Night Of The Living Dead

“"It felt so real, like a docu-horror. There was nothing Hollywood about it – it was just unrelenting and complete madness and very upsetting for me. It left a tremendous impression on me as a filmmaker and I think that's why The Evil Dead was so influenced by Night Of The Living Dead."”

Sam Raimi

Director

“George Romero invented the modern zombie and I don't think he gets enough credit for it.”

Simon Pegg

Actor, Writer, Comedian

“I watched this movie in the projection booth of the drive-in and I was much much too young to have seen this film and it damaged at least 10 years of my childhood of just being scared to death that these zombies were going to come out and start consuming my flesh.”

Matthew Modine

Actor

“Night of the Living Dead is arguably the reason I'm an actor, period. When I was a kid I was obsessed with horror films, particularly zombie films.”

Raúl Castillo

Actor

“This was probably one of the first black and white movies I saw. I'm a huge horror fan and it blew my mind that somebody — Night of the Living Dead — that somebody would have made this film and it kept my attention as a hyperactive kid.”

John Dwyer

Musician

“I watched Night of the Living Dead on laser disc for the first time and it was great.”

Actor, Director

“I thought it was fantastic. I was blown away by the ending. These Pittsburgh actors — their amateurness is amateurness of the best kind, because they're actors because they love acting. That's what made George Romero such a terrific filmmaker — he was a legit regional filmmaker.”

Actor, Cinematographer, Director, Producer, Writer