Product: Night of the Living Dead (1990)
Rating: 3.0
Decent but filled with problems!
Ok let me first just say this. If Romero had never created the original this film would be a classic. The problem is that this film can't be a classic or a really good re-make because it is full of changes. The most obvious and annoying change is the ending of the film. Why did Savini, who is a good friend of Romero's and did the effects for the last two Dead films need to ruin an excellent ending? Why did Barbra become the hero in the film and the...kicking gun weilding action star in the movie when she was a mumbling mess in the original? Why was it that Ben went completly insane and when did he get killed/bit by a zombie? Was it because of the gunshots that Cooper gave to him? If so why have the pain in the...guy kill of the main character from the first in the updated version when it was the main character, Ben who killed off the pain in the ...guy Cooper in the original, not Barbra! Another main problem I had was the whole part with Cooper's daughter Sara. Savini changed it all around and once again ruined one of the great scenes from the original film. Sara was supposed to kill her mother, which she did but of course she didn't with the tool, which we do see but hanging on the wall (people who didn't see the original most likely were confused as to why it showed it twice hanging on the wall). Of course then we have Sara come out of the basment and there is a showdown with her dad, who doesn't want to shoot here and Barbra, who once again plays hero and kills her, which once again isn't how it happend in the original! I loved the original where Ben wasn't just shot accidently by the guys killing the zombies. This movie made him out to be worthless! I also loved in the original how the t.v. told alot of the story and what was happening but in this it didn't play much of a role.I just loved the original too much to completly enjoy this. I know Romero had a hand in it but mainly it was Savini's movie. I was also upset with the lack of gore in this film, which was shocking because I thought the original had more! Whenever a zombie was killed you didn't see it... This is a movie from one of the greates f/x guys in the horror business and there wasn't much gore! The movie just lost it's creppiness, something that the black and white added and something that all the great make-up and gore added to Dawn and Day.This movie is ok and is way better than alot of the lower budgeted so-called Romero tribute zombie films out there...It's a decent movie but nowhere near the original or the two follow-ups! I actually enjoyed Return Of The Living Dead much more than this movie, which is more of a comdey than a horror movie....