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Welcome to Horror Movie Club. The show are two dudes who are not quite nerds, but not quite nobs. Choose a horror movie each week to rate and review. I'm Brian. I'm on the phone with Ashman, and today we are discussing Night of the Living Dead from 1968. Directed by George Romero, written by George Romero, and John A. Russo, starring Dwayne Jones, Judith O'Day, Carl Hardman, and Marilyn Eastman. In this film, a group of strangers takes shelter in an abandoned farmhouse as an unknown phenomenon causes the dead to come back to life as flesh-eating ghouls. If you're new to the show, we're going to be having a

spoiler-free chat for the first 15 or 20 minutes, but after that, we'll play some transition

music, take a little break, and come back and be full-on spoiler mode at that point. So you'll

want to duck out and go watch this movie. You can stream it from a number of places if you haven't

seen it yet,

but you can hang out for the first 15 or 20 minutes here. And this is a zombie movie, but

Ashfin, it's basically the first zombie movie, right? Yeah, what do you think? The first American

zombie movie or first zombie zombie movie? That's the first zombie zombie movie? Yeah, I mean, there had been zombie zombie movie. That's it. For zombie zombie movie? Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, there had been zombie movies before.

I can't say I'm familiar with those movies.

I haven't seen them.

But it sounds like it was mostly like boo-do type zombies, people under some sort of mind control.

Yeah.

What was the movie we saw with zombies down on an island somewhere in the south?

Zombie.

Oh, yeah.

That was before this. Yeah, it was alternately called zombie or zombie two.

Right.

And that was before this film, right?

No, no, no, no.

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