Tempe Entertainment, 1993

Released in 1993, this shot-on-video documentary features interviews with the main players from NOTLD, such as George Romero, John Russo, Russ Streiner, Karl Hardman, and Marilyn Eastman, all reminiscing on the making of the film, and how it's affected their careers.  Lots of great footage, such as Karl Hardman playing tracks from the Capitol Hi-Q Library (the source of NOTLD's soundtrack), and a round table discussion with Romero, Russo, Hardman and Streiner (this was supposedly the first time all four individuals had gathered together for over twenty years), along with fan testimonials by Sam Raimi, Wes Craven, Scott Spiegel, Tobe Hooper, John Landis, and others.  This 87 minute version was produced by Tempe Entertainment, and was officially licensed by the original film's creators.  Tempe plans to release this on DVD in the near future, but for now, this VHS version is all we have.  It can be ordered from the Tempe website here.

Simitar, 1993

Also released in 1993 was Simitar's 2 VHS edition, with a not-so-flattering transfer of the original film (which runs only 90 minutes in length).  This release has a compressed version of the Tempe documentary, clocking in around 55 minutes, with lots of interesting footage edited out.  As with the Tempe release, this version was officially licensed by the original film's creators.  This VHS is only worthy of a mention because of the inclusion of the documentary.

Hal Roach Studios/Video Treasures, 1986

In the mid 1980's this version was released and was actually the first version of the film that I ever owned.  In this colorized version, the zombies are inappropriately colored green.  The colorization job is poor.  I think that perhaps the colorization process would go much easier had they used one of the better prints put later by Elite.  It is nice to own for novelty reasons, and is only worth mentioning because it marks the first time that NOTLD was colorized.