Night of The Living Dead screens Friday, July 10, at midnight, at the Arcata Theatre Lounge, 1036 G St in Arcata. Box office opens 30 minutes prior to screening. cost is $5. 

Night of the Living Dead (1968), directed by George Romero, is an independent black-and-white horror film. Ben (Duane Jones) and Barbra (Judith O’Dea) are the protagonists of a story about the mysterious reanimation of the recently dead, and their efforts, along with five other people, to survive the night while trapped in a rural Pennsylvania farmhouse. Night of the Living Dead had a great impact upon the culture of the Vietnam-era United States, because it is laden with critiques of late-1960s U.S. society; a historian described it as “subversive on many levels”. Although it is not the first zombie film, Night of the Living Dead is the progenitor of the contemporary ‘zombie apocalypse’ sub-genre of horror film, and it influenced the modern pop-culture zombie archetype.