Horror fans there are alot of horror remakes out there and nine times out of ten the remake usually ends up being pretty bad. However there is one one film that has perhaps had the most remakes or reimagining's in horror history that film being of the course the 1968 zombie / horror film classic George A. Romero's Night Of The Living Dead and so join me as I review the 1990 film which is called simply "Night Of The Living Dead" enjoy.
The plot of this film is Barbera and her brother Johnny are on their way to visit there recently deceased mother when a zombie outbreak starts / occurs and now Barbera and a ragtag bunch of survivors have to survive the night in a farm house with zombies coming from all sides outside and tensions mounting within the group happening inside the house. In terms of what I thought about the plot of this film in all honesty I really did enjoy the plot of this film since even tho it's the exact same plot as the 1968 original this film adds enough new elements to the story that it could really be seen as it's own thing but that's just what I think anyways.
Starring in this film is horror icon Tony Todd as Ben , Patricia Tallman as Sarah Connor AKA Barbara Todd and Tom Towles as Harry Cooper. Also starring in this film is McKee Anderson as Helen Cooper , William Butler as Tom Bitner , Katie Finneran as Judy Rose Larson , horror icon Bill Moseley as Johnny Todd , Heather Mazur as Sarah Cooper and one of this films producers Russell Streiner as Sheriff McClelland.
In terms of what I thought about the acting that's in this film in all honesty the acting that's in this film is alot better then it really had any right to be. Since no one expects the acting in a horror remake to be any goody but nope every single actor that's in this film does a damn good job and if you none horror fans want proof of how good of an actor Tony Todd truly is if you die hard horror fans want reminding of how good of an actor Tony Todd then I suggest that you check out this film because man does Tony Todd really deliver in this film like i honestly feel Tony Todd delivers the best performance not only in this entire film but in his entire career in this film because he's that good in this film in my humble and honest opinion.
Now unlike the oh so many other films that bare the Night Of The Living Dead title / name this film is an actual official remake and what makes this film an official remake is the fact the original Night Of The Living Dead co-creator and director of the original Night Of The Living Dead George A. Romero served not only as this films executive producer along with co-creator John A. Russo but George A. Romero also served as this film official script writer and that right there sets this film apart from not only all of the countless other Night Of The Living Dead remakes but also from horror remakes in general because who else would know how best to tell this story with these freaking characters then the person who co-created these characters and these settings in the freaking first place but that's just what I think anyways.
Speaking of this films characters man did they vastly improve upon the character of Barbara Todd since if you recall in the 1968 original film Barbara Todd was basically a useless character and nothing more then a useless character but in this film she's the exact opposite. Since in this film Barbara Todd is basically like Sarah Connor from Terminator 2: Judgement Day in that she's a tough as nails bada*s and honestly while I do like this version of Barbara Todd I also have very mixed feelings about this take on the character.
Since by making her a tough as nails bada*s they are fixing one of the original films problems which for a remake is a good thing since it makes this film standout on it's own two feet in my humble and honest opinion. However at the same time by making Barbara Todd a tough as nails bada*s it makes Ben a pointless since the whole point of Ben in the original film was that he was the films moral compass as well as being someone who could generally fight and could generally knock you out but here since Barbara Todd is the tough one as well this films moral compass it makes Bens character seem pointless which is a shame because I really liked this version of Ben and this version of Ben seemed to be more of an action hero rather then someone who would strategies every move before even taking a single step but that's just what I think about Barbara Todd and Ben anyways.
Now then for some reason this film chose to go the somewhat happy ending route because if you remember in the original Night Of The Living Dead from 1968 all of the films main cast of characters including Ben dies either at the end of the film , during the films third act or during the actual film itself. Where as here all of the characters except our Sarah Connor from terminator 2: Judgement Day wanna be (Barbara Todd) dies which to me takes away from the film because of the fact that having a dark ending to zombie film sticks with you more then having a happy ending in a zombie film does but that's just my opinion anyways.
Now then boys and girls this film has a total running of one hour and twenty eight minuets and sixteen seconds which in my opinion is about the right amount of running time for this film. I say that this is the right amount of running time for this film simply because the story of Night Of The Living Dead isn't a complex story and it's a story that we all know and as such trying to stretch this film and as well as this films story to anything even close to two hours or even in this case and hour and thirty five minuets would be stretching an already thin and simply story to beyond breaking point in my humble and honest opinion.
Now then boys and girls since this is horror film after all that means that I have to talk about the scares that are in this film and if i'm being honest the scares in this film are one of this films true highlights for me personally. Since you don't see any of these scares coming at all which for me at least is a good thing and on top of all that if you remember the original film this film changes some scares from that film which makes the scares that this film replaces the scares in the original film all the more scarier because your expecting one thing to happen but then instead you get scared by something else entirely but that's just what I think anyways.
Overall out of all of the Night Of The Living Dead remakes that are out there this one is easily the best one in my opinion. However that doesn't make this a perfect film since i've talked about both of the good and the bad things that are in this film in this very review and as such this film gets a 7.5 out of 10 from me , as for where I got the images that I used in this review well I got all f the images that I used in this review from either the official Living Dead fandom wiki page and Google Images with me preferred website to use for images from this film being Google Images simply because there was a wide variety of images and as always we end this review with our one true goddess Elvira wishing us all some very unpleasant dreams.
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