Real coverage on two scripts you can actually read.

• 1968Public domain

  Night of the Living Dead

  by John A. Russo & George A. Romero

  Romero and Russo redefined horror with seven trapped strangers, a farmhouse under siege, and the dawn of the modern zombie. Read what a six-stage Story Notes coverage flags in a script everyone remembers — but few writers have actually opened.

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• 1963Public domain

  Charade

  by Peter Stone

  Stanley Donen’s Hitchcockian romp pits Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant against four killers chasing a fortune through Paris. A masterclass in tonal control and rolling reveals — Story Notes’ read on what makes the structure tick.

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Both films are in the United States public domain — copyright notices were omitted at time of theatrical release, placing the works in the public domain under pre-1978 U.S. copyright law.