Reflections on the Living Dead will be released on Blu-ray on May 26 via Tempe Digital. Originally released in 1993 as Night of the Living Dead: 25th Anniversary Documentary, the film explores the making and impact of the 1968 horror classic.
A roundtable discussion with Night of the Living Dead writer/director George A. Romero, writer John A. Russo, and producers Russell W. Streiner and Karl Hardman is supplemented by interviews with filmmakers Wes Craven, Sam Raimi, Tobe Hooper, John Landis, and more.
Reflections on the Living Dead has been remastered from the original, standard-definition source material with higher bitrate video and DTS-HD 2.0 stereo audio.
The documentary is directed by Thomas Brown. Alex Sarabia and Carlo Chable created the new cover art. Special features are listed below.
“western media wont talk about this but the vietnamese government is helping citizens fight the coronavirus by offering free /proper/ meals for people in quarantine areas and free groceries/necessities for a whole neighborhood in lockdown”
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“- here people will be placed in quarantine due to travel history, showing symptoms or recent contact with current patients - the neighborhood in lockdown is because the 17th patient, possibly a “super spreader”, resided there”
“some korean travelers are also in quarantine so they were given korean meals because what if they aren’t used to vietnamese food”
“i ran out of characters but this is also meant to poke fun at how the usa and some european nations respond to this outbreak, both their government and people. anw if you constantly think of countries in the global south with your shallow eurocentric bias then karma will get you.”
“Muting this now reach me through DM if you need to! Appreciate all the good sentiments”
“your gov may be shitty but extend your appreciation and support to doctors & healthcare workers on the frontline of this crisis!
if you cant wear masks, wash hands often, avoid touching MEN (Mouth Eyes Nose), and avoid crowds (PLEASE). the system is in shambles so be proactive”
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“The Vietnam government makes sure the neighbors of the “super spreader” number 17th has enough food for 14 days. The citizens in quarantine be making friends, cleaning up the place together, giving out roses for women patients for International Women day, even fall in love lol~”
I saw it all over Insta, too. It’’s fucking great.
Also, they have developed their own kit, which is apparently easy and cheap to mass-produce and has a fail rate of 0 so far, meaning it produces accurate results every time. The kicker? The test is so efficient that you can receive the results within one hour.
“t was developed jointly by the Vietnam Military Medical University and tech firm Viet A Corporation.
It is based on reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), a technique that combines reverse transcription of RNA into DNA and amplification of specific DNA targets using a polymerase chain reaction (PCR). The kit can detect the new coronavirus in specimens of droplets obtained from the respiratory tract and blood samples.
Do Quyet, director of the university, said all tests done by the university and Viet A Corporation found the kit meeting World Health Organization and U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention standards.”
The initial batch is producing 10,000 a day for distribution across Vietnam, but they said they could triple the number if needed. For comparison, 10,000 tests a day is what is being administered in South Korea, with the goal being there to upgrade to 30,000 tests a day as well.
Seeing how places like Vietnam tackle this crisis with heart, respect, realism tinted with optimism, concern for their fellow humans, and ingenuity, really warms my heart.
In northeastern Kansas, there’s an open-air ecological laboratory called Konza Prairie. Scientists like Ellen Welti go there to study plants, insects, and big animals. “In the spring it has a lot of beautiful flowers, it has bison; everybody should go visit and check it out for themselves,” says Welti, who is currently a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Oklahoma.
In this landscape, grasshoppers play a crucial role. They eat the grass; birds eat them.
Welti and her colleagues noticed that data collected over the past two decades showed the number of grasshoppers declining. Yet it wasn’t for lack of food. The amount of grass on this prairie actually has been increasing, which Welti found “kind of interesting.”
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