Coney Island Museum
1208 Surf Ave
718.372.5159
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Night of the Living Dead
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Saturday July 12, 2008 (8pm)
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$5
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George Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968) launched a thousand shambling, brain-devouring imitations and still remains a paragon of the zombie-apocalypse subgenre. Though the film's explicit violence was widely criticized upon its original release, the disturbing imagery was meant as a critique of Vietnam-era culture — as well as a tribute to the cross-cultural archetype of flesh-eating undead. Romero made the film on a $114,000 budget, giving it a campy style that has influenced countless other pop-horror flicks. Coney Island screens the cult favorite tonight as part of its summer film series.
