Dear 1968:

We made a film that has the following:

-Female protagonist.
-Whoops! Now an African-American protagonist.
-It is in black & white.
-It's all in one night! All in one one house!
-We wait forever to even kind of tell you what's going on
-People eat other people! You even get to see it!
-Women die!
-Kids die!
-Kids kill their folks!
-Brothers kill sisters!
-Wait, everyone dies!
-Whatever was happening has no conclusion!

Please enjoy our film,

George A. Romero
Influencer of Horror, American Independent Film & Italian Horror Cinema
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
(412) BIG-ZOMB

Often imitated, never duplicated. Thank you George, we are forever in your debt.

the ending is just so incredibly devastating

Old horror movies are so fucking cool man, nothing quite like 'em

I'm afraid of Americans

Barbara is me whenever anything goes slightly wrong in my life

johnny starts out being an absolute dick to barbra, but then the moment a threat arrives, he throws himself at a zombie with no regard for his own safety to protect her, and this is possibly the most accurate depiction of siblings

YES BARBRA GIVE US NOTHING GIRL!!

Can’t believe my FIRST thought when all the zombies entered the house was “Aw I miss being in crowded spaces with friends :-(“

"It seems to be a sudden, general explosion of mass homicide... Eyewitnesses say they are ordinary looking people, some say they appear to be in a kind of trance..."

A violent sickness intrudes a nation, fuelling its anxieties, exacerbating its tensions, eroding any and all social bonds that (barely) keep us from savagery—and still a police state is maybe the scariest result. This is brutally stark filmmaking and perhaps the most ferocious, unflinching portrait of the self-devouring American psyche in the heat of the Vietnam war and civil rights movement. Rest in peace Romero, you will be sorely missed.

Full discussion on episode 36 of my podcast SLEAZOIDS.

Insecure men, desperate for any small semblance of power

The eeriest scene comes toward the end, when the makeshift militia of armed men become indistinguishable from the zombies

Prescient & downright discouraging that in the wake of a national crisis we submit to a police state that still ultimately buries the other in the name of "peace". Whenever systems break down we build the same systems right back up. All of this is delivered under the guise of a Zombie narrative, but it is also the story of the United States of America for the last sixty years. The scariest thing in this movie is the fact that even if you survive an apocalypse you're still at the whims of our sociopolitical functions. Jump to 2017 and Jordan Peel's "Get Out". The most horrifying image in that movie is the red and blue of the police arriving on a crime scene where our hero cannot be seen as such in the lens of the police state. We know what those colours mean in America for black men & women. The Snake eats its tail. America is the walking corpse.

i feel so seen by barbara because i would also be completely useless during a zombie apocalypse