Night of the Living Dead

“How could I not? Night of the Living Dead. George Romero basically invented the modern zombie and I don’t think he gets enough credit for it, because a lot of people have taken his idea, myself included, and sort of run with it as if it’s like the public domain. But this was 1968, right in the middle of the civil rights movement. It was a major kind of thing that he cast Duane Jones as the lead, a Black actor. As a tribute to George, an amazing maverick filmmaker, this is where it all began.”

“Night of the Living Dead is arguably the reason I'm an actor period. When I was a kid I was obsessed with horror films particularly zombie films and Night of the Living Dead both the original and the remake with Tony Todd were a huge influence on me. It wasn't lost on me that it was a guy named George Romero. As a kid you didn't even see a lot of Spanish sounding names so it was exciting. I love zombies so this is going in the bag.”

“When you think about ghouls, when you think about zombies, when you think about The Walking Dead, none of that would have existed if this had not come out in 1968: Night of the Living Dead. This is one of the most iconic horror films of its time and even now and it talks about our environment and how our environments—I think it has something deep to say about radiation and what that does to our people, what that does to communities.”

“This is one of the ones that I actually came in totally in love with this flick when I was a kid this was probably one of the first black and white movies I saw I'm a huge horror fan and it kind of blew my mind that somebody Night of the Living Dead... This movie was the first black and white film I saw that actually kind of like kicked open the door... I just love everything George A. Romero does... It's a statement about civil rights and war and also happens to just be a zombie flick...”

“I want Night of the Living Dead, Criterion. Oh my god, of course. I mean, I've never seen that but wow.”

“Night of the Living Dead my father was a drive-in theater manager and I watched this movie in the projection booth of the drive-in it was called the Highland in Salt Lake City, Utah and I was much too young to have seen this film and it damaged my at least 10 years of my childhood of just being scared to death that these zombies were going to come out and start consuming my flesh...”

“Night of the Living Dead. Oh nice. I'm actually doing a piece for Complex about blackness, you know, of all the black people that survived in a horror movie and this brother, I think I'm correct, he didn't die... But I think it's better than dying.”

“Oh yeah, I do have Night of the Living Dead. You know that's a real, this was also like as a young person watching something that was just off-kilter. I mean think about that, that's really interesting too that, you know, 1968, Vietnam, right before the Tet Offensive, and this cat makes this movie. It's kind of interesting.”