There was the macabre sight, after the Joker""s fall, of his still-grinning face as he lay dead.He was splayed on his back on the church""s front steps many stories below.A toy (in proxy for the villain) laughed maniacally in his pocket.Commissioner Gordon announced at a press conference: "The reign of crime is over" - and DA Harvey Dent read aloud a letter from Batman that promised: "If the forces of evil should rise again to cast a shadow on the heart of the city, Call me.He added: "There were other parts of the body." He interpreted the detached body part as a warning for them to turn back: "Look upon this omen and go back from whence ye came! I have warned thee!" The group cringed in disgust, returned to their van, and drove off.I seen a lot of people hatin"" me and I didn""t know what to feel about that, so I guess I didn""t like you much none either.Rod awakened from the screams and the struggle going on under the bed-covers, as she grappled with her phantom attacker.BackgroundNight of the Living Dead (1968)was director George Romero""s most notable genre-defining, classic zombie horror film -- it quickly became his calling card, and was responsible for making him influentially known as the Master of the modern""zombiefilm"" (although he term ""zombie"" was never explicitly used), featuring he mysterious reanimation (or reactivation) of the recent-dead.