I just always loved the genre stuff and I always, particularly horror stories.

I just always loved them, so I was happy to do one.

We tried before Night Living Dead to promote a couple of feature films that were, that were serious efforts as some people might call.

And we couldn't get financing, we just couldn't get it together.

So we decided to do Night Living Dead, and 10 of us kicked in 600 bucks a piece, and that $6,000 got it started.

- [Rick] The movie starts in a cemetery where a brother and sister have come to put flowers on their father's grave.

The Sister Barbara is played by Judith O'Dea.

Russ Streiner, who plays the brother, was one of the film's producers and teasing his sister, he delivers what may be the film's most famous line - They're coming to get you, Barbara.

- Most of the actors in the crew were Pittsburgh friends, investors, and colleagues from The Latent Image.

Look, that comes one of them now, - When we went to make Night of the Living Dead, we put our names in a hat to see who would direct it.

I mean, we, you know, so, and I got the, I pulled the long straw, or the short straw, I don't know which it was.

Oh, no Johnny, help me.

We were just making a horror movie and we try, we were gonna try to make it harder hitting than than others that had been out.

Although when you look at Night of the Living Dead, when it first came out, people were railing against it for being so sort of cruel and dark and, and graphically violent.

And when you look at it today, it seems very, very tame, of course.

But I guess it came right at a time when, whenever the, the monster bit somebody on the neck, they cut away and we didn't cut away.

So we didn't even think we were overstepping.

We didn't think we were in taboo country at all.

We just thought we were gonna go one inch further.

- Good Lord.

- But the film has a, I guess an it has an emotional effect on some people.