Dawn of a new era.... and a new nightmare...

Rating: 9/10 (7 December 2004)

I've never seen the original one, but I know that it is the sequel to Night of the Living Dead. 1960's one that is. I find this enjoyable and creepy, a few spoilers, for example, the beginning with the girl coming to the main characters room shocked me, and the way the world is falling apart also gave the creeps, and not to mention, the unforgettable cameo of the original Dawn of the Dead star once again says his famous line from the original,"when there is no more room in Hell, the dead will walk the Earth", and the part with Mekhi going berserk and his child tuns into a zombie, I swear it gave a few bad dreams! But just a few major problems, zombies don't run, but why did they make them run? That wasn't scary at all, it seemed like a laughable Tales From The Crypt episode to me, in which the crypt keeper would call a "hack and field" race. BLEH! Or the scenes with the gun shop owner on the roof, and the ending was a lame Blair Witch rip-off. That's not the worst part. Where are the bikers? The original was said to have a gang, where are they? I didn't see any of them. Despite all these flaws, I recommend this to people who are hard core fans of the Dead trilogy, which I believe will no longer be a trilogy, for Romero seems to be making another Dead movie. Oh these days, remake happy days. Lost In Space, The Mummy, Charlie's Angels, Starsky And Hutch, Psycho, The Grudge, what's next?