Night of the Living Dead (1968) trailer

[krakenslayer]

I didn't know there was still a surviving trailer from the movie's original release, I've had few copies of it on DVD and this has never been amongst the extras (at least not that I've watched before), nor have I ever come across this online before in all my year of Dead fandom. Maybe you've all seen this before, but it's certainly new to me. But seriously, is this the scariest fucking trailer you've ever seen before or what? It's scarier than the fucking movie!!

[EvilNed]

Looks kinda cool. This a new film?

[blind2d]

Totally agree, excellent trailer. Yeah, I have it on my edition of DVD (the red box). It's cool.

[Bub666]

Yeah I've seen this before,awesome trailer.

[ProfessorChaos]

seen it before, but i always get a kick out of that super-pregnant pause NIGHT.... ....OF THE LIVING DEAD!

[blind2d]

I showed it to me mates once and they were well spooked!

[krakenslayer]

Isn't it weird that they replaced the original shot of the mangled face with something else (who is that?) but then they show it anyway, later in the trailer?

[bassman]

You mean the shot at the start? Looks like a shot of Johnny or some other zombie looking through the windows....

[clanglee]

Night!!

[ProfessorChaos]

Isn't it weird that they replaced the original shot of the mangled face with something else (who is that?) but then they show it anyway, later in the trailer? You mean the shot at the start? Looks like a shot of Johnny or some other zombie looking through the windows.... i think he's referring to this, which is the remains of the old lady upstairs (her face) and talking about how when ben drags the body away, the face is intact...which is because instead of dragging a dummy with ping-pong balls for eyeballs, he's actually draggin kyra (girl who played karen cooper) away. like i said, i think....

[clanglee]

Of the Living Dead!!!

[ProfessorChaos]

i think the dude's voice is kinda funny too..maybe it's just the way he talks...like at 1:27 to 1:30 when he says: "a night of to-tal ter-raaar"

[DubiousComforts]

i think he's referring to this, which is the remains of the old lady upstairs (her face) and talking about how when ben drags the body away, the face is intact...which is because instead of dragging a dummy with ping-pong balls for eyeballs, he's actually draggin kyra (girl who played karen cooper) away. like i said, i think.... He's referring to this: The corpse in the trailer... ...is not the same as the corpse seen in the film: Nobody seems to recall there were two corpses. I asked George Romero about it but he doesn't remember, and John Russo was too crabby to entertain the question.

[bassman]

They look the same to me. Just at different angles.

[DubiousComforts]

They look the same to me. Just at different angles. The trailer corpse is not the same as the one seen in the film, which has more flesh on it and different hair. There's an alternate view of the trailer version on the 25th anniversary laserdisc in a photo from Marilyn Eastman's scrapbook where you can see the differences: