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Night of the Living Dead (1990)

Rate: 2
Viewed: 8/08, 3/15

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8/08: My overpowering feeling while watching the 1990 version of Night of the Living Dead is that I've seen it all before.

But why do it again the same way but with a different ending plus inferior acting? Gee, Tom Savini must think that gore, basked in morbid-looking gooey Jell-O, is what constitutes a horror film when all he did is missing the damn point. He just force-feeds me the obvious while forgetting about terror and suspense.

To redo what has been done is no adventure. Gosh, why can't George Romero start thinking about something else other than zombies? It's been a constant trip to the land of zombies, zombies, and more zombies. Meanwhile, Tom Towles' performance is so annoying that I've seriously considered a rating of '1' for a while, but the rest of the show somewhat negates it.

All in all, Tom Savini should stick to special effects and stop directing rubbish.

3/15: Night of the Living Dead is a pointless colorized remake of the original.

I mean, it's, save for the ending, shot scene-for-scene just like Gus Van Sant's Psycho. I remember everything that happened in the 1968 classic, so why bother making another that's exactly like it? Is it to achieve the "cool" status? Well, it's pathetic.

Why the hell is George Romero still obsessed with zombies by trying to reinvent the wheel for the umpteenth time? The characters make the film worse than it has to be. All they do is argue. The sight of Tom the Moron shooting off the lock from the gas pump has my head shaking perpetually.

I hate Tom Towles' and Patricia Tallman's characters because they're super annoying to put up with. Tony Todd is a decent fill-in for Duane Jones, but not long after the beginning, he acts as if it's a staged play. By the way, why did his character become a zombie if he hadn't been bitten?

All in all, the 1990 version of Night of the Living Dead makes a case of why people shouldn't own guns.