Original: Midnight Movies : From the Margin to the Mainstream ( 2005 ) He and friends formed Image Ten Productions in the late 1960s , and they chipped in roughly $ 10,000 apiece to produce what became one of the most celebrated horror films of all time : Night of the Living Dead ( 1968 ) .
Simplified: He and friends started a directing group called Image Ten Productions in the 1960s , and they made Night of the Living Dead ( 1968 ) .