Night of the Living Dead exemplifies the horror genre because it uses dark lighting to its advantage, classic zombie movie motifs, and quality special effects for the time it was created. I honestly felt pretty immersed while watching this horror classic, as the special effects were pretty good, especially because they did not overdue it, and many of the zombies seemed pretty humanoid. It was also really interesting to notice but Night of the Living Dead was less corny than like 50% of zombie related content nowadays. While they did use reoccurring themes, many of the ideas about zombies, and how the movie should be filmed; were actually the first of their kind and the quality has only lowered from this movie on out. I liked the situation they created in the movie, I liked that they weren’t constantly on the run from zombies, and I like that they weren’t easy to kill, as they barely could hurt anybody to begin with. The fact that they were trapped made the movie more interesting and honestly more scary. The situation in the basement with people dying and getting returned to kill the others inside was a classic move on the directors part, to make them feel more scared that there was a zombie in the building.
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