Oct. 18–Birth of the Living Dead, documentary, not rated, The Screen, 3.5 chilesIn 1963, George A. Romero began his own production company called The Latent Image. Romero is the man responsible for reinventing the zombie picture and creating a legacy still running strong in cinemas and on television 45 years after his Night of the Living Dead, released in 1968, brought a bleak new vision to the horror genre.
The Latent Image was a small company that produced beer commercials as well as a handful of short films for educator and television host Fred Rogers’ program Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, including one about the TV show host’s tonsillectomy. In the documentary Birth of the Living Dead, which chronicles the efforts of a small group of filmmakers to get Pittsburgh’s “first feature film” financed and produced, Romero jokes that the tonsillectomy film is one of the scariest he ever made.
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