Birth of the Living Dead

Wednesday, November 6 - Thursday, November 14, 2013

All 8:35pm shows include free admission to NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD immediately after at 10:15pm.

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 Pittsburghers — policemen, iron workers, teachers, ad-men, housewives and a roller-rink owner — to shoot a revolutionary guerrilla style film that went on to become a cinematic landmark, offering a profound insight into how our society worked in a singular time in American history.

• Country USA
• Rating NR
• Running Time 76 minutes
• Director Rob Kuhns

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