Night of the Living Dead

They had seen pictures of survivors and they knew that there would be long-term ramifications to the environment and to the physical health of future generations.

That's why the Corpses in George Romero's 1968 film Night of the Living Dead are reanimated by radiation from an exploding space probe.

That's why we also later have things like Night of the Comet, if you remember that one.

Night of the Comets.

They

actually have a... a weird Night of the Living Dead-ish feel to them.

I'm sorry.

Yes, they do.

Night of the Dawn of the Remake.

So first up, we've got Tom Savini's George Romero's Night of the Living Dead.

And Zack Snyder's George Romero's Dawn of the Dead.

Zack Snyder's

Gunn's Dawn of the Dead.

Yeah.

So, yeah, the remake of Night of the Living Dead from 1990 and 2004.

2004.

In 1985, O'Bannon would step into the director's chair for the first time to write and direct the satirical zombie film The Return of the Living Dead, based on the novel of the same name by John Russo.

Russo had written the film Night of the Living Dead alongside George A. Romero, and later wrote The Return of the Living Dead as a sequel.

After parting ways with Romero, Russo retained the rights to the Living Dead series, forcing Romero to forge his own Dead series on his own.

The film adaptation of The Return of the Living Dead was intentionally intended to be helmed by Toby Hooper, but delays led Hooper to depart for his 1985 topless space vampire flick Lifeforce.

O'Bannon, who is credited as a screenwriter for not only Hooper's Lifeforce, but also Hooper's follow-up feature, Invaders from Mars, was tapped by the studio to take over as the director of The Return of the Living Dead, a gig he only agreed to take if he could rewrite Russell's original script in order to distance the film from Romero's seminal Night of the Living Dead.

The film, which concerns a group of punks attempting to thwart a zombie invasion, was a modest success, but has since become a cult classic and has spawned four lesser sequels.

O'Bannon would start off the 1990s as one of three screenwriters to work on Paul Verhoeven's 1990 Arnold Schwarzenegger-led sci-fi classic Total Recall.

That's crazy.

best right

hit record and let it ride so i too am excited to be here and we do have uh actually a really cool episode another movie that's a little bit of a throwback not as far not as far back as night of the living dead but it should be fun and we'll get to that in a minute but as always first we have to get into our shout outs so first up um We do have to give a big RIP to Charles Xavier.

Yeah, dude.

Patrick Stewart passed away.

And probably, and maybe it makes sense given the fact that he won't be able to return anyway, so...

Kind of cool.

Ivor chimed in and responded to our thumbnail for last week's Night of the Living Dead episode, which was you and I as zombies.

And it was pretty cool to see us that way.

It just came out.

Night of the Living Dead.

Maniac and stuff of John Waters.

So you take all that, especially you take Maniac, Return of the Dead, John Waters, and kind of put them in a blender.

I did an auditorium check and saw Jim Belushi on the screen and then realized that it was fat Steven Seagal.

Yeah, he looks terrible now.

But we all end up looking terrible at the end, right? Do you have a go-to movie on Halloween night? I have the original Night of the Living Dead, Phantasm, Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Did you get Trick or Treaters? As far as a go-to movie, I did not.

No.

What was your number one? My number one is the bullshit Night of the Living Dead remake that they did this year with Vivica A.

Foxx.

forgot all about that

it is i never saw it it's the biggest pile of crap i have ever seen in my entire life and it's just disrespectful to night of the living dead and george romero's legacy it's got shitty cgi it's like almost like plot plot for plot the first movie and they change some things around but there's like a a newscaster that's like hanging out with a bunch of you know redneck guys trying to get a gang together and take care of the zombies it's just it's fucking terrible and i was so mad when i watched it because i was like oh maybe you know this might be okay no it was god awful and being from pittsburgh i can't let that sort of disrespect happen the legacy of george

i have no thoughts because i haven't seen it

i haven't seen it but but

I would say the Slayers kind of reminded me of a cross between stormtroopers and zombies.

We just talked about Night of the Living Dead recently.

They're not shambling, but they're always slow moving.

If they don't hit you with that first laser lance blast, they just turn the lance towards you and they just walk.

Okay.

Which 1968 film helped launch the modern wave of satanic horror? Was it Night of the Living Dead, Rosemary's Baby, The Devil's Reign, obviously it's not that, or The Witchfinder General?

It's Rosemary's Baby.

Yeah, I would say Rosemary's Baby.