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All teen and kid reviews for Night of the Living Dead

Age
11
Average rating based on 23 kid and teen reviews:
  • 70% say violence is an issue
Teen, 15 years old
July 19, 2011
 
A classic
It was a lot less violent than other movies that are rated pg-13 these days, and it was not scary, only a bit B&W bloody

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Teen, 14 years old
June 1, 2011
 
B&W horror film is not rated; probably R back then, most likely PG-13 nowadays.
My rating: PG-13 for images of zombie horror violence and some gore. [NOTE: In 2011, there is probably one factor that might make it R rated, which is the scene in which the undead are eating the intestines of the humans they have killed. It's not graphic, of course, and it's in black and white, of course, but it's gross.]

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Kid, 13 years old
April 25, 2010
 
classic, and revoulutionary
Now, i'm going to defend myself on this decision, i say 10+ because it is pretty creepy, and they would have to be mature enough to appreciate this masterpiece.

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Kid, 12 years old
October 29, 2011
 
I saw it when I was 10 and had nightmares for weeks
It's a perfectly good movie but it is very, very, very scary and quite gory. You won't regret giving it a miss

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Teen, 14 years old
October 3, 2010
 
If this is the classic George A. Romero "Night of the Living Dead" this review's talking about, then I don't know why CSM rates it "iffy for ages 16-17". I just saw this film about a month or so ago--it was pretty violent, but 1. it's in black-and-white and 2. there are two scenes I can remember that are disgusting (not QUITE scary though), which are a. the scene where the dead girl takes a gardening tool and starts stabbing her living mother over and over with it, and b. the scene where the zombies are eating human intestines (again, in black-and-white, and impossible to believe to be realistic, if any form of real at all). The horror starts out (and pretty much ends) as lame horror--just the usual sudden music played to resemble that the "living dead" are coming--but nothing at all is graphic. So I say "iffy for ages 12-13"!

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Teen, 16 years old
August 8, 2009
 
Genius Film
This film, about the breakout of a virus from space, is genius. The main characters are boarded up in a house, and they slowly turn against each other. It's done well, and the flesh eating monsters only help out the movie.

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Teen, 16 years old
April 14, 2011
 
Groundbreaking Film is Relatively Tame by Today's Standards
In 1968 Night of the Living Dead broke ground in terms of gore and violence. In 2011, not so much. In a world where I often see three year olds walking out of R-rated theaters, Night of the Living Dead is not the worst possible movie to watch with any kids around. It's Creepy, Atmospheric, and Yes, Violent, but not in a way that would invoke any reprocussions.

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Teen, 17 years old
December 14, 2010
 
This is a wonderful movie! Not really scary at all. Though the scene where the lady gets stabbed by her 6 year old zombie daughter is a little bloody. This is like a Zombie master piece!

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Teen, 14 years old
July 21, 2010
 
A classic
This movie was controversial for its time. It was one of the reasons the MPAA was founded. Suggested MPAA rating: R for zombie violence and gore

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Teen, 18 years old
October 11, 2009
 
Good for non squemmish or easly scared people
Ok to start the movie is in black and white Its pretty gory though you see images like a young girl ( who was zombiafied ) killing her mother with a gardening spade later eating her , and zombies eating dismembered human bodies , i mean its a zombie movie / Now bad role models in the movie people turn on each other and kill them or injure them , there is also a scene where a man punches a woman unconscious Soo make sure they know not to do that in real life , this movie is suspense type PS : dont isten to the people commenting on for age 2 or 6 i highly dont recommend that

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Teen, 16 years old
July 6, 2011
 
A truely great and terrifying classic.
It was a very good movie with plenty of disturbing scenes and scary zombies. There was no swearing or sexual content. Just voilence, gore, and terrifying zombies. You should see this classic, it is great.

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Teen, 14 years old
April 5, 2011
 
Great film, but a tad violent
I loved this movie and I don't really see anything wrong with it for teens, but I definately wouldn't show it to a younger kid.

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Teen, 14 years old
July 26, 2010
 
Its Unrealizm Makes it Okay
Most likely the most controversial movie of its time, Night of the Living Dead is the grandfather of all zombie movies. The black-and-white of the film adds a little bit of unrealizm to it, and the zombies are so freaking slow! Honestly, a trailer for Zombieland is scarier than this movie, but it is pretty violent. It gave the the creeps, but didn't scar me for life. A great warm up film to the zombie or horror genres that teaches a very important lesson: don't stick together or you'll get murdered by zombies.

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Teen, 15 years old
January 2, 2012
 
NOTLD
This movie is good but VERY SCARY AND GORY. Some blood is shown where zombies are killed. The worst parts are a human being stabbed repeatedly with tons of blood, and zombies eating human body parts. One zombie is naked (seen from the back) and their makeup can look very gross. Little language, some smoking. I stress that this movie is SCARY. I saw it at 15 and I was very scared, mainly within the first 10 minutes.

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Kid, 11 years old
November 18, 2011
 
Really creepy but disturbing
I think it'd be on 10+ if it wasn't so gross. I liked it and there was no sex or language so if you don't get grossed out or creeped out easily than you'd love it! But this is a scary movie and, in reality, it's nothing compared to other scary movies.

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Kid, 12 years old
March 8, 2012
 
S for stupid T for terrible U for unfunny P for perfectly awful I for irratating D for dumb. Altogether that spells "STUPID"
I started this movie, And I HATED IT!!!!!!!! It's cheesy, it's stupid, and it's pointless. The reason I said "Not for kids" is because it's not for anybody else either. It is a big waste of time. The violence is nothing to worry about. Sure, there are zombies breaking through doors and eating people every few seconds, but the film is in black and white! There is NO objectionable language, NO sexual content, and NO drinking, drugs or smoking. MPAA made it TV-14 for the "violence" and "nude zombies". My rating is R for uncontrolled stupidness.Don't bother:(

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Teen, 16 years old
April 9, 2008
 
Let the kids See it!
I saw it when I was 11. My parents were a little mad, but I think this movie is perfectly aproprite for kids 12 and over! This movie should probably be watched with a perent though.

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Teen, 15 years old
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Teen, 13 years old
October 24, 2011
 
Zombies, Flesh, Horror oh my!!!
Violent, Gross, Gory, Disgusting!!!! I can't tell you how may nightmares I have to this day from this movie!!! Horriable! I am telling you no one should be forced to watch this. I am so freaked out, zombies, blood, flesh oh my!!!

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Teen, 14 years old
July 16, 2009
 
Violence is its purpose.
This movie is explicitly violent. Even though it is a horror classic, it isn't very good. And they never really explain why the dead came back. They just rose out of the grave for no reason.

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