Rifftrax Releases Night of the Living Dead Live Riff

Because of its unique position as one of the most significant films ever to fall into the public [...]

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Because of its unique position as one of the most significant films ever to fall into the public domain, it's easy to get your hands on an inexpensive copy of George A. Romero's 1968 horror classic Night of the Living Dead. Well, now you can take that a step further and pick up a Rifftrax Live version of the film, now available on video-on-demand and digital download services from the site. In 2013, the Rifftrax crew, made up of veterans of the cult TV classic Mystery Science Theater 3000, did a theatrically-released live riff on Night of the Living Dead, a preview of which you can see below (along with the official product description from Rifftrax:

Fresh out of the grave and ready to download or stream! This is the complete show, including the final short in the beloved Norman Krasner series, Norman Makes a Speech, because Norman is EVERYONE'S favorite zombie! This classic 1968 horror film is where it all began. No, not the cronut trend, we're talking about the omnipresent zombie craze! 28 Weeks Later, Resident Evil: Retribution, that Zack Snyder remake of Dawn of the Dead...We wouldn't have any of them without Night of the Living Dead! (Pause to think about whether this is a good thing.) When she's attacked in a cemetery by zombies, a young woman named Barbara flees to an abandoned farm house. There she's joined by a ragtag group of survivors who band together to wait out the apocalypse, with the occasional light descent into madness. The rest of the movie plays out like The Big Chill, but instead of Glenn Close sobbing naked in the shower, they board up windows and occasionally get devoured alive. So in this respect, Night of the Living Dead is the slightly less depressing movie. Shotguns! Molotov cocktails! Exploding cars! Head shots galore! Like one of those awesome zombie video games (except you don't get to play it), RiffTrax Live: Night of the Living Dead is guaranteed to be scarier than Brad Pitt's beard in World War Z and funnier than the acting on The Walking Dead! You won't want to miss it!

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