With all of the behind the scenes footage and documentary footage already in existence this 2013 documentary is really unnecessary. The best thing any die hard Night of the Living Dead fan can do to learn more about EVERYTHING involved in making this classic is to listen to the TWO audio commentaries available on the criterion blu ray. I believe they're also on older dvds. The commentaries are from 1993 or so and SUPER informative. One is with 5 cast members and the other is with Romero, Russo , and other producers and folks that helped get the movie completed. This documentary is very misleading in trying to give Romero 100% of the credit. It took DOZENS of people to make NOTLD what it is. Romero didn't even write it but the documentary would lead you to believe otherwise. The documentary also tried extremely hard to compare NOTLD to the civil rights movement. Something Romero and the others involved in making NOTLD have always been strongly against! They make a huge deal about Duane Jones being black....something the filmmakers have always been against as well. This is a totally unnecessary fluff piece.
Review of Birth of the Living Dead
