Doc Club and Friends in Bangkok will show George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead on 30th October, and 4th and 7th November. It was previously screened at GalileOasis in 2024, and at Cinema Winehouse in 2018.
Simon Braund’s Night of the Living Dead: The Official Story of the Film, a comprehensive production history of Romero’s classic, was published earlier this year. It features hundreds of illustrations, including two dozen pages from Romero’s shooting script.
Simon Braund’s Night of the Living Dead: The Official Story of the Film, a comprehensive production history of Romero’s classic, was published earlier this year. It features hundreds of illustrations, including two dozen pages from Romero’s shooting script.
Night of the Living Dead is arguably the most influential horror film of the modern era. (It’s no coincidence that Kim Newman’s book Nightmare Movies discusses the horror genre since 1968, the year of the film’s release.) Braund describes the film as “a bleak, uncompromising nightmare that seemed to encapsulate the anxieties of the time.”
The only sour note in Braund’s book is his oddly vitriolic description of Cahiers du Cinéma magazine: he calls it “a bastion of pretention [sic] so up its own derriere a director’s choice of shoelaces can ignite a debate on metaphysics”. Braund (who also wrote Orson Welles Portfolio) is clearly not a Cahiers du Cinéma subscriber.
The only sour note in Braund’s book is his oddly vitriolic description of Cahiers du Cinéma magazine: he calls it “a bastion of pretention [sic] so up its own derriere a director’s choice of shoelaces can ignite a debate on metaphysics”. Braund (who also wrote Orson Welles Portfolio) is clearly not a Cahiers du Cinéma subscriber.
