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Night of the Living Dead is my favorite horror film. Unrelentingly stark and inventive, it plays like newsreel footage, giving it a sense of veritae that doesn't exist in most horror. It helped solidify the "midnight movie" movement of the late sixties (which started with El Topo.) It created the entire "zombie" genre as we know it and the way it ends still sends shivers up my spine.
This is one of 2 or 3 films that still scares me every time.
I love Dawn. It's wonderfully satirical and has outstanding gore, but the blue make-up on the dead looks awful and takes me out of the movie.
Day is great. The dream with the hands coming through the walls makes me jump every time.
Land had good ideas, but its structure cannot support the weight of the themes of the film and suffers from looking as though it's trying too hard.
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"Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies."
Earl of Chesterfield
"A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well."
Francis Bacon
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