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Hello, darling. Yes, it's me. That piece that everyone's dying to rest in.

Elvira, M -O -T -D.

Well, the dead don't get no rest in this movie because this story is a grave

one. Well, actually, it's black and white. But it's still grave because they

cast all the extras from a graveyard.

So if you like zombies like I like zombies and you need brains just like I

brains...

Then you're in for a scary treat with plenty to eat.

I'm very proud to serve up tonight's special because this movie put dozens of

actors whose careers were dead back to work.

Like me.

It's Georgie A. Romero's carnivorous classic, Night of the Living Dead.

Not to be confused with the documentary about the Rolling Stones.

Now, the plot is kind of complicated, so it's going to take three of me to

explain it.

Now,

I don't want to spoil the movie and your appetite, so it's best not to watch

this movie on a full stomach, because it won't be full for long.

Unlike the zombies who can eat all they want, but they never seem to gain an

ounce. Guess it's on account of that high -protein, low -carb diet.

Anyway, it does have an equal opportunity ending, because...

Everyone dies equally in the end.

Or do they?

Let's find out together.

So everybody, put your cell phones on vibrate, curl up with a bowl of popcorn,

and pour some butter on the one you love. This is a special date night. The

night of the living dead.

They ought to make the day the time changes, the first day of summer.

What? Well, it's 8 o 'clock and it's still light.

A lot of good the extra daylight does us.

Now, we've still got a three -hour drive back. We're not going to be home until

after midnight.

Well, if it really bugged you, Johnny, you wouldn't do it.

You think I want to blow Sunday on a scene like this?

You know, I figure we're either going to have to move Mother out here or move

the grave into Pittsburgh.

She can't make a trip like this.

Oh, I know that she can.

Is there any of that candy left?

No. Look at this thing. We still remember.

I don't. You know, I don't even remember what the man looks like.

Johnny, it takes you five minutes.

Yeah, five minutes to put the wreath on the grave and six hours to drive back

and forth.

Mother wants to remember, so we trot 200 miles into the country and she stays at

home. Well, we're here, John, all right?

Ladies and gentlemen, we're coming back on the air after an interruption due to

a technical problem.

There's nothing wrong with the radio. It must have been a station.

Which row is it in?

Well, there's no one around.

Well, it's late.

You'd gotten up earlier.

Oh, look, I already lost an hour's sleep on the time chain.

I think you complain just to hear yourself talk.

There it is.

I wonder what happened to the one from last year.

Each year we spend good money on these things. We come out here and the one

last year is gone.

Well, the flowers die and the caretaker or somebody takes them away.

Yeah, a little spit and polish. You can clean this up.

Sell it next year.

I wonder how many times we bought the same one.

Hey, come on, Barb. Church was this morning, huh?

Hey, I mean, praying's for church, huh?

Come on.

I thought church was for sleeping.

Well, there's not much sense in my going to church.

Do you remember one time when we were small, we were out here?

It was from right over there. I jumped out at you from behind the tree, and

Grandpa got all excited, and he shook his fist at me, and he said, Boy, you'll

be damned to hell.

Remember that? Right over there.

Well, you used to really be scared here.

Johnny.

You're still afraid.

Stop it now. I mean it.

They're coming to get you, Barbara.

Stop it. You're ignorant.

They're coming for you, Barbara.

Stop it. You're acting like a child.

They're coming for you.

Look, there comes one of them now.

He'll hear you.

Here he comes now.

I'm getting out of here. Johnny.

That's why they call him Headstone.

Now, if this were a schlocky movie, she would fall right about now.

Oh.

Now that's what you call a hand car wash.

Oh, sorry, but Click isn't here right now.

All right.

Don't worry about him. I can handle him.

Probably be a lot more of them as soon as they find out about us.

Truck is out of gas.

This pump out here is locked. Is there a key?

We can try to get out here if we can get some gas. Is there a key?

Suppose you've tried this.

Do you live here?

We've got to get out of here.

We have to get to where there's some other people.

Maybe we better take some food.

I'll see if I can find some food.

Uh, could you get me some nachos?

Dude, you're making so much noise, you're going to wake the living dead.

What's happening?

What's happening?

Who of them?

There are two of them out there. Have you seen any more around here? I can

care of those two.

I don't know. I know you're afraid, but we have to... I don't know!

I don't know!

What's happening?

Welcome

to

the automobile club.

Oh.

Know we're in here now

Don't look at it.

Get some more lights on in this house.

Why don't you see if you can find some wood some board something that by the

fireplace something we can nail this place up

Look

I know you're afraid

I'm afraid But we have to try to board the house up together now. I'm going to

board up the windows and the doors Do you understand we'll be all right here?

We'll be all right here till someone comes to rescue us But we'll have to

together. You'll have to help me. Now, I want you to go in and get some wood so

I can void the place up. Do you understand?

Okay?

Okay?

Pick out the biggest ones you can find.

There, this room looks pretty secure.

If we have to, we can run in here and board up the doors.

Won't be long before those things will be back pounding their way in here.

They're afraid now.

They're afraid of fire. I found that out.

You know a place back down the road called Beatman's?

Beatman's Diner?

Anyhow, that's where I found that truck I have out there.

There's a radio in the truck.

I had jumped in to listen to it.

When a big gasoline truck came screaming right across the road, with it must

have been...

Ten, fifteen of those things, chasing after it.

Grabbing and holding on.

Now, I didn't see them at first.

I could just see that the truck was moving in a funny way.

Those things were catching up to it.

The truck went right across the road.

I slammed down my brakes to keep from hitting it myself.

It went right through the guardrail.

I guess... I guess the driver must have cut off the road into that gas station

by Beekman's Diner.

It went right through the billboard, ripped over a gas pump, and never

moving. By now, it's like a moving bonfire.

I didn't know if the truck was going to explode or what.

the man screaming.

The thing is just backing away from it.

I looked back at the diner to see if there was anyone there who could help

That's when I noticed that the entire place had been encircled.

There wasn't a sign of life left.

except by now there were no more screams.

I realized that I was alone with 50 or 60

of those things, just standing there, staring at them.

I started to drive.

I plowed right through them.

They didn't move. They didn't run or... Just stood there staring at me.

Just wanted to crush them.

They... Scattered through the air like bugs.

We were riding in the cemetery.

Johnny and me.

Johnny.

We came to put a wreath on my father's grave.

And he said, can I have some candy,

Barbara?

And we didn't have any.

It's hot in here.

Hot.

And he said, Oh, it's late.

Why did we start so late?

And I said, Johnny, if you'd gotten up earlier, we wouldn't be late.

Johnny asked me if I were afraid.

And I said, I'm not afraid, Johnny.

And then this man started walking up the road.

He came slowly, and Johnny kept teasing me and saying, he's coming to get you,

Barbara.

And I laughed at him and said, Johnny, stop it.

And then Johnny ran away.

And I went up to this man, and I was going to apologize.

Why don't you just keep calm? I can't calm down.

And I said, could he?

And he grabbed me.

He grabbed me.

And he ripped at me.

He held me and he ripped at my clothes.

I think you should just calm down.

this man.

I got so afraid. I ran.

I ran.

I ran.

And Johnny didn't come.

We've got to... We have to wait for Johnny.

We better go out and get him.

We have to go out. and get Johnny.

He's out there.

Please, don't you hear me? We've got to go out and get him.

Please! We have got to go get Johnny!

Please help me!

Please!

Don't you know what's going on out there? This is no Sunday school picnic.

you understand? My brother is alone.

Your brother is dead.

Because of the obvious threat to untold numbers of citizens and because of the

crisis which is even now developing, this radio station will remain on the

day and night.

This station and hundreds of other radio and TV stations throughout this part of

the country are pooling their resources through an emergency network hookup to

keep you informed of all developments.

At this hour, I repeat, these are the facts as we know them.

There is an epidemic of mass murder being committed by a virtual army of

unidentified assassins. The murders are taking place in villages, cities, rural

homes, and suburbs with no apparent pattern or reason for the slayings. It

to be a sudden general explosion of mass homicide.

We have some descriptions of the assassins.

Eyewitnesses say they are ordinary -looking people. Some say they appear to

in a kind of trance. Others describe them as being... Just plain a -holes.

So, at this point, there is no really authentic way for us to say who or what

look for and guard yourself against.

Mischapen monsters.

Reaction of law enforcement officials is one of complete bewilderment at this

hour. So far, we have been unable to determine that any kind of organized

investigation is yet underway.

Police, sheriff deputies, and emergency ambulances are literally dead with calls

for help. The scene can best be described as mayhem.

Mayors of Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and...

Governors of several eastern and midwestern states have indicated the

Guard may be mobilized at any moment, but that has not happened as yet.

The only advice our reporters have been able to get from official sources is for

private citizens to stay in their homes behind locked doors.

Do not venture outside for any reason until the nature of this crisis has been

determined and until we can advise what course of action to take.

Keep listening to radio and TV for any special instructions as this crisis

develops further.

Thousands of office and factory workers are being urged to stay at their places

of employment, not to make any attempt to get to their homes.

However, in spite of this urging and warning, streets and highways are packed

with frantic people trying to scare families or apparently to flee just

anywhere. To repeat, the safest course of action at this time is simply to stay

where you are.

Everybody hurry right down to that Lazy Boy fire sale.

Gentlemen, we've just received word that the president has called a meeting of

his cabinet to deal with the sudden epidemic of murder which has seized the

eastern third of the state.

The meeting is scheduled to convene within the hour. Members of the

cabinet be joined by officials of the FBI and behind closed doors.

Well, let that be a lesson. Never hire a carpenter from Craigslist. As soon as

possible following that meeting. This is the latest dispatch just received in

our newsroom.

Latest word also from National Press Services in Washington, D .C., now tells

that the emergency presidential conference, which we've just mentioned,

include high -ranking scientists from the National Aeronautics and Space

Administration.

Yo, Barack, you missed the door!

have joined their facilities in an emergency network to bring you this news

it develops. We urge you to stay tuned to radio and TV and to stay indoors at

all costs.

Late reports reaching this newsroom tell of frightened people seeking refuge at

churches, schools, and government buildings, demanding shelter and

Most say murder, which apparently is engulfing much of the nation.

The only clues anyone has of the killers come from frightened witnesses in some

of the stands.

These eyewitness accounts very easily describe the murderers as ordinary

people, misshapen monsters, people who look like they're in a trance, and

that look like people but act like animals.

Some eyewitnesses tell of seeing victims who look as though they had been torn

apart.

This whole ghastly story began developing two days ago with the report

slaying of a family of seven in their rural home near Belfort.

Since then, reports of such senseless killings began snowballing in a reign of

terror which has hopscotch in an erratic, disconnected manner throughout

the eastern and western United States.

Efforts to keep track of the murder reports by the placing of markers on the

seem to indicate a general spreading of the extreme southeastern United States

north and west.

Our newsmen have been on the telephone, talking with officials in other cities,

and have determined that none of this kind has yet been reported west of the

Mississippi River, except in the extreme southeastern portion of Texas.

Similar killings have been reported around the Houston and Galveston areas,

nothing like... I found a gun and some bullets out there.

It was only late yesterday... Oh, and these? ...it became clear we were facing

some kind of national emergency.

When first reports began filtering in, newsmen and law enforcement agencies

rubbed the opinions... The plate is boarded up pretty solid now.

We ought to be all right here for a while.

We have the gun and bullets, food and the radio.

Sooner or later, someone's bound to come and get us out.

So again, we joined with law enforcement agencies, encouraging you to seek

shelter in a building.

Hey, that's us. We're doing all right.

Look,

I don't know if you're hearing me, but I'm going upstairs now.

If anything should try to break in here, I can hear it from up there. I'll be

down to take care of it.

Everything is all right for now. I'll be back to reinforce the windows and doors

later.

But you'll be all right for now, okay?

Okay.

Civil defense officials in Cumberland have told newsmen that murder victims

evidence of having been partially devoured by their murderers.

Consistent reports from witnesses to the effect that people who acted as though

they were in a kind of trance were killing and eating their victims

authorities to examine the bodies of some of the victims. Medical authorities

Cumberland have concluded that in all cases, the killers are eating the flesh

the people they murdered.

Repeating this latest bulletin just received moments ago from Cumberland,

Maryland, civil defense authorities have told newsmen that murder victims...

show evidence of having been partially devoured by their murderers. Medical

examination of victims' bodies shows conclusively that the killers are eating

the flesh of the people they kill.

And so this incredible story becomes more ghastly with each report. It's

difficult to imagine such a thing actually happening, but these are the

we have been receiving and passing on to you, reports which have been verified

as completely as is possible in this confused situation.

It is happening.

And it would appear that no one is safe from this wave of mass murder.

Hold it! Don't shoot!

We're coming down!

A radio!

The Butler County Sheriff has verified that reports of murder victims being

partially eaten by their slayers is true.

No further details available at this time.

I couldn't use some help up here. That's the cellar. It's the safest place.

You mean you didn't hear the racket we were making up here?

How were we supposed to know what was going on? Could have been those things

all we knew.

That girl was screaming.

Sure, you must know what a girl screaming sounds like. Those things

any noise. Anybody would know somebody's been needed help.

Look, it's kind of hard to hear what's going on from down there.

We thought we could hear screams, but for all we knew, that could have meant

those things were in the house afterwards. And you wouldn't come up and

Well, if there were more, the racket sounded like the place was being ripped

apart. How were we supposed to know what was going on?

Now, wait a minute.

You just got finished saying you couldn't hear from down there. Now you

sounded like the place was being ripped apart. It would be nice if you'd get

your story straight, man. All right, now you tell me.

I'm not going to take that kind of a chance when we've got a safe place.

We luck into a safe place, and you're telling us we've got to risk our lives

just because somebody might need help, huh?

Yeah, something like that.

All right, why don't we settle this? Hey, mister.

We came up. Okay, we're here.

Now I suggest we all go back downstairs before any of those things find out

we're in here. They can't get in here.

You got the whole place boarded up? Yeah, most of it. I'll do the few spots

upstairs. They won't be hard to fix. You're insane.

The cellar's the safest place.

I'm telling you, they can't get in here.

And I'm telling you, those things turned over our car.

We were damn lucky to get away at all.

Now you tell me those things can't get through this lousy pile of wood?

His wife and kids downstairs.

The kids hurt.

Well, I still think we're better off up here.

We could strengthen everything up, Mr. Cooper.

With all of us working, we can fix this place up in no time. We have everything

we need up here. We can take all that stuff downstairs with us. Man, you're

really crazy, you know that? You've got a million windows up here. All these

windows. You're going to make them strong enough to keep these things out,

I told you, those things don't have any strength. I smashed three of them and

pushed another one out the door.

Did you hear me when I told you they turned over our car?

Oh, hell, any good five men can do that. That's my point. Only there's not going

to be five or even ten. There's going to be 20, 30, maybe 100 of those things.

And as soon as they know we're here, this place is going to be crawling with

them. Well, if they're that many, they'll probably get us wherever we are.

Look.

The cellar. The cellar, there's only one door, right? Just one door, that's all

we have to protect.

Father and I fixed it so it locks and boards from the inside.

But up here, all these windows, why, we'd never know where they were going to

hit us next.

You got a point, Mr. Cooper.

But down in the cellar, there's no place to run to.

I mean, if they did get in, there'd be no back exit. We'd be done for.

We can get out of here if we have to. And we got windows to see what's going

outside.

But down there with no windows, if a rescue party did come, we wouldn't even

know it.

but the cellar is the strongest place.

The cellar is a death trap.

I don't know, Mr. Cooper.

I think he's right.

You know how many's out there?

I don't know. Maybe six or seven. Look, you two can do whatever you like.

I'm going back down to the cellar, and you better decide, because I'm going to

board up that door, and I'm not going to unlock it again, no matter what

happens. Now, wait a minute, Mr. Cooper. No, I'm not going to wait.

I've made my decision. Now, you make yours.

Now, wait a minute.

Let's think about this.

We can make it to the cellar if we have to.

And if we do decide to stay down there, we'll need some things from up here.

So let's at least consider this a while.

Who boxed yourself in the cellar and those things get in the house you've had

it? At least up here you have a fighting chance.

Yeah, it looks like about eight or ten out there now.

That's more than there were.

They're a lot out back, too.

to these boards.

You're crazy.

Those things are going to be in every window and door in this place.

We've got to get down into the cellar. Go down into that damn cellar and get

of here.

I'm taking the girl with me. You leave her here.

Keep your hands off her. And everything else is up here, too. Because if I stay

up here, I'm fighting for everything up here. And the radio and the food is part

of what I'm fighting for.

Now, if you're going down in the cellar, get.

The man's insane.

He's insane.

We've... We've got to have food down there. We've got to write.

This is your house.

We've got to write.

You going down there with him?

Well, I... Yes or no, this is your last chance. No beating around the bush.

Listen, I got a kid down there.

She can't possibly... I couldn't bring her up here. She can't possibly take all

the racket and those things smashing through the windows.

Well, you're her father.

If you're stupid enough to go die in that trap, that's your business.

am not stupid enough to follow you.

It is tough for the kid. That old man is so stupid.

Now, get the hell down in the cellar.

You can be the boss down there.

I'm boss up here.

You bastards.

You know, I won't open this door again.

I mean it.

Mr. Cooper, with your help, we can... With my help. Let him go, man.

His mind is made up. Just let him go.

Wait a minute.

Judy, come on up here, honey.

Let them get hurt, too, huh?

It's all right, honey. Go ahead.

If we stick

together, man, we can fix it up real good.

There's lots of places we can run to up here.

Mr. Cooper, we'd all be a lot better off if all three of us were working

together.

Hey, kid.

He's wrong, you know.

I'm not boxing myself in down there.

This radio station will remain on the air day and night.

Well, we're safe now. It's boarded up tight.

What about Tom and Judy?

They want to stay up there and let them.

Two other people upstairs.

A man and a girl.

We heard you screaming.

Yeah, but I didn't know who they were, and I wasn't about to take any

unnecessary chances.

Of course not, dear.

Is she all right?

I don't know what it is.

She feels warm.

Maybe it's shock.

Where'd you get the bandage?

Some laundry in a basket. I tore a sheet.

Let them stay upstairs.

Let them.

Too many ways those monsters can get in up there.

We'll see who's right.

We'll see when they come begging me to let them in down here.

That's important, isn't it? What?

To be right, everybody else to be wrong.

What do you mean by that?

Does anyone up there know why we're being attacked?

Whatever it is, it isn't just happening here.

It's some kind of mass murder. It's going on everywhere.

The radio said to stay inside. Radio?

Radio upstairs. I heard a news bulletin. There's a radio upstairs and you

boarded us in down here?

I know what I'm doing. What did it say?

Nothing. Nothing.

They don't know anything yet.

There's mass murder everywhere and people are supposed to look for a safe

to hide.

Take the boards off that door.

We are staying down here, Helen. Harry, that radio is at least some kind of

communication.

If the authorities know what's happening, they'll send people for us

what to do.

How are we going to know what's going on if we lock ourselves in this dungeon?

We may not enjoy living together, but dying together isn't going to solve

anything.

Those people aren't our enemies.

for a few minutes.

Harry and I could come upstairs.

Okay, yeah, right away.

Will you do it?

Do I have to?

Look, honey, nothing's going to get done with them down there and the fuck here.

Do this for me.

Take good care of her, Helen.

She's all I have.

Why don't you go upstairs now?

Her brother was killed.

Hey, give me a hand with this thing.

I gotta go help Ben with the television.

Don't be afraid of me.

I'm Helen Cooper, Harry's wife.

This place is ridiculous.

Look at this.

There's a million weak spots up here.

Give me one of those.

Her brother was killed.

And they talk about these windows.

I can't see a damn thing.

There could be 15 million of those things out there.

That's how much good these windows are.

Why don't you do something to help somebody?

Here I have it. Drag a couple of those chairs together.

There's the socket over here.

You better watch this and try to understand what's going on.

I don't want anyone's life on my hands.

Is there anything I can do to help you? I don't want to hear any more from you,

mister. If you stay up here, you take orders from me.

And that includes leaving the girl alone.

It's on. It's on.

There's no sound.

Play with the rabbit ears.

It reports, incredible as they seem, are not the results of mass hysteria. Mass

hysteria. What do they think we're imagining all this? Shut up!

in all parts of the country.

The wave of murder which is sweeping the eastern third of the nation is being

committed by creatures who feast upon... Hmm. Guess I got that TV stand on sale

at Ikea. First eyewitness accounts of this grisly development came from people

who were understandably frightened and almost incoherent.

Officials and newsmen at first discounted those eyewitness descriptions

beyond belief.

However, the reports persisted. Medical examinations of some of the victims...

bore out the fact that they had been partially devoured.

But they took the leftovers home in a doggy bag. I think we have some late

of just arriving, and I'll interrupt to bring this to you.

This is the latest disclosure in a report from National Civil Defense

Headquarters in Washington.

It has been established that persons who have recently died have been returning

to life and committing acts of murder.

A widespread investigation of reports from funeral homes... morgues, and

hospitals has concluded that the unburied dead are coming back to life

seeking human victims.

It's hard for us here to believe what we're reporting to you, but it does seem

to be a fact.

When this emergency first began, radio and television was advising people to

stay inside, behind locked doors, for safety.

Well, that situation has now changed, and we're able to report a definite

of action for you.

Civil defense machinery has been organized to provide rescue stations

shelter, medical treatment, and protection by armed National Guardsmen.

Stay tuned to the broadcasting stations in your local area for this list of

rescue stations.

This list will be repeated throughout our news coverage.

Look for the name of the rescue station nearest you and make your way to that

location as soon as possible.

So we have that truck. If we can get some gas, we can get out of here.

pump out by the shed. I know that's why I pulled in here, but it's locked.

Called this afternoon by the president.

Since convening this conference of the presidential cabinet, the FBI, the Joint

Chiefs of Staff, the CIA, has not produced any public information.

Why are space experts being consulted about an Earth -bound emergency?

So far, all the betting on the answer to that question centers on the recent

Explorer satellite shot to Venus.

That satellite, you'll recall, started back to Earth, but never got here.

That's the space vehicle which orbited Venus and then was purposely destroyed

NASA when scientists discovered it was carrying a mysterious high -level

radiation with it.

Could that radiation be somehow responsible for the wholesale murders

suffering?

Newsman Don Quinn in Washington has posed those questions... It's obvious

best move is to try to get out of here. How are you going to get over to that

pump? Look!

You're coming from a meeting regarding the explosion of the Venus probe, is

right?

Yes, yes, that was the subject of the meeting. You feel there is a connection

between this and the phenomenon?

There's a definite connection, a definite connection.

In other words, you feel that the radiation on the Venus probe is enough

cause these mutations? There was a very high degree of radiation. Just a minute,

I'm not... sure that that's certain at all. I don't think that has been the

logical explanation that we have at this time.

In other words, it is the military's viewpoint that the radiation is not the

cause of the mutation.

I can't speak for the entire military at this time, gentlemen.

I must disagree with these gentlemen presently until this is irreputably

Everything is being done that can be done. We'll have to hurry for our next

meeting.

Professor, you feel that there is a definite connection between... A

connection as far as Dr. Keller and myself.

Doctor, please. I thought we decided that is not true.

Was the satellite, when the satellite was exploded... There was an unusual

amount of radiation, enough to cause mutation under certain circumstances.

It could have happened to have a bearing on it.

It does seem to have a bearing.

Will there be a reply for this? Later. There will be a reply. Yes. Later this

afternoon.

There will be a report this afternoon.

Perhaps there will be a report.

We are doing everything possible to solve this problem.

We're hoping to get some further explanation of this. We've heard all we

know. We have to try to get out of here.

He said the rescue stations have doctors and medical supplies.

If we could get Karen there, we could get help for her. I don't know. It's one

of the world's foremost authorities on space science and technology. Willard. I

thought I found a kid, Willard.

It's only about 17 miles from here.

You know this area? You from around here?

Judy and I are both from around here.

We were on our way up to the lake to go swimming, and Judy had a radio, and we

heard the first reports about this.

So we knew the old house was here, and we came in and found the lady upstairs

dead.

Then these other people came.

We went down into the basement and put a bar across the door, and it is pretty

strong. How could we possibly get away from here?

We've got a sick child.

Two women, one woman out of her head, three men, and the place is surrounded

with these things. Dr.

Grimes, your entire staff, I know, has been working very hard to find some

solution to these things that are happening.

Do you have any answers at this time?

Yes, we have some answers.

But first, let me stress the importance of seeking medical attention for anyone

who's been injured in any way.

We don't know yet what complications might result from such injuries. How bad

has your kid been hurt?

Um... Look,

you go down there and tell... Judy?

Yeah, you tell Judy to come up here and you stay with the kid, all right?

In the cold room at the university, we had a cadaver. A cadaver from

which all four limbs had been amputated.

sometime early this morning, it opened its eyes and began to move its trunk. It

was dead, but it opened its eyes and tried to move.

They watch upstairs.

Did she ask for me?

She had to do anything.

I don't understand.

Baby.

It's Mommy.

I heard.

I'll come back down as soon as I find out what they want.

Thank you, Judy.

The body should be disposed of at once, preferably by cremation.

Well, how long after death, then, does the body become reactivated?

It's only a matter of minutes.

Minutes? Well, that doesn't give people time to make any arrangements. No,

you're right. It doesn't give them time to make funeral arrangements.

The bodies must be carried to the street and burned.

They must be burned immediately.

Soak them with gasoline and burn them.

The bereaved will have to forego the dubious comforts that a funeral service

will give.

They're just dead flesh and dangerous.

I see. I need you to find some bedspreads or sheets to tear up into

strips, okay?

Is there a fruit cellar here?

Yes. We need some bottles or jars to make Molotov cocktails and hold them up

while we try to escape.

Hey, there's a big can of kerosene down there. I'll see what I can find. I'll

look for the bottles.

There's a big key ring down there.

There may be a key to the gas pump on it.

I'll check.

We can toss the cocktails from a window upstairs.

Meantime, a couple of us can go out and try to get the gas and come back for the

rest of the people.

But that'll leave a door open someplace.

Yeah, that's right.

It better be this door.

It's closer to the truck.

Before we go, I'll put some supplies behind the cellar door. While we're

the rest of you can hold up in there.

I found some fruit jars in the cellar.

And there's a key on here that's labeled for the gas pump out back.

I'm not really that used to the truck. I found it abandoned.

I can handle the truck with no sweat.

You're it, then.

You and I will go.

We'll put whatever lumber we find behind the cellar door.

You can go upstairs and toss the cocktails from a window.

Tom, you and I will have to unboard this door.

After you toss the cocktails, you hustle back down here and lock this door.

It's no good to board it up because we'll have to get back in quickly.

After we get the gas and get back into the house, then we'll worry about

everybody into the truck.

Now let's move it.

Please, please, please.

Except for the rescue stations that should be set up.

Indications are that before this emergency is over, we'll need many, many

such rescue stations.

You always have a smile for me.

How can you smile like that all the time?

How many can you have done?

Come on, honey, we gotta move.

Tom, are you sure about the phone? The phone is dead out.

All you get is a recorded message.

If I could only call the folks.

They're going to be so worried about us.

Everything will be all right.

As soon as we get to Willard.

We'll call them. They might even be there.

I know.

Tom.

Are you sure we're doing the right thing, Tom?

What, about getting out of here?

Yeah. Well, the television said that's the right thing to do. We've got to get

to a rescue station.

I don't know.

Come on, honey. You're starting to sound like Mr. Cooper now.

But why do you have to go out there?

Look, I know how to handle that truck.

And I can handle the pump.

Ben doesn't know anything about that stuff.

But we're safe in here.

For how long, honey? We're safe now.

But there's going to be more and more of those things. I know. I know all that.

Hey, listen.

Remember when we had the big flood?

Remember how difficult it was for us to convince you that it was right to leave?

Remember? Remember we had to go to Willard then?

This isn't a passing thing, honey.

It's not like just a wind passing through.

We've got to do something, and fast.

I just don't want you to go out there, that's all.

Hey, smiley.

Where's that big smile for me?

You sure know how to use it all, don't you?

You've got work to do, honey.

And you... Yeah.

We'd better get her downstairs.

We'd have to go downstairs now, Barbara.

She's right.

You have to go downstairs now, just for a little while, until we get back.

Then we can all leave.

Oh, I'd like to leave.

Yes.

Well, if you ain't staying, I ain't staying.

Good luck.

Yeah.

Are you getting bored?

Get back in the cellar. Go.

It's too late.

Thank you.

This key won't work.

Watch out.

Watch the door.

Come on, come on.

My jacket's caught.

I'll drag you out there and feed you those things.

Mmm, barbecue brain.

Pass me a thigh.

Mmm, grizzly.

Isn't it three o 'clock yet?

There's supposed to be another broadcast at three o 'clock.

Ten minutes.

Oh, only ten more minutes?

We don't have very long to wait.

We can leave.

Well, we'd better leave soon.

Ten minutes to three.

You know anything about this area at all?

I mean, is Willard the nearest town?

I don't know.

We were... just trying to get to a motel before

dark.

You said those things turned your car over.

You think we can get it back on its wheels and drive it? Where is it?

Seems like it was pretty far away.

Seems like we ran.

Forget it. It's at least a mile.

Johnny has the keys.

You gonna carry that child a mile through that army of things out there? I

carry the kid.

What's wrong with her? How'd she get hurt?

One of those things grabbed her.

Bit her on the arm.

What's wrong?

Who knows what kind of disease those things carry.

Is she conscious?

Barely. She can't walk. She's too weak.

Well, one of us could try to get to the car.

You're going to turn it over by yourself?

You can't start the car.

Johnny has the keys.

You have a car?

Where? Where is it?

You won't be able to start it. Yeah, yeah, I know. But where is it?

Good Lord.

Being monitored closely by scientists at all the radiation detection stations.

At this hour, they report the level of the mysterious radiation continues to

increase steadily.

So long as this situation remains, government spokesmen warn...

that dead bodies will continue to be transformed into the flesh -eating

All persons who die during this crisis, from whatever cause, will come back to

life to seek human victims unless their bodies are first disposed of by

cremation. Our news cameras have just returned from covering such a search

-destroy operation against the ghouls, this one conducted by Sheriff Conan

McClellan in Butler County, Pennsylvania.

So now let's go to that film report.

All law enforcement agencies and the military have been organized to search

and destroy the marauding ghouls. The Survival Command Center at the Pentagon

has disclosed that a ghoul can be killed by a shot in the head or a heavy blow

to the skull.

Officials are quoted as explaining that since the brain of a ghoul has been

activated by the radiation, the plan is kill the brain and you kill the ghoul.

Anything from the supply wagon, Cass?

No, we're all right.

Hey, Cass, put that thing all the way in the fire. We don't want it getting up

again.

Chief, Chief McClellan, how's everything going?

Oh, things aren't going too bad. Men are taking it pretty good.

You want to get on the other side of the road over there?

Chief, do you think we'll be able to defeat these things?

Well, we killed 19 of them today right in this area. Those last three we caught

trying to claw their way into an abandoned shed. They must have thought

was in there. There wasn't, though.

We heard them making all kind of noise. We came over and beat them off, blasted

them down.

Chief, as soon as you're finished, can I see you here?

Yeah, okay.

Chief, if I were surrounded by six or eight of these things, would I stand a

chance with them? Well, there's no problem. If you had a gun, shoot them in

head. That's a sure way to kill them. If you don't get yourself a club or a

torch, beat them or burn them, they go up pretty easy.

Well, Chief McClellan, how long do you think it will take you until you get the

situation under control?

Well, that's pretty hard to say. We don't know how many of them there are.

know when we find them, we can kill them.

Are they slow -moving, Chief?

Yeah, they're dead. They're all messed up.

Well, in time, would you say you ought to be able to wrap this up in 24 hours?

Well, we don't really know.

We know we'll be into it most of the night, probably into the early morning.

We're working our way toward Willard, and we'll team up with the National

over there, and then we'll be able to give a more definite view.

Thank you very much, Chief McClellan. This is Bill Cardill, WIIC -TV11 News.

Thank you, Bill, for that report.

Official spokesman declined to speculate just how long it may take to kill off

all the flesh eaters, so long as the heavy rate...

Is

the fuse box in the cellar?

I don't know.

It isn't the fuse.

The power lines are down.

Helen?

I have to get that gun.

Haven't you had enough?

What? Two people are dead already on account of that guy.

Take a look out that window.

Get over here, man!

Come on!

Go ahead!

Go ahead! You want to stay up here now?

Get the hell out!

Move!

Oh! Oh!

Hope that kid's not still breastfeeding.

Oh, baby.

Hey, Ben. Well, you want to get about four or five men and a couple dogs?

There's a house over here behind those trees. We want to go check it out.

You stay here, Bill.

Yeah, Chief. We're going to stay with it until we meet up with the National

Guard. Where'd you get the coffee?

One of the volunteers. You're doing all the work. You take it. Thank you.

We should be wrapped up here about three or four more hours, and we'll probably

get into Willard then. I guess you can go over there and meet the National

Guard.

Nick, you and the rest of these men want to come with me?

Well, Bill, I'm going to check on you off and see what's happening.

All right, Steve, tell them we're going to stay with it and everything appears

to be under control.

They need you down there by the barn. Okay.

Some of these guys can follow the wagon down. I only need a few men to check out

the house.

Somebody had a cookout here, Vince.

Yeah, sure looks like it, cop.

that one. Get up here.

Nick, Tony, Steve, you want to get out in that field and build me a bonfire?

You, drag that out of here and throw it on the fire.

Nothing down here?

All right, go ahead down and give him a hand.

Let's go check out the house. There's something there. I heard a noise.

Hit him in the head, right between the eyes.

Good shot.

Okay, he's dead. Let's go get him. That's another one for the fire.

What? Go for a second.

Hey Randy, light these torches over here.

Well, that was Night of the Living Dead.

Now, I don't know if I should thank George Romero or thank him for starting

stampede of sequels. I mean, if he'd made it right the first time, he

have had to make it over and over and over again.

I mean, Steven Spielberg never made no sequels.

Oh, well, except for that Minnesota Jones movie.

So, I think from now on, there should be a ban on all sequels, starting with

Spider -Man.

Oh, but then...

I'm secretly in love with Stan Lee, and we're partners in Kamikaze.

And if nobody made any sequels, I'd be out of a job.

So I say, hit it!

Up, up with sequels, you can see them wherever you go.

Up, up with sequels, they're the same storylines you know.

If more people made more sequels than that.

The more people, the more people, the more people in the people of

life.

Unpleasant dream.

Up, up with people.

Sing along.

50 and wherever you go.

Up, up with people.

They're the same storylines you know.