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Halloween Resources at SUNY Broome

Horror DVDs At The Library

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With only $60,000 in seed money, Romero turned the limitations of his cash-starved production into devastatingly indelible grace notes that would quickly become genre chapter and verse. While cost-saving (and continuity-sparing) black and white cinematography gives the film the queasy urgency of newsreel footage, what puts Night of the Living Dead over the top as a genre milestone is the fearlessness of its nihilistic vision.

- Smith, R. (2006, October 18).The Gist (Night of the Living Dead) TCM