Just in time for Halloween, lock your doors and keep quiet – the zombies are coming!

The film that reanimated interest in the zombie subgenre, George A. Romero’s classic film is a thrilling example of low-budget guerrilla filmmaking. Shot on a modest budget of only $100,000 and filmed in a condemned warehouse, the film quickly garnered a cult following and soon became one of the most influential horror films of all time.

Reimagining the design and movement of zombies (or ‘ghouls’, as they’re called in this film), here Romero established the iconic archetype still used in films today – flesh-eating corpses devoid of human emotion on account of a malignant disease spread by infection. Ironically, Romero drew much inspiration for the film from Richard Matheson’s novel I Am Legend (1954), whilst Night of the Living Dead went on to heavily influence the 2007 film adaptation of the novel, starring Will Smith.