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Duane Jones

Duane Jones

“It never occurred to me that I was hired because I was black. But it did occur to me that because I was black it would give a different historic element to the film.” [On being cast as Ben in “Night of the Living Dead]

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    Night of the Living Dead

    NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD

    GEORGE A. ROMERO United States, 1968

    Some like ghost stories, and some prefer their undead as a bloodthirsty horde. Here’s where the world’s zombie obsession began: George Romero’s landmark classic, a raging, subversive, apocalyptic bonfire of a film. By the time the lights came up, horror would never be the same—and it still shocks.

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