Product: Night of the Living Dead (1990)
Rating: 4.0
An Exception To The Remake Rule
I usually see remakes of movies to be an unforgivable sin. It seems to be the "thing" in Hollywood nowdays and THAT's scary! I've heard rumors of Dawn Of The Dead and Texas Chainsaw Massacre remakes. This is pure blasphemy and I'll never forgive anyone who is involved with these films-right down to the guy who gets the coffee. The NOTLD remake is one of the few exceptions to that rule. Why? Well, I'll tell ya. Romero decided to do this coz he'd been screwed out of his due money from the original film because of a copyright mishap, and he was hoping to get some of that money back from the remake's profits. I'm behind him all the way on that. Plus, the remake wasn't done by some schmuck who'd never seen the original and didn't care what he did to it-the original crew were all involved in this as well. Hey, can you really yell at someone for remaking their own film? Hey, if anyone's got a right to make a cruddy remake of a film, it might as well be the people who made it in the first place. [Hey], Hitchcock did it. But you can tell that this film was made for the fans of the original, and that everyone involved had a good time doing it. Is it good? It's not a masterpiece or anything, but it's entertaining. It has a kind of direct-to-video look and feel about it(though I did see it in the theater so I know it's not). The acting is very good, the new plot changes are decent. It's certainly not bad, it just doesn't give you that same feeling as watching the original does. Not too high on the gore(though Tom Savini directed it), but it is a worthy addition to your zombie dvd collection.