PITTSBURGH MADE: Birth of the Living Dead (2012)
Director and writer Rob Kuhns does a great job in this of not only explaining why Night of the Living Dead is so important, but getting fans like Larry Fessenden — who executive produced — to tell why the film is so beloved. Of course George Romero shows up — John Russo declined, so they say […]
PITTSBURGH MADE: The Chief (2010)
Tom Atkins is loved everywhere but in Pittsburgh, we’ve been so lucky to not only have him as a native son, but to have him appear in a one-man show about the life of Pittsburgh Steelers’ founder and owner Art Rooney. The first president of the Pittsburgh Steelers from 1933 to 1974 and the first […]
PITTSBURGH MADE: Night of the Living Dead: 30th Anniversary Edition (1999)
You have a lot of choices as to how you can watch Night of the Living Dead. The Criterion collection, the original, colorized, animated, deep faked, you name it, you have so many ways to drink in the 1968 classic. Except please, whatever you do, please please please stay away from this one. To celebrate the […]
DISMEMBERCEMBER: A Visit To Santa (1963)
This is a combination Pittsburgh and holiday movie at the same time, as it was made by Clem Williams Films, an industrial films company that rented cartoons, popular movies and industrial films to high schools and colleges. They also made money distributing highlight films from the Steelers, Pirates and other Pittsburgh-based sports teams and sold […]
Night Gallery episode 2: Room with a View/The Little Black Bag/The Nature of the Enemy
Originally airing on December 23, 1970, Night Gallery expanded to three stories for this episode. “Room with a View” was directed by Jerrold Freedman (A Cold Night’s Death) and written by Hal Dresner (The Eiger Sanction) and it’s all about a bedridden man named Jacob Bauman (Joseph Wiseman, Dr. No) who learns that his wife Lila (Angel […]
PITTSBURGH MADE: Horror Rock (1989)
John Russo is a green filmmaker and by that, I mean that he sure does love to recycle footage. But hey — he’s also smart enough to realize that those that love metal generally love horror movies, so why not combine both of them? His Market Square Productions put this together and it was directed […]
PITTSBURGH MADE: The Song Remains the Same (1976)
Can you even imagine what it was like to be in Led Zeppelin in 1973? This movie gets you as close as you’ll probably ever get, seeing as how the band was one of the last of the mysterious rock stars that kept most fans at arm’s length instead of constantly giving away their own […]
Nr. 10 (2021)
Alex van Warmerdam, who also made Borgman and Schneider vs. Bax, has really made one of the strangest films I’ve seen at Fantastic Fest, which is a real testament. That’s because it starts like some sort of highbrow art film, as a director worries about the opening night of his new play. One of the actors has […]
PITTSBURGH MADE: The Booby Hatch (1976)
Rudy Ricci was a zombie in Night of the Living Dead, as well as one of the motorcycle gang members in Dawn of the Dead. Beyond that, he also wrote the story for There’s Always Vanilla and his writing is credited in Return of the Living Dead and The Devil and Sam Silverstein. John Russo wrote the screenplay for Night […]
PITTSBURGH MADE: Reflections On the Living Dead (1993)
Directed and written by Thomas Brown, this film has a roundtable between George A. Romero, John Russo, Russell Streiner and Karl Hardman as they discuss exactly how Night of the Living Dead was made. You also get to see Karl with Marilyn Eastman as they discuss how they went through library music to get the sound […]
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