Rotten Tomatoes: 68%
Metacritic Metascore: 54
IMDB: 6.9

74/100

Release Date: 19 October 1990
Distributor: Colombia Pictures - Sony Pictures
Budget: $4.2M
Worldwide Gross: $5.8M

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Newsman: "The scientific community is focusing on the phenomenon, specifically on that trance-like state that seems to characterize the assailants. Clearly a behavioral disorder, but what could've caused so widespread and dramatic condition as the one we're facing tonight."

SYNOPSIS: The unburied dead return to life and seek human victims.

Wanting to re-visit the genre he created, George Romero approached Tom Savini to direct a remake of his 1968 masterpiece, Night of the Living Dead.

Remakes of horror classics are always either extremely inferior or very successful attempts, with John Carpenter's "The…

Yesterday was our three-year wedding anniversary and what better way to spend it than watching three zombie movies from the 1990s we haven't seen in a while?! How else would you expect Richard and I to celebrate our marriage?

I felt pretty disappointed as soon as Night of the Living Dead started and I couldn't shake that feeling for the rest of the movie. Disappointment is always a possibility when revisiting a movie after a long absence. I always campaigned pretty hard for NOTLD '90, I truly loved it for many years. Almost 10 years ago I had a female role in film class and I convinced the teacher to let me show my classmates NOTLD '68 followed by NOTLD…

"I do not plan on losing anything else" - Barbara,

Zombies are scary.

This is a remake of Night of the Living Dead, the most important and influential zombie film ever made. The original Night of the Living Dead is an excellent film, but made on a very small budget, so I understand the desire to remake the movie. Famed makeup artist and actor Tom Savini directed this film with George Romero's blessing and it turned out pretty well even though there ain't nothing like the real thing.

The original is a classic but I enjoyed this remake. The performances are much better here with Tony Todd at his best and Patricia Tallman (Babylon 5) in the Barbara role. The…

Yeah, they're dead, they're all messed up.
-Sheriff McClelland

Finally watched the first remake of one of my all time favorite horror films. The number of films that have used the title Night of the Living Dead since the original came out is beyond ridiculous, but this isn't just the first one to reuse the title, it's an actual remake made by most of the same crew of the original. It's even written by George A. Romero.

While special effects and makeup maestro Tom Savini might not have the same director's cred as Romero, no one can argue his love for the genre or this project in particular. For what he lacks in experience behind the camera, he makes up…

When I was younger I was much angrier and much more prone to getting furious at restaurants for not putting the toppings on top of the cheese on a pizza. Seriously, they're called toppings for a reason, it's a pizza, not a QUICHE. During this reckless and turbulent time of my youths I hated the remake of Night of the Living Dead.

Hated it.

Passionately.

I thought it was superfluous. Why bother making essentially the same movie again only in colour?

At the time it all felt so cynical.

Now, as a much older man, who's watched a couple thousand more movies, read a bunch of philosophers, did some mild to Jodorowsky level hallucinogenics and got hit by a semi-truck…

Doesn't take long for the world to fall apart does it? No, it doesn't! Anyway, Tom Savini remakes the George Romero classic with a more modern and gory twist. Was it needed...not sure, but is it good? Yes it certainly is! The base story is the same as the original and focuses on a group of strangers holed up in a farm house after the dead have inexplicably risen from their graves to attack the living! Savini expertly captures the paranoia and claustrophobia of the original while presenting a well defined and interesting group of characters. The overall film is similar to Romero's but different in many small ways; mainly with the characters. The interplay between them bodes well with…

Though the only real reason behind remaking George A. Romero's classic "Night of the Living Dead" seems to be to update the undead and splatter effects, Tom Savini's "Night of the Living Dead" adds more than just latex. The differences are not deep or thematic, but Savini's remake is a reverent reworking of the cinematic source material and a satisfying horror film on its own merits.

Following the bones of John Russo and Romero's original script, this "Night of the Living Dead" focuses on the group of disparate individuals holed up in a remote farmhouse when the dead begin to walk. The clashing personalities provide drama as the invading flesh-eaters provide horror.

No remake could match the almost documentary-style immediacy…

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Many would debate whenever Night of the Living Dead warranted a remake or not, but here it is regardless, directed by the gore master himself Tom Savini. As far as horror remakes go, I would say this is one of the better ones. Plot-wise, it's virtually identical, though there some differences. It stays close enough to the original while introducing it's own ideas, both good and bad.

It opens up exactly the same way, with Barbara escaping to an abandoned farmhouse after her brother is killed and meeting up with Ben and other survivors. All of the original characters return, though…

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Night of the Living Dead....1990

If you're going to remake a classic you should do it right. Tom Savini's remake is a gory good time, that updates the 68 movie with a late eighties sensibility.
Changing the film just enough to make it interesting.

The standout in this film is the Performance of Mr Candy Man himself Tony Todd. It's an very emotionally driven performance that is many times better than what you usually get in horror flicks.
It really raises this up above the rest.

Patricia Tallman (Babalon 5...1994)…

Whaaaaaaat?

This NIGHT OF THE LIVIND DEAD remake (produced by Menachem Golan?!) had never registered as anything more than a blip on my movie radar, but — celebration time on the only platform I ever use in a diaristic way — Tony Todd will be reading one of my screenplays (!!), KODIAK, this week and I wanted to catch up on some of his work.

This is a very fucking good movie and I'm not sure why it has the lukewarm reputation it seems to. It's smart. Romero's screenplay is filled with what on the surface look like overt homages to his original film; having seen that fairly recently, these elements actually reveal a somewhat sly update, a black mirror…

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Barricading windows and getting weapons while zombies break through...
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CALL OF DUTY ZOMBIES

This is one of the zombies that I actually love, it isn't over the top but I actually it because solely based on the zombies. This is a 1990's but why does it feel older? It starts as if it's one of those really older classic horror movies, but considering the date this movie was made the quality is absolutely superb. Why does the main character look like the lady from Jurassic park 3? The zombies are really slow. The whole thing about boarding up the windows while the zombies…