Product: Night of the Living Dead (1990)
Rating: 5.0
Move over, Ms. Weaver
Although this movie is based on George Romero's Night of the Living Dead, it felt very different. Perhaps it is my failure to appreciate 1960s era characterization and pacing. Here, you have two strong characters, male and female. The transformation of the female character is a bit surprising (how does she turn into a crack shot?). I do feel that her emotional transformation is congruent. She's finally externalized her personal demons, and realized they can be overcome by shooting them in the head. What was she before the movie started? A nurse? Social worker? Secretary? Regardless, she overcomes a lifetime of waiting and enduring to come out with guns blazing against obstacles. "What I was is dead now". Go girl. If only she was in the sequel, much like the Aliens saga followed Ripley.