Night of the Living Dead Page #4

if all three of us were working together.

Hey.

Hey, kid.

He's wrong, you know.

I'm not boxing myself in

down there.

Well, we're safe now.

It's boarded up tight.

What about Tom and Judy?

They wanna stay up there.

Let 'em.

There are... two other people upstairs.

A man and a girl.

We heard the screaming.

Yeah, but I didn't know

who they were,

and I wasn't about to take

any unnecessary chances.

Of course not, Harry.

- Is she all right?

- I don't know what it is.

She feels warm.

Maybe it's shock.

Where'd you get the bandage?

Some laundry in the basket.

I tore a sheet.

Let them stay upstairs.

Let them.

Too many ways those monsters

can get in up there.

We'll see who's right.

We'll see, when they come begging me

to let them in down here.

- That's important, isn't it?

- What?

To be right.

Everybody else to be wrong.

What do you mean by that?

Does anyone up there

know why we're being attacked?

Whatever it is,

it isn't just happening here.

It's some kind of mass murder.

It's going on everywhere.

- The radio said to stay inside...

- Radio?

Radio, upstairs.

I heard the news bulletin.

There's a radio upstairs

and you boarded us in down here?

- I know what I'm doing.

- What did it say?

Nothing! Nothing.

They don't know anything yet.

The... there's mass murder

everywhere, and

people are supposed to

look for a safe place to hide.

Take the boards

off that door.

We are staying down here, Helen.

Harry, that radio is at least

some kind of communication.

If the authorities know

what's happening,

Well, they'll send people for us,

or they'll tell us what to do.

How are we going to know

what's going on,

if we lock ourselves in this dungeon?

We may not enjoy living together...

But dying together isn't

going to solve anything.

Those people

aren't our enemies.

Mr. Cooper!

Mr. Cooper? They found

a television set upstairs.

Let's go up.

Tom?

Yes?

If Judy would come downstairs

for a few minutes,

Harry and I

could come upstairs.

Ok. Yeah. Right away.

Will you do it?

Do I have to?

Look, honey. Nothing's gonna get done

with them down there and us up here.

- Do this. For me.

- Ok.

Ok, open up.

I'll take good care of her, Helen.

She's all I have.

Why don't you go upstairs now?

Her brother was killed.

Hey... give me

a hand with this thing.

I gotta go help Ben

with the television.

Don't be afraid of me.

I'm Helen Cooper. Harry's wife.

This place is ridiculous.

Look at this.

There's a million weak spots up here.

Give me one of those.

Her brother was killed.

And they talk about these windows.

I can't see a damned thing.

There could be 15 million of

those things out there.

That's how much good

these windows are.

Why don't you do something

to help somebody?

Here, I have it. Drag a couple

of those chairs together.

There's a socket over here.

Now, you'd better watch this and try

to understand what's going on.

I don't want anyone's life

on my hands.

Is there anything

I can do to help?

I don't want to hear any more

from you, mister.

If you stay up here,

you take orders from me!

And that includes

leaving the girl alone.

It's on! It's on!

There's no sound.

Play with the rabbit ears.

Reports,

incredible as they seem,

are not the results

of mass hysteria.

"Mass hysteria. " What do they think,

we're imagining all this?

Shut up.

In all parts of the country.

The wave of murder which is sweeping

the eastern third of the nation

is being committed by creatures

who feast upon the flesh

of their victims.

First eyewitness accounts

of this grisly development

came from people who were understandably

frightened and almost incoherent.

Officials and newsmen

at first discounted

those eyewitness descriptions

as being beyond belief.

However, the reports persisted.

Medical examinations

of some of the victims

bore out the fact that they

had been partially devoured.

I think we have

some late word just arriving

and we interrupt

to bring this to you.

This is the latest disclosure in a report

from National civil defense

headquarters in Washington.

It has been established

that persons who have recently died

have been returning to life

and committing acts of murder.

A widespread investigation of reports

from funeral homes, morgues & hospitals

has concluded that the unburied dead

are coming back to life

and seeking human victims.

It's hard for us here to believe

what we're reporting to you,

but it does seem to be a fact.

When this emergency first began,

radio and television was

advising people to stay inside,

behind locked doors, for safety.

Well, that situation

has now changed.

We're able to report a definite

course of action for you.

Civil defense machinery has been

organized to provide

rescue stations with food, shelter,

medical treatment and protection

by armed National Guardsmen.

Stay tuned to the broadcasting

stations in your local area

for this list of rescue stations.

This list will be repeated

throughout our news coverage.

Look for the name of the rescue

station nearest you,

and make your way to that

location as soon as possible.

So we have that truck. If we can get

some gas, we can get outta here.

- There's a pump out by the shed.

- I know. That's why I pulled in here.

But it's locked.

...called this afternoon

by the president.

Since convening, this conference

of the presidential cabinet,

The FBI, the joint chiefs of staff,

the CIA

has not produced

any public information.

Why are space experts

being consulted

about an earthbound emergency?

So far, all the betting

on the answer to that question

centers on the recent explorer

satellite shot to Venus.

That satellite, you recall,

started back to Earth,

but never got here.

That's the space vehicle

which orbited Venus

and then was purposely

destroyed by NASA,

when scientists discovered

it was carrying

a mysterious,

high-level radiation with it.

Could that radiation

be somehow responsible

for the wholesale murders

we're now suffering?

Newsman Don Quinn in Washington

has posed those questions.

It's obvious. Our best move is

to try to get out of here.

How're you gonna get

over to that pump?

Look!

You're coming from a meeting regarding

the explosion of the Venus probe,

is that right?

Yes, yes, that was the subject

of the meeting.

Do you feel there is a connection

between this and the phenomenon...

There's a definite connection.

A definite connection.

In other words, you feel that the

radiation on the Venus probe is enough

to cause these mutations?

It was a very high

degree of radiation.

Well, just a minute. I'm not sure

that that's certain at all.

I don't think that has been...

It's the only logical explanation

that we have at this time.

In other words, it is the military's

viewpoint that this...

the radiation is not

the cause of the mutation.

I can't speak for the entire military

at this time, gentlemen.

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