Product: Night of the Living Dead (1990)
Rating: 5.0
So you wanna be an extra in a George Romero film?
Tom Savini's Night of the Living Dead has some of the most interesting extras on film. This is a great movie! It is frightening on many levels, the cast is wonderful and the rewriting brings the movie into the present in a terrifying way.I prefer this version to the original, mostly because Barbara is not a catatonic fruitcake. Also, the ending of Romero's film just makes me so mad I want to scream!Patricia Tallman makes her character real. She plays a frightened but strong and rational person dealing with an insane situation. She is definitely a predecessor of roles like Alice in 2002's Resident Evil, even if she does not have the amazing kung fu skills that all our modern genre heros seem to come with.Tony Todd is an amazing actor, and any director is lucky to have him. His description of events offscreen is eerie and sets the perfect tone for the story until later, when things get a little more desperate.Tom Towles makes a wonderful creep-I love to hate him! He's a cad, a jerk and worse as the family man who just wants to hide instead of accepting the truth.The best thing about the DVD version is the really neat commentary by director Tom Savini. It's just him and the mic, but he has alot of interesting things to say about every aspect of the production. The story of how he came to direct this film is recounted, and Savini seems to have something fascinating to say about each and every actor, extra and crewperson on the set.A featurette about the film is included in the disc with more good stuff to watch. The extra cost of the DVD is totally worth the money, and a must-have for living dead fans everywhere.I am always finding more reasons to love this film!