Night of the Living Dead

Tom savini

1990

This is the Remake of Romero's 1969 masterpiece which unfortunately he didn't make any money from, so this version was to be his pay back

I wasn't expecting much from this one to be honest as usually remakes are inferior by a wide margin, and while it's no match for the original it still captures the atmosphere of fear of the original. The dead are coming back to life with a craving for living flesh. A small group of survivors barricade themselves in a house awaiting rescue. Fighting off the increasing numbers of undead smashing thier way in.

As you would expect the visual quality of the film is superior and it's in colour, which depending on your view is good or bad. The film does benefit from the bigger budget with real actors and better looking zombies. Some things worth noticing are that the storyline remains almost identicle with a few ecceptions put in to catch you out. The only major change is the ending which is totally different from the original. This has it's good and bad points, it allows the story to branch off and show us more that's going on but on the other hand any big fans of the first film's ending wont be impressed.

Gore Highlights

The gore in this film is nothing very offensive and comprises of the usuall shootings and clubbings, but nothing much worthy of note.

Surprisingly to me is the fact that one of the best scenes of the original, the truck blowing up and the zombies feeding on the charred remains, actually has less impact in the remake.

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