Over the weekend, I turned my hand to live tweeting a film from the 1001. After a poll, George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (1968) was the film to get the live tweet treatment. This is how it turned out.
Alrighty, just got changed back into my pyjamas. Lunch in hand, live tweeting time.
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With a crushing 2-1-1-1 victory in the poll, today's film is … NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD. Here we go!
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) June 23, 2013
Fun fact: for some insane reason, this classic is in the public domain. So you can easily watch online or in innumerable shitty boxsets.
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Tis a nice windy dirt road the film opens on. #nightoflivingdead
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What are your favourite zombie films? Favourite Romero films? #nightoflivingdead
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Tasty music… I'm already scared. In my defence, a car did just drive through a cemetary #nightoflivingdead
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) June 23, 2013
This Johnny bloke is annoying. I hope his limbs get gnawed off in some form of zombie related attack. #nightoflivingdead
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) June 23, 2013
Anyone else ever notice that old-skool low-budget pictures look a shitload better than they do these days. #nightoflivingdead
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Think Johnny is dead already so that's good. Didn't see any limb gnawing unfortunately. #nightoflivingdead
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) June 23, 2013
In my 10 minutes of experience, Romero is a pretty stylish director. #nightoflivingdead
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) June 23, 2013
I'm not sure who this main woman is, but she's pretty good so far. Don't recognise her for anything else. #nightoflivingdead
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) June 23, 2013
Zombies aren't that tough. You can kill em by bashing em over the head with a rock. I could do that. #nightoflivingdead
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) June 23, 2013
They're slow and ugly too. #nightoflivingdead
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) June 23, 2013
The music is pretty good in this. All atmospheric and stuff. Loving some of these camera angles and ultra close-ups too. #nightoflivingdead
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) June 23, 2013
Wonder if this woman is going to be so utterly useless for the rest of the film, or if she's going to mash some zombies #nightoflivingdead
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) June 23, 2013
I interrupt this live tweet to make myself a cup of tea. Freakin freezing here #nightoflivingdead
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) June 23, 2013
Alrighty I'm back. Rockin a cup of English Breakfast tea #nightoflivingdead
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Bit of an annoying dynamic at the moment. Her being a wreck and complaining. Him being brooding and workmanlike #nightoflivingdead
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) June 23, 2013
Film is a bit slow. Long stretches without any real sense of danger. #nightoflivingdead
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) June 23, 2013
The confused radio broadcasts in the background works well. Makes it feel pretty real to life. #nightoflivingdead
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) June 23, 2013
"it is tough for that kid that her father's so stupid" – line of the film so far.
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) June 23, 2013
Can definitely see why the film is so influential. Interactions, locations etc all still feel really original #nightoflivingdead
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) June 23, 2013
Romero has a really interesting way of shooting people. Especially using depth of field when they are in groups. #nightoflivingdead
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) June 23, 2013
Use of other media (radio & now TV) one of the coolest things about the film. This the first film to use that conceit? #nightoflivingdead
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) June 23, 2013
This race for the truck is a bit intense. #nightoflivingdead
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) June 23, 2013
Shooting at a petrol pump. What could possibly go wrong? #nightoflivingdead
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) June 23, 2013
That businessman guy who wore a tie to the horror film is an utter jerk. Hope we see him get eaten #nightoflivingdead
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) June 23, 2013
Oh well, he just got messed up by the gnarly main dude, so at least that's something. #nightoflivingdead
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) June 23, 2013
Woah, intestine eating. #nightoflivingdead
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) June 23, 2013
Bloody hell. Those eating human flesh sequences are quite disturbing. As they probably should be I guess. #nightoflivingdead
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) June 23, 2013
Interesting they refer to them as ghouls rather than using the term zombie. #nightoflivingdead
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) June 23, 2013
Power just went out. They're fucked #nightoflivingdead
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) June 23, 2013
Bloody hell. This film is pretty intense. #nightoflivingdead
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) June 23, 2013
KID ZOMBIE! #nightoflivingdead
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) June 23, 2013
Film really kicks it up a notch in the last 15 mins or so. Violence and mashings galore. #nightoflivingdead
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) June 23, 2013
He got to kill that annoying dude twice so that's pretty cool. #nightoflivingdead
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) June 23, 2013
Cool 'morning after' wrap up. Men with guns and dogs cleaning things up. #nightoflivingdead
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) June 23, 2013
Bloody hell. What a crushing ending. #nightoflivingdead
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) June 23, 2013
What's with the stills at the end. That a budget issue or meant to be arty? #nightoflivingdead
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) June 23, 2013
Overall, whilst a little slower than expected, you can see why this is a classic. Some incredible ideas on show #nightoflivingdead
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) June 23, 2013
Beautifully shot by Romero too. Great angles & approach to it all. Keen to catch the later films in the series now #nightoflivingdead
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) June 23, 2013
The ending is fantastic too. Really intense. Whole film is built up to that last 15 minute blast. #nightoflivingdead
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) June 23, 2013
Verdict: Pint of Kilkenny #nightoflivingdead
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) June 23, 2013
Progress: 85/1001 #nightoflivingdead
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) June 23, 2013
As I mentioned during the review, the film is in the Public Domain, so you can check it out right here:
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Your tweets are more entertaining than the film! HA!
My favorite Zombie film will always be Shaun of the Dead. I love dark comedies.
Thanks for commenting. I still haven’t gotten around to seeing Shaun of the Dead shamefully.
Well, you better rectify that discrepancy and fast! 😉
Will do. You’re not the first person to tell me that.
Haha, that was excellent! I’ve not seen this – one of my biggest blind spots. But as you say it’s readily available on the interwebs, I’ll see if I can track it down.
Cheers man. It is definitely worth taking the time to check out on Youtube.
Excellent!
Thankyou sir
That was awesome lol. As for the film. Loved it. Along with Romero’s Dawn of the Dead my favorite zombie movie
Cheers for commenting. I will definitely be tracking down some of Romero’s later efforts in the series.
Dawn of the Dead was epic, Day of the Dead I disliked at first now love. Took a couple of viewings. I think I reviewed it here. Sometimes I lose track lol
After that. Ah. Land of the Dead was ok. Diary of the Dead took me a couple of viewings. But now I think it’s alright. Survival of the Dead I hated at first now dig it.
I’m the same as you. Constantly forgetting what I have reviewed. I will be prepared for some of them not to grab me immediately then.
I now keep a log of my reviews. A couple of times I almost posted stuff I already did. So if unsure just look at my files. But yeah I think you’ll love Dawn right away. But may need a couple of viewings for others. Like I said Day of the Dead I was like blah. But now I love it.
Actually, the story about how NOTLD wound up in the public domain comes down to it being the distributor’s fault. They changed the name at the last minute, bit didn’t put a copyright notice on the new title card, therefore, instant p.d.! In case you want more info on it, here’s a write-up I did back when i was running a purely public domain blog:
http://publicdomaintreasurechest.blogspot.com/2010/03/tuesday-terrors-night-of-living-dead.html
Interesting read!
Awesome, thanks for sharing. Took a look at your post about it. Very interesting stuff.
Funny comments, now I need to watch the film and read your tweets along with it:)
Thanks for the kind comment
I’ve noticed that a lot of people do these live Tweet reviews, and they usually turn out pretty funny while also summarizing the movie well. Nice observations, my good sir.
Thanks very much! Glad my stupid sense of humor works on occasions.
I can’t wait for you to get to his last one, Survival of the Dead. Let’s just say it’s not as good as Night, which is awesome.
Haha, cool. Looking forward to working my way through them.