Product: Night of the Living Dead (1990)
Rating: 4.0
Night of the Living Dead.......
Night of the Living Dead is a 1990 remake of George Romero's 1968 classic of the same name. Directed by Tom Savini; it stars Tony Todd, Patricia Tallman and Tom Towles. For this remake, Romero rewrote the original screenplay with John A. Russo(whom he had originally wrote it with). Most of the film was handled by the same team as the original, with the exception that directing duties were handled by famed special make-up effects artist Tom Savini, who originally signed up with hopes of doing the make-up effects as he was not able to for the original film as he had military duty.It tells the story of a group of people who fend off hordes of the walking dead in a secluded farmhouse in Western Pennsylvania, only fueding between themselves which proves to be just as deadly. The story follows the same core story of the original but with slight alterations & changes. It was made on a budget of $4,200,000 but proves that great movies can be made on low budgets.Despite the fact that, when it was released, it garnered negative reactions from the general public; I personally thought it was great film for its' time. Tom Savini did a pretty decent job directing the film and, in my opinion, actually improved on certain things and commentary about the time in the film.Even though zombie fans of today are more discriminating in their tastes in zombie movies, this is a worthy remake of an old classic that every zombie fan should have in their collection. I really enjoyed it.