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From the film archives: Living Dead still terrifies audiences
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“Night of the Living Dead” became the most successful horror film of its era. The 1967 independent, low-budget, black-and-white film kicked off the zombie genre with its gruesome scenes of cannibalism and murder.
From AMC’s “The Walking Dead” to “World War Z,” zombies have inundated popular media during the past few years. In honor of zombies and Halloween, I returned to the birth of the modern zombie flick: the 1968 independent film “Night of the Living Dead.” In 1967, George A. Romero began his career as a horror film director with a ragtag group of Pittsburgh residents — most of whom had no previous experience in filmmaking — and a budget of a little more than $100,000.