The Criterion Collection seem to be in a Halloween type of mood, at least as far as their excellent slate of films, for February is any indication. There's George A. Romero‘s “Night Of The Living Dead.” the back into print: “The Silence Of The Lambs,” Satyajit Ray‘s “The Hero” and Kon Ichikawa‘s “An Actor’s Revenge,” Lastly, Louis Malle‘s “Elevator To The Gallows” gets the Blu-ray boost. and Tony Richardson‘s Best Picture winner “Tom Jones.”
I remember watching "Night of the Living Dead" for the first time onlate night cable TV, transfixed, amazed by its black and white horrors, and that is absolutely the way to see George Romero's landmark 1967 classic: in the wee-wee hours of the morning when the streets outside your window feel damn-near apocalyptic. Romero can now be deemed a prophet as his film has a panic-stricken country filled with zombies, cue people glued to their smarphones , and a group of characters barricading themselves in an isolated house, trying to keep safe from the horrors of the outside world. The typical Romero zombie was a slow-moving thing, which fit quite well with the tense and slow pace of the films. He was the director that created the typical "zombie" monster as we know it. Romero was prophesying the notion of a soulless world with his living dead, but this generation has embraced the sprinting zombie as the scarier monster. In a way it is, but it also makes for a less brooding experience.
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