Night of the Living Dead Trivia - Did You Know?

Night of the Living Dead started the slasher film genre. Generally horror films prior to this film had mostly involved masks and costumes, cheap sets, or strange creatures hiding in dark corners and were set in creepy eastern European locations far removed from rural and suburban America. Romero revealed the power behind exploitation and setting horror in ordinary, unexceptional locations and offered a template for making an "effective and lucrative" film on a "miniscule budget." Slasher films of the 1980s such as John Carpenter's Halloween (1978), Sean S. Cunningham's Friday the 13th (1980), and Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), for example, "owe much to the original Night of the Living Dead."

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