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There are a few lines more familiar to fans of American horrors cinema than they're coming to get you Barbara

The line uttered by Barbara's brother Johnny at the beginning of George A. Romero's the night of the living dead

Surely before he is killed by a zombie sets the tone for what some consider to be one of the most influential films ever made

Released in 1968 the film is celebrated for bringing the previously much-maligned genre of horror

kicking tearing and screaming into the 20th century

The film's potency has much to do with the year it was released

Coming out at the height of public disillusionment with the American Vietnam War

But also in the immediate aftermath of both Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy's assassinations

For many Romero's film with its portrayal of uneasy alliances

Not so casual racism and the endless march of a moronic ghoulish hoard intent on devouring anyone with a fully functioning brain

appeared to reflect the entire state of a nation

However, the night of the living dead will perhaps mostly be remembered for its portrayal of the humble zombie

Though somewhat ironic since the term zombie is never used in it

Romero's film nonetheless set the template for almost all subsequent iterations of these hapless creatures

It was there that we were first introduced to the flesh-hungry cannibal version of the zombie

That could only be defeated by destroying its head

Romero's zombies have become so ubiquitous as a modern-day monster

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