Night of the Living Dead (The Criterion Collection) [4K UHD]

Shot outside Pittsburgh on a shoestring budget, by a band of filmmakers determined to make their mark, Night of the Living Dead, directed by horror master George A. Romero, is a great story of independent cinema: a midnight hit turned box-office smash that became one of the most influential films of all time. A deceptively simple tale of a group of strangers trapped in a farmhouse who find themselves fending off a horde of recently dead, flesh-eating ghouls, Romero’s claustrophobic vision of a late-1960s America literally tearing itself apart rewrote the rules of the horror genre, combining gruesome gore with acute social commentary and quietly breaking ground by casting a Black actor (Duane Jones) in its lead role.

4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES


* 4K digital restoration, supervised by director George A. Romero, coscreenwriter John A. Russo, sound engineer Gary R. Streiner, and producer Russell W. Streiner, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
* One 4K UHD disc of the film and two Blu-rays with the film and special features
* Night of Anubis, a work-print edit of the film
* Program featuring filmmakers Frank Darabont, Guillermo del Toro, and Robert Rodriguez
* Sixteen-millimeter dailies reel
* Program featuring Russo on the commercial and industrial-film production company where key Night of the Living Dead participants got their starts
* Two audio commentaries from 1994 featuring Romero, Russo, producer Karl Hardman, actor Judith O’Dea, and others
* Archival interviews with Romero and actors Duane Jones and Judith Ridley
* Programs about the film’s style and score
* Interview program about the direction of the film’s ghouls, featuring members of the cast and crew
* Interviews with Gary Streiner and Russell Streiner
* Newsreels from 1967
* Trailer, radio spots, and TV spots
* English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
* PLUS: An essay by critic Stuart Klawans