Tell me? When did you first see this movie? How old where you? And what was your reaction to it?
I think it was 94 (I was 6) and my teenage cousin was visiting from Utah and played it. I watched and had nightmares for a while. My mom was so pissed. But thank god for Cousin Tony. This is my favorite horror film. Made me fall in love with the zombie genre, of which I really admire.
shareEvery Friday the question always was well? What are we going to do? And the choice was either midnight cash pin bowling midnight movie or hanging out for an hour at the pinball video arcade we're talking 1979 1980 the movie choices were Pink Floyd live at Pompeii which we went to see stewardesses in 3D Dawn of the Dead and Fritz the Cat Pink Floyd was sold out so we will just see Dawn of the Dead and the movie titles may change Pink Floyd Pompeii because it became the wall Fritz the Cat became heavy metal but we still went and saw every week or at least a couple times a month Dawn of the Dead boys with a healthy midnight buzz from Friday night partying the scene where Fly Boy comes through the door after his transformation I would yell hey honey I'm home I brought some friends with me and it would bring down the house sounds dumb now but it worked and that ending theme music would just wear off by the next Friday and then was back on again
shareMy older brother took me to see it. It was when you could pay once and see the movie all day. I was freakin scared to death.
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My Story: a few months or maybe half a year before it opened- I was at a local movie theater watching I believe the Ralph Bakshi animated Lord of the Rings (1978) movie. Before the movie- naturally there were trailers .... and Lo and Behold: "In 1968 George A. Romero brought us Night of the Living Dead............." OMG...I was hooked in.....could not wait to see this.
Then When it first opened in 1979. I went to a Local drive in theater with my then GF. I was B L O W N AWAY. We actually came back the following week to see it AGAIN (something I never used to do when I was younger). The co-feature was The Kentucky Fried Movie. I am so lucky to have experienced this movie when it was new. Changed my life (sounds weird--I know). A year or 2 Later, before VHS- it played at midnight at some other theaters and then It was playing at one of the BIG movie houses in NYC- I went to see it again because I wanted to see it on a BIG non-drive in theater screen. I sat in this GIANT balcony all by myself and enjoyed it all over again.
Then that brings us to the VHS era--when this tape cost $79.99 (LOL!) Me and my posse rented this like MONTHLY for several years !!
I loved showing it to new people too! 😨
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I learned about the movie during the summer of 1990 when Fangoria ran a piece about the Dead Trilogy and finally found a copy at a video store a few months later. Watched it late one Friday night and loved it instantly.
sharePropably in 2007, because I remember seen Land of the Dead (2005) in 2006. Night and Dawn I saw propably in same year. I remember 90s, but I was kid then and my parents refused to show me adult movies. First Bruce Lee movie I saw was Way of the Dragon (1972) in 2002. From popular horror movies I remember seen The Sixth Sence, Sleepy Hollow and The Ring. I dont know, why my parents let me see those?
shareI was about fourteen years old, I had gotten into a big zombie-kick because 28 Days Later had come out and I wanted to see all the movies it referenced. Plus, I'd always had a fascination with Apocalyptic stuff. On top of that, as a fillmaker, I've always had a big love and respect for low-budget filmmakers so watching Romero's stuff was a big deal to me. It was also in the year where the remake was about to come out or had come out.
My parents were very reluctant to let me watch any R-rated stuff or horror in general, but they ended up getting me the Divimax disc and I loved it. It's still one of my favorite movies. I wasn't really planning on watching it again today this Halloween but a lot of people have been talking about it lately, so I thought there was no better time than today.
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shareProbably early-to-mid '84, shortly after it was first released on VHS. I was 7. An uncle had rented it & he wasn't too particular about letting me watch it. Remember being disgusted & fascinated at the same time. For some reason, the handyman zombie getting the screwdriver shoved into his ear freaked me out more than anything else. Don't know why.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCblhzhwdj1cKzh8s9xzVNtQ
I saw it 5 minutes ago.
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