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The Astro-Zombies is a 1968 American science fiction horror film written, directed and produced by Ted V. Mikels, and starring John Carradine, Wendell Corey, and Tura Satana. [ 1 ] Plot
Ben, played by Duane Jones. The low-budget film included no well-known actors, [10] but propelled the careers of some cast members. [11] Two independent film companies from Pittsburgh—Hardman Associates and director George A. Romero's The Latent Image—combined to form Image Ten, a production company chartered only to create Night of the Living Dead. [12]
The Overlook Film Encyclopedia. Vol. 3. Overlook Press. ISBN 0-87951-624-0. Krafsur, Richard P., ed. (1997). The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films, 1961–1970, Part 2. University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-20970-2. Mira, Alberto (2005). The Cinema of Spain and Portugal ...
Night of the Living Dead is a zombie horror media franchise created by George A. Romero beginning with the 1968 film Night of the Living Dead, directed by Romero and cowritten with John A. Russo. The franchise predominantly centers on different groups of people attempting to survive during the outbreak and evolution of a zombie apocalypse.
Directed by Tom Savini, former special make-up effects artist, who worked on Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead while George A. Romero rewrote the screenplay. The plot of the film follows closely the 1968 original, where Barbara, Ben, the Cooper family and Tom Landry and his girlfriend Judy Rose Larson are trapped in a rural farmhouse in Pennsylvania trying to survive the night while the ...
The film differs from the novel (and the previous film) in several ways. [5] [6] In the novel, humanity is destroyed by a bacterial plague spread by bats and mosquitoes, which turns the population into vampire-like creatures; whereas, in this film version, biological warfare is the cause of the plague that kills most of the population by asphyxiation and turns most of the rest into nocturnal ...
Cast and crew Ref. J A N U A R Y: 3 The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz: Hall Bartlett Productions George Marshall (director); Elke Sommer, Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer: 8 Wild 90: Supreme Mix Productions: Norman Mailer (director); Norman Mailer, Buzz Farber, Mickey Knox: 12 Nobody's Perfect: NPD Films: Alan Rafkin (director); Doug McClure, Nancy ...
Zombies are fictional creatures usually portrayed as reanimated corpses or virally infected human beings. They are commonly portrayed as anthropophagous in nature—labeling them as cannibals would imply zombies are still members of the human species, and expert opinions quoted in some of the films below, e.g. Dawn of the Dead, specifically state this is not the case.