The Hungry Dead: Midnight and Escape from the Living Dead

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But what he envisioned was a monster born of some global catastrophe not unlike the events depicted in World War Z.

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In previous decades, zombies were mainly slaves of the Haitian voodoo variety. There is nothing more nightmarish than having the entire planet swarming with the infected. I have only ever seen Night of the Living Dead on television, and still, it made a lasting impression. Having read the book, I can certainly see why.

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But in the book, these people are clueless. And they cannot fathom the idea that the dead are shuffling around, not to mention the fact that they are pretty damned hungry. Try not to be jaded when you read this book. Remember, times were very different. The people in Night of the Living Dead were living small, ordinary lives.

I love this book! I feel as though I'm experiencing the film for the first time all over again. When I first saw it as a kid I probably shouldn't have , I didn't think it would be scary, what with it being a black-and-white film. Boy was I wrong! I was horrified and genuinely freaked out. Of all the zombie films out thereincluding those of George RomeroI have to say, Night of the Living Dead is my favorite.

And I think I know why: He doesn't need to rely on explicit violence and gore although there's plenty of that , because he has great story-telling technique and knows how to build tension and suspense. The plot is simple and solid. Danger surrounds you, keeping you on your toes, stressed out and paranoid, looking over your shoulders with a sense of dread and impending doom, which continues to rise until the horrific climax. Russo definitely deserves more recognition, as I believe him to be the true genius behind zombie horror. Trust me, this book is excellent.

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I remember reading it back in high school and loving it until a neighbor snagged it on the day he was moving. A re-edited version of Night of the Living Dead by a few members of its creative team, excluding director George Romero. It cuts 15 minutes from the original and replaces it with 15 minutes of newly-shot footage.

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The Hungry Dead by John A. Russo

Here, for the first time in one volume, are two of the master's most gruesome and demented novels of gut-wrenching mayhem. Midnight First, they captured small animals.

Then, they moved on to bigger prey. Now the backwoods family that slays together stays together for one last midnight snack: Escape From The Living Dead In an isolated roadside diner, a desperate group of strangers barricade themselves against a ravenous horde of undead customers who crave something more than the early bird special. With a side order of brains and stomach-turning terror. Paperback , pages.

The Hungry Dead

Published September 24th by Kensington first published January 1st To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about The Hungry Dead , please sign up. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Aug 11, Monica Sessoms rated it did not like it.

This may have been the worst book I have ever read. Dec 03, Linda rated it really liked it Shelves: I have been a Night of the Living Dead fan since I was a kid. I picked this up hoping for some campy fun zombie romp. But since this book contained two very different books I need to review them separately.

The plot was basically 16 years after the zombie plague a crazy doctor is experimenting on zombies and all hell breaks loose. This book was horrid. There were so many flaws that I was cringing by the time I finished. My biggest problem was that there was no consisten I have been a Night of the Living Dead fan since I was a kid. My biggest problem was that there was no consistency. Sometimes the zombies felt pain other times they didn't.

Sometimes they seemed to be able to reason and other times they were mindless eating machines. The electric lines were destroyed but a garage door opener worked. And there was a vampire sub-plot that didn't go anywhere but sort of felt like it was a prequel to another book.

This book is about a Satanic cult. Reading this book reminded me so much of when I was a kid on Saturday afternoons sitting on my Grandpa's couch watching really bad horror movies from the 60s and 70s. The really good low-budget blood-splattered gore fests. This book was like watching one of those movies. It was spot on.

John Russo - Zombies & Night of the Living Dead

Mar 08, Douglas Castagna rated it it was amazing. This book contains Escape from The Dead, and Midnight, this review is of the first half of the book. Escape from the Dead is the third "living dead" book from the man who helped create the Zombie movie genre with George Romero. John Russo breathes new life into the genre with creating a new slant on the cause and effect of whatever it is that caused the dead to rise up.

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