NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD - ACT TWO: "The House Fear Built"

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Barbara made it to the house. Barely. Ben's about to turn it into a war zone. Ben spins suddenly inside the kitchen door and the movie stops being polite. This is where Romero strips the fantasy out of survival and leaves you with splinters, sweat, and the sound of a man trying to think faster than death moves. Zeke Alton plays Ben like a man who's already lost but refuses to lie down. He hammers, he plans, he moves. Barbara, still shattered in Olivia Graham's haunting performance, watches him build their coffin and calls it hope. The boards go up. The windows disappear. The house becomes a box. Then Ben does the unthinkable - he lights the dead on fire. A corpse burns in the yard like a…