Hastings Museum (Brian Neben, Central Nebraska Today)
HASTINGS — “They are coming for you, Barbra!”
The Hastings Museum is hosting a showing of George A. Romero’s 1968 classic film, “Night of the Living Dead.”
“A deceptively simple tale of a group of strangers trapped in a farmhouse who find themselves fending off a horde of flesh-eating ghouls, Romero’s claustrophobic vision of a late-1960s America literally tearing itself apart rewrote the rules of the horror genre, combined gruesome gore with acute social commentary,” per the Hastings Museum.
“Shot outside Pittsburgh on a shoestring budget, Night Of The Living Dead is a midnight hit turned box-office smash that became one of the most influential films of all time,” the Hastings Museum stated.
The film introduced the flesh-eating ghouls that would become synonymous with the term “zombie.”
The casting of Duane Jones, a Black man, as Ben was rare at the time, given his figure as the hero of an American film composed of white actors.
The film would go on to earn more than 250 times its budget, making it one of the most profitable films ever made at the time.
The showing will be on Saturday, Oct. 28 at 9 p.m.
Tickets purchased online will be printed for you to pick up at the Visitor Services desk in the museum lobby. Tickets can be purchased at the museum’s website.
