Product: Night of the Living Dead (1990)
Rating: 1.0
Almost a compleatly different movie........
When a remake is made of a movie that you enjoyed you go see it no matter what. I wish that were not true. Tom Savini, the make up wizard behind Dawn Of The Dead and other classic horror films takes over the reign of director and try as he might the magic is gone.The movie becomes very politically correct very early and never seems to let up.The premis is still the same. The dead return to life and attack the living. Pat Tallman plays Barbara the heroin who in the first film became almost catatonic a half hour into the film(people have compared this to what Hitchcock did in Physcho killing off the lead). This time however she's more of a take charge kind of woman and that would be fine if not for the fact that it totally underminds one of the main plot twists. Tony Todd is the only one who comes off well in this film as the hero Ben. He comands the proformance the way that Duane Jones did in the original. The rest of the cast is very forgettable.Remakes have been made befor and have been good (remember that Ben-Hur was a remake) this one however fails to live up to even Day Of The Dead the weakest of all the trilogy.I have no problem with this film being remade. There are points of the first one that could be updated and if this movie were in better hands (John Carpenter, John Landis, Wes Craven or Steve Spielberg) this could have been a very good remake, instead it seems that Savini was more worried about how it looked than what the final result was.I have heard that a remake of Dawn Of The Dead is in the works and ,I'm sorry to say, I will go see it.