The great George A. Romero's films will live on forever to influence and inspire future generations of filmmakers, especially 1968's Night of the Living Dead, which invented the modern-day zombie as we know it. Late last year, The Museum of Modern Art and The Film Foundation premiered their 4K restoration of Night of the Living Dead (a restoration that was supervised by Romero himself), and this fall it will begin its screening tour in the US, giving fans the chance to pay tribute to one of the most unique voices in independent filmmaking.

The Night of the Living Dead 4K restoration will screen on October 13th at New York's Film Forum before being shown in theaters across the US (specific dates and cities have yet to be announced). To learn more about the restoration, visit here and read on for more details.

Press Release: The first masterwork of the "father of the zombie film", and the horror classic that started it all! Now resurrected in the film's first-ever major restoration, opening October 13 at New York's Film Forum followed by a national rollout.

Shot outside of Pittsburgh at a fraction of the cost of a Hollywood feature by a band of filmmakers determined to make their mark, George A. Romero's NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD is one of the great stories of independent cinema: a midnight hit turned box-office smash that became one of the most influential films of all time. A deceptively simple tale of a group of strangers trapped in a farmhouse who find themselves fending off a horde of flesh-eating ghouls newly arisen from their graves, Romero's claustrophobic vision of a late-sixties America (literally) tearing itself apart rewrote the rules of the horror genre, combined gruesome gore with acute social commentary, and quietly broke ground by casting a black actor (Duane Jones) in the lead role. After decades of poor-quality prints and video transfers, NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD can finally be seen for the immaculately crafted film that it is thanks to a new 4K restoration, scanned from the original camera negative and supervised by Romero himself. Stark, haunting, and more relevant than ever, NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD is back.

USA | 1968 | 96 minutes | Black & White | In English | Screening format: DCP

ABOUT THE NEW 4K RESTORATION

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD was restored by The Museum of Modern Art and The Film Foundation. Funding provided by the George Lucas Family Foundation and the Celeste Bartos Fund for Film Preservation. The restoration was overseen by George A. Romero and Image Ten - most especially, Gary Streiner, Russ Streiner, and John Russo - with restoration work done by Cineric Inc, NYC, and Audio Mechanics, Burbank, CA.

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