Night of the living dead is a film by the godfather of all zombie films, George A Romero, and is of course about zombies. It was one of the earliest examples of zomie films and is what started drawing popularity to the idea of zombies.
It was the first zombie film to have the template used now for zombie horrors. Survivors encounter zombies, get scared, try to survive in some way, the dead are defeated and everythings happy. Although this film has a twist ending which adds to how good this film is.
The idea of the dead walking is a common one now, but in the past it had people on edge and was a very scary idea. This film may look aged now but at the time of release this was a horror masterpiece which you had to see, and even now its groundbreaking nature definitly means its a film for any film student to see.
The horror comes from many places. Tension is created when somebody dies right at the start, leaving the woman protagonist who barely speaks horrified. She finds a farmhouse and finds a corpse inside which shocks the audience. The visage of it is grusome in nature. Horror is also visually created in the zombies, which now would just look silly and quite humorous to see, but back at its release would put film goers on the edge of their seats.
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