Neither Scary nor Funny

Rating: 2/10 (14 February 2020)

Two stars for the creative camerawork, and some impressive makeup considering it's time and low budget. At the time it was a creative storyline that became a terrible horror trope. Other than that, I watched this wanting to love it and ended up fighting with myself just to keep the damn thing on, and ended up being completely flabbergasted as to why it has such a strong reputation.
The tree scene is ludicrous and unnecessary. This film relies too much on gore for both its scares and its humor but widely missed the mark on both. I love cheesy horror flicks, but there wasn't one second of this movie that I was either amused or scared, and I say that as someone who's a big fan of Romero's work. The acting is terrible and few movies have annoyed me as much as this one with its characterization of screeching and lolling "demonic forces." By the end of the movie I was half hoping they could come through the screen and kill me too for being stupid enough to watch this awful film all the way to the end.