The heroes who populate the story are “regular Americans,” allowing the film to serve as subtle indictment of the country’s late 1960s culture. These zombies will eat anybody, for no reason except that they are hungry.
There isn’t the respectability moralizing of 80s slasher films, where Jason Voorhees makes explicit his stance on premarital fornication and underage drinking. Specifically, zombie teeth, used by the infected antagonists of the piece to attack their victims at random. Night of the Living Dead is a Vietnam-era political commentary with teeth.
Romero put together a similarly low-fi but decidedly more gore-friendly variation of the black-and-white horror feature. Cast: Duane Jones, Judith O'Dea, Marilyn Eastman, Karl Hardman, Judith RidleyĪbout a decade before Eraserhead, director George A.
