A Trip to the Night of the Living Dead Cemetery

Monday, July 12th, 2010
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While attending a Monster convention in Butler, PA, Mike and I decided to stop by the famous Evans City Cemetery featured in Night of the Living Dead (1968).

The last surviving structure from the film, the chapel in the cemetery is in danger of being demolished. Click here for more info.

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lol James's face at 4:42 is hilarious!

You Found THE STICK zOMG!!!!

Hey guys this piece is really well done. At first I thought, "wow it would be nice to see some color" but then I realized for stylistic choices it was worth it.

Anyway, speaking of stylistic choices..

I don't mind the layout of the front page and overall look. But, the logo looks like it was made in mspaint, and don't get me wrong "I LOVE mspaint!" However, it could use some relooking-at.

You should look more with the times like this guy:

http://day9.tv

I watch his stuff and he's pretty hilarious and nerdy.

It's not terrible to lose some functionality of the site for a good look and feel because eventually you'll have one that has bothhh.

JAMES!!! A FUCKING ZOMBIE BEHIND YOU!!! O SHIT!!!

James, have you ever watched "Rammbock: Berlin Undead"? Maybe in the original german version?

2 bad the trees are mostly gone i really wanted 2 go 2 the creepy treed cemetary, its hard 2 find one they are all so wide open now. the movie made it look epic

Lol, I had the volume on this video cranked out, and then when that fleshy skeleton popped out with the scream I fell back in my chair xD

so then for the restof the video I was squinting and had the volume almost to muted lol.

In the news report things in the movie, did you see the bridge in the background? It is a suspension bridge in a little known place called Clarksville, It is near where I live. It could take me just 5 minutes to get there.

Thank you so much for this video. My friends and I have been big fans of the Romero movies for many years. Never thought about where it was filmed. Because of your video we made a trip to Pennsylvania from Michigan. We had a blast at the Evans City cemetery and Monroeville Mall.

Seeing you hold the iPod reminds me of the PKE meter.

i dont know if they use the same cemetery in the remake in 1990 now there making another remake of it in 2010 jeeze is that enough remakes already its like every movie that people like is remade like jason voorhees,micheal myers,freddy krueger.

god, no video james. just audio. what is the deal with the site???

AAAMMMAAAZZZZIIIINNNNGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Ahhh man, I live around the Pittsburgh area and I've never heard of a Monster Convention around the area! And wow, I must be used to the roads around here because I've seen ones narrower than those.

This is spooky AND hilarious.
I loved both Mike and James' expressions while crouching down at that tombstone towards the end.

Mike's scream is soooo funny. Great video, always thought that head slam would have hurt. Great job.

Damn James! You and Mike are so lucky to visit what is possibly one of the greatest landmarks in horror movie history! I enjoyed watching this vid and I can only imagine the excitement you guys both felt when you stepped into Evans City Cemetery to check out the spots where Barbara ran for her life and Johnny fell victim to the first zombie. If ever I make a trip to PA in the future, I'd like to stop by there too! It would have been awesome too if you compared footage/ scenes with Tom Savini's NotLD remake! Still, great job man! Long live Zombie movies!

To be honest, the cemeteries are freakin' me out.

Your documentaries about some of the greatest movies are always very interesting! Great work Rolfe!

Really loved that you took a trip to that cemetary. That's actually one of the places that I was really hoping you'd go check out. I'm a huge Night of the Living Dead fan, so it's a real treat to see it outside of the film, and it's super cool to see you of all people, explore it.

Nice job as always, ya' fuckin' NERD!

Ah I live literally five minutes away from here! My friend did her senior project on the cemetary and did basically the same thing you did. It's just so cool living right down the road from one of the most infamous scenes in horror history. Like the mall, the cemetary and the surrounding area has changed quite a bit, like the old farmhouse burned down years ago. In fact, just last year Evans City held a showing of NOTLD on a big screen and a bunch of old cast members came up to sign autographs. My friend's grandpa even played one of the zombies and has the shirt to prove it! I so wish I could've seen you touring the cemetary, it's an honor knowing James was 5 mins from my house :)

BTW, there really are zombies in Evans City. Just look at the people that live there ;)

Man I still need a good copy of this, only copy I could find in the stores on dvd was the one where they added some pointless scene with a guy you will never see again and they changed the music. So I am hoping to find a good region 2 copy of this one, although I can still watch the movie just some music was changed and at the start a scene was added.

You guys should totally go to the cabin where "The Evil Dead" was filmed. That would be sick. If it even exists anymore.

Absolutely Awesome! Thanks for making this one, I am a huge fan of Romero and his original Zombie trilogy!

@ Demasterpl Dah, I didn't even notice I was in the rearview. I'm not anyone's wife, just a fellow filmmaky-friend.

just great, one of the most rewatchable horror movies, and cinemassacre

That was a fun video. I like how you were able to point out the irl continuity problems.

It's interesting how by using line of sight, the Director can keep full continuity, even if cheating.

Those conventions in butler are usually lame. i went to a few of them. i wish i knew you guys were around. I had the opportunity of being in the 30th anniversay addition of NOTLD. john russo and bill hinzman shot new footage with the original camera's and spliced it into the original film. i was a posse member shooting at zombies. keep up the good work james and mike.. if you're ever back in the area come out to a Legendary Hucklebucks show..beers are on me!

that is so cool! you actually went where a legendary zombie movie was filmed...EPIC!

I love this flick! Good work James. Man, you're so lucky you get to go to all these awesome movie locations.

Later (from Toronto)

Lol, I like it when you explore film locations.

amazing!

(hello from brazil)

Highly enjoyable.

I was working at a wine and spirits at the time you were down here. A few people from the convention came to the store the day I worked.

my first experience with zombies was resident evil. i fell in love immeditly, so my game buddy and i went to rent a zombie flick,that we could watcfh when we weren't getting mauled by dogs.we picked out 2 night of the living dead and the evil dead.now i own 4 versions of notld. including the 3d one with sid hagg.as 4 evil dead yes i have the necramanican.

Now I feel awful. I live near Butler, and I had no idea James would be around. I could have gone to meet him. :(

@ Demasterpl - James posted a pic a while back of himself, his wife, Mike, Lloyd Kaufman, Toxie and some other people at a convention.

I don't think that girl in the rear view mirror is his wife.

How much lsd you taken? :D No way you two go there sober... :D

That was awesome. You have a gift. But jean shorts?

Awesome, NOTLD is my favorite zombie movie ever. Why they're making a third remake I don't know, but hey.

Again, Bravo, James! You will never cease to wow me with your imagination and insight into pop culture. Wonderful to see that place up close and personal. Thanks. You should go to the original Camp Crystal Lake next.

Wow that's incredible. It must feel so awesome to be there, in the cemetery where they filmed Night of the Living Dead. James is one fucking lucky guy. I love how they talk about the stick that was in the movie. :)

haha. funny little story about evans city PA. my family grew up there. my great grandma has lived there for 65 years. and my grandma and grandpa grew up there. so did my parents and my aunts and uncles. they lived right down the road from the little old lady's house that they used in the movie. they also used my mom's old elementary school in the movie too. my whole family remembers them coming and making that movie there, it is a tiny, TINY, town so when they did the movie there people remembered. I had always known about evans city, i visit there all the time. but the first time i watched night of the living dead, i had no idea where it was shot, until the one scene where they are saying all the counties that are on lockdown or whatever. lol. i never made the connection until i asked my mom if she knew anything about it. thats when i found all that out. I love old monster movies, but this one has a special place in my heart.... sorry for taking up so much space... :D

I need to start paying more attention, I live in Butler, Where was I?!

Your iPod died? Oh well, at least you're in a cemetery.