In 1968, George A. Romero released his seminal film Night of the Living Dead upon unsuspecting theatergoers. Though its black-and-white color palette gives the text a classical feel, every frame makes it clear that it isn’t anything at all like the movies that came before it. There are no creepy castles, seldom moments of levity, and no happy endings.
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