THALIAN HALL CINEMA · VINTAGE SERIES

Night of the Living Dead

THALIAN HALL · SEASON 2025-2026 · SPECIAL EVENT

   

1968 | Not Rated | Horror, Thriller | 1 hour, 36 minutes

UNITED STATES | ENGLISH


HISTORIC MAIN STAGE · RUTH AND BUCKY STEIN THEATRE

SPECIAL EVENT SCREENING:

THURSDAY OCTOBER 30 2025

7:30 PM


VINTAGE SERIES TICKETS | STANDARD PRICING

$12.00 | ADULT

$10.00 | SENIOR (65+) · STUDENT (W/ VALID ID)


Official Synopsis:

Shot outside Pittsburgh on a shoestring budget, by a band of filmmakers determined to make their mark, Night of the Living Dead, directed by horror master George A. Romero, is a great story 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 recently dead, flesh-eating ghouls, Romero’s claustrophobic vision of a late-1960s America literally tearing itself apart rewrote the rules of the horror genre, combining gruesome gore with acute social commentary and quietly breaking ground by casting a Black actor (Duane Jones) in its lead role.


Directed by George A. Romero

Written by John A. Russo, George A. Romero


Starring:

Duane Jones, Judith O’Dea, Karl Hardman, Marilyn Eastman, Keith Wayne, Judith Ridley

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