Night Of The Living Dead (2005)

Technically, it wasn’t the first zombie feast. For that, you’d have to rewind to, say, ’32 and White Zombie – unless you count the even earlier corpse-raising antics of Frankenstein. George A. Romero admits that Carnival Of Souls (1962) influenced him. But Night is the movie that single-handedly chewed a genre-defining path through the ’70s, ’80s and beyond. Not bad for a film made by a crew weaned solely on commercials – and for around $114,000, at that.

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