Night of the Living Dead/Fun Facts
From The Grindhouse Cinema Database
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- Night Of The Living Dead is the first feature film ever made in Pittsburgh.
- The film premiered in October, 2nd, 1968. Variety magazine considered it at the time as a, "film of unrelieved orgy of sadism and amateurism of the first order."
- The film was originally entitled Night Of The Flesh Eaters, but was later changed by the request of another production company who had a film with the same title.
- Actor/director/makeup effects artist Tom Savini was initially signed from a local high school to provide the special effects and make-up for Night Of The Living Dead, but was later called upon by the military to serve in Vietnam.
- Added to the National Film Registry in 1999.
