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Joel V. Mike  
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 More options Jan 4 1998, 3:00 am
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.mst3k.misc
From: pro...@ix.netcom.com (Joel V. Mike)
Date: 1998/01/04
Subject: Re: Night Of The Living Dead, by JimL2

ji...@aol.com (JimL2) wrote:
>Night Of The Living Dead is a real peice of crap. It's regarded as some kind of
>super-classic horror movie,

This is the most asinine review of a classic movie that I have ever
read.  First of all, it isn't a horror movie, it is a comedy.  Most of
the humor comes from the irony laced two or three layers deep
throughout the film, although there are some lower humor moments
provided by the police chief ("Are they slow moving?  Yeah, there're
dead, they're...all messed up.")
>White woman in trench coat and white man (wearing black gloves for some reason)

Probably the same reason I wear black gloves-to keep my hands warm.
>who is her brother (I guess) go to graveyard. Brother taunts sister about her
>being afraid. A zombie (I think, it was never very clear)

It is a ghoul.  Zombies don't eat people.

>who looks like a man
>walking stiffly and making a funny face lumbers over and kills white man by
>touching his neck.

Irony number 1-brother teases sister that stranger is coming to get
her.  Turns out, he really is!

>Now there is a middle aged white guy with his wife. He is trying to kill black
>guy who is trying to keep zombies (there are about 10 now) out. Black guy takes
>white guys gun and shoots him.

Black guy is the protagonist, and middle aged white guy is his
antogonist.  MAWG thinks they should barricade themselves in the
basement.  BG insists they should stay upstairs where there is room to
maneuver.  In any other movie, BG would be shown to be right, but he
only survives because he eventually does barricade himself in the
basement.  Of course, doing so didn't save MAWG or his family.

>A
>bunch of rednecks (okay, okay, but they're from the south,

No, they're from Pittsburgh.

>They walk through fields shooting zombies (I think,
>they looked like guys ambling around, and the posse didn't take too much time
>to determine that they were zombies. "Wait! Guys! Wait up-BLAM-Ouuuu!"), which
>raises an interesting question: if they're already dead, how can you kill them

Shoot 'em in the head and kill the brain, or set 'em on fire.  Beat
'em or burn 'em, they go up pretty easy.

>(As they walked along I said "Zombies are getting right back up behind
>them...")? They come to the white house (Zork: night of the living dead) and
>shoot the black guy.

Again, in any other film, BG, after surving the onslaught of the
ghouls all night, while all the other people in the house die, would
live happily ever after.  Here, he is mistaken for one of the living
dead and is killed. Brilliant end.

Glad I could enlighten you.
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