Night of the Living Dead Page #6

- Come on!

- This key won't work.

Watch it.

Watch the torch!

We've gotta get away from the pump!

Hang on!

Stop! I'm telling you guys

to get outta the truck!

Let's get outta here!

Come on, come on!

My jacket's caught.

Let me in!

Cooper!

I ought to drag you out there

and feed you to those things.

Isn't it three o'clock yet?

There's supposed to be another

broadcast at three o'clock.

Ten minutes.

Oh. Only ten more minutes?

We don't have very long to wait.

We can leave.

Or we better leave soon.

It's ten minutes to three.

You know anything

about this area at all?

I mean,

is Willard the nearest town?

I don't know.

We were...

Just trying to get

to a motel before dark.

You said those things

turned your car over.

You think we can get it back on

its wheels and drive it? Where is it?

Seems like it was pretty far away.

Seems like we ran.

Forget it.

It's at least a mile.

Johnny has the keys.

You're going to carry

that child a mile?

Through that army

of things out there?

I can carry the kid.

What's wrong with her?

How'd she get hurt?

- One of those things grabbed her.

- Bit her on the arm.

What's wrong?

Who knows what kind of disease

those things carry?

- Is she conscious?

- Barely.

She can't walk.

She's too weak.

Well, one of us could try

to get to the car.

You gonna turn it over

by yourself?

You can't start the car.

Johnny has the keys.

You have a car?

Where? Where is it?

- You won't be able to start it.

- Yeah. I know. But where is it?

Good lord.

At this hour, they report the level

of the mysterious radiation

continues to increase steadily.

So long as this situation remains,

government spokesmen warn

that dead bodies

will continue to be transformed

into the flesh-eating ghouls.

All persons who die during

this crisis, from whatever cause,

will come back to life

to seek human victims.

Unless their bodies are

first disposed of by cremation.

Our News cameras

have just returned

from covering such a search and

destroy operation against the ghouls.

This one conducted

by sheriff Conan McClellan

in Butler County, Pennsylvania.

So now let's go

to that film report.

All law enforcement agencies

and the military

have been organized to search out

and destroy the marauding ghouls.

The survival command center

at the Pentagon

has disclosed

that a ghoul can be killed

by a shot in the head

or a heavy blow to the skull.

Officials are quoted as explaining

that since the brain of a ghoul has

been activated by the radiation,

the plan is, kill the brain

and you kill the ghoul.

- Want anything from the supply wagon?

- No, we're all right.

Hey, Cass, put that thing

all the way in the fire.

- We don't want it getting up again.

- All right, I gotcha.

Chief McClellan,

how's everything going?

Oh, things aren't going too bad.

Men are taking it pretty good.

You want to get on the other side

of the road over there.

Chief, do you think we'll be

able to defeat these things?

Well, we killed 19 of them

today, right in this area.

Those last three we caught trying to

claw their way into an abandoned shed.

They must have thought somebody

was in there. There wasn't, though.

We heard 'em making all kind of noise.

We came over and beat 'em off,

blasted 'em down.

Chief, as soon as you're finished,

can I see you here?

Yeah, ok.

Chief, if I were surrounded

by six or eight of these things,

would I stand a chance with them?

Well, there's no problem. If you

had a gun, shoot 'em in the head.

That's a sure way to kill 'em.

If you don't, get yourself

a club or a torch.

Beat 'em or burn 'em.

They go up pretty easy.

Well, chief McClellan,

how long do you think it'll take

until you get the situation

under control?

Well, that's pretty hard to say. We

don't know how many of 'em there are.

We know when we find 'em,

we can kill 'em.

Are they slow-moving, chief?

Yeah, they're dead.

They're all messed up.

Well, in time, would you say you'd be

able to wrap this up in 24 hours?

Well, we don't really know.

We know we'll be into it most of the

night, probably into the early morning.

We're working our way toward Willard

and we'll team up with the

National Guard over there,

and then we'll be able

to give a more definite view.

Thank you very much,

chief McClellan.

This is Bill Cardille,

WIC-TV 11 news.

Thank you, Bill, for that report.

Official spokesmen

declined to speculate

just how long it may

take to kill off all the flesh-eaters

so long as the heavy ra...

Is the fuse box in the cellar?

I don't know. I...

Is... isn't the fuse...

The power lines are down.

Helen?

I have to get that gun.

Haven't you had enough?

Two people are dead already,

on account of that guy.

Take a look out that window.

Look at...

Get over here, man!

Come on!

Go ahead. Go ahead.

You wanna stay up here now?

Helen, get in the cellar.

Get in the cellar now!

Move!

Karen?

Oh, baby.

Baby.

No... no...

No! Johnny!

Somebody help me.

Hey, Vince, Bill,

you wanna get about four

or five men and a couple dogs?

There's a house over here behind those

trees. We wanna go check it out.

You still here, Bill?

Yeah, chief,

we're going to stay with it

till we meet up

with the National Guard.

- Where'd you get the coffee?

- One of the volunteers.

- You're doing all the work, take it.

Thank you.

We should be wrapped up here.

About three or four more hours,

we'll probably get into Willard's end.

I guess you can go over there

and meet the national guard.

Nick, you and the rest

of these men wanna come with me?

Bill, I'm checking the office

to see what's happening.

All right, Steve, tell 'em

we're going to stay with it

and everything appears

to be under control.

They need you down there

by the barn.

You guys can follow the wagon down.

I only need a few men

to check out the house.

- Somebody had a cookout here, Vince.

- Yeah, sure looks like it, Con.

He's a dead one.

Get up here!

Nick! Tony! Steve!

You wanna get out in that

field and build me a bonfire?

You. Drag that out of here

and throw it on the fire.

Nothing down here.

All right. Go ahead down

and give 'em a hand.

Let's go check out the house.

There's something there.

I heard a noise.

All right, Vince. Hit him in the head.

Right between the eyes.

Good shot. Ok, he's dead.

Let's go get him.

That's another one for the fire.

All right, send a wagon through...

Keep those dogs back off

of those things.

Come ahead with the motorcycle,

please. Let's go!

Hey Randy,

light these torches over here.

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