A group of strangers trapped in a farmhouse find themselves fending off a horde of recently dead, flesh-eating ghouls.
Night of the Living Dead has generally received very positive reviews.
Review of Night of the Living Dead (1968)
By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 21 Oct 1987
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Night of the Living Dead was released in 1968 and has generally received very positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 760 reviews, giving Night of the Living Dead (1968) an average rating of 82%.
Overall, film critics marginally prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 93%, compared to cinema-goers, who gave it a slightly lower average score of 85%.
With a score of 82%, Night of the Living Dead is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1968, which stands at 60%.
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