OK - when did you first see 'Night of the Living Dead'

[jpak]

It was Halloween my freshman year in college.

First they mocked with laughter.

Then they shut up.

Then they shrieked.

When it was over -there were lots of young women clinging to their boyfriends - in shock.

Pleasant dreams?

[RandySF]

1. I'm tempted to say I watched it on MTV when I was in high school.

On a Saturday afternoon during Haloween season.

[Not Ruth]

2. Me too

I went to a very good college that had some odd ideas about what to show students on Friday night in the campus auditorium. Horror, hardcore porn, Monty Python....

[Binkie The Clown]

3. When it came out on VHS tape. I don't recall when that was. n/t

[lefthandedskyhook]

4. This movie...

...demonstrates the character of lower-middle income republicans in this country voting against their interests

[jpak]

5. Yeah and the black guy got killed in the end

That said - I was traumatized for weeks.

Having gown up in a very isolated farm house

[Iggo]

25. That's the part that scares me. (n/t)

[Leith]

6. Believe It or Not, I Saw It When It Was First on Broadcast TV

I barely remember it, but I remember the girl running from the zombie in the graveyard. I must have been about 8 years old.

My mother did not censor TV. I distinctly remember seeing a monk set himself on fire on the news. I remember being a little alarmed and a lot confused, but not traumatized.

The movie that really scared me was the original "The Haunting" (with Russ Tamblyn). I saw it a couple years ago and got bored.

Edited to add: Oops. If the movie came out in 1968, I could not have been 8. I was probably 11 or 12. So much for accuracy of memory. It was in the house that we moved from the summer I turned 12.

[jpak]

7. They're coming to get you Barbara

[Leith]

9. It's a Good Thing That My Name Is Not Barbara

That might have scared me.

[jpak]

12. That was such a genius scene

zombie in background

[shanti]

8. 1968, when it came out at the theaters

I saw it at the now defunct Broadway theater, in Santa Ana (California). My sis and I sat in the balcony, a matinee, and kids were throwing popcorn, screaming, it was crazy! I was 13.

[jpak]

10. I read about it in Newsweek when it first came out

Little did I know when I saw it a few years later.

[MosheFeingold]

35. Me, too.

Except I was in Crown Heights somewhere. Maybe Brooklyn proper. Can't remember.

Made me scared of homeless people for a bit, as they were really on a lot of drugs then and they looked (and kind of acted) like zombies.

[no_hypocrisy]

11. On TV in 1972.

In the dark, in the middle of the night, with my kid sister. Parents asleep upstairs.

We were freaked out.

[IcyPeas]

18. same here. about '72 ish.

watched it alone at night, everyone else in my family asleep. scared the daylights out of me.

[livetohike]

13. It was filmed in my hometown. I took my younger brothers

and sister to see it when it opened. I was 16. My siblings still remember that. It was scarier because it was a hometown thing. I think my youngest brother had nightmares for months.

[jpak]

15. Mission Accomplished

George Romero smiles from undead.

[wryter2000]

32. Didn't local people play the zombies?

I remember hearing that.

[livetohike]

33. Yes! Friends of George Romero and a local celebrity Bill

Cardille, who was a host of a late Sat. night TV show called "Chiller Theater".

[mahatmakanejeeves]

14. Can't recall. It's been decades.

I've never seen it in a movie the-aye-ter. I've only seen it on television.

Just as highly recommended as you can get.

[samnsara]

16. when i was a high school counselor i got this as their ASB film ;)

[Muffy88]

17. On TV

On tv in the 70s in CT at my grandparents house. My brother and I were supposed to asleep. We found it on a channel late at night and were terrified but driven to watch it. Funny it begins with the brother and sister...

[Skittles]

19. the absolute best way

late at the drive-in when I was a teenager

[VermontKevin]

20. WWOR in New York. I guess early in the 70s.

I think it was one of the Million Dollar Movies.

[Yupster]

21. I was 8-9 years old

My parents took us to a Drive-In in New Jersey.

Night of the Living Dead scared us kids to death.

Then Rosemary's Baby started and my parents took us home within a few minutes of it starting.

On edit, checking the dates, those two movies came out in 68 when I would have been nine, so it must have been a few years later when it was in the Drive In, maybe when I was 10-11. Or did they show first run movies in Drive Ins back the?

How should I know. I was nine years old at the time. And stay off my lawn.

[jberryhill]

28. Yeah, there were horror movies that did first runs at Drive-Ins

And then people started complaining if there were nearby residential areas with a view of the screen.

[Solly Mack]

22. I was young. Not yet a teen.

Loved it!

Why on earth would anyone cling to another human during a zombie flick?

That's how you get bitten.

You nestled into them only to discover they've turned.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

23. US documentary filmmaker George A. Romero dies at 77.

Link to tweet

[NobodyHere]

24. I saw it via Rifftrax

Honestly I've never been into Zombie movies

[Floyd R. Turbo]

26. 1969 Hollywood!

A group of us dropped acid and went to see it on a double bill with Tod Browning's Freaks. After a few weeks some of us were able to speak coherently again!

[jberryhill]

27. It was like, 9:00 PM, I think

Something like, oh hell, a long time ago.

[NBachers]

29. When it came out, I took my girlfriend to see it at a country drive in outside of Kalamazoo.

I'd read a little review in the Village Voice that said it was the real thing, and had the audience screaming.

We knew from the opening graveyard scene that we were in for "not-your-usual-scary-movie." Before the movie was over, she was in a fetal position on the floor in the rear seat of the car. For her sake, I had to leave about 10 minutes before the end. As I drove home alone down the dark Michigan country roads, I expected to see the zombies reeling down the road towards us.

There was an intermission in the middle of the movie, but no one got out of their cars and went to the refreshment stand. I heard, though, that some pranksters went up to cars and reached into the windows, scaring people.

[Laffy Kat]

30. Can't remember except it was with my older sister and babysitter.

We were unaware of the political message until the end. It really upset all of us and I was young enough that I couldn't imagine why they killed the star of the movie. May have been the beginning of my woke.

[wryter2000]

31. Oddly enough

I first saw it on TV on the night of Nixon's Saturday Night Massacre. My boyfriend was out, and when he came home he told me Nixon had fired the Attorney General and a few other people until he got to someone who'd fire the special prosecutor.

I love that movie. I had it on VCR. Maybe Netflix has it.

[montana_hazeleyes]

34. It was in the 70's.

I was in the family room watching it alone. Three of my kids were watching in the living room together.
The scene in the graveyard where the girl was trying to get away from zombie man and crashed her car and couldn't open the door and it looked like he was going to get her, sent my kids running to mom scared to death, only to find me with a blanket over my head peeping out at the tv through a hole in the blanket! lol

That movie was pure genius.

[MosheFeingold]

36. I really hope Romero doesn't mind

If we do a double-tap just to make sure he's going to stay down.