The great american director will meet the audience in the afternoon, during a masterclass, organized in collaboration with the daily newspaper Il Piccolo, that will take place at the Scuola Superiore di Lingue Moderne per Interpreti e Traduttori (via Filzi, 14).Also, today, the film exhibition of Romero’s works will be inaugurated with the screening of his masterpiece, Night of the living Dead, at the multiplex Cinecity/The Space.
Siblings Johnny (Russ Streiner) and Barbara (Judith O’Dea) whine and pout their way through a graveside visit in a small Pennsylvania town, but it all takes a turn for the worse when a zombie kills Johnny. Barbara flees to an isolated farmhouse where a group of people are already holed up. Bickering and panic ensue as the group tries to figure out how best to escape, while hoards of undead converge on the house; news reports reveal that fire wards them off, while a local sheriff-led posse discovers that if you “kill the brain, you kill the ghoul.” After a night of immolation and parricide, one survivor is left in the house…
