The Midnight Ramble Film Society Presents..."Night of the Living Dead" at the Modern

When a mysterious cosmic anomaly reanimates the recently deceased with an insatiable hunger for human flesh, a frantic woman takes refuge in an abandoned Pennsylvania farmhouse. There she meets Ben (Duane Jones), a resourceful survivor who takes charge, boarding up windows and rallying a fractured group of strangers hidden in the cellar. As night falls, hordes of flesh-eating ghouls surround the house—but as paranoia, panic, and racial tension boil over inside, the threat from within becomes just as deadly as the monsters clawing at the doors.

Shot on a shoestring budget in gritty black-and-white, George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (1968) single-handedly birthed the modern zombie genre and redefined independent horror forever. Groundbreaking for its subversive social commentary, unrelenting tension, and legendary lead performance by Duane Jones, this revolutionary masterpiece remains one of the most influential, shocking, and culturally significant American films ever made.