Filmically Perfect

Social Allegory or Zombie Gore Movie? George A Romero’s taut little horror film proves that a “perfect movie” need not be perfect. Made on a shoestring budget of $114,000 in Pittsburgh, PA and unleashed upon an unsuspecting world in 1968, Night of the Living Dead remains the fount from which all zombie movies have sprung, including several helmed by George A. himself. And while the effects have gotten gorier and the blood flows redder in the newer incarnations, the little B&W epoch remains a groundbreaking epoch in the march of the horror film.