Do you remember the first time you saw the film Night of the Living Dead? Did it scare you, or did you laugh at how campy it seemed? When it came out in 1968, it started the zombie craze that’s still going strong in movies and books, and it was one of the most gruesome depictions of onscreen violence.
Night of the Living Dead: Behind the Scenes of the Most Terrifying Zombie Movie Ever is an entertaining look at this important film, which was created by George Romero and other Pittsburghers and filmed here in the burgh. This book is a print documentary, examining the making of the film, how it re-wrote the rules of horror cinema, and how it continues to influence popular culture. 
Night of the Living Dead is filled with interesting anecdotes, interviews with cast and crew, photos, mini-memoirs on the film by the likes of Wes Craven, as well as the screenplay of the movie, which has never been included in a book, until now.
We have a brief Q&A with the author of the book, Joe Kane, aka The Phantom of the Movies®, who has been a journalist in the horror genre for over four decades.
Q. Why Night of the Living Dead? What is the film’s significance?
A. By utilizing an almost newsreel, documentary approach that mirrored the horrors seen on the nightly news in the 1960s, Night of the Living Dead liberated the horror film, creating a shocking amalgam of raw reality and transgressive fiction. The very premise of former friends, neighbors and strangers transformed into roving bands of mindless, nearly Read more…
