In 1968, at the height of the civil rights movement. Commercial director George Romero set out to make his first feature film. Shot over six months on a modest budget, it was the guerrilla approach to the production that ultimately made for a radical and viscerally politicized take on the beginning of the end of the world. On October 1st, 1968 George A. Romero's NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD was released. Warning audiences They're coming to get you!