Night of the Living Dead
In this remake of the classic 1968 film, a group of people are trapped inside a farmhouse as legions of the walking dead try to get inside and use them for food.
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- Cast：
- Tony Todd , Patricia Tallman , McKee Anderson , Bill Moseley , Heather Mazur , Tom Towles , William Butler
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Reviews
If you don't like this, we can't be friends.
Good story, Not enough for a whole film
True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.
Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.
Like Every Remake they usually don't surpass the original, this one hadn't. I don't have much to say but this was like watching Ringu, then The Ring where you realize they're both practically the same. The two things I liked was the ending and Barbara's character change though. 6/10.
Romero heads his series into the nineties with an updated remake to his cult classic night of the living dead.The story is pretty much the same with a few new twists thrown in like Barbara (Patricia Tallman) is now a xena warrior princess instead of the meek helpless character from the previous film who breaks up arguments, shoving zombies out of her way and bringing in the Calvary. Tony Todd does an excellent job as Ben and makes him his own.Now set in color losing the old fashion Hollywood style feel and reveals the rubbery texture used for the makeup. Johnny hitting his head on the headstone and Barbara breaking the iron over the farmer zombie's head are obviously dummies. The camera angles hung to far on the moon and cuts back to the same image throughout as if to allow the audience a bathroom break.Another flaw was the revelation they could walk past the zombies the whole time neutralizing the threat and made the whole 80 minutes a waste of time. It makes the characters look stupid and feel inferior to the originals who came before them.I don't know what happens to George Romero and Tom Savini but both lacked the creativity and skull that made them a brand.While some will appreciate the new changes, it was an epic fail for me and undone the greatness that is the original night of the living dead.
WARNING: This will be very rant-y, read at your own risk, also contains spoilers. First off, this remake is an insult to the original! Everything chilling about the original is instead poorly parodied as campy, goofy cheese. It's like the writers and directors purposefully set out to lampoon the original and ruin its legacy! Even by 90s standards, this movie it terrible (and that's saying something). The whole movie just screams "low budget", and the writers/director obviously didn't care how the movie turned out, as long as it was finished so hellywood could crank out another by-the-numbers remake. The main character woman magically goes from a helpless feeb into a rambo-esque bad-ass that almost never misses a head shot to a zombie and, at one point, literally just mosies on past all the zombies as she leaves the farm, even though before it was a life and death struggle where she barely escaped from only one or two of them.What really kills the movie for me is how they made it into a liberal politically correct propaganda film. Most of the characters are hillbillies of the worst kind, and at one point they're having an almost carnival-like "county fair" deal, with the movie showing some guy in a ring with a zombie and people taking potshots at zombies strung up on ropes, clearly using the zombies being "victimized" by the hillbillies as an analogy for blacks being lynched/attacked by "racist whiteys". The lead actress even makes an insipid little snark about it, telling the audience that the hillbillies are just as bad or worse as the zombies are.Shame on you, Savini! >:O
For George A. Romero's sake, who else would be better off directing his film masterpiece, Night of the Living Dead, over his right hand, special effects man, Tom Savini. Savini's take is still raw and Gothic like the original but there is definitely a different level of storytelling and character brashness added in. Remaking a movie is tough, since there are some questionable changes and there are also lots of scenes that seem like they were shot-to-shot. At times it felt like there were also too many moments of homage thrown in that were over doing the original concepts. With Savini and over twenty years of past experience, of course the blood and special effects are vastly better than the original. If you've seen and liked Romero's classic definitely take a look, because there are a lot of changes made that are interesting and should be left without spoilers. Night of the Living Dead, 90's edition, is a good take and a success to Savini's director belt.
