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Welcome to the Living Dead Archive

A shrine to the film that started it all — George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (1968). Because it’s in the public domain, you can watch the whole thing right here, free, forever.

📺 Feature Presentation

Settle in. The complete 96-minute feature streams inside a flickering CRT television — static and all (you can switch the static off if your nerves can’t take it).

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The Film in Brief

Siblings Barbra and Johnny drive out to a rural Pennsylvania cemetery to visit their father’s grave. A pale, shambling stranger attacks — and by nightfall the recently dead are rising across the countryside, hungry for the living. Barbra takes refuge in a lonely farmhouse with a resourceful stranger named Ben and a handful of terrified survivors. What unfolds is a single, brutal night that rewrote horror forever.

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Why is it free?

Through a now-famous distribution blunder, Night of the Living Dead was released without a proper copyright notice — and under the law of the day, it fell straight into the public domain. It belongs to everyone now. Here’s the whole story »