Night of the Living Dead, the film directed by George Romero in the form of a novel, by John Russo, published by Warner Paperback Library, 1974.
Radio Blue Heart presents TALES FROM THE PUBLIC DOMAIN!
Episode 7: Night of the Living Dead!
The film that is singularly responsible for starting the zombie apocalypse genre. Turning the zombie from a mindless slave of Voodoo legends into a flesh-eating plague! This film makes many top 10 lists of some of the scariest and most influential horror films of all time. The film is a perfect piece of satire about race ( the fate of Ben) and the Vietnam War (just listen to Ben describing what happened at Beakman’s Diner. He sounds like a war shocked veteran retelling and reliving a horrific battle).
It was also among only a small number of films in the 60s that added blood and gore to the mix ( others being “Blood Feast” and “2000 Maniacs” to name a few).
Unfortunately, the distributor changed the films title card and forgot to put the copyright on ( according to the copyright laws at the time, the copyright info had to be displayed with the title card). The film then lapsed into the public domain and George A. Romero and company barely saw any money from it.
Once again this film is PUBLIC DOMAIN and not copyright protected in the US at least. You can make and sell your own DVD of it, download it, show it for free or for profit. Or remix it or use it for stock footage
