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Night of the Living Dead
MEANRANK
80/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #659
- IMDb #577
- Google retired #1568
- Rotten Tomatoes #432
- Metacritic #213
- Letterboxd #706
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #411
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #877
- Metacritic Critics #228
- Metacritic Audience #413
- Criticker #430
- Douban #1282
- Kinopoisk #2056
- AlloCiné #1477
- Trakt #1051
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 65, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 95. Critics average 92, everyone else 77.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A group of strangers barricades themselves inside a rural Pennsylvania farmhouse to survive the night. They are besieged by reanimated corpses that have returned to life with a hunger for human flesh. Tensions and conflicts rise among the survivors as they argue over the best course of action while the number of ghouls outside their doors grows ever larger.
Details
- Director
- George A. Romero
- Writers
- George A. Romero, John A. Russo
- Studio
- Image Ten
- Released
- 4 October 1968
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 96 min
- Rated
- NR
- Budget
- $114.0K
- Box office
- $30.2M
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Awards
7 wins total
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