Birth of the Living Dead

a good deal of sort of anger. You know, I think mostly that the 60s didn't work. It was a sense of chaos and a sense of tension. I mean, things were gonna change. So I invented these characters.

Persons who have recently died have been returning to life. That's remout speaking from the times about a bleakness that the culture is suffering. And we just wanted to make a ballsy horror film as we could make.

I don't think audiences were ready for Night of the Living Dead, and I think that's why they were drawn to it. The sheer excitement seeing the movie like that, it scared me to have, you know, it felt like this generational shift in filmmaking.

And at first people had no faith that we could actually make a movie. They were able to say, it looks like a movie. And he said, once what we're trying to tell him? Where is this? It's gonna grow up to be a movie.

It was this tiny little movie in Pittsburgh. I just need to have no chance. I just need to have no chance. And it, you know, changed the world.