Night of the Living Dead (1990) Hey what's up guys. Today I'll show you a
zombie horror film: "Night of the Living Dead"! Spoiler ahead, watch out and take care!
The movie begins with a woman named Barbara, and her brother riding a car to a remote cemetery. The
brother teases Barbara for being easily spooked, and the serious Barbara asks him to stop. Later
on, The brother complains about being forced to visit their dead mother so often in this
faraway cemetery. He is convinced that their mother planned this deliberately, so that they
would be obligated to visit her. But Barbara reprimands him for being disrespectful.
Initially, the cemetery looks empty. The two siblings walk toward their mother's grave.
Suddenly, an old funeral hearse driver appears from behind, lunges at Barbara, and wants to drive
her body. She uses the bouquet she's holding, to fight off the deranged driver. Upon a closer look,
it's revealed that the driver is a zombie, and his body is already decomposing. The brother helps her
and fights with the driver. They roll around on the ground, and the driver kills her brother.
Barbara gets to her feet, and runs away, roaring for help like a mad cow. After some distance,
she finds the driver's funeral hearse, with an empty coffin beside it. She steps inside the car,
and tries to start the engine; but the reanimated corpse that was originally in
the coffin appears. The driver also catches up to Barbara, and attempts to break the driver's
seat window. Fortunately, the hearse rolls down the hill, and away from the zombies.
It comes to a stop when it hits a tree. Barbara is unscathed, and she gets out of the
car. She continues to run past the borders of the cemetery, and into the bordering woods. She
sees a big white house, and approaches it. Barbara knocks on the door, but no one answers.
The door is open, so she steps inside. The house appears to be empty; but when Barbara
walks in front of the stairs, blood drips down on her. The blood drops are followed by a dismembered
hand falling from upstairs. A bald zombie ambles forward, and almost falls on top of her
with its bald head. Barbara roars like a mad cow again, and rolls out of the way like a ball.
She looks at the door, and sees that another zombie is slowly approaching, but still bald.
A truck then comes rolling down the driveway, crashing into yet another stray but bald zombie,
sending it to meet Jesus. A man in a suit named Ben, steps out and runs to Barbara,
asking her if she has any guns. Due to the shock, Barbara could not form any coherent
sentences. Exasperated, Ben tugs her back inside the house, and starts searching for weapons by
himself. He goes inside the kitchen, while Barbara wanders into the living room.
Ben discovers that there is a zombie in the kitchen. He closes the door on him; but the zombie
reaches inside. So He kills the zombie. Meanwhile, the bald zombie who almost fell
on Barbara earlier, appears behind her. She senses his muscular body, and quickly turns
around and hits the zombie with a crowbar. Later Ben comforts Barbara using his words,
but not muscles, and she slowly calms down. He hears the doorknob of the basement door rattling,
and he approaches it. But he gets distracted by another zombie, appearing outside the window. He
walks outside to the porch, and takes care of the zombie by hitting it with the crowbar.
Another emaciated zombie is crawling in the front garden, so Ben finishes
him off with the crowbar as well. Ben and Barbara return to the house. He
sits her down for a talk, and he urges her to be his partner, telling her that she has to be
strong for both of them to survive. Night falls, and the two of them continue
to talk. Ben discusses the several theories he's heard about what's really causing the
zombie apocalypse. He says that some believe that a group of prisoners has escaped, while
some think that it's a chemical explosion. Ben also shares that he was in a diner in a nearby
city when the infection started. He witnessed many people dying, and many dead people rising
back to life as zombie creatures. He recounts that the zombies all took several bullets;
but they just kept on moving like nothing happened. The only thing that
can stop them is a bullet to the head. Ben climbs upstairs, and discovers the body
of the man, to whom the dismembered arm belonged. He had shot himself with a shotgun. Ben grabs the
shotgun, and opens the cellar door. Two men come out, and introduce themselves. the balding man
named Balding, took shelter in the farmhouse with his hairy wife, and daughter Sarah. Meanwhile,
the other man named Tom, came with his girlfriend. The women are all hiding in the cellar. Balding is
brash and quick to anger. He immediately questions Ben's story about his truck running out of gas.
Ben replies that he doesn't like Balding at all. On the other hand, Tom is a shy country boy,
who explains that the house was his uncle's, which was why he and his girlfriend went there. Tom
tells them that his uncle had died and risen back to life as a zombie. Afterward, the uncle attacked
his cousin, the man who had shot himself in the head. Ben and Balding get into an argument about
how to proceed, and it's decided that Balding and his family will stay in the cellar.
It turns out that Sarah is very sick, and is being kept in the cellar. The girl looks pale
and is running a high fever. The wife suggests that they leave the house; but Balding reiterates
that they have no working vehicles. Meanwhile, the rest of the group decides
to board up all the windows, and exits with pieces of wooden furniture. This is so they can deter any
zombies that would attempt to go inside. Barbara observes the zombies outside through the window,
and she realizes that the zombies are all slow walkers. She suggests that they should
just walk past the zombies. But Ben is adamant that they should be careful and stay inside.
All the banging noises coming from the house attract more zombies. They aren't finished
with boarding up all the windows yet, and a zombie almost bursts through a window. Tom's
girlfriend recognizes the zombie as a neighbor, and hesitates to allow him to be shot. But it
doesn't matter because the neighbor is already a zombie, and has no memory of who they are.
Ben takes Tom with him upstairs, so they can search for more wood. They find a TV broadcasting
a notice from the government, saying that they are out of their reach; and they would have to find
the nearest station to radio for help. Tom also realizes that the wooden doors they are searching
for are actually located in the cellar, where Balding and his hairy wife and daughter are.
But The disgruntled Balding refuses to let them inside the cellar, so Ben threatens to gun down
the door. The wife begs Balding to open the door, and he screams at her but in a chicken voice.
Eventually, he goes upstairs and opens the door. The girlfriend gets fed up with their argument,
and screams at the two men to just set aside their differences and work together. Balding
finally steps aside, and lets Tom and Ben collect the wooden doors. Ben sees Sarah lying sick,
and he recommends that they cover her with blankets from upstairs. He also tells Balding
to go find the keys to the locked gas pump nearby, since he's not doing anything. This
spurs Balding's hairy wife into action, and she goes upstairs to rummage through the cabinets.
Balding goes upstairs and finds the television. He watches as a reporter on air discusses the
different theories of the cause behind the strange apocalypse. The reporter says that experts have
dismissed the theory that the dead are coming back to life. It's more likely that a germ is
infecting people and affecting their behavior. In addition, news reports are announcing that
many cities are now in a state of chaos, and functioning with no power or gas. Experts are
also speculating on the origin of the virus, and wondering if it could be an act of God.
Balding unplugs the television, and starts carrying it down the stairs. Ben sees him and
gets angry, thinking that Balding is taking the television down the basement. Ben pushes Balding,
causing Balding to drop the television and break it. he screams at Ben, and insists that
he wasn't taking it downstairs. Suddenly, a zombie breaks through the
halfway boarded-up door that Ben is working on. He struggles to push the zombie outside,
until Barbara helps him by shooting the zombie in the head.
Barbara sees Tom's uncle's corpse, and directs the others to search the body to see if the keys are
there. She once again suggests walking right by the zombies since they are slow. But Ben insists
that getting to the gas pump is still their best chance. Tom's girlfriend finds the keys,
and they all retreat inside the house as more zombies approach.
The group formulates a plan. Barbara will stay behind with the gun, and watch over
Balding's still hairy family. Meanwhile, Ben and the couple will get to his truck,
and go to the gas pump to get fuel. The zombies crowd around the house,
and Barbara has trouble pushing them all back. Balding's wife comes upstairs to help her,
and almost gets snatched by a zombie. Meanwhile, Tom's girlfriend is struggling
to start the truck's engine. Ben drives away the zombies, using a lighted torch.
she finally starts the truck, and they drive several hundred yards to the gas pump. However,
while on the way, Ben falls from the truck bed, and is left to fend for himself.
Tom and his girlfriend reach the gas pump, and he tries to use the set of keys they found to
unlock the pump. But it turns out that they had the wrong set of keys. As a last resort,
Tom uses his shotgun to shoot at the lock, but the firing of the bullet triggers an explosion,
sending both him and his girlfriend directly to a free wedding funeral.
Back at the house, Barbara continues to shoot at zombies to help Ben get back safe. But downstairs
in the basement, the sick Sarah is revealed to be sick because of a zombie bite on her
arm. She has now transformed into a zombie, and attacks her mother without mercy.
Balding wrestles the gun away from Barbara. At that moment, Ben reaches the porch,
and screams for her to open the door. Barbara twists around, and pushes Balding into the
zombies reaching through the window. She runs to the front door and unlocks it.
Balding extricates himself from the zombies, and runs to the front door,
where Barbara and Ben are trying to close the door to keep a large zombie out. Balding does nothing,
and Ben has to beat the zombie up with a wooden plank. Additionally,
the zombie turns out to be a policeman, so Barbara grabs the zombie's gun from his holster.
The zombie Sarah suddenly appears. Ben tells Barbara to shoot Sarah, but Balding protects his
hairy zombie daughter by shooting at Ben. Barbara shoots Sarah, who is just about to bite her.
The injured Ben pursues Balding; but he has already hidden in the attic. Ben tells
Barbara that he can no longer go with her because he is injured. Barbara is reluctant
to leave the injured Ben, but he encourages her to leave him behind and get help.
Barbara heads out alone; and just as she believed, the zombies are too slow and pay her no mind.
Ben heads to the cellar, where he kills Balding's zombie wife, ending her hairy life. He sits
down to listen to the radio, where the host is instructing people how to incapacitate zombies.
The radio host also announces that the situation is getting worse, and none of the safe havens they
have previously announced are safe anymore. Ben already knows these things, and the information
is useless. He then realizes that the key to the gas pump has been there the whole time. He laughs
at the irony of the situation. Barbara wanders the countryside,
and eventually meets a group of locals with shotguns, who almost shoot her. Interestingly,
they're treating the zombie epidemic as if it's just animal hunting season. They're even joking
and laughing at each other. When morning comes, military backup also arrives. There are also
reporters there interviewing the survivors. Barbara watches as some locals string up zombies,
and hang them upside down from a tree while the locals jeer at them. She comments that the
barbarity of the zombies can often be similar to the cruel nature of human beings.
Later that day, Barbara returns to the house with two local men. They use a chainsaw to pry
open the door, and a zombie Ben emerges from the cellar. It is too late for him, and Barbara can
no longer help the man who has helped her survive the horrific night. The two men excitedly gun him
down, and Barbara momentarily grieves him. Balding suddenly appears to flex his bald head
like a bulb. He is unscathed and still a human. Without hesitation, Barbara shoots him right
in the balding head, ending his balding life. She pretends that he is a zombie,
and tells the two men to add his body to the growing fire of zombie bodies. In Barbara's eyes,
Balding acted just like a monster, and he deserved to die and be buried as one. The movie ends with
Barbara watching as the flames consume the piled-up bodies of the dead like firewood.
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