Given just how meagre the resources were behind the scenes, it’s not only remarkable just how great the resulting movie was – a tense siege horror where ghouls are constantly pressing their way into a remote farmhouse – but also how enduring it would become.
Night Of The Living Dead, shot for a shade over $100,000, would go on to become a cult classic – the patient zero for a string of zombie movies, from director George A Romero’s sequels ( Dawn Of The Dead and so forth) to things clearly inspired by it, like 28 Days Later and The Walking Dead. In late 1967, a small group of Pittsburgh filmmakers armed themselves with their 35mm cameras, a script and a few props, and changed cinema forever.
