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Released
1968 · FILM

Night of the Living Dead

When a mysterious outbreak turns the dead into ravenous ghouls, a traumatized woman and a resourceful handyman must defend a besieged farmhouse against the horde—and the secrets among the survivors.

“If it doesn't scare you, you're already dead!”

Directed by
George A Romero
Written by
John A Russo, George A Romero
Rated
MPA · NR
Color
Black & White
Runtime
96 min
HorrorThriller
Streaming on
  • The Criterion Channel

Synopsis

A group of mismatched individuals takes refuge in an old farmhouse in Pennsylvania to escape a swarm of flesh-eating ghouls spreading through the Northeast.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 39

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Box Office

1968 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 265× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$30.2M

Budget$114K
Worldwide gross$30.2M
break-even (2.5×)

Re-release box office

2018534 theaters
$147K($194K today)

Domestic gross earned in theatrical re-release, by year · adjusted for inflation

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • Die Nacht der lebenden Totende
  • La noche de los muertos vivienteses
  • La Nuit des morts-vivantsfr
  • La notte dei morti viventiit

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