557: Night Of The Living Dead (1968)

so Eating the tickets, it is 1968's Night of the Living Dead.

Let's talk about it.

Have you seen this before, first of all?

Yes, I saw it with you because you told me it was one of your favorite movies.

And that's the

only time I saw it.

Okay.

Yeah, I think you've seen the three of the Living Dead series.

So re-watching it now this time.

Diana, did you like it?

Oh, I liked it a lot.

It's great.

It's so slowly paced, but it's also great in that pacing.

You're watching it and you're like, a movie would never be paced this way today, but you're also like, it doesn't matter.

This is so great.

God, I don't even know.

know how to talk about it because I'm like oh wow it looks so cheap but it's also so well done because like oh there's no budget but also it's it's like oh you've you've defined a genre with this nothing budget movie and also there's such interesting interactions between the characters about like survival and who's right and what we're gonna do and the strategies of fighting zombies which I love from day one we were like fighting about zombie strategies that's just fun So yeah, there's just great, there's bad performances that are classically bad and there's great performances here.

And it's like, it's saying something and nothing when you get into the history of it, which we'll get into it, which is very interesting.

So yeah, it's great.

And it's not that gory.

I know it was for the day, but it's like the gore is clearly like those aren't.

Those are all just props, but it's still very gory for its time.

It's a lot of fun.

I like it, but it's hard to wrap my head around because it's such a different phenomenon of film.

We don't watch a lot of things from the 60s.