Join Adam Charles Hart for a screening of NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, followed by a reading from Raising the Dead and conversation with New York Times best-selling author Daniel Kraus (Whalefall, The Living Dead). Books available at checkout online, or at the box office.
"NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD is taut and uncompromising." - Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
"A must see for film fans." - Wendy Ide, Screen International
Saturday, March 23, 8:00 p.m. | NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD launched a new era of smart, ambitious, savage horror movies and a new era of indie filmmaking. It proved that George A. Romero was an exceedingly brilliant filmmaker—no one expected that kind of artistic or thematic complexity from a movie about corpses coming back to life, hungry. But that success came at a price: Romero would be forever tethered to horror, and to zombies. He’s beloved for horror movies like NIGHT, CREEPSHOW, and DAWN OF THE DEAD, but his imagination was so much richer and more diverse… we just never knew about it. Romero wrote hundreds of drafts that never made it to screen, covering every genre under the sun, including some of his most vital, creative work. In Raising the Dead, author Adam Charles Hart excavates that remarkable archive, showing for the first time the full range of a restless, ambitious genius who never let the film industry limit his imagination, and who continually reinvented and reshaped horror to fit the kinds of movies he was driven to make.
Join Adam Charles Hart for a screening of NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, followed by a reading from Raising the Dead and conversation with New York Times best-selling author Daniel Kraus (Whalefall, The Living Dead). Books available at checkout online, or at the box office.
The Film Center is ADA accessible. This presentation will be projected without open captions. The theater is hearing-loop equipped. For accessibility requests, please email filmcenter@saic.edu