Night Of The Living Dead Film Analysis

The horror film’s central focus is primarily the family. The family is one of the most understood aspects in the world because it is the connection that everyone is grown up with throughout their life. The way to connect with a person is by dealing with family. The dynamics of family become part of the normality of each culture in the world. In Night of the Living Dead the cannibalistic nature of the androgynous monster becomes part of the world which threatens the social constructs of normality, and stretches family dynamics. This movie starts off as a family outing to the cemetery. The audience sees Barbara and Johnny walking through the cemetery to give someone flowers. Johnny’s attitude and discussion of the person allows the audience to know it is about his father. He doesn’t feel it’s necessary to give his father flowers every year, because he never remembered him. It was also primarily for his mother’s sake. Barbara tells Johnny to take a few minutes and actually try to remember him. This shows that Barbara still

One thing about normality is to check to see who the person is before killing them. The police are supposed to defend the people, and only kill when it is necessary. This is not the case in Night of the Living Dead. When the police, and others, come to the house surrounded by ghouls they automatically kill them. They outnumber the ghouls, however they do not check to see if someone is still alive. They assume that they are ghouls and destroy them. There is never an idea that they are actually creating the ghouls. Ben comes up from the cellar as a human, and is killed because he is ‘one of them’. They see his slow stature, and his inability to communicate, and they place him into a category. Their defending of survivors is not evident in their minds. Their sole purpose is to destroy the monsters. This shows that the ghouls will always come back because they are killing before they acknowledge the