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.
July 12, 2010 at 1:19 pm
Wow you actually had time to make it out there. I’m going to have to wait another half hour or so to actually watch. NRAnews is doing a special remote right now out at Camp Perry in Ohio. The National shooting Matches are going on. Looking forward to this as soon as I have the time.
February 24, 2013 at 11:02 pm
wow, so specific. why would you have to explain to everybody why you had time to post a comment about something that you wanted to see, but didnt have the time to. it would be like me posting a comment about how I couldnt view this yet becuase I have to get a root canal and I amd going to be late and I need to clean out my car first because I am going to be meeting to new girl I met for lunch afterwords……. (that is going to be a bad date, with a mouth full of novicaine)
July 12, 2010 at 1:30 pm
Another brilliant video-really love the enthusiasm you guys have for some of my favourite films. Nice work James and Mike. And a top notch Elvis t-shirt, Mike. The King would approve. I know Elvis fought a Mummy, I’m sure he could tackle a Zombie or two…
Any chance you guys might find locations from the other classic Romero Living Dead trilogy?
July 12, 2010 at 1:33 pm
Double kill
awsome…u guys should made a little short with a couple zombies or something XD
July 12, 2010 at 1:36 pm
I love these location visits, it’s really cool to see how they look today and how some of it’s not even really changed that much.
Great work man -_^
July 12, 2010 at 1:36 pm
I love the field trips!! I also really like your work with Mike, and it was awesome to see you at the location of one of my favorite horror-classics.
Greetz from Holland!
July 12, 2010 at 1:38 pm
This made my day, great video, I was able to only pick out a few of the things that I recognize from the movie, its pretty cool that you guys went there. Nice job!
July 12, 2010 at 1:42 pm
Good stuff!
July 12, 2010 at 1:45 pm
If you pause at 4:28, you can see the last name on the gravestone to be Myers, just helpin with the search =)
July 12, 2010 at 1:49 pm
Is that the same graveyard as in the remake? I think it’s in Evans City (PA), right ?
Great video, guys.
July 12, 2010 at 1:51 pm
Okay, after some trying around it finally worked.
Wow. I love these kind of movies of yours. They’re so much fun to watch ! Also Mike gives some extra humor into this video.
July 12, 2010 at 1:51 pm
Very cool stuff…..as always. Keep up the good work
July 12, 2010 at 1:53 pm
“The magic hour Mann”
add that to the ‘American Movie’ reference list
July 12, 2010 at 1:54 pm
It’s funny you guys post this today because I was google earthing this place yesterday lol.
July 12, 2010 at 2:03 pm
I think the stick bit was a bit much but it would have been really funny if you could have found a stone that matched the one used to smash the window. I doubt any fans left any stones close to that shape there to be found though after 40 years. Great work even the technical issue with the i-pod worked well for this.
July 12, 2010 at 2:04 pm
I always love how precise you are with movie locations, James. It makes the videos even more of a treat to watch.
Are you going to post pics (or footage) from the monster convention?
July 12, 2010 at 2:18 pm
This looks so fucking tight. I can’t wait to watch it later.
July 12, 2010 at 2:24 pm
sweet, I love these “on location” videos!
July 12, 2010 at 2:28 pm
Awesome! You should do things like that more often. I wouldnt recomend going to the Amityville Horror house though. I heard they dont like the tourist coming to their small town. Anyway, it was a great video. Keep ‘em comin!
July 12, 2010 at 2:50 pm
Thanks everyone, I’m still working on getting all my Monster bash footage edited. I have a few interviews.
We also got some crude home video-ish footage of another Romero location, we could post if you’d like. Even less rehearsed and polished as the cemetery tour.
And yep, the cemetery’s in Evans City.
July 12, 2010 at 2:53 pm
golden, very entertaining and fun to watch. thanks guys =)
July 12, 2010 at 2:54 pm
james, post that too =D
It will be awesome =)
July 12, 2010 at 3:10 pm
Wow Evans City is only about 20-30 mins away from me. I used to pass by it whenever I went to school in Butler.
July 12, 2010 at 3:19 pm
4:10 to 4:20 epic face xD, great video again guys, keep up the great work.
July 12, 2010 at 3:22 pm
Very Fun to watch! Please keep doing this kinda videos!
July 12, 2010 at 3:27 pm
Great work! I still wish it was a little bit longer but just as great as always
July 12, 2010 at 3:28 pm
Very interesting!
James, someday you have to compile all those trips videos together and to make a full-length movie, it will be very interesting!
By the way, I again have a problems with log in to the site in Opera 10.63 (script always readressing me to the “?action=register” module).
July 12, 2010 at 3:42 pm
very nice video, i hope you make a video visiting the dawn of the dead mall here in monroeville, if you haven’t already
July 12, 2010 at 3:44 pm
I love the sneak peak into the editor’s mind!
July 12, 2010 at 3:45 pm
very cool. A place you should visit is where ever they filmed the shining. that would be cool.
July 12, 2010 at 4:03 pm
next video a trip to the original willy wonka chocolate factory
July 12, 2010 at 4:09 pm
That was awesome. For some reason I find it funny that Mike is a fan of Elvis Presley. Don’t ask me why, I don’t know.
July 12, 2010 at 4:11 pm
Apple junk.
July 12, 2010 at 4:14 pm
am i just really bad at the internet, but i can’t find the video
July 12, 2010 at 4:20 pm
Really cool to see these places in current times. Pretty amazing how little they’ve changed. Great job James!
July 12, 2010 at 4:38 pm
Hahaha! That’s insane!! Great job James!
July 12, 2010 at 4:54 pm
lol. you guys are so cool- and insane, but that’s not a bad thing. and, oddly enough, it never occurred to me that mike would be an elvis fan. or that, in actuality, he’s more prone to swearing than james. key character insights, there.
but that’s cool too.
July 12, 2010 at 5:11 pm
Not sure if you’re aware of the problem, James, but the video won’t load in Firefox. I had to use *gack* Internet Explorer.
July 12, 2010 at 5:13 pm
Awesome
July 12, 2010 at 5:21 pm
The Willie Wonka gates were visited a long while back check the blog, James posted a photo taken at night.
As to the video not working. I didn’t have any trouble with it in Seamonkey. Wonder what they strip out in Firefox that makes it so much less compatible so often.
July 12, 2010 at 5:21 pm
I love your location trip videos, please keep them coming!
July 12, 2010 at 5:27 pm
to everyone having problems watching the video: stop messing around with crappy internet browsers and just use Chrome, it’s the best.
I’ve never had a problem loading any of james’ videos using Chrome. which is good because all of his videos are the shit.
July 12, 2010 at 5:30 pm
Thanks James, this is great. Im a huge Romero fan and this has made my day, cheers.
July 12, 2010 at 5:42 pm
I so love your videos man
Keep up the good work guys..
July 12, 2010 at 5:54 pm
Very funny and informative, as usual. I’d love it if you and Mike were to do a commentary track for this movie, like you did with Dracula a while ago.
July 12, 2010 at 6:00 pm
They’re coming to get you nerd.
July 12, 2010 at 6:09 pm
Very nice video, James.
If you and Mike are ever near Monroeville, you guys should do a video about the “Dawn of the Dead” locations. I know for a fact that it was in Monroeville Mall. It’s been about 10 years since I’ve been there, but I think you could get some good stuff. Both interior and exterior.
There’s also the Harold W. Brown Memorial Airfield (Pittsburgh-Monroeville Airport) that was used for the eariler scenes.
Anyway, Keep up the awesome work, man
July 12, 2010 at 6:38 pm
Awesome short James. This movie is an absolute classic. Love how you put the films music over your drive, and re-created some of the scenes and shots. Most excellent day trip, too bad you didn’t pass the house they bunked in.
“They’re coming to get you Barbara!”
July 12, 2010 at 6:50 pm
Loved the American Movie reference. Great work guys!
July 12, 2010 at 6:55 pm
Hey James when you gonna put up the footage of the Convention. I wanna see if you talked to any of my Horror Host friends that were there.
July 12, 2010 at 7:02 pm
great update for the homepage (Y)
July 12, 2010 at 7:07 pm
Ah, I wish I knew that James was in the Burgh
I live 40 minutes away from the cemetary. I’ve been there before and I love it! Did you stop at Monroeville Mall too? (I’m writing this comment before I’ve watched the video, so if there’s any reference to that, then oops!)
July 12, 2010 at 7:07 pm
Winding roads? Really? You guys should try living in WV.
July 12, 2010 at 7:11 pm
if only you guys took dares id dare you to camp there
muhahaha
July 12, 2010 at 7:13 pm
Is that a Rock Band microphone?
July 12, 2010 at 7:14 pm
I love NOTLD, but you obviously are obsessed with it.
And I don’t think they call them Zombies, because…well, listen to the movie. You can hear the words “disease” and “aliens” coming out of the radio. I dunno it’s been some years since I’ve seen it but that’s what I remember (and the awesome characters/zombies.)
July 12, 2010 at 7:32 pm
Yeah. Western PA is a bunch of tiny, backwoods roads…I used to live in a little town about 20 miles away from Butler called Harrisville, and for the longest time, there was a rumor that a little bit of that scene took place in a cemetary in that town…unfortunately it didn’t, but my elementary school is in the movie. In the movie I think it’s called Harrisville Middle School or something like that, but that’s about as famous as that town ever got. Haha. It’s sure awesome living around where the great George Romero worked!
July 12, 2010 at 7:52 pm
It would be cool if James came to Monroeville Mall in October for the Zombie Walk! I would love that!
July 12, 2010 at 7:56 pm
I cannot get this video or Dragon in my Dreams to play
July 12, 2010 at 8:12 pm
This is great!!!
really enjoyed this, one of my classic favorites. Wild how the building and such hasn’t changed too much.
July 12, 2010 at 8:32 pm
Great video. My grandparents lived and still live right by this place, and my grandfather once sold casket protectors, which meant he had to go into the graves, pull out the caskets, and replace the linings inside to keep bodily fluids from running out. The stench was so bad that people sometimes fainted, apparently. During the time this movie was made, for some strange reason, he ended up selling a used car to Tom Savini.
July 12, 2010 at 8:34 pm
@MikeMatei
I’ve tried two different browser and neither have worked. When I try to play the video it say that the page has to close.
July 12, 2010 at 8:43 pm
Great video guys! I LOVE the revisiting the location series of videos! You two are awesome! Keep it up!
July 12, 2010 at 8:53 pm
why was the zombie holding a stick
July 12, 2010 at 9:15 pm
God I love your Documentaries/Location Bios…
awesome!
July 12, 2010 at 9:20 pm
Awesome!
And Mike screaming was priceless
July 12, 2010 at 9:31 pm
love NOTLD, but isnt it weird how the first zombie is able to figure out that he could pick up a rock and use it as a tool? i dont think the modern day walking dead wouldnt be able to do that, or even any of the other romero zombies, (except bub)
July 12, 2010 at 9:48 pm
You know last week I saw a zombie Mountie. Well actually he looked more like a zombie Frankenstein’s Monster or somthing because of the face paint.
July 12, 2010 at 9:55 pm
I remember having nightmares for a month after my mom let me watch this when I was 6 years old. I would fall asleep and in my dream I was in my bed, just like I really was so it seemed realistic, and zombies would come in through the window and tear me apart. Once they got to my face I would wake up – thanks mom! But yet, I have seen it countless times since then, and it’s one of my favorites. Classic! Good job on the video fellas.
July 12, 2010 at 10:39 pm
I live 10 minutes from this cemetery! Damn, wish I would have known you’d be in Butler, James. Love videos like this. Any idea what happened to the farm house?
July 12, 2010 at 10:43 pm
Great to see the area still looks much the same
July 12, 2010 at 10:46 pm
I love Night of the the living dead. Its just an awesome film. Thx for the tour of the graveyard guys
July 12, 2010 at 11:03 pm
I am using the latest Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer 8, and I had no problem watching the video. After the internet commercial just hit play, then pause, and after about 5 minutes the whole thing should be ready to play without any stalling.
July 12, 2010 at 11:05 pm
I wanna see all the footage, James!
July 13, 2010 at 12:02 am
FYI, in Night of the Living Dead they actually refer to the zombies as ghouls, which makes more sense as ghouls in other myths (particularly in Arabian myth) ghouls were creatures who consumed dead flesh. Zombies were of Haitian myth as people who were brought back from the dead to serve as slaves.
July 13, 2010 at 12:10 am
you guys are so much fun
July 13, 2010 at 12:38 am
Great video guys! Really enjoyed it. Makes me want to watch the movie again.
July 13, 2010 at 12:59 am
I absolutely love these “What Is It like today” videos!
Amazing work, keep It up!
July 13, 2010 at 1:42 am
very creepy classic movie of zombies!!
great work!
July 13, 2010 at 3:32 am
I love these videos of you guys visiting movie sites. Very entertaining. Keep it up.
July 13, 2010 at 4:43 am
Very interesting and fun. The movie is a masterpiece of it’s time!
July 13, 2010 at 4:54 am
Great work guys, I love these movie location videos. Awesome stuff!
July 13, 2010 at 4:56 am
Man for a second I thought it was going to be like Quarantine, where the reporter films a zombie outbreak, but it would be like the outbreak happens in the spot from night of the living dead to you and mike while your talking about the movie.
July 13, 2010 at 5:42 am
Nice vid guys
July 13, 2010 at 5:42 am
OMG I THINK I SAW James’ wife in the rear view mirror!!! FIRST GLIMPSE IVE SEEN OF HER YET (I hear she can tie a good tie (NC reference))
Fun video!!
July 13, 2010 at 6:13 am
Lol must have been fun to go to that place where they shot the movie
July 13, 2010 at 6:57 am
I swear, if I’d be rich, I’d sponsor you guys to do videos more often
July 13, 2010 at 7:07 am
ooh did yous see brad jones at the monster convention?
July 13, 2010 at 7:07 am
You came to Pittsburgh, No Advertising?
And You went to Butler, But you forgot about the ” Dawn of the Dead”
Shopping mall?
lol, so much to do in Pittsburgh, so little time.
July 13, 2010 at 8:43 am
I grew up in Butler and have been to the cemetery a few times. I still live in Pittsburgh, but didn’t make it up for the convention. I was going to hit the con, but ended up being out of town that weekend. Would have been cool to run into you.
The Crazies was also filmed in the same area. When you came down 68 from Butler and got to the beginning of Evans City proper, at the bottom of the hill, the Fire Hall that is featured in the movie is just to your right about a block.
July 13, 2010 at 8:44 am
That place looks pretty scary XD good video
July 13, 2010 at 9:54 am
That was cool. I liked when you guys joked around with the scenes from the movie haha.
Makes me want to watch the movie again
Cheers xx
July 13, 2010 at 10:49 am
I’ll always remember Night of the Living Dead. It was the first horror movie I ever saw. I only rediscovered it last Halloween on AMC.
July 13, 2010 at 11:05 am
watching u all the way from the UK. great work guys! i’m watching all your stuff and love it
July 13, 2010 at 11:40 am
GREAT!!!! that one of my favorite movies, Its so fun watching these vids, thank you!!!!! By the way I from Mexico cheers james!!!
July 13, 2010 at 11:44 am
Great fun James and Mike. Very interesting indeed. I think many people love seeing you guys “geek out” on some old movie stuff.
What ever you do, AVGN or not, I’ll be watching.
By the way, I could really go for a new YKWBS soon. Can I get an AMEN!
July 13, 2010 at 1:01 pm
awesome stuff guys, I always enjoy your movie location tours, keep it i[ love to see more
July 13, 2010 at 1:35 pm
Looks like a lot of fun!
July 13, 2010 at 2:39 pm
that’s it!I’m gonna watch this movie.
July 13, 2010 at 4:36 pm
You guys clearly aren’t used to Southwestern PA roads there all hilly and winding!
July 13, 2010 at 5:12 pm
@Demasterpl
I don’t know if that’s his wife. It might be the “Stephanie Yuhas” person referenced in the credits. But maybe it is for all I know.
July 13, 2010 at 5:43 pm
Nice
It’s like traveling in the movie.
July 13, 2010 at 6:34 pm
Crazy it still looks like it did in the movie. Must go there!
July 13, 2010 at 7:07 pm
i think its the best zombie movie ever made but the remake you can forget about
July 13, 2010 at 8:08 pm
Yeah Butler! I am from there! Where was the convention? Where did you stay? I bet it was “But-tastic”
July 13, 2010 at 8:10 pm
I am awed by the pure talent that is James Rolfe, i am a big fan but just became a member today. I really hope you take a serious leap to the big screen considering all your fans and subscribers hollywood would be stupid not to finance you. We all know you can do it we all know you want to do it so do it!
Also keep the avgn videos coming every time there is a new one it brightens my day, your grimaces when you can’t believe how bad a game is is hilarious. Greetings from sweden!
July 13, 2010 at 8:28 pm
This is the best thing of life! I love all the awesome places and things you get to see! Soon there could be a “James Rolfe: All the awesome stuff I got to see” Location tour. Lovin’ all the random videos!
July 13, 2010 at 8:32 pm
Zombies are democrats.
July 13, 2010 at 9:02 pm
awesome that you were there, im kinda jealous.
within the next month, a friend and i are gonna hit Chicago and hit some spots from The Dark Knight. we already know a lot of spots, so it should be awesome!
July 13, 2010 at 9:04 pm
I wish this movie was a little bit longer, but it’s always a pleasure to watch
July 13, 2010 at 9:36 pm
as a pittsburgher, i grew up on all of Romeros movies and this was fun to watch. is James from PA? I’ve seen him drink Yuengling so i just assumed he is
July 13, 2010 at 9:53 pm
kool video =)
July 13, 2010 at 11:17 pm
James and Mother Fucker Mike,
I love these videos. Do you find that retracing these steps takes away from your movie experience?
July 14, 2010 at 12:05 am
Such a great movie, I love having everybody over on Halloween and everyone wants to watch the remake of Friday the 13th and Halloween and I just wanna go to AMC and put on Night of the Living Dead
July 14, 2010 at 3:50 am
Awesome! I love these trips to movie locations, it’s fantastic for those of us who are probably not going to get a chance to do it ourselves – and it saves us the hours that I’m pretty sure you spend looking for specific places to shoot (for instance, how long did it take you to find the specific headstone they were going to? Or the one where she is attacked by the zombie?). This was very entertaining.
July 14, 2010 at 3:53 am
I don’t know if anyone else has mentioned this, but it’s worth mentioning that Night of the Living Dead is in the public domain now, if I remember correctly, Romero forgot to file a copyright extension or something, and now it’s free. Search for it at archive.org if you have a hankering to watch this classic.
July 14, 2010 at 8:20 am
LOL I love how they’re just dicking around and laughing at a bunch of random people’s gravesites!!!
July 14, 2010 at 10:16 am
Your iPod died? Oh well, at least you’re in a cemetery.
July 14, 2010 at 11:37 am
I need to start paying more attention, I live in Butler, Where was I?!
July 14, 2010 at 11:54 am
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…
July 14, 2010 at 2:25 pm
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.
July 14, 2010 at 3:36 pm
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.
July 14, 2010 at 4:28 pm
Awesome, NOTLD is my favorite zombie movie ever. Why they’re making a third remake I don’t know, but hey.