SnoopyStyle It's 1968. Pittsburgh filmmaker George Romero introduces the world to the flesh eating zombie. He started working for Fred Rogers on Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood. Then Romero recounts how he gathered a group of people to develop and film the classic horror. It's a real indie at a time when indies had no money.It's a documentary and it's nice to have Romero tell his story. None of it is too surprising. It's like Romero doing the commentary for his movie. It's also a great underdog story of independent filmmaking. I could do without the modern influences and less of the talking heads dissecting the movie moves. I rather have more stories about the making of and the stories of the people around the movie. The social commentaries are fine but it's rehashing old territories. It takes up a lot of movie. I like the part after they finished the movie and I love the stories of the little kids watching the movie.

gavin6942 A documentary that shows how George A. Romero gathered an unlikely team of Pittsburghers to shoot his seminal film: Night of the Living Dead.Despite my relative knowledge of the film, this documentary still opened my eyes to aspects of Romero's life I had not known. I certainly had no idea how important Fred Rogers was to the earliest days of his career! The truth behind the connection of the film and racial violence is addressed. Romero says the "ghouls" were the revolution. Other times, the film's impact is played up as coincidence. The lead, a black man among white people, was cast because of his talent, not his skin. And then when Martin Luther King got assassinated shortly after the film was finished, deeper meaning was put upon it.

envisiondentallab If you read the "storyline" description of this Documentary you would assume it's about the production of the film "Night of the living dead", and yes we get maybe 15 minutes of some interesting tidbits on the investors and players involved BUT the remaining 60 minutes is pure drivel. I give it 3 stars for the 15 minutes of somewhat entertaining stories. It loses 7 stars from the somewhat laughable metaphoric connections to the late 60s in terms of racial violence and the Vietnam war. They could have spent 5 minutes on how it was somewhat unusual to cast an African American in the lead at the time and how some of the shooting visuals looked a little like riot and war footage. Instead we get an hour of Vietnam and race riot footage and trying to connect it to different scenes in the movie. The taglines and plot descriptions on various websites like IMDb and vudu look like it's targeted to 'Romero' fans but should only be shown in a political science class and that's a stretch.

george.schmidt BIRTH OF THE LIVING DEAD (2013) ***1/2 Documentarian Rob Kuhns' valentine to George A. Romero's seminal zombie horror film 'Night of the Living Dead' gets the richly deserved revered treatment by dissecting the cult classic 45 years after its unleashing to an unsuspecting populace and influencing cinephiles for future generations and filmmakers everywhere. Interviewing fellow pundits like executive producer (and fellow filmmaker) Larry Fessenden, critics Mark Harris and Elvis Mitchell, producer Gale Anne Hurd (who admits echoes of NOTLD in her post-zombie-apocalypse sensation THE WALKING DEAD), and Romero himself who recollects the shoe-string budget, lack of initial general interest upon the film's release and the tidbits of giddy fanboy insider info on how he got the chiller made. Kuhns wisely incorporates film footage of the 1960s political ongoings and social strata that the film more-or-less unintentionally evoked as themes/messages to show just how timely/less it truly was. Fun and insightful and perfect for those die-hard fans of the undead.