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The University of Pittsburgh will have a virtual premiere of a student-made documentary about George Romero, whose film “Night of the Living Dead” became a cult classic.
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Zombies are as much a part of Pittsburgh’s cultural cachet as the Steelers and Primanti’s sandwiches.
And we have George Romero to thank for that.
The father of the modern zombie film, who began creating his horror classics in the Steel City in the late 1960s, is the subject of a University of Pittsburgh student-produced documentary, “George Romero & Pittsburgh: The Early Years.” It debuts as part of a virtual event at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 4, which was Romero’s birthday. He died of cancer in 2017 at the age of 77.