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131-661: Legend , formerly Zone Horror and Horror Channel , is a British free-to-air television channel specialising in sci-fi, fantasy, thriller, action and cult series. It is broadcast in the UK and Ireland . The channel is known for its horror movies during the evenings and early hours with its schedule featuring in the Films section of the Radio Times rather than with the General Entertainment channels. Horror Channel

262-422: A "production line" of other cast members. Upon completion of post-production, Image Ten found it difficult to secure a distributor willing to show the film with the gruesome scenes intact. Columbia rejected the film for its lack of color, and American International Pictures declined after requests to soften it and re-shoot the final scene were rejected by producers. The Walter Reade Organization agreed to show

393-430: A Pittsburgh-based industrial film firm called Hardman Associates, Inc. The Latent Image pitched their idea for a then-untitled horror film. These discussions led to the creation of Image Ten, a production company chartered to produce a single feature film. The initial budget was $ 6,000; each member of the production company invested $ 600 for a share of the profits. Ten more investors contributed another $ 6,000, but this

524-402: A black urban audience. In 1985, a new service called TV4 was introduced, carrying sports and entertainment programming, using the channel shared by TV2 and TV3, which ended transmissions at 9:30 pm. In 1992, TV2, TV3 and TV4 were combined into a new service called CCV (Contemporary Community Values). A third channel was introduced known as TSS, or Topsport Surplus, Topsport being the brand name for

655-462: A child were graphic stories set in modern America. They often featured brutal deaths and reanimated corpses seeking revenge on the living. Romero said that he tried to bring into the film the "real hard shadows and weird angles and beautiful lighting that a comic book artist can create." He later collaborated with horror writer Stephen King and former EC Comics artists on the homage Creepshow . While some critics dismissed Romero's film because of

786-439: A combination of the two. In Croatia eleven national channels are free-to-air: HRT 1 , HRT 2 , HRT 3 , HRT 4 ( HRT being national broadcaster), Nova TV , Doma TV , RTL , RTL2 , RTL Kockica , CMC and SPTV . There are around 21 local or regional channels. Before June 2020, they used to be transmitted via three OiV (state-owned public broadcasting company) DVB-T and one DVB-T2 ( HEVC/H.265 ) MUXes . As of June 2020,

917-501: A company he co-founded with his friend Russell Streiner . The Latent Image started small, but after producing a high-budget Calgon commercial spoofing Fantastic Voyage (1966), Romero felt that The Latent Image had the experience and equipment to produce a feature film. They wanted to capitalize on the film industry's "thirst for the bizarre", according to Romero. He, Streiner, and John A. Russo contacted Karl Hardman and Marilyn Eastman, president, and vice president respectively, of

1048-402: A convincing spaceship. Russo proposed a more constrained narrative where a young man runs away from home and discovers aliens harvesting human corpses for food in a cemetery. Romero combined this idea with an unpublished short story about flesh-eating ghouls, and they began filming with an incomplete script. According to Russo, the screenplay written prior to filming only covered events up to

1179-413: A couple of hours each night instead. On 26 April 2023, RealityXtra 2 was replaced by HorrorXtra on Freeview, with the channel starting a daytime schedule which included programmes such as Knight Rider and Mutant X , alongside late night genre films such as The Final Wish and Nicolas Cage's The Humanity Bureau . On 22 November 2023, HorrorXtra rebranded as Legend Xtra to be more in-line with

1310-475: A farmhouse in rural Pennsylvania , under assault by reanimated corpses. Although the flesh-eating monsters that appear in the film are referred to as " ghouls ", they are credited with popularizing the modern portrayal of zombies in popular culture. Having gained experience creating television commercials, industrial films , and Mister Rogers' Neighborhood segments through their production company The Latent Image, Romero, Russo, and Streiner decided to make

1441-484: A free-to-air set-top box. In Korea, KBS , MBC (the two main public broadcasters), SBS (privately owned, but available for free to viewers), and EBS (including both TV and radio ) are the free-to-air broadcasting stations. They dominate more than 80% of advertisement profits, according to the recent survey from the agency. Due to the recent government's decision, digital television service for all free-to-air networks would be scheduled before 2012, followed by

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1572-513: A horror film to capitalize on interest in the genre. Their script primarily drew inspiration from Richard Matheson 's 1954 novel I Am Legend . Principal photography took place between July 1967 and January 1968, mainly on location in Evans City, Pennsylvania , with Romero using guerrilla filmmaking techniques he had honed in his commercial and industrial work to complete the film on a budget of approximately US$ 100,000 . Unable to procure

1703-539: A later time. A number of Troma films broadcast on the channel, such as, Mother's Day (1980), Terror Firmer (1999), plus films from their The Toxic Avenger and Class of Nuke 'Em High franchises. Other broadcasts from film franchises included Sleepaway Camp 2: Unhappy Campers (1988) and Sleepaway Camp 3: Teenage Wasteland (1989), the Hellraiser trilogy, and the Leprechaun franchise. When

1834-475: A local low-power repeater. In 1986, the SABC's monopoly was challenged by the launch of a subscription-based service known as M-Net, backed by a consortium of newspaper publishers on 1 October. However, as part of its licensing restrictions, it could not broadcast news programmes, which were still the preserve of the SABC, although M-Net started broadcasting a current affairs programme called Carte Blanche in 1988. As

1965-460: A multitude of programming channels in many languages, spanning many new channels, so they can get National support, which ultimately leads to carriage by cable systems, to additionally support the high costs of broadcasting signals in this way. Nevertheless, free-to-air satellite TV is a viable addition to home video systems, not only for the reception of specialized content but also for use in locations where terrestrial ATSC over-the-air reception

2096-433: A nearby farmhouse but finds the resident's corpse lying half-eaten on the stairs. A growing horde of ghouls soon surround the house as a stranger, Ben, arrives and initially mistakes Barbra for the homeowner. After driving back several ghouls, he boards the windows and doors. While searching the home for supplies, he locates a lever-action rifle . A nearly catatonic Barbra is surprised to find people already taking shelter in

2227-585: A number of different genres. These include action films such as Sniper: Special Ops , thrillers like Paradise Cove , classic films such as the 1959 Hammer film The Mummy with Christopher Lee, 1966's Island of Terror with Peter Cushing and the 1959 Vincent Price film House on Haunted Hill , erotic films like The Loft , westerns like Forsaken and the Kenny Rogers starring Wild Horses , in addition to horror and sci-fi disaster movies like Ti West's satanic haunted house slasher The House of

2358-430: A number of local channels were available but since have closed, such as Cue TV were also available. Local stations such as CTV and Face TV (previously Triangle TV) were free-to-air analogue PAL transmissions prior to CTV migrating to the free-to-air digital DVB-T service and Face TV's terrestrial free-to-air service shutoff from December 2013. A digital terrestrial version of Freeview was launched in 2008, which, unlike

2489-557: A production company chartered only to create Night of the Living Dead . The cast consisted of members of Image Ten, actors previously cast for their commercials, acquaintances of Romero, and Pittsburgh stage actors. George Romero embarked upon his career in the film industry while attending Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh . He directed and produced television commercials and industrial films for The Latent Image,

2620-591: A proper set, the crew rented a condemned farmhouse to destroy during the course of filming. Night of the Living Dead premiered in Pittsburgh on October 1, 1968. It grossed US$ 12 million domestically and US$ 18 million internationally, earning more than 250 times its budget and making it one of the most profitable film productions of all time. Released shortly before the adoption of the Motion Picture Association of America rating system ,

2751-410: A public service broadcast multiplex and a commercial multiplex, both DVB-T2. The informal term "council telly" is sometimes used for free-to-air television in the UK, evoking a basic service accessible to all. There are a number of competing systems in use. Early adopters used C-band dishes several feet in diameter to receive analog microwave broadcasts, and later digital microwave broadcasts using

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2882-447: A sequel to the original film and collaborated with Night alumni Russ Streiner and Rudy Ricci on a screenplay under the same title. In 1981, investment banker Tom Fox bought the rights to the story. Fox brought in Dan O'Bannon to direct and rewrite the script, changing nearly everything but the title. O'Bannon's The Return of the Living Dead arrived in theaters in 1985 alongside Day of

3013-655: A wide array of, not only horror classics, but horror-themed, supernatural , slasher , cult , and b movies , mixed with genres of sci-fi, fantasy, adventure, thriller and drama. Early acquired films for the network included Carnival of Souls (1962), Night of the Living Dead (1968), The City of the Dead (1960), Vampyr (1932), The Ghoul (1933), The Killer Shrews (1959), Lady of Burlesque (1943), Pumpkinhead (1988), Bloody Birthday (1981), Creepshow 2 (1987), Brain Damage (1988), Elvira, Mistress of

3144-449: Is a list of television and miniseries which were previously broadcast on Horror. Note: See List of films broadcast by Horror Channel for all films, including television films. Legend Xtra (styled as LEGEND XTRA , formerly known as HorrorXtra ) is a British free-to-air television channel which shows B movies , cult television programmes and horror films . HorrorXtra launched as a spin-off channel to Legend on 1 July 2022, but kept

3275-532: Is available to view or download for free on many websites. As of September 2024 , it is the Internet Archive's third most-viewed film, with over 3.5 million views. The film received a VHS release in 1993 through Tempe Video. The next year, a THX certified 25th anniversary Laserdisc was released by Elite Entertainment . It features special features, including commentary, trailers, gallery files, and more. In 1999, Russo's revised version of

3406-399: Is banned in that country." There are numerous revised versions of the film with content added, deleted, rearranged, or more heavily modified. From its initial release into the public domain, Night of the Living Dead was widely screened from inferior prints in grindhouse theaters, a trend that continued among the bottom-tier home video companies. The first major revisions of Night of

3537-419: Is disarmed and shot by Ben. Harry staggers down to the cellar and dies next to his daughter. Karen dies from her injuries, becomes a ghoul, and eats her father's remains. She stabs her mother to death with a masonry trowel . Barbra tries to help Ben keep the ghouls out, but a reanimated Johnny drags her away. As the horde breaks in, Ben takes refuge in the cellar, where he shoots Harry's and Helen's ghouls. In

3668-575: Is free-to-air, but the more conventional broadcast systems in use mean that SiriusXM style in-car reception is not possible. Cable and satellite distribution allow many more channels to carry sports, movies and specialist channels which are not broadcast as FTA. The viewing figures for these channels are generally much lower than the FTA channels. Various European countries broadcast a large number of channels via free-to-air terrestrial , generally as an analog PAL / SECAM transmission, digital DVB-T / T2 or

3799-690: Is incomplete and additional channels are desired. Australia has five major free-to-air networks: the two public broadcasting networks - ABC and SBS , and three commercial networks - Seven Network , Nine Network , and Network 10 . Traditionally each network had only a single channel in a geographic area, but with the advent of digital television each network started broadcasting several SD multichannels, such as 7two , 9Gem , 10 Bold , and SBS Food , as well as at least one HD channel. There are also free-to-air community television channels in some major cities. Viewers in remote parts of Australia are able to access many Australian free-to-air channels using

3930-566: Is no concept of paying for a TV license. The acronym used for DVB-T in Spain is TDT ( Digital terrestrial television in Spain  [ es ] ). In the UK, the five main free-to-air television networks are BBC One , BBC Two , ITV , Channel 4 and Channel 5 . Around 108 free-to-air television channels and 30 free-to-air radio channels are available terrestrially via the Freeview DVB-T service. Seven HD channels are also broadcast via

4061-412: Is occupied by pay-TV operators Shaw Direct and Bell Satellite TV , although larger C-band dishes can pick up some content. FTA signals may be scattered across multiple satellites, requiring a motor or multiple LNBs to receive everything. This differs from Europe, where FTA signals are commonly concentrated on a few specific satellites. Another difference between North American FTA and FTA in most of

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4192-511: The Chicago Sun-Times chided theater owners and parents who allowed children access to a film they were entirely unprepared for. Ebert noted that the children in the audience initially displayed typical reactions to '60s horror films, including shouting when ghouls appeared on the screen. He said that the atmosphere in the theater shifted to grim silence as the protagonists each began to fail, die, and be consumed—either by fire or

4323-473: The Hi-Q music library , and Hardman cut them to match the scenes and augmented them with electronic effects. A soundtrack album featuring music and dialogue cues from the film was compiled and released on LP by Varèse Sarabande in 1982. In 2008, the recording group 400 Lonely Things released the album Tonight of the Living Dead , an instrumental album with music and sounds sampled from the 1968 film. Night of

4454-521: The INSAT-4B and GSAT-15 satellite covering India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and parts of Afghanistan, and Myanmar. In India, the channels are marketed as DD Direct Plus / DD Free Dish by Doordarshan , India's national broadcaster and other Indian private broadcaster ABS Free Dish from the ABS2 satellite. One can receive free-to-air regional TV channels using a small DTH antenna and

4585-458: The Internet , or satellite . These carriers may be mandated (or OPT) in some geographies to deliver FTA channels even if a premium subscription is not present (providing the necessary equipment is still available), especially where FTA channels are expected to be used for emergency broadcasts, similar to the 1-1-2 (112) emergency service provided by mobile phone operators and manufacturers. On

4716-469: The 1968 film before being drafted into the Vietnam War , and, after the war, worked with Romero on the sequels. The remake was based on the original screenplay but included a revised plot that portrayed Barbra ( Patricia Tallman ) as a capable and active heroine. Film historian Barry Grant interprets the new Barbara as a reversal of the original film's portrayal of feminine passivity. He explores how

4847-441: The 1990 Barbra embodies—arguably masculine—virtuous professionalism, as depicted in the works of classic Hollywood director Howard Hawks , a major influence on Romero. Grant describes her as the film's only Hawksian professional. After changing from a mousy outfit that mirrors the original into the visually militaristic clothing she discovers in the farmhouse, Barbra is the lone character able to separate her emotions from

4978-670: The 3.7-4.2  GHz band. Today, although large C-band dishes can still receive some content, the 11.7-12.2 GHz K u band is also used. Ku-band signals can be received using smaller dishes, often as small as under a meter (3 feet, 3 inches) in diameter, allowing FTA satellite to be picked up from smaller spaces such as apartment balconies (note, however, that these dishes are not quite as small as those commonly used for commercial services such as Dish Network , DirecTV , Bell ExpressVu , Shaw Direct , etc. Dishes intended for those services may not deliver an adequate signal on Ku-band). The European-developed DVB-S and DVB-S2 standards are

5109-582: The DVB-S2 Optus VAST service. New Zealand has a number of FTA broadcasters such as Television New Zealand 's TVNZ 1 and TVNZ 2 , as well as Discovery New Zealand 's Three and Bravo , Sky Network Television 's Sky Open and the government subsidised the Whakaata Māori and Te Reo channels. Four channels, TVNZ 1, TVNZ 2, Three, Bravo are also broadcast timeshifted by +1 hour on Freeview and Sky platforms. A broadcast of parliament and

5240-604: The DVB-T MUXes were switched off and all eleven national channels are now distributed via two OiV DVB-T2 (HEVC/H.265) MUXes. In Denmark, six channels are as of 2020 free-to-air, distributed via 18 main transmitter sites and 30 smaller, auxiliary transmitters. The six channels ( DR1 , DR2 , DR Ramasjang , Folketinget , TV2 Regionerne, and sign language/local programme) come in one DVB-T2 multiplex . In France, there are 26 national television channels (MPEG-4 HD video) and 41 local television channels broadcast free-to-air via

5371-715: The Dance (1975), and Cold Eyes of Fear (1971), as well as a collection of films from French director Jean Rollin ; theses consisted of The Rape of the Vampire (1968), The Nude Vampire (1970), Requiem for a Vampire (1971), The Iron Rose (1973), The Demoniacs (1974), The Grapes of Death (1978), Fascination (1979), and The Living Dead Girl (1982), which were initially shown as part of "The Jean Rollin Season", while two more of his films, Killing Car (1993) and The Two Orphan Vampires (1997), screened at

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5502-547: The Dark (1988), Frogs (1972), Slugs (1988), Body Count (1988), Flowers in the Attic (1987), Turkey Shoot (1982), Demon Wind (1990), and Troll 2 (1990). The channel was also notable for its showing of European Cinema in its early years; this included The Devil's Nightmare (1971), Nude for Satan (1974), Black Magic Rites (1973), The Sinful Nuns of Saint Valentine (1974), The Bloodsucker Leads

5633-566: The Dead , Day of the Dead , Land of the Dead , Diary of the Dead and Survival of the Dead . Each film traces the evolution of the living dead epidemic in the United States and humanity's desperate attempts to cope with it. As in Night of the Living Dead , Romero peppered the other films in the series with critiques specific to the periods in which they were released. Romero died with several "Dead" projects unfinished, including

5764-409: The Dead . Romero and his associates attempted to block Fox from marketing his film as a sequel and demanded the name be changed. In a previous court case, Dawn Associates v. Links (1978), they had prevented Illinois-based film distributor William Links from re-releasing an unrelated film under the title Return of the Living Dead . Fox was forced to cease his advertising campaign but allowed to retain

5895-466: The Devil , The Last Sharknado: It's About Time and other similar films which made up the bulk of The Horror Channel's and HorrorXtra's output. Free-to-air FTA also refers to channels and broadcasters providing content for which no subscription is expected, even though they may be delivered to the viewer/listener by another carrier for which a subscription is required, e.g., cable television ,

6026-681: The Horror Channel revised, with the core of the schedule, including series, running on the new channel Legend , which replaced CBS Justice as an entertainment channel. Horror's feature film content was transmitted on a part-time channel, Horror Xtra , broadcasting from 5pm nightly, and set to take Horror's current slot in the Film section of the Sky guide. The change forms part of a larger reshuffle of AMCNI's UK channels taking place on that day. Since its inception in 2004, The Horror Channel had screened

6157-484: The Legend brand, with the broadcast hours extended in 2024 to include a full days schedule. As of June 2024, Legend Xtra is broadcasting series such as Farscape , The Twilight Zone and The Six Million Dollar Man with mini-series such as Frank Herbert's Children of Dune also turning up in the schedule. The channel has also extended its range of films from focusing mainly on horror films to broadcasting movies from

6288-424: The Living Dead involved colorization by home video distributors. Hal Roach Studios released a colorized version in 1986 that featured ghouls with pale green skin. Another colorized version appeared in 1997 from Anchor Bay Entertainment with grey-skinned zombies. In 2009, Legend Films co-produced a colorized 3D version of the film with PassmoreLab , a company that converts 2-D film into 3-D format. The film

6419-533: The Living Dead launched his career as a horror director. He took the helm of the sequels as well as Season of the Witch (1972), The Crazies (1973), Martin (1978), Creepshow (1982) and The Dark Half (1993). Critics saw the influence of the horror and science-fiction films of the 1950s in Romero's directorial style. Stephen Paul Miller, for instance, witnessed "a revival of fifties schlock shock ... and

6550-470: The Living Dead premiered on October 1, 1968, at the Fulton Theater in Pittsburgh . Nationally, it was a Saturday afternoon matinée—typical for horror films at the time—and attracted the usual horror film audience of mainly pre-teens and adolescents . The MPAA film rating system was not in place until the following month, so children were able to purchase tickets. Roger Ebert of

6681-594: The Living Dead Live! was published in 2017 and has been performed in major cities including Toronto , Leeds and Auckland . Romero revolutionized the horror film genre with Night of the Living Dead ; according to Almar Haflidason of the BBC , the film represented "a new dawn in horror film-making". The film ushered in the splatter film subgenre. Earlier horror films had largely involved rubber masks, costumes, cardboard sets, and mysterious figures lurking in

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6812-567: The Living Dead: Reanimated was nominated in the category of Best Independent Production (film, documentary or short) for the 8th Annual Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards . Starting in 2015, and working from the original camera negatives and audio track elements , a 4K digital restoration of Night of the Living Dead was undertaken by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and The Film Foundation . The fully restored version

6943-534: The PAL system for colour television, being only the second terrestrial television service in sub-Saharan Africa to launch with a colour-only service, Zanzibar in Tanzania having introduced the first such service in 1973. (Tanzania itself did not establish a television service until the early 1990s, similarly concerned about the expense and perceived threat to cultural norms.) The Government, advised by SABC technicians, took

7074-852: The SABC was finally allowed to introduce a television service. Initially, the proposal was for two television channels, one in English and Afrikaans, aimed at white audiences, and another, known as TV Bantu, aimed at black viewers. However, when television was finally introduced, there was only one channel with airtime divided evenly between English and Afrikaans, alternating between the two languages. Test transmissions in Johannesburg began on 5 May 1975, followed in July by ones in Cape Town and Durban. Nationwide services finally commenced on 5 January 1976. In common with most of Western Europe, South Africa used

7205-555: The SABC's sport coverage, but this was replaced by NNTV (National Network TV), an educational, non-commercial channel, in 1994. The main channel, now called TV1, was divided evenly between English and Afrikaans, as before. It also became available in Walvis Bay , an enclave of South Africa in Namibia, which was itself then under South African administration, with a live feed of the channel broadcast via Intelsat being retransmitted on

7336-513: The TNT DVB-T2 service. In Germany there are various free-to-air DVB-T services available, the number of which varies by region. Das Erste , ZDF , ZDFneo , ZDFinfo , 3sat , Arte , KiKA and Phoenix are available throughout the country, in addition to at least one region-dependent channel which is provided by the regional ARD member. Additionally, ARD's EinsFestival , EinsPlus and tagesschau24 are variously available in some parts of

7467-508: The UK during 2009. The new channels would replace Zone Romantica , Zone Thriller , Zone Horror and CBS Reality , and timeshift services Zone Horror +1 and Zone Reality +1. On 5 April 2010, Zone Horror was renamed "Horror Channel", following the renaming of the portfolio's other three channels in November 2009. On-air the channel name appears as Horror. The rebrand was produced by Chello Zone's in-house creative services team. As of May 2014

7598-440: The Witch , Rabid , Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things , Peeping Tom , Blue Steel , Wolf Creek and Jeepers Creepers , On 30 June 2022, Horror was rebranded as Legend to reflect its schedule of sci-fi, fantasy, thriller, action and cult series. On Freeview, the channel simply rebranded on channel 41, whilst on other platforms it took over the slot vacated by CBS Justice, which AMC/CBS closed. The following

7729-748: The analogue and free-to-air satellite options, supports high-definition broadcasts for TVNZ 1, TVNZ 2, Three and Bravo. While, airing the timeshifted channels also. In Brazil the main FTA satellite is the Star One D2, it holds approximately C-band analog channels (1985-2024), including all major networks like TV Globo (feed nacional digital HDTV ), SBT (feed nacional digital HDTV ), Record (feed nacional digital HDTV ), RedeTV! , Band (feed nacional digital HDTV ), Cultura , Futura (feed nacional digital HDTV ), TV Verdes Mares (feed nacional digital HDTV ), Canal Gov, Canal Libras and others, 36 C-band and KU-band digital HDTV channels. In Chile

7860-402: The army general's television discussion of military operations in the film echoes the often inevitable calling-in of the army in fifties horror films". Miller admits that " Night of the Living Dead takes greater relish in mocking these military operations through the general's pompous demeanor" and the government's inability to source the zombie epidemic or protect the citizenry. Romero described

7991-432: The borough. Lacking the money to build or purchase a house for the main set, the filmmakers rented a nearby farmhouse scheduled for demolition. Though it lacked running water, some crew members slept there during the shooting, taking baths in a nearby creek. The building's neglected cellar was not a viable location for filming, so the few basement scenes were shot beneath The Latent Image offices. The basement door shown in

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8122-454: The brain, or being burned. Various rescue centers offer refuge and safety, and scientists theorize that radiation from an exploding space probe returning from Venus caused the reanimations. Ben devises a plan to obtain medical supplies for Karen and transport the group to a rescue center by refueling his truck at a pump on the farm. Ben, Tom, and Judy drive there together, holding the ghouls off with torches and Molotov cocktails . However,

8253-460: The cast. Lead actress Judith O'Dea told an interviewer, "I don't know if there was an actual working script! We would go over what basically had to be done, then just did it the way we each felt it should be done". One example offered by O'Dea concerns a scene where Barbra tells Ben about Johnny's death. O'Dea said that the script vaguely had Barbra talk about riding in the car with Johnny before they were attacked. She described Barbra's dialogue for

8384-472: The cellar. Ghouls continue to besiege the farmhouse in increasing numbers. The refugees listen to radio and television reports of an army of cannibalistic corpses committing mass murder across the East Coast of the United States and of the posses of armed men patrolling the countryside to exterminate the living dead. Reports confirm that the ghouls can die again from heavy blows to the head, bullets to

8515-575: The channel on 22 September 2004, writing off the £200,000 investment made in the channel by venture capital firm, Northern Enterprise. Zone Vision Networks Ltd. agreed to acquire the Horror Channel for an undisclosed sum on 17 June 2005. In June 2006, the Horror Channel was renamed "Zone Horror" after Zone Vision Networks was renamed AMC Networks International UK . It became a part of the AMC Networks International UK content division of Liberty Global in 2005. Zone Horror +1

8646-436: The channel was renamed in 2006 as Zone Horror, most of the older films eventually became phased out and were replaced with more recent, low-budget and independent films which are less known, such as, Drive-Thru , Choker , Berserker: Hell's Warrior and Blood Ranch , while classic films were shown only on a sporadic basis. Rebranded as simply Horror Channel in 2010, a number of classic horror films began to premiere on

8777-591: The channel was replaced by Reality TV, a simulcast of CBS Reality with a Psychic Today block, on 20 May 2013. On 9 March 2015, Horror Channel appeared on Freeview channel 70 as a placeholder channel, and on 13 March 2015 Horror Channel started broadcasting fully and is the third of the CBS family to move to Freeview in under a year. On 25 May 2022, Horror moved to a higher position on the Freeview guide, by way of switching positions with sibling CBS Justice . On 30 June 2022

8908-507: The channel's pre-show idents incorporated a prominent CBS eye even though CBS does not appear in the channel's name. Zone Fantasy got rebranded as Horror Channel in Italy on 6 September 2011. Horror Channel closed in Italy on 1 July 2015. On 21 August 2012, a pre- watershed simulcast of Horror Channel began broadcasting in Sky's Entertainment genre on channel 198, followed by three hours of Psychic Today after 9.00 pm. This version of

9039-826: The channel, some of which included The Evil Dead , The Texas Chain Saw Massacre , Happy Birthday to Me and The Incredible Melting Man . Many films were screened as part of horror seasons, with 2011's highlights including "Horror Horreur" for September, " Hammer Horror " for October and "Season of the Banned" for November. Notable inclusions consisted of the films of European directors Lucio Fulci and Dario Argento , and, screenings of recently released films by home entertainment company Arrow Films , which includes Savage Streets and Street Trash . Following this, Horror Channel has premiered many popular films; Pan's Labyrinth , Halloween II , Halloween III: Season of

9170-528: The cost of free-to-air services is met through various means: Up until 2012, Israel had several free-to-air channels. The major ones rating-wise were Channel 2 , Channel 10 , and Channel 1 . The other ones were Educational , Channel 33 , and Knesset 99 . Since 2018, Israel has several new free-to-air channels that replace their older counterparts. The major ones rating-wise: are Channel 12 , Channel 13 , Kan 11 , and Channel 20 . The others are Kan Educational , Makan 33 , and Knesset Channel . In 1971,

9301-629: The country, and various commercial channels are available in metropolitan areas. In the Republic of Ireland, there are nine television channels and 11 radio channels broadcast free-to-air via the DVB-T Saorview service. Analog PAL versions of some of the channels were also broadcast until October 24, 2012, when all analogue television broadcasting was shut down. All of Malta's national and political party channels are available free-to-air. The national channels TVM and TVM2 , Parliament TV and

9432-562: The decision, as film historian Joseph Maddrey describes the black-and-white filming as " guerrilla-style ", resembling "the unflinching authority of a wartime newsreel". He found the exploitation film to resemble a documentary on social instability. Night of the Living Dead was the first feature-length film directed by George A. Romero. His initial work involved filming advertisements, industrial films, and shorts for Pittsburgh public broadcaster WQED 's children's series Mister Rogers' Neighborhood . Romero's decision to direct Night of

9563-494: The emergence of the Cooper family. Russo completed the script while filming and Romero later expanded the final pages of his short story into the sequels Dawn of the Dead (1978) and Day of the Dead (1985). Romero drew inspiration from Richard Matheson 's I Am Legend (1954), a horror novel about a plague that ravages a futuristic Los Angeles. The infected in I Am Legend become vampire -like creatures and prey on

9694-996: The end of analog television broadcasting. European countries have a tradition of most television services being free-to-air. Germany, in particular, receives in excess of 100 digital satellite TV channels free-to-air. Approximately half of the television channels on SES Astra 's 19.2° east and 28.2° east satellite positions, and Eutelsat 's Hot Bird (13° east) are free-to-air. A number of European channels which one might expect to be broadcast free-to-air - including many countries' national terrestrial broadcasters - do not do so via satellite for copyright reasons. (Rights to purchase programs for free-to-air broadcast, especially via satellite, are often higher in price than for encrypted broadcast.) The lack of FTA among public broadcasters are prevalent in countries whose broadcasters tend to use subtitles for foreign language programmes; although Spain's two public domestic channels, La Una and La Dos, are also encrypted despite dubbed foreign programmes being

9825-449: The film "one of the most gruesomely terrifying movies ever made – and when you leave the theatre you may wish you could forget the whole horrible experience. ... The film's grainy, banal seriousness works for it – gives it a crude realism". A Film Daily critic commented, "This is a pearl of a horror picture that exhibits all the earmarks of a sleeper ." While Roger Ebert criticized the matinée screening, he admitted that he "admires

9956-468: The film on Indiegogo in 2014, as of 2023 the film has yet to go into production. In April 2021, Heavy Metal magazine published the first issue of a graphic novel adaptation of the story titled The Rise from Romero's script and with art by Diego Yapur. Many remakes have attempted to reimagine the original film's story, most notably the 1990 remake written by Romero and directed by special effects artist Tom Savini . Savini had planned to work on

10087-579: The film on their Best 1000 Movies Ever list. In January 2010, Total Film included the film on its list of The 100 Greatest Movies of All Time . Rolling Stone named Night of the Living Dead one of The 100 Maverick Movies in the Last 100 Years . Reader's Digest found it to be the 12th scariest movie of all time. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , 95% of 84 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 8.9/10. The website's consensus reads: "George A. Romero's debut set

10218-504: The film uncensored but changed the title from Night of the Flesh Eaters to Night of the Living Dead because of an existing film with a similar title . While changing the title, the copyright notice was accidentally deleted from the early releases of the film. The film's music consisted of existing pieces that were mixed or modified for the film. Much of the soundtrack had been used by previous films. Romero selected tracks from

10349-608: The film was cut into a wall by the production team and led nowhere. Props and special effects were simple and limited by the budget. The blood, for example, was Bosco Chocolate Syrup drizzled over cast members' bodies. The human flesh consumed by ghouls consisted of meat and offal donated by an investor's butcher shop. Zombie makeup varied during the film. Initially, makeup was limited to white skin with blackened eyes. As filming progressed, mortician's wax simulated wounds and decaying flesh. Filming took place between July 1967 and January 1968 under various titles. Work began under

10480-613: The film was ranked No. 93 by the American Film Institute on their AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Thrills list, a list of America's most heart-pounding movies. The zombies in the picture were also a candidate for AFI's AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Heroes & Villains , in the villains category, but failed to make the official list. The Chicago Film Critics Association named it the 5th scariest film ever made. The film also ranked No. 9 on Bravo 's The 100 Scariest Movie Moments . New Yorker critic Pauline Kael called

10611-466: The film's explicit violence and gore were considered groundbreaking, leading to controversy and negative reviews. It eventually garnered a cult following and critical acclaim and has appeared on lists of the greatest and most influential films by such outlets as Empire , The New York Times and Total Film . Frequently identified as a touchstone in the development of the horror genre, retrospective scholarly analysis has focused on its reflection of

10742-427: The film's intended mood as a downward arc from near hopelessness to complete tragedy. Film historian Carl Royer praised the film's sophistication—especially considering Romero's limited experience—and noted the use of chiaroscuro ( film noir style) lighting to create a mood of increasing alienation. Night was visually influenced by Golden Age horror comics . The EC Comics books that Romero read as

10873-483: The film's name. Image Ten displayed a notice on the title frames of the film beneath the original title, Night of the Flesh Eaters , but the Walter Reade Organization removed it when changing the title. At that time, United States copyright law held that public dissemination required copyright notice to maintain a copyright. Several years after the film's release, its creators discovered that

11004-506: The film's titular "living dead" as an allegory for racial tension, terrorism, nuclear war, and beyond. In 1988, Savage Software released a text adventure on the TRS-80 Color Computer titled "Night of the Living Dead", based off of the film, offering a $ 500 prize for the first person who could demonstrate having beat the game. At the suggestion of Bill Hinzman (the actor who played the zombie that first attacks Barbra in

11135-461: The film, Night of the Living Dead: 30th Anniversary Edition , was released on VHS and DVD by Anchor Bay Entertainment . In 2002, Elite Entertainment released a special edition DVD featuring the original cut. Dimension Extreme released a restored print of the film on DVD. This was followed by a 4K restoration Blu-ray released by The Criterion Collection on February 13, 2018, sourced from

11266-434: The film. A collaborative animated project known as Night of the Living Dead: Reanimated was screened at several film festivals and was released onto DVD on July 27, 2010, by Wild Eye Releasing. This project aims to "reanimate" the 1968 film by replacing Romero's celluloid images with animation done in a wide variety of styles by artists from around the world, laid over the original audio from Romero's version. Night of

11397-451: The first acknowledgements of the importance of the film. Five years after the film's premiere, Paul McCullough of Take One observed that Night of the Living Dead was the "most profitable horror film ever ... produced outside the walls of a major studio". In the decade after its release, the film grossed over $ 15 million at the U.S. box office. It was translated into over 25 languages. The Wall Street Journal reported that it

11528-474: The flesh-eating scenes of Night of the Living Dead as a late-1960s critique of American capitalism. Wood argues that the zombies' consumption of people represents the logical endpoint of human interactions under capitalism. Members of Image Ten were involved in filming and post-production , participating in loading camera magazines , gaffing , constructing props, recording sounds and editing. Production stills were shot and printed by Karl Hardman, assisted by

11659-424: The gas from the pump spills and causes the truck to catch fire and explode, killing Tom and Judy. Ben returns and breaks down the door when Harry does not let him in. The remaining survivors attempt to figure a way out. They pause their discussion to watch the 3 a.m. news update until the power cuts out. The ghouls soon break through the doors and windows of the unlit home. In the chaos, Harry grabs Ben's gun but

11790-407: The generic working title Monster Flick , was changed to Night of Anubis after Romero's short story that provided the basis for the script, and was completed as Night of the Flesh Eaters , a title not used in the final release due to a potential conflict with a similarly named film . The small budget led Romero to shoot on 35 mm black-and-white film. The completed film ultimately benefited from

11921-472: The graphic scenes, writer R. H. W. Dillard claimed that the "open-eyed detailing" of taboo heightened the film's success. He asked, "What girl has not, at one time or another, wished to kill her mother? And Karen, in the film, offers a particularly vivid opportunity to commit the forbidden deed vicariously." Romero featured social taboos as key themes, especially cannibalism. Film historian Robin Wood interprets

12052-634: The graveyard and kills her brother Johnny at the beginning of the original film), composers Todd Goodman and Stephen Catanzarite composed an opera Night of the Living Dead based on the film. The Microscopic Opera Company produced its world premiere, which was performed at the Kelly-Strayhorn Theater in Pittsburgh, in October 2013. The opera was awarded the American Prize for Theater Composition in 2014. A play called Night of

12183-405: The home's cellar. Harry, his wife Helen, and their young daughter Karen fled there after a group of the same monsters overturned their car and bit Karen on the arm, leaving her seriously ill. A couple, Tom and Judy, took shelter after hearing an emergency broadcast about a series of brutal killings. Tom and Ben secure the farmhouse while Harry protests that it is unsafe aboveground before returning to

12314-737: The main FTA satellite is the Hispasat 74W-1, it holds approximately 10 KU-band digital HDTV channels including all major networks like La Red, Telecanal, TVN Regional, TVN2 Regional, Canal 24HRS, CHV, CHV2, CDTV, TV Senado, La Red Feed, Telecanal Feed and TVN Feed. Night of the Living Dead Night of the Living Dead is a 1968 American independent horror film directed, photographed, and edited by George A. Romero , written by Romero and John Russo , produced by Russell Streiner and Karl Hardman, and starring Duane Jones and Judith O'Dea . The story follows seven people trapped in

12445-517: The morning, an armed posse arrives to dispatch the remaining ghouls. Awoken by their gunfire and sirens, Ben emerges from the cellar, but they shoot him, mistaking Ben for a ghoul. His body is thrown onto a bonfire and burned with the rest of the ghouls. The low-budget film included no well-known actors, but propelled the careers of some cast members. Two independent film companies from Pittsburgh —Hardman Associates and director George A. Romero 's The Latent Image—combined to form Image Ten,

12576-402: The most commonly used broadcast methods, with analog transmissions almost completely discontinued as of mid-2014. The most common North American sources for free-to-air DVB satellite television are: Most of these signals are carried by US satellites. There is little or no free Canadian DVB-S content available to users of medium-size dishes, as much of the available Ku-band satellite bandwidth

12707-597: The movie as a moral failing of the film's makers, the horror genre, and regional cinema. The reviewer claimed that the "unrelieved orgy of sadism " was effectively pornography due to its extreme violence . These early denouncements would not limit the film's commercial success or later critical recognition. In 1969, George Abagnalo published the film's first positive critical review in the fourth issue of Warhol's Interview magazine. That issue also contained an interview of director George A. Romero by Abagnalo along with William Terry Ork. The review and interview are known as

12838-415: The movie itself". Critic Rex Reed wrote, "If you want to see what turns a B movie into a classic ... don't miss Night of the Living Dead . It is unthinkable for anyone seriously interested in horror movies not to see it." In the United States, Night of the Living Dead was mistakenly released into the public domain because the original distributor failed to replace the copyright notice when changing

12969-459: The national public broadcaster, ORF , offers a special free-to-air channel which airs selected programming without (i.e. those without copyright issues) via satellite all over Europe. As Germany and Austria speak the same language and use the same satellite, Austrian viewers are able to receive about 120 free German-speaking channels from both countries. In general, all satellite radio in Europe

13100-516: The norm in Spain. However, these channels usually provide a scheme to offer free, but encrypted, viewing with free-to-view broadcasts. Certain programming on Italy's RAI , and the majority of Dutch channels are covered by such schemes (although in the case of RAI some programming is transmitted without encryption where there are no copyright issues). In Austria , the main national networks broadcast free-to-view via satellite; however, all regional and some smaller channels are transmitted free-to-air, and

13231-426: The objective necessity to exterminate the living dead. According to Grant, Romero is able to offer one of the most important feminist outlooks in horror because the undead disrupt all traditional values including patriarchy. Due to its public domain status, many independent producers have created remakes of Night of the Living Dead . The film has been remade more than any other movie. Independent remakes have used

13362-610: The original Horror nomenclature used before Legend's rebrand. It was broadcast from 5pm onwards and was available in the Movies section on the Sky EPG, where it could be found on channels 317 and 318 (with the latter being the +1 timeshifted service), on channel 192 on Virgin Media and Freesat 138, though at launch the channel was not being broadcast on Freeview, with the parent company having a placeholder channel broadcasting RealityXtra 2 for

13493-458: The original camera negative owned by the Museum of Modern Art and acquired by Janus Films . This release also features a workprint edit of the film under the title of Night of Anubis , in addition to various bonus materials. In February 2020, Netflix took down Night of the Living Dead from its streaming service in Germany following a legal request in 2017 because "a version of the film

13624-430: The original film, it entered the public domain upon release, resulting in numerous adaptations, remakes , and a lasting legacy in the horror genre. An official remake , written by Romero and directed by Tom Savini , was released in 1990. Siblings Barbra and Johnny drive to a cemetery in rural Pennsylvania to visit their father's grave, where a pale man in a tattered suit kills Johnny and attacks Barbra. She flees to

13755-437: The original prints distributed to theaters had no copyright protection. Because Night of the Living Dead was not copyrighted, it has received hundreds of home video releases on VHS , Betamax , DVD, Blu-ray , and other formats. Over two hundred distinct versions of the film have been released on tapes alone. Numerous versions of the film have appeared on DVD, Blu-ray, and LaserDisc with varying quality. The original film

13886-429: The original script. The additions are neither clearly identified nor even listed. Entertainment Weekly reported "no bad blood" between Russo and Romero. The magazine quoted Romero as saying, "I didn't want to touch Night of the Living Dead ". Critics disliked the revised film, notably Harry Knowles of Ain't It Cool News , who promised to permanently ban anyone from his publication who offered positive criticism of

14017-488: The other side, free-to-view (FTV) is generally available without subscription , but it is digitally encoded and may be restricted geographically. Free-to-air is often used for international broadcasting , making it something of a video equivalent to shortwave radio . Most FTA retailers list free-to-air channel guides and content available in North America for free-to-air use. Although commonly described as free,

14148-624: The political party channels NET and ONE, all are broadcast via the free-to-air DVB-T service. Even HD versions of these channels are available free-to-air. The only scrambled channel in Malta is ITV Teleshopping. In the Netherlands, three national public television channels ( NPO 1 , NPO 2 and NPO 3 ) and seven national public radio channels broadcast free-to-air via the DVB-T Digitenne service. The television and radio channels of

14279-400: The posthumously completed novel The Living Dead and the upcoming film The Twilight of the Dead . The Return of the Living Dead series takes place in an alternate continuity where both the original film and the titular living dead exist. The series has a complicated relationship with Romero's Dead films. Co-writer John Russo wrote the novel Return of the Living Dead (1978) as

14410-612: The regional public broadcasters are also free-to-air via the DVB-T service. In Spain, there are around 25 national and 40 regional channels, as well as many local channels and radio stations. All television channels are in HD, with at least one UHD channel ( La 1 ). The state broadcaster, Televisión Española , is publicly-funded and does not show commercials. The two major competing networks, Atresmedia and Mediaset , are privately-owned and show commercials. All broadcasts are free-to-air, and there

14541-573: The rest of the world is that in North America , very few of the available signals are actually intended for home viewers or other end-users. Instead, they are generally intended for reception by local television stations, cable system headends, or other commercial users. While it is generally thought to be legal for home viewers to view such transmissions as long as they are not encrypted, this means that there are several unique challenges to viewing FTA signals, challenges not present in other areas of

14672-414: The role of Reverend John Hicks. Bill Hinzman, in addition to serving as cinematographer for the new scenes, also reprised his role as Zombie No. 1, who gets an extended backstory of a convicted child murderer who was executed and rose again as a zombie on his burial day. In an interview with Fangoria magazine, Russo explained that he wanted to "give the movie a more modern pace". Russo took liberties with

14803-405: The scene as entirely improv . Eastman modified the scenes written for Helen and Harry Cooper in the cellar. Karl Hardman attributed Ben's lines to lead actor Duane Jones. Ben was an uneducated truck driver in the script until Jones began to rewrite his character. The lead role was initially written for a white actor, but upon casting black actor Duane Jones, Romero intentionally did not alter

14934-469: The script to reflect this. The film appeared in theaters at a time when very few black actors played leading roles. The rare exceptions, like the consciously black heroes played by Sidney Poitier , were written as subservient to make those characters palatable to white audiences. Asked in 2013 if he took inspiration from the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in the same year that the movie

15065-403: The shadows. They were set in locations far removed from rural and suburban America. Romero revealed the power behind exploitation and setting horror in ordinary, unexceptional locations and offered a template for making an effective film on a small budget. Night spawned countless imitators in cinema, television, and video gaming. According to author Barry Keith Grant , the slasher films of

15196-652: The social and cultural changes in the United States during the 1960s, with particular attention towards the casting of Jones, an African-American, in the leading role. In 1999, the film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry . Night of the Living Dead created a successful franchise that includes five sequels released between 1978 and 2009, all directed by Romero. Due to an error when titling

15327-684: The state-controlled broadcaster, the SABC was accused of bias towards the apartheid regime, giving only limited coverage to opposition politicians. In Hong Kong, the largest and most dominant television channel, Television Broadcasts Limited , was the first free-to-air commercial television channel when it commenced broadcasting on 19 November 1967. It may also well be among the oldest and first stations to broadcast over-the-air in East and Southeast Asia. ViuTV and RTHK TV started broadcasting in 2016. Around 600 FTA television channels and 180 radio channels are broadcast from ku-band and c-band transponders on

15458-524: The template for the zombie film, and features tight editing, realistic gore, and a sly political undercurrent." Metacritic , which uses a weighted average , assigned the film a score of 89 out of 100, based on 17 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". Night of the Living Dead was awarded two distinguished honors decades after its debut. The Library of Congress added the film to the National Film Registry in 1999 with other films deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant". In 2001,

15589-429: The title. George Cameron Romero, the son of director George A. Romero, wrote a prequel to his father's classic, under the working titles Origins and Rise of the Living Dead . George Cameron Romero said that he created Rise of the Living Dead as an homage to his father's work, a glimpse into the political turmoil of the mid-to-late 1960s, and a bookend piece to his father's original story. Despite raising funds for

15720-435: The undead. The deaths of Ben, Barbra, and the supporting cast showed audiences an uncomfortable, nihilistic outlook that was unusual for the genre. According to Ebert: The kids in the audience were stunned. There was almost complete silence. The movie had stopped being delightfully scary about halfway through, and had become unexpectedly terrifying. There was a little girl across the aisle from me, maybe nine years old, who

15851-437: The uninfected. Matheson described Romero's interpretation as "kind of cornball", and more theft than homage. In an interview, Romero contrasted Night of the Living Dead with I Am Legend . He explained that Matheson wrote about the aftermath of a complete global upheaval; Romero wanted to explore how people would respond to that kind of disaster as it developed. Much of the dialogue was altered, rewritten, or improvised by

15982-572: The view that colour television would have to be available so as to avoid a costly migration from black-and-white broadcasting technology. Initially, the TV service was funded entirely through a licence fee as in the UK, charged at R36. However, advertising began on 1 January 1978. On 1 January 1982, two services were introduced, TV2 broadcasting in Zulu and Xhosa and TV3 broadcasting in Sotho and Tswana, aimed at

16113-452: The world. Among these are: The largest groups of end-users for Ku-band free-to-air signals were initially the ethnic-language communities, as often free ethnic-language programming would be sponsored by Multilingual American Communities and their broadcasters. Depending on language and origin of the individual signals, North American ethnic-language TV is a mix of pay-TV , free-to-air and DBS operations. Today, many American broadcasters send

16244-495: Was available as a free-to-air service on Astra 2F and, since Friday the 13th of March 2015, on Freeview channel 70. The launch on the Freeview platform increased its viewership by some 300%. The Horror Channel was created by Tony Hazell, who had worked for the God Channel . The Horror Channel went into administration on 21 September 2004. The original management team formed a second company (Amore TV Ltd.) and purchased

16375-400: Was launched on Sky on 1 July 2008, replacing Zone Reality Extra . On 30 October 2006, Zonemedia launched Zone Horror in the Netherlands. On 1 July 2009, the channel was dropped from cable in the Netherlands. On 14 September 2009, it was revealed that the international arm of CBS , CBS Studios International , struck a joint venture deal with Chellomedia to launch six CBS-branded channels in

16506-545: Was made, Romero responded in the negative, noting that he only heard about the shooting when he was on his way to find distribution for the finished film. The small budget dictated much of the production process. Scenes were filmed near Evans City , Pennsylvania, 30 miles (48 km) north of Pittsburgh in rural Butler County ; the opening sequence was shot at the Evans City Cemetery on Franklin Road, south of

16637-417: Was shown in November 2016 as part of To Save and Project: The 14th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation . This same restoration was released on Blu-ray by The Criterion Collection on February 13, 2018, and on Ultra HD Blu-ray on October 4, 2022. Night of the Living Dead is the first of six ... of the Dead films directed by George Romero. Following the 1968 film, Romero released Dawn of

16768-485: Was sitting very still in her seat and crying ... It's hard to remember what sort of effect this movie might have had on you when you were six or seven. But try to remember. At that age, kids take the events on the screen seriously, and they identify fiercely with the hero. When the hero is killed, that's not an unhappy ending but a tragic one: Nobody got out alive. It's just over, that's all. A review in Variety denounced

16899-406: Was still insufficient. Production stopped multiple times during filming while Romero used early footage to persuade additional investors. Image Ten eventually raised approximately $ 114,000 for the budget ($ 999,000 today). The script was co-written by Russo and Romero. They abandoned an early horror comedy concept about adolescent aliens, after realizing they would not have the budget to create

17030-457: Was the top-grossing film in Europe in 1968. In a 1971 Newsweek article, Paul D. Zimmerman noted that the film had "become a bona fide cult movie for a burgeoning band of blood-lusting cinema buffs". Decades after its release, the film enjoys a reputation as a classic and still receives positive reviews. In 2008, the film was ranked by Empire magazine No. 397 of The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time . The New York Times also placed

17161-433: Was theatrically released on October 14, 2010. According to Legend Films founder Barry Sandrew, Night of the Living Dead is the first entirely live action 2-D film to be converted to 3-D. In 1999, co-writer Russo released a modified version called Night of the Living Dead: 30th Anniversary Edition . He wrote and directed additional scenes and recorded a revised soundtrack composed by Scott Vladimir Licina, who also played

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