It’s the last thing you see before the credits. The climactic final scene happens on the steps outside the long-vacant St. The Catholic League (and some 30 other groups) called for a boycott of this flick, which the Los Angeles Times called “a raucous, profane but surprisingly endearing piece of work.” Why? The Kevin Smith comedy features Ben Affleck and Matt Damon as fallen angels looking to re-enter heaven through a loophole in doctrine, courtesy of a new Catholic movement fronted by a thumbs-up, winking version of Jesus, pushed by a Cardinal played by George Carlin. (Easter Egg: the Pittsburgh-filmed Zack and Miri Make a Porno includes a nod to this flick in the form of Seth Rogan’s hockey team, the Monroeville Zombies.) It was filmed almost entirely inside the Monroeville Mall, and a new, paid-entry Living Dead museum just opened inside the shopping center in June, filled with movie memorabilia and relics of this cult classic and others. And while 1968’s black and white Night of the Living Dead is where it all began, 1978’s Dawn of the Dead is the high water mark, a terrifying film in which the dead return to feast upon the living, and a critique of mindless consumerism. The ambling undead of George Romero’s zombie franchise are the benchmark upon which all other zombie films are measured. Here are a few of our favorite local landmarks where famous Pittsburgh movie moments went down.Ģ00 Mall Circle Drive, Monroeville. Jeff Crehan, dressed as Tarmar from the Return of the Living Dead movie, poses outside the Living Dead Museum inside the Monroeville Mall, the location of Dawn of the Dead On the big screen, Pittsburgh has played host to superheroes and river cops, face-stealing psychopaths, aspiring dancers, struggling professional basketball teams and minor-league hockey teams, and more than a few flesh-eating zombies.
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