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 ...

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 ...

Unintentionally, the casting decision added another subtext to “Night of the Living Dead,” which came out in the middle of America’s 1960s civil rights movement.

Zombie actors from "Night of the Living Dead" describe feasting on entrails, getting shot and learning how to become ghouls.

Of the seven, Ben (Duane Jones) is the only Black man. He’s also the voice of calm and reason in a dire situation, soothing one of the movie’s more fragile characters, Barbra (Judith O’Dea).

What ‘Night of the Living Dead’ taught me about race By Renée Graham Globe Columnist,July 21, 2017, 12:22 p.m. 92 Actor Duane Jones played Ben in “Night of the Living Dead.” public domain ...

George Romero has died at age 77. He was the movie director who created the modern zombie genre with films like 1968's Night of the Living Dead.

In a 2017 discussion of George Romero's "Night of the Living Dead," Chicago-based film critic Josh Larsen offered some food for thought: Can a young modern film fan watch this revered horror ...

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.

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.

The simple horror of 'Night of the Living Dead' is the realization that society has gone dreadfully wrong, as frightening a concept now as it was in 1968.