{"id":38563,"date":"2025-03-16T08:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T12:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38563"},"modified":"2025-03-15T17:42:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T21:42:34","slug":"night-of-the-living-dead-the-official-story-of-the-film-by-simon-braund-is-coming-to-get-you-barbara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38563","title":{"rendered":"NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD: THE OFFICIAL STORY OF THE FILM by\u00a0Simon Braund is Coming (to get you, Barbara)!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3XQjieY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z031625notld_official.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Has any film influenced a genre and had an impact on movies, television, books, comics, graphic novels, video games and pop culture like George Romero&#8217;s <em>Night of the Living Dead<\/em>?\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think so.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fans of the movie are in for a treat on September 30th when <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3XQjieY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD: THE OFFICIAL STORY OF THE FILM<\/a> by\u00a0Simon Braund is released.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the info&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The official retrospective of one of cinema\u2019s most important films \u2013 <em>Night of the Living Dead<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The full story of the first \u201czombie\u201d movie, the 1968 George A. Romero cult film that denoted the birth of modern horror genre.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Released in 1968, <strong>George A. Romero<\/strong>\u2019s <em>Night of the Living Dead<\/em> revolutionized horror, redefining the zombie subgenre and influencing filmmakers for generations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This official retrospective tells the full story of how the film was made by a small group of people at the outset of their film-making careers. Interviews with cast and production company members explore the genesis of the movie, from persuading friends and family to become investors, finding the perfect run-down farmhouse in rural western Pennsylvania for the central location, assembling a cast of extras to portray \u201cflesh-eating ghouls\u201d, and the ground-breaking casting of a black actor in a leading role \u2014 <strong>Duane Jones<\/strong> as Ben \u2014 to therough-and-tumble guerilla-style shoot.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The book explores how <em>Night of the Living Dead<\/em> went from controversial to iconic over the years, gaining critical acclaim and a hardcore cult following. And how zombies \u2014 as envisioned by <strong>Romero<\/strong> and his co-creators\u2014now permeate everything from video games to literature, all tracing back to the unparalleled original.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Illustrated with movie stills, memorabilia, and unpublished on-set photos never previously seen, and including analysis of the original shooting script annotated by <strong>George A. Romero<\/strong>, this book is a must-have for horror fans.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Has any film influenced a genre and had an impact on movies, television, books, comics, graphic novels, video games and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[52,53,54,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-horror","category-movies","category-zombies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38564,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38563\/revisions\/38564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}