For a movie released nearly 50 years ago, George A. Romero's zombie masterpiece thrums with meaning today. By Andy Crump Duane Jones in Night of the Living Dead (left) and Daniel Kaluuya in Get ...

Zombie Apocalypse: How 'Night of the Living Dead' spawned a culture of zombies. Updated: Feb. 04, 2020, 1:29 p.m. ... played by the African-American actor Duane Jones.

Duane Jones and Judith O'Dea starred in 1968 horror classic, 'Night of the Living Dead.' A few weeks ago, I drove three hours to reach a screening of the restored print of George Romero's classic ...

Zombie actors from "Night of the Living Dead" describe feasting on entrails, getting shot and learning how to become ghouls. ... (Duane Jones) find refuge in an abandoned farmhouse.

In a 2017 discussion of George Romero's "Night of the Living Dead," Chicago-based film critic Josh Larsen ... ‘Night of the Living Dead’ Cast: Duane Jones, Judith O’Dea, Karl Hardman ...

Duane Jones in ‘Night of the Living Dead’ Everett Aside from being an unsung horror film pioneer, Romero’s experience on his most famous film was painful in the end.

George A. Romero’s ultra-low-budget Night of the Living Dead was released in October 1968, just months after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., which was shortly followed by that of ...

Actor Duane Jones played Ben in “Night of the Living Dead.” public domain In the darkness of a movie theater, I learned my first lesson about race in America.

Q: Zombies aside, Night of the Living Dead was also ground-breaking for casting Duane Jones, [who died in 1988] an African-American actor in the lead role of the hero Ben.

But when Night of the Living Dead premiered at the Fulton Theater in Pittsburgh on October 1, 1968, there was no precedent. Zombies, at least as we know them today, had yet to be invented.