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Night of the Living Dead (1990)

★ 6.9 · 938 ratings on TMDB

There IS a fate worse than death.

Night of the Living Dead poster★ 6.9

A ragtag group barricade themselves in an old Pennsylvania farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls ravaging the Northeast.

DirectorTom Savini
CastBill Moseley, Heather Mazur, Katie Finneran, McKee Anderson, Pat Reese, Patricia Tallman
GenresHorror
The emergence reading

Night of the Living Dead keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

zero-distanceUS
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E6mortalitydeath no longer terminates life; corpses reanimate as mindless predators (biology · universal)
Also inFilms that alter a rule of reality
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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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