Fun story, my grandparents first date was to the premiere of this movie. My grandmother is a big fan of horror films but my grandfather, not so much. After dropping her off back at home he had to walk through some words to get back to his house and after he thought he heard someone following him in the woods he ended up running nearly 2 miles back to his place. His brothers mock him about that to this day.
@@MusicStudent1 I think particularly in horror films is that the case. Both The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) and Halloween (1978) are considered the best and creepiest of their respective series and they also have the smallest budgets of each.
Fun fact, when watching the film Shaun of the Dead, George A Romero completely missed references to his own movies. For example, there’s a line in Shaun of the Dead when one character shouts: “We’re coming to get you, Barbara!” Which was, of course, a direct reference to this film’s “They’re coming to get you, Barbara.”
IIRC, my sister's book on cult movies praised "Night of the Living Dead" for having Barbara react realistically to seeing her brother killed in front of her.
I could be wrong but the phone isn't working because there's no operator on the other side because you know zombies. which explains why the tv and radio work it's not the electricity .
well they used switchboard operators up until as late as 1991 in mostly rural areas but were at there high point till the late 60's seeing that this was a very rural area i'd say so.
That, and the landline phone and electricity run on entirely different lines (and poles in most cases). While phone lines provide their own power (a fairly complicated mix of AC & DC depending on whether it's idle, ringing, or in use), so the phone works when the electricity is out; but the reverse is not true.
Fuck yes! But it needs some amazing crafting and traps to use. Ever play the Home Alone game on Genesis? I wanted that... in only Living Dead form at the farmhouse! Traps, traps, traps, traps, traps traps trapsssssssss!!!
My dad was 6 when this movie came out, and I thought it was really interesting when he told me that EVERYONE was terrified of this movie, when it's so not scary today. It scared the hell out of him, his big siblings, his friends, his parents, even his church said it was ungodly and an abomination. It's just so neat that this movie is so significant as the first big zombie movie. Now NC has to watch Perfect Blue to get a feel of the movie that set the precedent for psychological horrors.
Its the same with the Universal horror movies from the thirties and forties. The audiences at the time were terrified and later generations regard them as campy..
@@anarchistjesus7354 But the basement presented an opportunity to be rescued. Everywhere else in the house guaranteed that you were gonna get killed before any help arrived. And finally, where does that black guy (I can’t remember his name) finally go to escape all the zombies? The basement. And he would’ve survived at the end and not gotten shot if he just opened his mouth and said, “hey, I’m not one of them”, which shows that he wasn’t as smart as he’s made out to be, and he didn’t make all the right decisions.
@@geraldobrien7323 And if nobody had shown up to rescue him, where would he be? You missed my whole point. And you should know it's debated whether Ben was shot because they thought he was a zombie, or because he was a black man in the 60s. It's not his fault he was shot in either case. lol If the militia had any brains they'd probably think "He's still in the house, and isn't attempting to come after us. He must be alive." Ben also could've gone out the back door to a wife open area where he at least would have somewhere to go, rather than being stuck in a cellor.
@@anarchistjesus7354 If no one showed up, he would have died. Someone did show up, but he didn’t use his brain and yell to them. If they tried barricading the whole house, which is what they did, Ben would’ve died whether someone showed up or not. Remember, in the end he had to end up doing what Cooper insisted on doing the whole movie. That was one point in the movie. They made Cooper out to look like the bad guy throughout, but in the end, he was right.
So much of our modern view on Zombies and their rules were created by this film. Before this, Zombie films were all about mind control, voodoo, and thinly veiled commentary on Colonialism. Not that I don't highly recommend "I Walked With a Zombie" or "White Zombie." Both are great movies.
This might be a large task... but i think an Old vs New of the “a Star is Born” movies would be really cool. You could do all 4 versions or just two of them, but the new one is absolutely amazing and i think that i definitely holds its own against the others and is the best version
Could not sleep for two nights after first seeing this when I was eight years old. Of course it has its flaws, but the complete sense of hopelessness, despair and desolation and the gruesomeness of it all, raises it above its shortcomings. Still one of the best in all of the horror genre.
Ah...The classics, hey Critic, will you ever review the John Carpenter's Halloween or The Thing? Thank you guys for all the likes, I have never gotten these may
*watching this with a friend* Friend-wow they move fast? Thats dumb. Me-um...this movie came first, the rest changed the formula, this is the og actually.
When I first saw this movie all I could think was, "Holy shit, 1 of the main characters is black? And he's a bad-ass hero? And he's the last 1 who gets killed off? Are you sure this movie was made in the 60's?".
@@gigoman-hu5hm Should be pretty easy. It's a primarily dialog driven story told in one location. Just cut out the opening scene (keeping it filled in by Barbara's monologue rehashing the scene cut out) and just go from there.
She remembered you can drive cars? Dude She didnt have the keys for the cars she even brings that up later in the movie. She just unlocked the handbrake and moved down the hill.
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More IPs should fall into the public domain. It's a shame they don't. It would be really nice to see some fresh new perspectives on classics. I mean, Disney practically built their empire doing just that with fairy tales.
Fox: Funny enough, the reason allot of things haven't Fallen into the Public Domain for years, is because Disney went to court to extend it because Mickey Mouse almost was a public domain Character.
9-BitFox i suspect that has something to do with why Disney made a sequel to pretty much every one of their original animated films. it was probably to keep them from falling into the public domain
Fox: Possibly, but then again it depends on which films ur talking about. Since any one can Make a Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty Etc stories. Since those are all Public domain characters, hence why Disney made movies about them. Public domain takes around I think 50 years to take effect, before falling into Public domain; whether there is a sequel or not. Hence why Disney went to court to change the law and had it extended.
I can't believe no one has pointed out the fact that this movie broke a stereotype before it was even made! The black guy survived until the end instead of being the first one offed.
Did a stage production of this show last month, zombies on stage, zombies in the audience, zombies on top of the audience, good spooky times all around. Probably one of my favorite productions so far.
That’s why. Batman Returns has gotten a cult following over the years and has a weird Halloween/Christmas edge to it. Right up the critic’s alley. Plus, it’s the sequel to one of his favorite films of all time
Thank goodness you didn’t say Die hard 1. After seeing Skyscraper, the nostalgic luster has filled significantly. It’s 1980s Skyscraper , with the same unrealistic action, the same type of walking handicap(glass in DH), and the same overall stupid bad guys. But with only swearing and extra gunfire as the main differences, for the higher rating.
I just watched this again literally last night and while yes the movie does have a ton of flaws it’s hard to ignore how groundbreaking it was for the time and I think it holds up very well today That’s what most people don’t consider, is how these movies were taken at the time when they were released. There was nothing else like it at the time More than anything it showed that if this is what Romero could create with no budget or technology imagine what he could do if he had better equipment and more money
I love George Romero zombie films. The zombies are intelligent, and there is always some sort of social commentary. Land of the Dead is my favorite for sure.
When I was 9, my psychologist told me to watch this for exposure therapy. At the time, I spent every weekend at my grandmother's farm. Need I say more?
I don't mean those but the amount of new reviews, I'm not sure if he is but it seems like he's making a lot more new ones than he did before or I'm just being informed about them much faster
Yes!! This is what Nostalgia Critic shoud be. Back to the way it was. No silly skits. Just The Critic being funny. Btw. This is easily the funniest episode I've seen in years. Keep making them like this one!!!
I like the Tom Savini one better. Not just because it's in color and fits with Dawn and Day better, but because of the change to Barbara, making her actually change into a survivor instead of just screaming the whole time. Also, the remake's ending.
if zombies attacked bad neighborhoods I really doubt their chances of winning... we all have weapons. I wanna see The purge: Zombie apocalypse... please Gods someone make that happen!
Yeah, like the New Founding Father's release a plague that infects poorer neighborhoods and begin a quarantine before it activates and makes the infected homicidal while the survivors are being hunted by psychos that have no survival instinct. It is then revealed the psychopathy on the Purge was the result of a man made virus for the reason to eliminate the poor but didn't work with some.
@@jacksparrowismydaddy Hollywood has no idea what to make a movie out of so they pretend that The Purge is a work of art. We just want the fun and compelling characters.
P.Z. Arnott I was thinking he would do more of an analysis of American psycho and also I’ve mentally blocked out America psycho two from my consciousness so I have no idea what you’re talking about
Yeah, it's entirely possible to love a film and laugh at it's foibles. I mean James Rolfe loves the old Godzilla movies but even he'd admit they're pretty hokey.
I don't think anyone will get butthurt at this movie being poked fun of, regardless of how much they love it, but I'm sure I'd eventually be proven wrong.
At UNC-Asheville, one of our Mass Communications faculty uses this film for the horror genre every time he teaches the Film Appreciation course - and also taught one course entirely dedicated to George A. Romero films a decade before the Master of Horror passed away. RIP George - we will never forget how much you inspired us!
This was the first true undead Zombie movie, made in 1968! Before this movie Zombies were portrayed differently, such as The Mummy or Frankenstein’s Monster, or living people mind controlled by aliens, or by Voodoo. The original Night of the Living Dead started up the Undead Zombie Genre we enjoy love so much today, and I’m thrilled Nostalgic Critic is reviewing it.
George A. Romero low-key evolved the Zombies in his original Dead Trilogy. In 1968 they were picking up rocks and wood. In 1978 (DAWN of the DEAD) they were picking up tools. In 1985 (DAY of the DEAD) they were picking up guns.
The Halloween videos are quickly becoming my favorite part of Halloween. I'm not a big fan of the holiday mainly because I do the horror thing all year anyway. These sorta bring back the childhoot feels I had during October. I think it is because it's now a tradition to watch these
People tell me this is about racism, and it very well could be, but I personally don't think the police or militia (whatever it was) generally thought about his race. They saw another zombie. The line gives away, "there's another one." Unless there was a pile of black corpses, it wasn't about race. Now the beginning of Dawn of the Dead was DEFINITELY about racism.
There's an earlier scene with 'The Chief' where he says the killed some of 'those things' clawing there way into an abandoned shed. My guess is it WASN'T abandoned & they just killed both ghouls AND survivors! (So it could be interpreted as a statement against mob-rule overall!)
Could be. I'm just looking at this through the lens of the actual panic and fear this sort of event would spark. If you thought someone was a flesh-eating ghoul, would you patiently wait for them to demonstrate that they're alive or undead? Or would you shoot first and let God sort them out? Reminds me of a scene from the 2004 remake of Dawn of the Dead in the first few minutes before the opening credits where an ambulance runs a man over. An AMBULANCE, driven by people trained to help people in need, so saturated in absolute panic that they, almost casually, run a perfectly healthy man over, likely killing him stone dead. It's a common theme now in zombie movies, the hardened soldier abandoning his\her post, the police officer bugging out to save his\her own skin, the doctor abandoning his\her patient mid-peril to find safety. Easy to forget THIS was the movie that started it, especially for those of us who didn't see this movie before the others.
Inform RUclips that they need to stop flagging the Nostalgia Critic for copyright notices. Flag him whenever he actually DOES violate copyright laws, not when he's doing parodies, homages, or reviews, which are exempt from copyright laws. He's a critic, its his job. Let the nice man do his job.
You forgot the killer plants from outer space (I forgot the real title of the movie all I know is that there is a movie about killer plants from outer space).
bigevilworldwide1 true Savini remake on its own is really good not a fan of remakes but i really enjoyed it at least it wasn't like those awful two Day of Dead remakes
6:11 You do know that a phone runs on a "phone line" with a direct connection and that a radio just needs electricity and picks up transmissions in the airwaves right? That is why it is advised by the civil defence and emergency services to keep battery radios at home so you can get information even if the power and phones are out in case of an emergency such as power outages, natural disasters, war and so on.
The funniest thing I noticed was that the zombie brother was wearing his driving gloves. Did the zombie think, you know what I don't want any blood on my hands so these gloves are now my eating human gloves.
6:08 what's funny is the zombies actually did cut the phone line, the first zombie that chased her, stumbled through it hanging off the outside wall in a scene earlier and severed it XD
Am I the only one who doesn’t really like this movie? I can appreciate it for starting the whole Zombie trend but in my opinion it hasn’t really aged well. The acting can be a bit stilted and Barbara herself is kind of a pointless character. Kinda like Doug’s thoughts on Nightmare before Christmas, I definitely appreciate way more than I like it.
I don’t like most classic horror movies because they’re so boring, cheesy and fail to be scary. I understand that at the time they were horrifying and revolutionary, but compared to what I’m used to it just doesn’t work for me. That’s why I giggle when my mom says the scariest movie she’s ever seen was the first Exorcist movie.
3:00 does he not notice she just put the car in neutral and rolled down the hill? She didn’t have the keys which is shown as soon as she gets in the car
When I first saw this movie, all I could think was, "Holy shit, 1 of the main characters is black?! And he's bad-ass?! And he's last the 1 who gets killed off?! Are you sure this movie was made in the 60's?".
Fun story, my grandparents first date was to the premiere of this movie. My grandmother is a big fan of horror films but my grandfather, not so much. After dropping her off back at home he had to walk through some words to get back to his house and after he thought he heard someone following him in the woods he ended up running nearly 2 miles back to his place. His brothers mock him about that to this day.
George A Romero really showed his filmmaking talent on a shoe string budget. The first of many to come. Toby Hopper, John Carpenter, ect
Sam Raimi, Peter Jackson.
Stanley Kubrick
Indie flicks are the best, probably because the filmmakers are way more motivated.
@@MusicStudent1 I think particularly in horror films is that the case. Both The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) and Halloween (1978) are considered the best and creepiest of their respective series and they also have the smallest budgets of each.
Fun fact, when watching the film Shaun of the Dead, George A Romero completely missed references to his own movies. For example, there’s a line in Shaun of the Dead when one character shouts: “We’re coming to get you, Barbara!” Which was, of course, a direct reference to this film’s “They’re coming to get you, Barbara.”
“Actually, it’s good that I found you. Do you have the keys to the car? WAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!”
I think I rewound that 10 times already.
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They're coming to get you, Critic...
Beat me to it!
It's a bunch of Douchie McNitpicks! There're coming to point out every mistake the Critic ever made and act like they're the worst thing ever!
You're ignorant!
You know what it is.
Really you had to do it before I could do it thanks
"You are tearing me apart johnny." 😂🤣💀
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Oh, hi Richard!
@@chachouu69 that part had me rolling 😂
IIRC, my sister's book on cult movies praised "Night of the Living Dead" for having Barbara react realistically to seeing her brother killed in front of her.
I could be wrong but the phone isn't working because there's no operator on the other side because you know zombies. which explains why the tv and radio work it's not the electricity .
Did phones still need operators in the late 60's??
well they used switchboard operators up until as late as 1991 in mostly rural areas but were at there high point till the late 60's seeing that this was a very rural area i'd say so.
That, and the landline phone and electricity run on entirely different lines (and poles in most cases).
While phone lines provide their own power (a fairly complicated mix of AC & DC depending on whether it's idle, ringing, or in use), so the phone works when the electricity is out; but the reverse is not true.
well the zombie does get tangled in a wire outside the house that might be the phone
At the risk of being a wise guy... it was a clothe-line #1 zombie gets 'clothe-lined' on.
This movie is an Absolute Classic. It's the one that started it All.
All the saturated zombie games...
Without it, there probably wouldn't be any The Walking Dead or Dead Rising games
it set the standard if you count Bella logosi's white zombie from 1943 but this was definitely the more important film
Thank you so much for the ♥️!
isn't it Frankenstein? I mean Frankenstein is technically a zombie.
i always wanted a Night of the Living Dead open-world third person shooter game set in the 1960's, with endless hordes of zombies coming at you.
jmantime if only such a game existed
In black and white? Cuz if so yes please!
Just play Resident Evil 4 lol. It’s not set in the 60s but it’s got lots of farmhouses
Dead rising
Fuck yes! But it needs some amazing crafting and traps to use. Ever play the Home Alone game on Genesis? I wanted that... in only Living Dead form at the farmhouse! Traps, traps, traps, traps, traps traps trapsssssssss!!!
For ever one wondering, THIS IS A REUPLOAD. NOT A NEW ONE.
Really?
You don't say?
Ignore these other comments I was actually kinda confused so thanks
I'd say 'no duh' but then we live in a world with people who don't know coffee is hot so maybe you're right to tell people this.
No it's not because in the description he would say
My dad was 6 when this movie came out, and I thought it was really interesting when he told me that EVERYONE was terrified of this movie, when it's so not scary today. It scared the hell out of him, his big siblings, his friends, his parents, even his church said it was ungodly and an abomination. It's just so neat that this movie is so significant as the first big zombie movie.
Now NC has to watch Perfect Blue to get a feel of the movie that set the precedent for psychological horrors.
Its the same with the Universal horror movies from the thirties and forties. The audiences at the time were terrified and later generations regard them as campy..
Perfect Blue would be very skit heavy.
I approve.
Perfect Blue and Serial Experiments Lain.
What did you expect? People got scared really easily back then.
@@kiemer4531 the original Frankenstein is a classic and I'm 23.
Dawn of the dead vs classic dawn of the dead old vs new!!!
There's only one Dawn of the Dead, you *don't* refer to the original as "classic Dawn of the Dead".
I fully support this for the next video
The remake is actually a lot of fun, but of course the orginal is...I mean, it is one the best horror films of all time. I still dig the remake.
The remake is awesome. The original is legendary.
bigevilworldwide1- Well, like, that's just your opinion, man
Always so many people calling this a zombie movie, Romero himself said it isn't, they are ghouls, he didn't use zombies until later.
The funny thing is that Mr. Cooper was right. The basement was the safest place in the house.
Yeah it was
Yeah, and then you're stuck there hoping they either go away, or someone else comes to save you. It's a safe place to waste away, and die.
@@anarchistjesus7354 But the basement presented an opportunity to be rescued. Everywhere else in the house guaranteed that you were gonna get killed before any help arrived. And finally, where does that black guy (I can’t remember his name) finally go to escape all the zombies? The basement. And he would’ve survived at the end and not gotten shot if he just opened his mouth and said, “hey, I’m not one of them”, which shows that he wasn’t as smart as he’s made out to be, and he didn’t make all the right decisions.
@@geraldobrien7323 And if nobody had shown up to rescue him, where would he be? You missed my whole point. And you should know it's debated whether Ben was shot because they thought he was a zombie, or because he was a black man in the 60s. It's not his fault he was shot in either case. lol If the militia had any brains they'd probably think "He's still in the house, and isn't attempting to come after us. He must be alive."
Ben also could've gone out the back door to a wife open area where he at least would have somewhere to go, rather than being stuck in a cellor.
@@anarchistjesus7354 If no one showed up, he would have died. Someone did show up, but he didn’t use his brain and yell to them.
If they tried barricading the whole house, which is what they did, Ben would’ve died whether someone showed up or not.
Remember, in the end he had to end up doing what Cooper insisted on doing the whole movie. That was one point in the movie. They made Cooper out to look like the bad guy throughout, but in the end, he was right.
1:58 Yup, definitely a 2014 review
I read it with commisonary gordon voice from batman forever XD "yep, definitely a suicide"
A night of the living dead is what you are after you binge all of the Nostalgia critics episodes in one night
There's not enough time in a day to watch every episode.
John Webb
Then you're doing it wrong, you amateur.
John Webb x2 Speed, multiple tabs, multiple devices
you can watch them all in an hour if you try hard enough
True
It’s amazing how relevant that rush Limbaugh line is during the covid-19 outbreak.
Anyone else waiting for a Rocky Horror Picture show review for this Halloween? God I need my tim curry fix
Nope not the only one
So much of our modern view on Zombies and their rules were created by this film. Before this, Zombie films were all about mind control, voodoo, and thinly veiled commentary on Colonialism.
Not that I don't highly recommend "I Walked With a Zombie" or "White Zombie." Both are great movies.
This is not a cult classic. This is a classic and is this the frist black and white film the critic is doing. He should do more black and white films
Britton Hj he did reefer madness
It IS a cult classic.
I reckon the first monochromatic film he reviews was “King Kong” from 1933.
-They’re coming to get you brabara!
-it’s Barbara, there’s no such name as Brabara
This might be a large task... but i think an Old vs New of the “a Star is Born” movies would be really cool. You could do all 4 versions or just two of them, but the new one is absolutely amazing and i think that i definitely holds its own against the others and is the best version
Could not sleep for two nights after first seeing this when I was eight years old. Of course it has its flaws, but the complete sense of hopelessness, despair and desolation and the gruesomeness of it all, raises it above its shortcomings. Still one of the best in all of the horror genre.
Ah...The classics, hey Critic, will you ever review the John Carpenter's Halloween or The Thing?
Thank you guys for all the likes, I have never gotten these may
The thing is amazinh
DEAD POOL I hope
If he did any version of the Thing, he'd do the original, not the 1st remake
Those some good recommendations. I will add Phantasm to that list for the sake of exposure. It's a good series if you haven't seen it.
@@Luissv72 That would be interesting since we see the John Carpenter version more often.
This movie is an absolute masterpiece and brought us into the world of zombies!
R. I. P. George A. Romero
*watching this with a friend*
Friend-wow they move fast? Thats dumb.
Me-um...this movie came first, the rest changed the formula, this is the og actually.
When I first saw this movie all I could think was, "Holy shit, 1 of the main characters is black? And he's a bad-ass hero? And he's the last 1 who gets killed off? Are you sure this movie was made in the 60's?".
My high school is doing a play of this movie, so this is one Hell of a coincidence.
Cool
Bryan Egelhoff's Animation Tech Nation That sounds cool!
My local community theatre is doing it too, weird
How exactly do you do a play of night of the living dead?
@@gigoman-hu5hm Should be pretty easy. It's a primarily dialog driven story told in one location. Just cut out the opening scene (keeping it filled in by Barbara's monologue rehashing the scene cut out) and just go from there.
She remembered you can drive cars? Dude She didnt have the keys for the cars she even brings that up later in the movie. She just unlocked the handbrake and moved down the hill.
OMG, a Freddy Fazbear reference? Didn't expect that! But I guess he referenced it in Chipwrecked too. So it shouldn't have surprised me.
I miss romeros movies 🎥 he did some right creative zombie movies .
Rip romeros you’ll be missed
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More IPs should fall into the public domain. It's a shame they don't. It would be really nice to see some fresh new perspectives on classics. I mean, Disney practically built their empire doing just that with fairy tales.
Fox: Funny enough, the reason allot of things haven't Fallen into the Public Domain for years, is because Disney went to court to extend it because Mickey Mouse almost was a public domain Character.
9-BitFox i suspect that has something to do with why Disney made a sequel to pretty much every one of their original animated films. it was probably to keep them from falling into the public domain
Fox: Possibly, but then again it depends on which films ur talking about. Since any one can Make a Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty Etc stories. Since those are all Public domain characters, hence why Disney made movies about them. Public domain takes around I think 50 years to take effect, before falling into Public domain; whether there is a sequel or not. Hence why Disney went to court to change the law and had it extended.
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaht?!
Don't you just want to watch this movie on a flickering projector screen?
Nice to mix it up with a classic like this. It´s a fun movie to watch and a fun review that fits it.
I can't believe no one has pointed out the fact that this movie broke a stereotype before it was even made! The black guy survived until the end instead of being the first one offed.
They're going to get you, Barbara
They're coming for you, Barbara
"We're coming to get you, Barbara!" ~ Shaun Of The Dead
there coming there coming for you look theres one of them now
I assume that was his impression of Vincent Price. Though TBH it sounds more like Boris Karloff.
Did a stage production of this show last month, zombies on stage, zombies in the audience, zombies on top of the audience, good spooky times all around.
Probably one of my favorite productions so far.
For The First Week Of Christmas, Review Batman Returns, Die Hard 2, Or Gremlins
I forgot that Batman was during Christmas. LoL
Ooh I like all of them, but gremlins they’re all decent movies
That’s why. Batman Returns has gotten a cult following over the years and has a weird Halloween/Christmas edge to it. Right up the critic’s alley. Plus, it’s the sequel to one of his favorite films of all time
Batman returns is the best one though
Thank goodness you didn’t say Die hard 1. After seeing Skyscraper, the nostalgic luster has filled significantly.
It’s 1980s Skyscraper , with the same unrealistic action, the same type of walking handicap(glass in DH), and the same overall stupid bad guys. But with only swearing and extra gunfire as the main differences, for the higher rating.
RIP George A Romero
Nice reference to the silly walk! Very silly walk indeed! Still needs more government funding tho.
6:00
*Smack!*
Critic (as Barbara): "Sorry, you had a fly there."
*SMACK!*
Me (as Ben): "Yours was bigger."
A new Nostalgia Critic episode already? But it’s not Wednesday yet!
Not like you’ll see me complaining!
It's a DVD exclusive
Will 2139 look at the description
Will 2139 Reupload
@@Gojirawars03 this is the first time thsi was uploaded the previous ones were DVD rips
I just watched this again literally last night and while yes the movie does have a ton of flaws it’s hard to ignore how groundbreaking it was for the time and I think it holds up very well today
That’s what most people don’t consider, is how these movies were taken at the time when they were released. There was nothing else like it at the time
More than anything it showed that if this is what Romero could create with no budget or technology imagine what he could do if he had better equipment and more money
Nice video as always ! Cheers from France dear Mr Critic !!
Hello and the videos keep geting better
I still want him to review the animated movie Scooby Doo and the Ghoul school this Nostalgia-ween.
I love George Romero zombie films. The zombies are intelligent, and there is always some sort of social commentary. Land of the Dead is my favorite for sure.
No social commentary in the 1st one but romero wished he had gone back and changed that
Mr. Critic, please do Dawn of the Dead (1978) vs Dawn of the Dead (2004)!
Yes please do this old vs new!!!!
When I was 9, my psychologist told me to watch this for exposure therapy. At the time, I spent every weekend at my grandmother's farm. Need I say more?
Has anyone else noticed that the Nostalgia Critic's output of reviews have increased or is it just my imagination
He's re-uploading older reviews that were taked down or edited
I don't mean those but the amount of new reviews, I'm not sure if he is but it seems like he's making a lot more new ones than he did before or I'm just being informed about them much faster
yeah he is for a while he only did a review every 2 weeks and in the middle did an editorial
Kirei Kotomine he stopped doing editorials in between reviews. So now he does them weekly again
Yes!!
This is what Nostalgia Critic shoud be. Back to the way it was. No silly skits. Just The Critic being funny.
Btw. This is easily the funniest episode I've seen in years.
Keep making them like this one!!!
For nostalgiaween, review Monster House!
I like the Tom Savini one better. Not just because it's in color and fits with Dawn and Day better, but because of the change to Barbara, making her actually change into a survivor instead of just screaming the whole time. Also, the remake's ending.
if zombies attacked bad neighborhoods I really doubt their chances of winning... we all have weapons. I wanna see The purge: Zombie apocalypse... please Gods someone make that happen!
Yeah, like the New Founding Father's release a plague that infects poorer neighborhoods and begin a quarantine before it activates and makes the infected homicidal while the survivors are being hunted by psychos that have no survival instinct. It is then revealed the psychopathy on the Purge was the result of a man made virus for the reason to eliminate the poor but didn't work with some.
sounds good I just wanna see shooting and blowing stuff up
@@jacksparrowismydaddy Hollywood has no idea what to make a movie out of so they pretend that The Purge is a work of art. We just want the fun and compelling characters.
true that
@Jesse Quarnstrom they were a little pretentious for me but when they embrace the stupidity of the setting, they can be a lotta fun.
You know his head is over there right?
That line almost killed me.
Do American psycho or the thing or Tremors
hello there
Tremors I get, but not American Psycho. But American Psycho 2, the other hand.
P.Z. Arnott I was thinking he would do more of an analysis of American psycho and also I’ve mentally blocked out America psycho two from my consciousness so I have no idea what you’re talking about
@@thenotsodemocraticrepublic7731 why not Sweeny Todd?
The tremors is a perfect choice for this show
1:58
I hear The Winchester tavern is also a pretty chill place to wait out something like the zombie apocalypse.
You'll be fine, Critic. The Rifftrax guys lovingly mocked this film to Hell and back already. I love the movie AND their riffing. It's a must see.
Yeah, it's entirely possible to love a film and laugh at it's foibles. I mean James Rolfe loves the old Godzilla movies but even he'd admit they're pretty hokey.
LOVED the Rifftrax treatment of NotLD! (Check-out their Halloween Special if you can!) And YES... You can lampoon something without insulting it!
I don't think anyone will get butthurt at this movie being poked fun of, regardless of how much they love it, but I'm sure I'd eventually be proven wrong.
The granddaddy of all zombie movies: The (original) Night of the Living Dead.
This one takes a special place in my heart.
R.I.P. George Romero
A true classic, a great movie to watch around every Halloween.
Nostalgia Critic with hair. Now THAT'S Nostalgic.
Can you do a review of monster house and maybe speed racer (after nostalgia ween)
He technically did the Anime Abandon of Speed Racer with BennetTheSage
Kraven Spider thanks for telling me
You know I never seen a (2008) Speed Racer review from a major RUclips critic. It’d be nice to see.
@@radicalspaceperson2812 He did one with Bennet The Sage.
Yes, we need to see a monster house review
My head is *CRACK*
When I saw this in my subscriptions, I just thought, "It's not Wednesday!" lol
BethGoth15 did u read the description
At UNC-Asheville, one of our Mass Communications faculty uses this film for the horror genre every time he teaches the Film Appreciation course - and also taught one course entirely dedicated to George A. Romero films a decade before the Master of Horror passed away. RIP George - we will never forget how much you inspired us!
He Won’t Stay Dead.......Night Of The Living Critic
This was one of the first movies I've seen where the black guy got to be the badass.
Can you do The Nightmare Before Christmas since this year is there 25th Anniversary of the movie
ruclips.net/video/dKlJdHiqgoo/видео.html
THAT MOVIE IS NOT 25 YEARS OLD.
...omg (I'm too young to feel this old)
The first zombie seen ripped out the phone line by accident, that's why the phone lines don't work. The movie clearly shows that.
do dawn of the dead for it's 40th aniversary
This was the first true undead Zombie movie, made in 1968! Before this movie Zombies were portrayed differently, such as The Mummy or Frankenstein’s Monster, or living people mind controlled by aliens, or by Voodoo. The original Night of the Living Dead started up the Undead Zombie Genre we enjoy love so much today, and I’m thrilled Nostalgic Critic is reviewing it.
Do tremors if not I will tell you again
Probably will never happen
Then prepare to do it for the rest of your life pal. I wish you luck
Yes, please!
George A. Romero low-key evolved the Zombies in his original Dead Trilogy. In 1968 they were picking up rocks and wood. In 1978 (DAWN of the DEAD) they were picking up tools. In 1985 (DAY of the DEAD) they were picking up guns.
The Halloween videos are quickly becoming my favorite part of Halloween. I'm not a big fan of the holiday mainly because I do the horror thing all year anyway. These sorta bring back the childhoot feels I had during October. I think it is because it's now a tradition to watch these
6:48: “-and if no one shoots me dead for no reason, that’ll be ESPECIALLY good news.”
1:58 I don't know why this joke got me this hard, I guess I need to leave youtube for a while
Starting out with the suggestion to lie to your mother about a memorial shows a great consistency of character on your part.
People tell me this is about racism, and it very well could be, but I personally don't think the police or militia (whatever it was) generally thought about his race. They saw another zombie. The line gives away, "there's another one." Unless there was a pile of black corpses, it wasn't about race. Now the beginning of Dawn of the Dead was DEFINITELY about racism.
There's an earlier scene with 'The Chief' where he says the killed some of 'those things' clawing there way into an abandoned shed. My guess is it WASN'T abandoned & they just killed both ghouls AND survivors! (So it could be interpreted as a statement against mob-rule overall!)
Could be. I'm just looking at this through the lens of the actual panic and fear this sort of event would spark. If you thought someone was a flesh-eating ghoul, would you patiently wait for them to demonstrate that they're alive or undead? Or would you shoot first and let God sort them out? Reminds me of a scene from the 2004 remake of Dawn of the Dead in the first few minutes before the opening credits where an ambulance runs a man over. An AMBULANCE, driven by people trained to help people in need, so saturated in absolute panic that they, almost casually, run a perfectly healthy man over, likely killing him stone dead. It's a common theme now in zombie movies, the hardened soldier abandoning his\her post, the police officer bugging out to save his\her own skin, the doctor abandoning his\her patient mid-peril to find safety. Easy to forget THIS was the movie that started it, especially for those of us who didn't see this movie before the others.
The movie implied they were a bit happy with their triggers because they saw the color of the skin
Inform RUclips that they need to stop flagging the Nostalgia Critic for copyright notices.
Flag him whenever he actually DOES violate copyright laws, not when he's doing parodies, homages, or reviews, which are exempt from copyright laws. He's a critic, its his job. Let the nice man do his job.
Do these next
Tom Savini Night of the Living Dead remake
Dawn of the Dead old vs. new
Return of the Living Dead
Killer Clowns From Outer Space
You forgot the killer plants from outer space (I forgot the real title of the movie all I know is that there is a movie about killer plants from outer space).
Return of the living dead is fucking amazing.
Brett PGH hell yeah the sequel was good too expect for the other sequels sucked
bigevilworldwide1 true Savini remake on its own is really good not a fan of remakes but i really enjoyed it at least it wasn't like those awful two Day of Dead remakes
Haha how about children of the living dead? You ever see that masterpiece?
6:11
You do know that a phone runs on a "phone line" with a direct connection and that a radio just needs electricity and picks up transmissions in the airwaves right? That is why it is advised by the civil defence and emergency services to keep battery radios at home so you can get information even if the power and phones are out in case of an emergency such as power outages, natural disasters, war and so on.
May be a ReUpload but couldn’t be more Perfect time of the Year
The funniest thing I noticed was that the zombie brother was wearing his driving gloves. Did the zombie think, you know what I don't want any blood on my hands so these gloves are now my eating human gloves.
Today isn’t Wednesday, who made you do this
It's a reupload from the dvds
Ranuyasha oh, I see
A zombie forced him to
It was on a past dvd
Reupload Satan
6:08 what's funny is the zombies actually did cut the phone line, the first zombie that chased her, stumbled through it hanging off the outside wall in a scene earlier and severed it XD
Am I the only one who doesn’t really like this movie?
I can appreciate it for starting the whole Zombie trend but in my opinion it hasn’t really aged well. The acting can be a bit stilted and Barbara herself is kind of a pointless character. Kinda like Doug’s thoughts on Nightmare before Christmas, I definitely appreciate way more than I like it.
I don't like it simply because zombie movies dont interest me especially because when you have seen one you have seen them all
I don’t like most classic horror movies because they’re so boring, cheesy and fail to be scary. I understand that at the time they were horrifying and revolutionary, but compared to what I’m used to it just doesn’t work for me. That’s why I giggle when my mom says the scariest movie she’s ever seen was the first Exorcist movie.
I appreciate how this is a 60's movie where not only the smart, bad-ass hero is black, but he's also the last 1 who gets killed off.
"They say never mess with a classic.
Fuck it, I'm doing night of the living dead."
the nostalgia critic should review more 60's movies, they're always funny and cheesey
3:00 does he not notice she just put the car in neutral and rolled down the hill? She didn’t have the keys which is shown as soon as she gets in the car
well hopefully next time he'll review the rest of the Romero living dead trilogy,
Love the _Aliens_ ref he threw in. x3 "They cut the power? How can they do that, they're animals?!"
An early Nostalgia Critic? I must be dreaming
It's a re-upload. Notice his lack of baldness
@@mynameisharry8739 maybe his hair grew back all of a sudden
Mermaid Boy wow are you really that stupid?
Look at the intro and description, it’s from a dvd extra
@@drewsmovies1416 it's called sarcasm
When I first saw this movie, all I could think was, "Holy shit, 1 of the main characters is black?! And he's bad-ass?! And he's last the 1 who gets killed off?! Are you sure this movie was made in the 60's?".
If you can do this maybe you should try 28 days later, or at least the sequel that's worse
Radios don't require phone lines to work lol
Could you review Venom this Nostalgia-Ween?
55 years old already!
Rest in peace Romero
Thanks for changing the genre of zombie movies forever
Impressive debut for a low budget film
Why not a nostalgiaween intro?
Judging from the intro, this is one of the earlier nc reviews.
It’s from a dvd extra, just look at the description
When I first saw the title I was like wait this isn't a bad movie but then I realized it's not meant to be taken seriously
You should review Scooby-Doo and kiss
For those wondering about the old intro and haven't read the description, this was a dvd-exclusive episode.