Sure, Romero's made more polished films, and a few other bona fide classics, but there's a deep primordial intensity within Night of the Living Dead that one can't self-consciously sustain, recreate, or entirely unpack analytically. It is a flake of a film, a found object; it's also garage rock, an abstraction, as well as a work of extreme deliberation, a naïf masterpiece. It is lightning in a bottle.