It is the break from this past that causes the disruption to have multiple levels of impact for the audience. Casting the opening scene in a graveyard also signifies that a break between the present and the past is imminent. a foreign land) but it also functions to utilize the audience’s expectations of this world, with regard to race, gender and politics, against the audience in the disruption phase. Not only does this prevent the audience from relegating Romero’s world to that of the Other (i.e. From the image of the American flag flying over the graveyard to the two well-dressed, white characters who first appear on the screen, Romero establishes a universe to be read by the audience as Anywhere, USA.
The film starts off by setting up a point of equilibrium for the audience. They assemble in a rural farmhouse and it soon becomes clear that the real dangers faced by the group may not just be the monsters outside. Night of the Living Dead follows a group of people who have come together in order to escape the living dead who have suddenly started to arise. Night of the Living Dead, released in 1968, is an exceptional exercise in utilizing zombies to shine a light on social ills such as racism.
Prior to the release of Night of the Living Dead in 1968, zombies were either the result of voodoo ( White Zombie, I Walked with a Zombie), supernatural forces ( Terror Creatures from the Grave), an indefinable plague ( The Plague of Zombies) or the work on an insane human scientist ( King of the Zombies).
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Romero’s Dead series rewrote the rules of the undead monster. His name virtually synonymous with the cinematic zombie, George A.
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