Wednesdays get weird when Late Shift at the Grindhouse hosts Ross Meyer, Joe Derderian, and Aaron Holmgren dig up low-budget b-movies, horror and gore-fests, and camp classics for your viewing pleasure. Buy your ticket and take a ride in our Time Machine! Punch in and earn a bonus! $4 Pabst Blue Ribbon & Hamm’s tallboys, $4 small popcorn, small soda and candy! $1 off beer/wine/soda/popcorn/candy for FilmScene members. PLUS -- special custom trash trailer reel curated by Ross with cheap swag and prize giveaways!
Join us for the debut of VHScious Video, a new sub-series within Late Shift at the Grindhouse, screening from VHS tape, celebrating video rental shops and VHS culture. They won't stay dead!
"I tried to portray what was happening in those days, both politically and on a sociological level." - George A. Romero, director
"Until the Supreme Court establishes clearcut guidelines for the pornography of violence, Night of the Living Dead will serve nicely as an outer-limit definition by example." - Variety
"There was almost complete silence. The movie had long ago stopped being delightfully scary, and had become unexpectedly terrifying. A little girl across the aisle from me, maybe nine years old, was sitting very still in her seat and crying." - Roger Ebert
"Crude, derivative, and one of the best horror films ever produced." - Richard McGuinness, Village Voice
"Within only a few minutes, Night of the Living Dead has hit its stride, striking the note of apocalyptic panic it is to sustain, with hardly a break, for the rest of the film." - J. Hoberman & Jonathan Rosenbaum, Midnight Movies
"Ever-present is the tense awareness that each living body is a potential zombie; hence the continual foreboding that boarded-up windows, camouflaged elevator shafts and underground military fortresses are ultimately futile gestures against a ravenous, inexorable enemy capable of surfacing under your very skin." - Mark Spainhower, Re/Search: Incredibly Strange Films
"Great, terrifying flesh-eating-ghoul shocker with gore, priceless dialogue, and a refreshing lack of scientific explanations, romance, or happy endings." - Michael J. Weldon, The Psychotronic Encyclopedia
"Like a legit nightmare, Night of the Living Dead simply starts, sans rhyme or reason, and never lets up." - The Phantom of the Movies
"As time goes by and film history settles into a mould set by theoreticians and film journalists, it has become a staple observation that the golden age of American horror cinema began in 1968 with George Romero's Night of the Living Dead." - Stephen Thrower, Nightmare USA: The Untold Story of the Exploitation Independents
Shot outside of Pittsburgh at a fraction of the cost of a Hollywood feature by a band of filmmakers determined to make their mark, George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead is one of the great stories of independent cinema: a midnight hit turned box-office smash that became one of the most influential films of all time. A deceptively simple tale of a group of strangers trapped in a farmhouse who find themselves fending off a horde of flesh-eating ghouls newly arisen from their graves, Romero’s claustrophobic vision of a late-sixties America (literally) tearing itself apart rewrote the rules of the horror genre, combined gruesome gore with acute social commentary, and quietly broke ground by casting a Black actor (Duane Jones) in the lead role.