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March 30, 2006
Contact: Gordon Ovenshine: 724-738-4854;
gordon.ovenshine@sru.edu
A KALEIDOSCOPE EVENT --
‘NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD’
DIRECTOR GEORGE ROMERO TO ATTEND SRU’S APRIL 19
SHOWING
OF HIS MOVIE
‘CREEPSHOW’
SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – George Romero,
director of the black-and-white chiller “Night of the Living
Dead” and a favorite among horror buffs, comes to Slippery
Rock University on April 19 for a showing of his movie
“Creepshow,” followed by a question and answer session.
A tribute letter from “Creepshow” author Stephen King
will be read as well.
The occasion
is the Harry M. Warner Film Festival, part of SRU’s April
19-30 Kaleidoscope arts festival. The movie is
free.
Romero will
be at SRU’s University Union for the 6:30 p.m. movie. The
question and answer will follow, and festival leaders will give
Romero a Keystone Award for his support of movie-making in western
Pennsylvania, said SRU’s Laurel Dagnon, festival coordinator.
SRU launched the film festival in conjunction with a minor in film
studies a year ago.
“We’ve giving him the Keystone Award because
he recognized early on that movies should be shot in western
Pennsylvania,” Dagnon said.
Romero, born
in Pittsburgh and a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, filmed
“Night of the Living Dead” in Butler County, hiring
locals to play flesh-eating zombies.
His movies include
“Night of the Living Dead” (1968), “There's
Always Vanilla” (1971), “The Crazies” (1973),
“Hungry Wives” (1973), “Martin” (1977),
“Dawn of the Dead” (1978) Knightriders” (1981),
“Creepshow” (1982), “Day of the Dead”
(1985), “Monkey Shines: An “Experiment in Fear”
(1988),” “The Dark Half” (1993),
“Bruiser” (2000) and “Land of the Dead”
(2005).
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