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  • 2013
  • Not Rated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 16 m
  • 2013
  • Not Rated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 16 m

Summary In 1968 a young college drop-out named George A. Romero directed Night of the Living Dead, a low budget horror film that shocked the world, became an icon of the counterculture, and spawned a zombie industry worth billions of dollars that continues to this day. Birth of the Living Dead shows how Romero gathered an unlikely team of Pitts...

  • 2013
  • Not Rated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 16 m
  • 2013
  • Not Rated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 16 m

Birth of the Living Dead

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
65
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 4 User Ratings
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Summary In 1968 a young college drop-out named George A. Romero directed Night of the Living Dead, a low budget horror film that shocked the world, became an icon of the counterculture, and spawned a zombie industry worth billions of dollars that continues to this day. Birth of the Living Dead shows how Romero gathered an unlikely team of Pitts...

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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80
Nov 6, 2013
Kuhns makes time for political insights, provocative montages of race riots cut with the movie’s hick militia, and the comments of owlish Romero himself, who recounts the shoot like the enthusiastic 27-year-old he was.
By Joshua Rothkopf FULL REVIEW
80
Oct 29, 2013
What distinguishes this doc from much of the tedious critical prose Romero has inspired is the fan-boy and fan-girl ardor that fuels its smarts--both behind and in front of the camera.
By Ernest Hardy FULL REVIEW
70
Oct 17, 2013
Enjoyably recounts how, in 1967, Romero and an assortment of Pittsburgh locals shot a micro-budget chiller that would unexpectedly change the face of horror films.
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63
Nov 6, 2013
The film is unavoidably slight, but there's a certain pleasure in watching talented people wax passionate about a common source of inspiration.
By Chuck Bowen FULL REVIEW
63
Oct 31, 2013
In the war between zombies and vampires for the domination of American popular culture, the zombies currently seem to have the edge. So suggests a montage in Rob Kuhns’s amusing but perfunctory documentary about the origins of the 1968 ur-text of zombiedom, George Romero’s “Night of the Living Dead.”
By Peter Keough FULL REVIEW
60
Nov 7, 2013
Birth Of The Living Dead excels in Kuhns’ gathering of critics, academics, and filmmakers to analyze how and why the film works so well.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
58
Nov 6, 2013
Birth briefly staggers to life when the topic of race comes up — not because that angle on Night hasn’t been covered ad nauseam, too, but simply because it seems to inspire the most provocative discussion.
By A.A. Dowd FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Glass Eye Pix, Predestinate Productions
Release Date Oct 18, 2013
Duration 1 h 16 m
Rating Not Rated
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Tagline 1968. Peace. Love. And the undead.
Website https://www.facebook.com/BirthoftheLivingDead
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