LA: Morricone Youth Live Score of "Night of the Living Dead"

Name: LA: Morricone Youth Live Score of "Night of the Living Dead"
Start: 2025-10-09T19:00:00-07:00
Location: Brain Dead Studios

Schedule

Thu, 09 Oct, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Brain Dead Studios | West Hollywood, CA

Thu, Oct 9, Doors 7 pm / Show 7:30 pm
Director: George A. Romero
Run Time: 96 min.
Release Year: 1968
Starring: Duane Jones, Judith O'Dea, Judith Ridley, Karl Hardman, Marilyn Eastman
Night of the Living Dead
Presented by Brain Dead Studios — a special one-night pre-Halloween screening of George A. Romero’s 1968 zombie classic with a live score by NYC’s Morricone Youth!
What else can be said about George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead? Not only did it give birth to the modern notion of what a “zombie” is and provide a socio-political context in which we can view the zombie (and horror film as a genre), but it is also one of the most important films of the 20th Century. A true case of underground filmmaking capturing the current climate, Night of the Living Dead shows what happens when seven strangers wind up in a barnhouse during the beginning of the zombie apocalypse. And while the dead are rising, it’s the alive ones they really have to worry about. It is, obviously, a thrilling way to kick start your Halloween season.
Morricone Youth is a collective of New York City musicians founded in 1999, reinterpreting 100+ film and television works all over the world — from CBGB’s and the top of the World Trade Center to the Brooklyn Academy of Music, MassMoCA, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and The Sydney Festival — as well as supporting Italian prog soundtrack legends Goblin on their 2017 North American tour. In addition to scoring for film and documentaries, the band has composed and performed 15 different silent film and midnight movie live scores, including F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu (1922), Robert Clouse’s Enter The Dragon (1973), Jack Hill’s Foxy Brown (1974), David Lynch’s Eraserhead (1977) and Rene Laloux’s La Planete Savauge (1973). In 2016 they embarked on a 15-vinyl series for each film, the first 7 of which have been released for George Miller’s Mad Max (1979), George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (1968), F.W. Murnau’s Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927), Lotte Reiniger’s The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926), Mario Bava’s Danger: Diabolik (1968), Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1928) and Sergei Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin (1926).
Night of the Living Dead was composed and first performed for two sold-out 2015 live film scoring events at Nitehawk Cinema in Brooklyn of George A. Romero’s 1968 zombie horror classic, and has since been performed in movie theatres, art museums, rock clubs, and DIY venues all over the world. The 5th pressing on “Romero blue film poster” 150g vinyl of the long out-of-print 2016 EP is distributed by Light In The Attic Records and also available through the Morricone Youth website (morriconeyouth.com) and Bandcamp.