throw pies in their faces. This is obviously an inspiration for the pie fight scene in this film's sequel, Dawn of the Dead (1978).


The filmmakers were attacked for being Satanically inspired by Christian fundamentalist religious groups for their portrayal of the undead feeding on flesh and of Kyra Schon attacking Marilyn Eastman.


Judith Ridley worked as a receptionist for Karl Hardman and Marilyn Eastman, which led to her getting the part in the movie.


Assuming the movie takes place on the spring time change (according to the dialog at the beginning) after the date (December 1966) on the calendar in the house (a reasonable assumption from the condition of the body in the house), the movie begins on the night of 30 April 1967 and ends the next morning, which is May Day.


The body upstairs in the house was made by director George A. Romero, who used ping-pong balls for the eyes.


S. William Hinzman based his characteristic saunter (and, subsequently, that of each other zombie) on a film with Boris Karloff, the title of which he could not remember. In that film, Karloff played a man risen from the dead, and walks with a characteristic ungainly saunter.


According to the George A. Romero commentary track on the Elite laserdisc and DVD version of the film, the original working print and working elements and materials for the film no longer exist - they were destroyed as a result of a flood that filled the basement where the materials were stored (which was the same basement used in the movie).


At between 51 and 52 minutes into the film, going by the Elite laserdisc/DVD release, there is a very visible jump cut. The distributors wanted some of the "talky" bits trimmed down, so, about 6 minutes was cut from a basement scene involving the Coopers. The jump is quite clearly visible because at one point Harry is facing one direction and then immediately in the next frame, he is facing another.


At the time of the film's release, any work that did not include a copyright notice was assumed to be public domain. Since the film makers forgot to include this notice, the film slipped into the public domain. In was not until 1 March 1989 that a copyright notice was no longer required.


Screenwriter John A. Russo appears as the ghoul who gets his forehead smashed by Ben with a tire iron. He also allowed himself to be set on fire for real when nobody else wanted to do the stunt.


The Cooper family are played by a real family. Karl Hardman (husband Harry Cooper) and Marilyn Eastman (wife Helen Cooper) are real-life husband and wife. Kyra Schon (daughter Karen Cooper) is their real-life daughter.


Contrary to popular rumor, the film was originally shot on 35mm film. The print that passed into the public domain is a grainy 16mm positive, which was used for subsequent prints. The only way to see a 35mm print made from the original 35mm negative is to see the DVD of the Millennium Edition from Elite Media, which was released in 2002.


This was one of the first films added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress because of naïve business practices that allowed the copyright of the film to slip into the public domain.


One of the original ideas for the script before its many revisions called for Barbra to be a very strong, charismatic character. Instead, Romero and the producers loved Judith O'Dea's portrayal as a catatonic and terrified young girl much better, and hence edited the script to accommodate the part. Eventually, the idea of Barbara being a strong, central character would be revisited in Tom Savini's 1990 remake.


The role of Ben was originally meant for actor Rudy Ricci. After Duane Jones had read the part, however, it was given to him, and Ricci went played one of the zombies.

You guys should watch "Shawn of the Dead", a spoof of the above-mentioned and hilariously funny. (Don't mind the language).

I would call/e-mail my friends to see what the plan might be. We could either go to our friends with the hobby farm (lots of food and tools) or try to make it across the river and head off to my friend's place in Northern ON (they have a hot tub).

I would take along husband and dog, throw whatever else in the car, arm myself with baseball bat and snacks and head out.

Definitely would fight the zombies. Maybe the survivors could get organized and burn them all or use the snow plowing machinery to flatten them (blunt weapons, right?).

Dragonfly.

Another one is "evil dead" and 'evil dead 2" evil dead 3[i] sux!!!

I am a horror movie freak!!!!! Singing "lets talk about zombies, lets talk about you and am and all the good things zombies and vamps can be, lets talk about zombies""". OMG. Somebody shoot me. [/i]

I live about 10 minutes away from a castle. lol so it's a no brainer, it's designed to withstand a freaking siege. One side of the castle is by the sea so you could go out with a boat to gather supplies and avoid all the zombies on land... I have thought about this quite a bit... ever since I saw the dawn of the dead remake