Product: Night of the Living Dead (1990)
Rating: 5.0
Modernized Version of the Cult Classic
The story we all know: for some unexplained reason the dead are waking and preying on the living. One reason offered is that there is no room left in Hell. Other reasons are viruses or some kind of sickness. Regardless of the reason, this version updates what was a terrific-for-its-time cult classic and indeed makes it better.If you are a preservationist and don't appreciate your classics being tampered with, then just stay away. But if you like a good horror flick that is suspenseful, scary and very very well acted, then add this to your collection. It's just modernized, and in my opinion, made a bit more realistic. The story follows the original version almost line by line (so I can't figure out what all the fuss by the preservationists is about).The "Night" that "it" all started we find several random folks caught in the middle of the chaos looking for refuge in a remote countryside farmhouse. Terror ensues. The confused group battles over how to get out of the situation before the zombies get in. I was especially fond of how ultimately the infamous Barbara (you know..."they're coming to get you, Barbara") introduces Mr. Cooper to fate in this version.As I said, scary, suspenseful and well acted.