It's not every unfinished zombie flick that gets a black-tie screening at Cannes. But when George Romero unspooled the first 14 minutes of his about-to-be-released Land of the Dead at this year's festival, he got the full red-carpet treatment: velvet ropes, uniformed honor guard, flashing strobes. The preview shared the bill with Midnight Movies, a documentary about such early underground films as Pink Flamingos, Eraserhead, and Romero's own series-spawning Night of the Living Dead. Low-budget pics all, these movies found their cult followings in the '70s at midnight screenings in grungy theaters thick with marijuana smoke.
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