Night of the Living Dead (1968)

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Wikidata Q623051, film, IMDb tt0063350, TMDB 10331: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the best known by that title (54 Wikipedias; the next, 24); 2 more episodes agree.

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Who talked about it

Blank Check — Patreon

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Came from

What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

No line says it drew on another film or person.

Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (inspiration): Night of the Living Dead ⇒ The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (the host's read). Hooper saw the line down the block for Night of the Living Dead and decided to make a horror film with his own ideas about Vietnam-era America.
    “Toby Hooper, who directed Chainsaw Massacre, went and saw Night of the Living Dead.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:03:15 · Chris Ryan (0.55 sure it was them)

Connected to

Anything for Jackson: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (professional-first filmmakers): Night of the Living Dead → Anything for Jackson. The Anything for Jackson makers, like Romero, were working filmmakers who then made a genre film.
    “it's the same George Romero thing of, I'm just an industrial filmmaker.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:26:47 · Patton Oswalt (0.50 sure it was them)

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Night of the Living Dead → Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma. The first girl in Night of the Living Dead is also the final girl, chased through the cemetery, and Miasma plays with that.
    “I mean, candy asthma has fun with that too.”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 0:48:17 · Adam Nayman (0.50 sure it was them)

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (inspiration): The Texas Chain Saw Massacre → Night of the Living Dead. Hooper saw the line down the block for Night of the Living Dead and decided to make a horror film with his own ideas about Vietnam-era America.
    “Toby Hooper, who directed Chainsaw Massacre, went and saw Night of the Living Dead.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:03:15 · Chris Ryan (0.55 sure it was them)

This Is the End: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (genre): This Is the End → Night of the Living Dead. Party movie plus zombie-style siege movie.
    “marrying it to Night of Living Dead is pretty fucking potent.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:41:19 · Craig Horlbeck (0.40 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

lineage (2)

  1. lineage (inspiration): The Texas Chain Saw Massacre → Night of the Living Dead. Hooper saw the line down the block for Night of the Living Dead and decided to make a horror film with his own ideas about Vietnam-era America.
    “Toby Hooper, who directed Chainsaw Massacre, went and saw Night of the Living Dead.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:03:15 · Chris Ryan (0.55 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage): Night of the Living Dead → Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma. The first girl in Night of the Living Dead is also the final girl, chased through the cemetery, and Miasma plays with that.
    “I mean, candy asthma has fun with that too.”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 0:48:17 · Adam Nayman (0.50 sure it was them)

theme (1)

  1. theme (genre): This Is the End → Night of the Living Dead. Party movie plus zombie-style siege movie.
    “marrying it to Night of Living Dead is pretty fucking potent.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:41:19 · Craig Horlbeck (0.40 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (professional-first filmmakers): Night of the Living Dead → Anything for Jackson. The Anything for Jackson makers, like Romero, were working filmmakers who then made a genre film.
    “it's the same George Romero thing of, I'm just an industrial filmmaker.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:26:47 · Patton Oswalt (0.50 sure it was them)

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