Night of the Living Dead (1968) is a movie everyone should have in their collection and/ or have access to. It's got all sorts of copyright failures that mean everyone owns it and no one owns it.
This year is the 50th Anniversary, plus it's Halloween-time, so let's watch the movie that launched a 1000 imitators and a whole culture around re-killing dead people.
I was going to try to do a videoconferencing thing, but I've realized that everyone's TV's playing the movie out of synch is just going to be a nightmare, so until we sort out how to watch the movie together, we're still LIVE TWEETING.
- Movie: Night of the Living Dead
- Time: 9:00 Central, Friday October 26th
- hashtag: #getbarb
- to find me: @melbotis
Where to watch:
- Amazon Prime
- Filmstruck (currently having a free trial)
- YouTube
We'll talk:
- unpredictable effects of cosmic phenomena
- why none of us care if Barbara gets it
- how it's kinda nice all the zombies are dressed nice from their funerals
- the complexities of what it means for a bunch of dead people to come back as proposed in this film versus other films
- casting a Black lead in 1968
- why one should always keep a good shovel around
- brains: yes, delicious, but - also nutritious?
- why Dawn of the Dead is also pretty spiffy
- what is the most depressing element of this movie?
- why I'd become a dictatorial monster inside of five minutes of a zombie apocalypse
- what to do when you awkwardly run into a zombie who is someone you used to know
Cocktails:
Well, I'll be drinking, you can count on that. But I'm not making any recommendations. Both the Corpse Reviver and Zombie cocktails are delicious and require too many ingredients I don't have. So, people, just do what you know.
