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After IFC acquired the movie at South by Southwest they floated the idea that a more genre-direct title might help the movie reach its audience.
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Nick McCarthy, who was one of the editors with me—his dad was the headmaster of the school. And because of that, we actually went to Brookline Town Hall to use their massive Xerox machine for free. It was literally being published by the state. It could not have been more upside down.
I saw Night of the Living Dead for the first time, just after I had turned 11, at the Coolidge Corner Theatre in suburban Boston ... It was clear that I had seen something different from any other horror movie I'd encountered ... The movie was humanist, but also pessimistic about humans. That's George Romero in a nutshell, and no one made movies like him.
