what's striking about the documentary, entitled "birth of the living dead," is how rob kuhns places the 1968 movie in its particular place and time when civil unrest and violence gave the nation nightmares, and zombies were a metaphor for an american public deeply troubled and distressed. >> in the time that "night of the living dead" came out, you don't feel safe in your home anymore. there are things that are overtaking us over which we have no control and there's that fear and i think that the zombie apocalypse takes inspiration from that fear and it's why audiences connect with it in a way that is not quite obvious on the surface but is really in the subtext. >> it's an unsettling element of the movie that the people who seem most likely to be able to thwart this incursion of the living dead, it looked like a lynch mob. the resonance for people who would have spent the last ten years watching, you know, white southerners vow to prevent the desegregation of schools, for instance, it would've been really pretty clear. and dogs in "night of the living dead," there's a very specific cul