1979, 127 minutes
Directed by George A. Romero
45th ANNIVERSARY RESTORATION
Established as one of the kings of horror from his film Night of the Living Dead in 1968, filmmaker George Romero waited to do a sequel in order to not get typecast as a horror director. He ended up making one of the best zombie films of all-time next to his original with Dawn, a gory satire of consumerism. While the film was released in Italy in 1978 under the title Zombi and in an edit done by producer Dario Argento, this is the version edited by Romero for the US, released in April 1979.
A mysterious plague hits the country that reanimates recently-dead human beings as flesh-eating zombies. Four survivors barricade themselves in a shopping mall and enjoy all that it has to give. But the zombie horde and a biker gang are converging on them and things get bloody.
"If you like horror movies this one is for you! Makes ‘The Exorcist’ look like ‘Gidget Stubs Her Toe.’" -Joel Siegel – WABC-TV
"...brilliantly crafted, funny, droll, and savagely merciless in its satiric view of the American consumer society." -Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times