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Zombie Dad		#61	[-]
(02/12/08 4:36 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	"The cellar is the safest place!!!" ZD
killer meteor		#62	[-]
(02/12/08 4:50 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Fantastic art!
MikeTheMook		#63	[-]
(02/12/08 5:41 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	porta wrote: would you still choose the cellar if you saw what I built earlier? Hey, that looks pretty zombie proof. Sure thing Porta! But, bring some girls, okay? My whole life I've been playing jacks with a square ball.
Koukol 5		#64	[-]
(02/12/08 6:05 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	GREAT work ZD!
Bobtheman	Q & A	#65	[-]
(02/12/08 7:38 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Q: What does Night of the Living Dead have in common with Bambergers? A: The Cellar !!!
Zombie Dad		#66	[-]
(02/12/08 9:00 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Thanks, guys! ZD
Hollywood Gothique		#67	[-]
(02/13/08 12:41 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Years later, after the release of DAWN OF THE DEAD, he recanted his initial opinions and agreed that the film was well done and had merit. This is hair-splitting, but I don't think Ebert ever recanted his Reader's Digest review. Rather, he spun it, saying he had not reviewed the film but the audience - which is kinda, sorta true. Nevertheless, a sense of outrage emerges in his review, and some of it is definitely directed at the movie.
thevaultofhorror		#68	[-]
(02/13/08 5:25 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	n0s4a2 wrote: I saw it at a drive-in when I was 16, must have been in the summer of '70. I had never heard of it, and at first I thought it looked like a cheap, off-brand little piece of junk, but this only made it more frightening, as those responsible were obviously not bound by any standards of common decency, and I felt as though I had accidentally wandered into a nightmare. It was gripping and devastating. I went with some older guys and before the film began we were laughing and talking, but afterward we were real quiet and sort of regretted exposing ourselves to such strong stuff. It affected me deeply and I felt that I was entering an adult world that was very unforgiving. I was morose for a few days and at night I tried not to think of it. This is almost the EXACT reaction I had to first seeing Dawn of the Dead on video at the age of 15. My other blogs: Following the Equator: A Mark Twain Blog and Standard of the Day! My DVD collection: http://www.dvdspot.com/member=bsol
brianalbright		#69	[-]
(02/13/08 6:31 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	If you follow the link to Ebert's review posted earlier in this thread, there's an addendum that somewhat clarifies his position on the film -- although that could just be hindsight revisionism.
Reegs		#70	[-]
(02/15/08 8:20 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	SAM33 wrote: I recall reading an "attack" on this film in a Reader's Digest when it first came out - can't recall whether it was Ebert's article or not, might have been. SAM33 I read that Digest article, too, Thought to myself "Jeez, I'd like to see this flick" and forgot about it. I first saw NOTLD years later, probably light night TV. It only took a few minutes into it when that article came back - this was the movie that the moral guardians at RD were talking about! From that point on I thoroughly enjoyed having my values twisted!
Adolf Kitler		#71	[-]
(03/19/08 10:29 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	I made the mistake of hounding my mom to buy a VHS copy of NOTLD in 1984, at the local Target department store. I was already a rabid horror film fan, but nothing I watched up to that point prepared me. Unlike the "fun" horror films I was previously exposed to (Creature from the Black Lagoon, Frankenstein, etc) these were monsters that could come from your own neighborhood. Adding to that, we lived a few blocks from a large cemetary, and a couple of miles from a hospital. Every night for several months, before dark broke, I'd do a recon of the neighborhood and see if any shamblers were walking towards our block. Here I was at 14, long ago gave up on believing in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny, believing that dead people could, at any time, bounce up and start attacking! Yeah, I was a dumb kid. Didn't help any that, once my sadistic older brother noticed that NOTLD gave me the creeps, would occassionally sit on top of me in front of the tv and force me to sit through NOTLD with the volume waaay up, and cruelly tease me with statements like "one of those zombies just walked in the room and is coming towards us. When he gets within a couple of feet, I'm bolting! Good luck!" Funny now, but back then...jeezus, I thought I was going to have a heart attack. I make it a point to watch NOTLD at least once a month...great to remember that, once upon a time, a movie could make me believe the unbelievable.
Koukol 5		#72	[-]
(03/19/08 4:55 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	I see i'm not the only one with a sadistic older brother! Last Edited By: Koukol 5 11/07/09 7:47 PM. Edited 1 times.
Reegs		#73	[-]
(03/20/08 7:04 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	I didn't have a sadistic older brother. I was the sadistic older brother.
MikeTheMook		#74	[-]
(03/20/08 7:50 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Reegs wrote: I didn't have a sadistic older brother. I was the sadistic older brother. Wow! So you're Adolf Kitler's sadistic older brother?! Small world! My whole life I've been playing jacks with a square ball.
Reegs		#75	[-]
(03/20/08 11:12 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	"They're coming to get you, Dolph ...."
Adolf Kitler		#76	[-]
(03/20/08 1:36 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Reegs wrote: "They're coming to get you, Dolph ...." STOP IT! I'M TELLING MOM!
Bill Warren		#77	[-]
(11/07/09 4:23 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	ewounce
Monsterpal		#78	[-]
(11/07/09 6:39 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Zombie Dad wrote: "The cellar is the safest place!!!" ZD Magnificent!
Zombie Dad		#79	[-]
(11/07/09 10:06 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Thanks very much, Monsterpal! ZD

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