Night Of The Living Dead (1990)

[Scott]

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1990) - A good remake of the classic from 1968. Some good scenes at the beginning then they spend a lot of time in the house. I was wondering how many windows that house had and then they just walk out the back door. They change the film a little bit here and there. Then you have a different Barbara also. The middle was a bit tedious, but not bad. It's probably the closes "remake" you'll ever see. It was interesting viewing.

(7 out of 10 Stars)  Hard to get real enthusiastic about it since it is so similiar to the original.



http://youtube.com/watch?v=D_vEc3do_7A

[trekgeezer]

I've only seen part of this one, but it stars two of my favorite scifi actors. Patricia Tallman would go on to play Lyta Alexander the telepath on Babylon 5. Tony Todd is recognizable as the Candy Man, but he also played Worf's brother Kurn on ST:TNG & DS9, an older Jake Sisko on DS9, and a Herogen hunter on Voyager.

You're right the character of Barbara in this one is more like Ripley in Aliens than the demure Barbara in the original.

[Scott]

The guy at the beginning who plays her brother looked remarkably much like the original.

[RCMerchant]

Tom Toweles is also in it-he played Otis in HENERY-PORTRAIT of a SERIAL KILLER.

[Bonehead-XL]

The guy at the beginning who plays her brother looked remarkably much like the original.

That was Bill Mosely, better known as Chop-Top from "Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2" and Otis from "House of 1,000 Corpses/The Devil Rejects."

This remake is actually pretty good, I really dug the Ripley-ied out Barbara. And for those who didn't know, Tom Savini directed this. (His only feature directoral credit, so far, I believe.)

[daveblackeye15]

It was a pretty good remake but there's something missing about it. Maybe a soul? I don't know.

Though it was my first foray into scary flesh eating zombies at a young age. Everything until then was the Voodoo slave zombie or Zombies ate my Neighbors type.

[Neville]

Is that Tom Savini's remake? It has a lot of bad press among critics, but when I saw it, only once on my teens, I though it was pretty good. I probably would think the same today, I'm not among NOTLD's most ardent fans, I prefer the other films in the series to the B/W original.