Night of the Living Dead

Night of the Living Dead opens with bickering siblings Johnny and Barbara, who have driven out to a cemetery to put a wreath on their father's grave. A pale-faced man lumbers toward the two, attacking Johnny. Barbara runs away in fear, arriving at an abandoned home with a corpse at the top of the stairs. Soon, Ben (played by Duane Jones) shows up, and helps drive away several pale-faced men that have shown up. Through radio and television reports we learn that, for some reason, the dead have began to return to life and seek human victims, and they can only be k ...

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Night of the Living Dead, Night of the Living Dead - Plot Overview, Night of the Living Dead - Critical response, Night of the Living Dead - Trivia, Night of the Living Dead - Copyright status, Night of the Living Dead - Revisions

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This is a list of computer and video games prominently featuring zombies. Apocalypse Weekend Add on for the controversial game Postal², player finds themselves emerged in violent delusions or visions that the world is coming to an end and the dead are walking again. Notorious for it's uberviolence. Castlevania- Zombies make appearances normally during the early stages of the game, slow in movement and easy to kill. "Stronger" versions of the zombie appear later in the game as Ghouls, but are just as easy

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Apocalyptic science fiction is a sub-genre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of civilization, through nuclear war, plague, or some other general disaster. Post-apocalyptic science fiction is set in a world or civilization after such a disaster. The time frame may be immediately after the catastrophe, focusing on the travails or psychology of survivors, or considerably later, often including the theme that the existence of pre-catastrophe civilization has been forgotten or mythologized. The fall of civiliz ...

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• Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic science fiction - Cultural views on apocalyptic fiction
• Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic science fiction - Criticism
• Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic science fiction - Examples listed by nature of the catastrophe
• Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic science fiction - World War III nuclear
• Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic science fiction - Pandemic
• Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic science fiction - Astronomic impact meteorites
• Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic science fiction - Alien invasion
• Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic science fiction - Ecological catastrophe
• Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic science fiction - Cybernetic revolt
• Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic science fiction - The decline and fall of the human race
• Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic science fiction - After the fall of space-based civilization
• Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic science fiction - The Sun's expansion
• Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic science fiction - Religious and supernatural apocalypse Eschatological fiction
• Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic science fiction - Various
• Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic science fiction - To be categorized

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Zombies Ate My Neighbours is a shooter-style video game for the Super NES and Genesis gaming systems. The game was produced by LucasArts as a comical tribute to both classic and schlocky horror films of the 1950s and 1960s. There was a sequel, Ghoul Patrol, which used more realistic graphics and more impressive monsters, but it was considered by many to lack the heart of the original, and to have thus killed the series off. Zombies Ate My Neighbors - Censorship. Due to the theme of the ...

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• Zombies Ate My Neighbors - Censorship
• Zombies Ate My Neighbors - Gameplay
• Zombies Ate My Neighbors - In-game references

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A zombie is traditionally an undead person in the Caribbean spiritual belief system of voodoo. Essentially a dead body re-animated by unnatural means, the zombie creates dread among the living. Zombies have become a staple of horror fiction, where they usually engage in the consumption of human flesh. The term "zombism" is sometimes used to refer to the condition or disease associated with being a zombie. Zombie - Zombies in voodoo. According to the tenets of voodoo, a dead person can be revived by a hounga ...

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• Zombie - Zombies in voodoo
• Zombie - Zombies in folklore
• Zombie - Zombies in fiction
• Zombie - Zombies in literature
• Zombie - Zombies in film
• Zombie - Zombies in gaming
• Zombie - Zombies on the Internet

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The best-known of Lucio Fulci's films, Zombi II (also known as Zombie Flesh Eaters) sparked an obsession with zombie films across Europe and made Fulci a horror icon. Upon its release in 1979, Zombi II was ridiculed for having no connection to the original Zombi and was scorned for its extremely bloody content, yet the film was a tremendous success. Zombi II - Background. Zombi II is a pseudo-sequel to George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead. Dawn was re-edited and re-s ...

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• Zombi II - Background
• Zombi II - Plot
• Zombi II - Zombi II in Europe
• Zombi II - Zombi II in the United States
• Zombi II - VHS/DVD release history

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Anaglyph images are produced using color filters or computer image processing techniques to combine images from two slightly different viewpoints into a single image. These images may then be viewed with "anaglyph glasses", which use color filters to moderate the light reaching each eye to create the illusion of a three dimensional image. This is an example of stereoscopy. Anaglyph images have seen a recent resurgence due to the presentation of images on the internet, coupled with the availability of low cost paper frames that hold ac ...

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• Anaglyph image - Producing anaglyph images
• Anaglyph image - How Anaglyph works
• Anaglyph image - 3D in the movies
• Anaglyph image - Modern 3D movies
• Anaglyph image - Modern 3D developments for online images and digital video
• Anaglyph image - Conversion from 2D flat to 3D anaglyph
• Anaglyph image - Anaglyphs from monochrome images
• Anaglyph image - Anaglyphs containing color information
• Anaglyph image - Depth adjustment
• Anaglyph image - Scene composition
• Anaglyph image - Viewing
• Anaglyph image - In comics
• Anaglyph image - In fine arts

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A cult film is a movie that attracts a small but devoted group of fans, usually failing to achieve considerable success outside that group. Cult film - Overview. Most movies considered "cult films" failed to achieve mainstream success upon original theatrical release, often grossing more money in video rentals and sales than in theater tickets. In most cases (but by no means all), the film hardly makes an impression with the general public and critics are often apathetic as well. However, a small, devoted g ...

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• Cult film - Overview
• Cult film - Cult films within a particular culture
• Cult film - So-bad-they’re-good cult films
• Cult film - Selected list of cult film actors
• Cult film - Selected list of cult film directors

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Day of the Dead (released 1985) is a horror film by director George A. Romero, and the third of four movies beginning with Night of the Living Dead, continued in Dawn of the Dead and completed in Land of the Dead. A remake is in talks and Steve Miner might take the directing spot. Day of the Dead deals with the zombie assault on a military establishment, satirizing the military mindset in the process. The film received the least enthusiastic critical review of the three films. Romero's origina ...

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• Day of the Dead film - Miscellaneous

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Part of the AFI 100 Years... series, AFI's 100 Years... 100 Thrills is a list of the top 100 thrilling movies in American cinema. The list was unveiled by the American Film Institute on June 12, 2001. Psycho (1960) Jaws (1975) The Exorcist (1973) North by Northwest (1959) The Silence of the Lambs (1991) Alien (1979) The Birds (1963) The French Connection (1971) Rosemary's Baby (1968)

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Dan O'Bannon (born Daniel Thomas O'Bannon on September 30, 1946 in St. Louis, Missouri) is a motion picture screenwriter and director, usually in the science-fiction genre. When Dan was in USC, he met John Carpenter and they collaborated on the 45-minute USC School of Cinema-Television short Dark Star (1970). Carpenter expanded the short into a feature which was released in 1974 with a final budget of only USD 60,000. O'Bannon was along, serving in a number of capacities, including scripting, editing and even play ...

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• Dan O'Bannon - A selection of his work

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A ghoul is said to be a monster from Persian folklore that feeds on human flesh. The English word comes from the Persian name for the creature: الغول ghūl. The Arabian ghoul taken from the original Persian is a desert-dwelling, shapeshifting demon that can assume the guise of an animal, especially a hyæna. It lures unwary travellers into the desert wastes to slay and devour them. The creature also preys on young children and robs graves to eat the dead. Because of the latter habit, the word ghoul is sometimes used to refer to an ordinary human grave robb ...

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• Ghoul - Ghouls in fiction
• Ghoul - Literature
• Ghoul - Movies and television
• Ghoul - Ghouls in gaming
• Ghoul - Dungeons and Dragons
• Ghoul - Shadowrun
• Ghoul - Vampire: The Masquerade
• Ghoul - Other games

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The Internet Archive (http://archive.org/), located at the Presidio in San Francisco, California, is dedicated to maintaining an archive of multimedia resources. This archive includes "snapshots of the World Wide Web" (archived copies of pages, taken at various points in time), software, movies, books, and audio recordings (including recordings of live concerts from bands that allow it). The Archive makes the collections available at no cost to researchers, historians, and scholars.

• Internet Archive - The Wayback Machine
• Internet Archive - Media collections
• Internet Archive - Moving Image collection
• Internet Archive - Controversies
• Internet Archive - Scientology sites
• Internet Archive - Archived web pages as evidence
• Internet Archive - Grateful Dead

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Dawn of the Dead is a zombie horror film, the second in George A. Romero's Living Dead series of films (following 1968's Night of the Living Dead). In addition to launching the so-called "splatter craze" in horror films, Dawn of the Dead received much critical acclaim for, among other things, the subtext involving American consumerism and materialism. It features the tagline "When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk th ...

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• Dawn of the Dead 1978 film - The Plot
• Dawn of the Dead 1978 film - Trivia

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The movie series created by George A. Romero. Films include: Night of the Living Dead (1968) Dawn of the Dead (1978) Day of the Dead (1985) Land of the Dead (2005) Before Land of the Dead, this series is also known as the "Unholy Dead Trilogy" by some fans. A remake of Night of the Living Dead was made in 1990, with a screenplay by George A. Romero. A remake Dawn of the Dead was also made in 2004, and another remake called ...

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The playfully spooky Deathrock look was first popularized by Siouxsie Sioux of Siouxsie & the Banshees for females, and Robert Smith of The Cure for males. However, a careful look at horror movies, TV shows, certain 1950s novelty music acts (such as Bobby "Boris" Pickett and the Monster Mash), and Gothic Literature reveal earlier influences. Deathrock fashion - Musical influences. The Deathrock look has been most strongly shaped by musicians from the first generation of Gothic Rock bands in Europe. In ...

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Deathrock fashion, Deathrock fashion - Origins and influences, Deathrock fashion - Musical influences, Deathrock fashion - Horror movie influences, Deathrock fashion - TV Show influences, Deathrock fashion - Gothic influences, Deathrock fashion - Contemporary Deathrock Fashion, Deathrock fashion - Deathrock Clothing, Deathrock fashion - Deathrock Fashion Accessories, Deathrock fashion - Death rock Makeup, Deathrock fashion - Deathrock Hairstyles

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Three priests preside over an island parish: Father Ted Crilly, Father Dougal McGuire and Father Jack Hackett. The three live together in Craggy Island's parochial house, along with their manic housekeeper Mrs Doyle (Pauline McLynn), who is hell-bent on serving tea to all and sundry. Responsible for the three priests' exile is fierce, uncompromising Bishop Len Brennan (Jim Norton). Bishop Brennan makes frequent visits to the island, often to cast his disapproving eye over the three and their backwater parish. The reasons for the priests' exile are only hinted at, but appear to stem from a mixture of ...

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Father Ted, Father Ted - Synopsis, Father Ted - Major Characters, Father Ted - Recurring Minor Characters, Father Ted - Other Minor Characters, Father Ted - Production details, Father Ted - List of episodes, Father Ted - Series 1, Father Ted - Series 2, Father Ted - Christmas special, Father Ted - Series 3

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Barbara Steele — Elisabeth Blackwood Georges Rivière — Alan Foster Margarete Robsahm — Julia Arturo Dominici — Dr. Carmus Silvano Tranquilli — Edgar Allan Poe Sylvia Sorrente — Elsi ...

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Danza macabra, Danza macabra - Cast, Danza macabra - The story, Danza macabra - The Poe Connection

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Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic science fiction - World War III nuclear. The Japanese manga and 1988 anime film Akira by Katsuhiro Otomo Alas, Babylon, a 1959 novel about the aftermath of nuclear war The Amtrak Wars epic novel series by Patrick Tilley Ape and Essence, a screenplay-novel by Aldous Huxley Apokalipsa wedlug Pana Jana - Robert J. Szmidt's novel Autobahn nach Poznan - Andrzej Ziemianski's short story

The Misfits - The beginning. In January of 1977, after singing in several garage bands that mostly played Black Sabbath songs, twenty one year old Glenn Danzig decided it was finally time to create something serious and original. As a tribute to Marilyn Monroe, he named his musical project after her final movie, The Misfits. For weeks, Glenn wrote songs and practiced with friends and old band mates, trying to find a suitable lineup of musicians to bring his vision to life. The first complete Misfits ...

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The Misfits, The Misfits - History, The Misfits - The beginning, The Misfits - Rise to popularity, The Misfits - Walk Among Us, The Misfits - Decaying, The Misfits - Legal Battle, The Misfits - The Resurrected Misfits, The Misfits - Legacy, The Misfits - Discography Original Misfits, The Misfits - See Also, The Misfits - Discography Resurrected Misfits, The Misfits - Filmography

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