Night of the Living Dead/YMMV

"Barbra: We're them. We're them and they're us."
 * Cult Classic
 * Downer Ending: survives the night but is.
 * Bittersweet Ending: The (first) remake by Tom Savini. Barbra manages to find help while Ben finally finds true (temporary) shelter in the basement. As he is listening to the radio, Ben finds the gas key and laughs as the power goes out. Come morning,


 * Also from the remake,  managed to survive by locking himself in the attic (and all the others outside it, where  ); when he hears someone , he comes out and is happy to see
 * Fanon Discontinuity: A "30th Anniversary Edition" of the original film, which cut about 15 minutes' worth of footage from the original (replacing it with newly-produced scenes) and added new sound effects and a modern music score, was made in 1999. It was not well received by fans or critics.
 * Harry Knowles threatened to ban anyone from posting on the Ain't It Cool News comment board if they said anything positive about the 30th Anniversary Edition.
 * High Octane Nightmare Fuel: When Barbra . What makes it especially bad is.
 * When in the basement,  There's just something wrong about  doing that.
 * Informed Wrongness: Cooper, the obnoxious Jerkass, is right about what to do (barricade the basement). Square-jawed hero Ben's plan to defend the house ends in disaster.
 * Memetic Mutation: "They're coming to get you, Barbara!" from the original
 * Also from the original, "Yeah, they're dead. They're all messed up."
 * Narm: Ben's description of the diner incident and the scene where he beats up on Cooper kind of flirt with this.
 * Padding: Barbara slowly tells Ben the whole story about how she got to the house, which we've already seen. Worse is that it follows Ben's far more interesting and action-packed story.
 * Seinfeld Is Unfunny: Night completely rewrote how horror movies are made - more graphic, more political, more nihilistic. Before this movie, even horror movies rarely had any Downer Ending. Nowadays they're expected. Today, this film would be relatively goreless, but still pretty scary.
 * Straw Man Has a Point: Jerkass Cooper was right about barricading the basement,.
 * What Do You Mean It's Not for Kids?: This shock movie was the first of its kind - parents were used to their children going to a saturday afternoon matinee seeing "scary" movies with monsters in rubber suits, little gore, and upbeat endings. The MPAA rating system still hadn't been established. Roger Ebert noted that when he went to see it the children in the theater weren't taking it very well in the second half.
 * What Do You Mean It's Not Political?: A lot of people have argued that the movie was making a statement about race via the conflict between Ben and Cooper, . Actually, however, Ben being black had far more to do with Duane Jones simply being the best actor to audition for the role. According to some production members, the only changes to the script to come of his casting was making Ben a smarter person (per the insistence of Jones, who was himself well-educated).