Directed by:
Tom SaviniCinematography:
Frank PrinziComposer:
Paul McColloughCast:
Tony Todd, Patricia Tallman, Tom Towles, McKee Anderson, William Butler, Bill Moseley, Katie Finneran, Heather Mazur, Stacie Foster, John W. Iwanonkiw (more)VOD (1)
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A cunning remake of George A. Romero's black and white zombie classic Night of the Living Dead is a taut and terrifying return to the macabre scene of mayhem and dismemberment where the recently deceased begin rising from the grave as flesh-hungry zombies. Fleeing from the legion of limping undead, a small group of survivors comprised of Barbara (Patricia Tallman), Ben (horror legend Tony Todd) and Harry (Tom Towles), hole-up in a remote farmhouse and prepare for a bloody onslaught. As the marauding zombies surround the house, tensions between the survivors flare up, desperate to do anything to survive the hideous battle that is before them. Directed with flair and gusto by leading horror exponent Tom Savini (who provided make-up effects for Romero's original Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead), Night of the Living Dead cuts to the chase and sets the splatter count high - leaving behind a grisly trail of blood and guts, like any good zombie movie should. (Umbrella Entertainment)
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A worthy remake of Romero’s aged classic. The changes in the plot are probably for the worse, for instance, there are very few of the radio and TV reports that gave the original a touch of realism, but the make-up has improved, of course, thanks to which the remake will work better with the average viewer.
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It doesn’t try to outdo the black-and-white original, but goes its own slightly B-movie way, which is less ambitious, but all the more entertaining. By the standards of the modern (and color) form of the horror genre, it does well with its morbid humour and more visceral brutality. It is also pleasing with its criticism of society in the more literal, almost cartoonish climax.
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