<P> The story follows characters Ben (Jones), Barbra (O'Dea), and five others trapped in a rural farmhouse in Western Pennsylvania, which is attacked by a large and growing group of unnamed "living dead" monsters . </P> <P> Night of the Living Dead led to five subsequent films between 1978 and 2010, also directed by Romero, and inspired two remakes; the most well - known remake was released in 1990, directed by Tom Savini . </P> <P> Barbra (Judith O'Dea) and Johnny Blair (Russell Streiner) drive to rural Pennsylvania for an annual visit to their father's grave . Barbra is attacked by a strange man (Bill Hinzman) walking in the cemetery . Johnny tries to rescue his sister, but the man throws him against a gravestone; Johnny strikes his head on the stone and is killed . After a mishap with the car, Barbra escapes on foot, with the stranger in pursuit, and later arrives at a farmhouse, where she discovers a woman's mangled corpse . Fleeing from the house, she is confronted by strange menacing figures like the man in the graveyard . Ben (Duane Jones) arrives and takes her into the house, driving the "monsters" away and sealing the doors and windows . Throughout the night, Barbra slowly descends into a stupor of shock and insanity . </P> <P> Ben and Barbra are unaware that the farmhouse has a cellar, housing an angry married couple, Harry (Karl Hardman) and Helen Cooper (Marilyn Eastman), along with their daughter Karen (Kyra Schon). They sought refuge after a group of the same monsters overturned their car . Tom (Keith Wayne) and Judy (Judith Ridley), a teenage couple, arrived after hearing an emergency broadcast about a series of brutal murders . Karen has fallen seriously ill after being bitten by one of the monsters . They venture upstairs when Ben turns on a radio, while Barbra awakens from her stupor . Harry demands that everyone hide in the cellar, but Ben deems it a "deathtrap" and continues upstairs, to barricade the house with Tom's help . </P>

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