Product: Night of the Living Dead (1990)
Rating: 1.0
Taking the word "Blu-Ray" way too literally.....
No one was more excited than me when I heard that this movie would finally be released on Blu-Ray. "The Night of the Living Dead 1990" is a minor classic, very worthy of cult status and deserving of all of the accolades fans have heaped upon the film since it was released. However, during the twenty plus years since the release of the film never did I hear anyone say "Gosh, I really love this movie, but why couldn't it be much darker and be much more blue in color?"Whether or not you wanted it, that is exactly what happened.What used to be an enjoyable, watchable movie has become a dark, murky, hard-to-see blue mess, a travesty of a high defintion transfer foisted on an unsuspecting public by someone that obviously is not a fan of the movie. Is this a case of someone looking for a solution to a problem that didn't exist ("Gee, who wants to watch a movie where there is enough light to see everything and there are all of these other distracting colors aside from blue!") and thought that their solution would be appreciated by fans of the movie, or is it a situation where someone, somewhere, simply did not have a clue to what they were doing? Seriously, this should have been the easiest thing in the world to do, and they messed it up. Here is what should have happened:Step One: Transfer the print of the film to High Definition.Step Two: Resist the temptation to tint the movie blue and darken it so much that many scenes are virtually unwatchable.Step Three: Release the movie on Blu-Ray to an adoring public.Seriously, where was the benefit in releasing this movie on Blu Ray in this shoddy state? Who did they think they would please? If you are a fan of a movie, any movie, and you want to see it in High Definition, you just want to see the same movie you love and have always loved without any changes except for the fact that the picture is now in High Definition. I don't want to see the movie trampled and changed in ways that make it hate it, and hate the people that altered it and the company that released it. Why some filmakers and companies insist in "improving" their films for home video release is beyond me, but in this case it really goes too far. Thankfully I still have my DVD, and suggest anyone interested in this film buy it in that format, and avoid the Blu Ray at any cost; the pain is just not worth it.For some reason now I hate the color blue.