Jules Gill's 10 Greatest Films Of All Time

George A. Romero's Night Of The Living Dead holds a special place in my heart for being one of the subjects of my university dissertation, and I've pored over every single moment of this piece again and again. Yet I'm not sick of it in the slightest, for what this represents to me is one of the purest horror experiences we have on record.

Sure, it's definitely showing its age in the gore department, and the acting can be a bit stilted at times, but what this film is absolutely dripping with is atmosphere. There's a real sense of creeping dread that comes from its claustrophobic location and indeed its camera work which sits uncomfortably close to the subject. The audio work, especially when the mother is stabbed by her child in the basement is nauseatingly off-kilter, stunning the ear with sounds so unnatural that it's nauseating.

Plus that ending, man what a bleak downer of an exit Ben gets. It's an ending that has only become more and more loaded as time has gone on and is a chilling statement to leave the film on.