Opening to Night of the Living Dead (US LaserDisc, 1994)
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LaserDisc release date: October 26, 1994
LaserDisc release info: www.lddb.com/l...
1. Elite Entertainment - 0:05
2. THX - Broadway - 0:21
3. Beginning of film - 0:36
From the beginning of what looks (and sounds) like a crappy transfer of the film to reveal the Elite Entertainment logo with an explosion and a thunderclap then almost immediately transitioning to the THX Broadway logo. It’s just beautiful. I honestly wish we got more logos like these for some of our favorite movies.
Imagine bringing home this Laserdisc/DVD from your local video store, hitting play and being immensely disappointed that the film is deteriorated beyond belief until PSYCH! The Elite Entertainment comes out of the blue then comes the THX logo! Then the movie (in the high quality picture you came to expect) for real starts. Talk about betrayal. It’s like that episode of SpongeBob where Patchy the Pirate was like “That’s it? That’s the lost episode? That was just a bunch of cheap walk cycles!”.
I mean... yeah, that's the point. Night of the Living Dead was public domain by complete accident on Image Ten's part, and thus low quality copies were a dime a dozen. It was meant to be a "gotcha" moment on the audience.
"What a rip!"
“The kids in the audience were stunned. There was almost complete silence. The movie stopped being delightfully scary about halfway through, and had become unexpectedly terrifying. There was a little girl across the aisle from me, maybe nine years old, who was sitting very still in her seat and crying… It’s hard to remember what sort of effect this movie might have had on you when you were six or seven. But try to remember. At that age, kids take the events on the screen seriously, and they identify fiercely with the hero. When the hero is killed, that’s not an unhappy ending but a tragic one: Nobody got out alive. It’s just over, that’s all.”
-Roger Ebert on Night Of The Living Dead’s gruesome violence when it was shown to little children in 1968.
I can definitely say that upon my watch of the film that it was definitely a downer ending, as I didn't know what I was getting myself into. But man, taking your kids to see a film titled "Night of the Living Dead"... that uh, yeah.
@@homevideogallery I think my dad said he seen the movie when he was a kid and he was absolutely terrified. I think it’s safe to say this definitely pushed some boundaries when it was released to the public in 1968 since it lead to the rating system we have today.
@@homevideogallery To be fair, horror films were generally less violent and relatively bloodless back then. The parents probably assumed that it would be as harmless as most horror films. Obviously they were proven immeasurably wrong
@@hasi706 Ohhh, okay. And yeah, the ending is pretty bleak.
@@homevideogalleryYeah, I’ll say. Yeesh. Imagine seeing that as a child. Let’s say you were disturbed and horrified by the gore but when it looked like Ben has survived the night, you feel pretty good and relieved that it’s over. That at least one person in that small house made it out alive. But then you hear the sheriff say “All right, Vince, hit him in the head, right between the eyes”, immediately when you realize that they’re about to shoot him, it’s too late… He gone… He’s dead... Good luck sleeping after that… Yikes…
This film is an instant classic
Blue rectangle after blue rectangle
The Elite 1997 DVD release opening to NotLD is identical to the laserdisc opening although we had to wait until 2002 for the Millenium edition to get ALL the special features the laserdisc had.
I know. I have all of those versions uploaded onto this channel.
If anyone says this isn’t a classic, they’re dead wrong.
And by the time they say it, they would already be used as avocado dip by the living dead.
Way to fake us out at 0:15!
And that seemless THX transition was perfection.
I've never seen anything like that before!
That's why I hunted this one down in particular, it was really neat to see.