Product: Night of the Living Dead (1990)
Rating: 2.0
not scary or really very zombie like
It's almost like the other reviewers that gave this a good rating have seen a different movie. I have several problems with this movie, mostly with the acting and direction.For a zombie movie, I would expect lot's of special effects and plenty of gory moments, and some ghastly, rotten looking zombies. Unfortunately, whether due to the low budget or the directors lack of balls, this movie does not deliver in this area. The zombies themselves look really stupid for the most part, and not scary or really very zombie like.Here is where we would expect the director to make up for these shortcoming with gripping atmosphere, imaginative dialogue, and nothing less than stellar performances from the acting cast. Unfortunately, the atmosphere is ruined by cheesy synth music, laughable zombies, and lines that could have been written by a 12 year old. The director does little to generate atmosphere, suspense, dread, fear, - it's all missing.As for the acting, which could have saved this lackluster remake, I wanted to slap these people each time they grinned, chuckled, smiled and generally seemed to be having a laugh. How can you expect your audience to go along with the movie, if the actors can't be bothered? The one possible exception is the character "Ben" who is mostly pretty solid.I think that another serious problem, is that the plot is too similar too the original, so there are few surprises, which takes much of the impact out... there are few surprises when the truck blows up for example. Why couldn't they have done something more imaginative, to give it a "freshness" factor? Instead, they opted for "women can fight zombies too," and some type of "rednecks are as bad as zombies" ending.I feel patronised!