lukem-52760 Night of the living dead (1990) is better than the original!!! Master of splatter fx & gore the brilliant Tom Savini directed this BRILLIANT remake & it really is a better film in every way!!! BRILLIANTLY directed & with beautiful cinematography & a fantastic performance by TONY TODD he's excellent in this also Patricia Tallman gives a fantastic performance as Barbara who starts out terrified & useless but becomes a tough hero & that's so cool to see a strong Ripley (Aliens) type woman fight back!!! The atmosphere is scarier & darker & a better musical score!!! Romero was still producer so that's cool but Savani just made a better more exciting film a real good bit of late night entertainment!!! The zombies look much BETTER & the old farm house looks AWESOME!!! The setting is Fantastic & exciting, i remember FIRST seeing this one late night on t.v & thought it was incredible just an excellent zombie movie with good characters & drama & the whole boarding up the house scenes always stuck with me. Not only is this a much better film than the original it's also one the greatest zombie films ever MADE!!! Love this movie,TOM SAVINI you are AWESOME

GL84 After an attack in a cemetery, a woman fleeing from a swarm of ravenous zombies hides out in a remote farmhouse with several other survivors and tries to help them find a way of escaping from the deadly creatures as well as each other when they start to slowly kill them off.This was quite the fun and effective remake. One of the more enjoyable elements of this one is the fact that there's a lot of good times to be had here from playing off the expectations from the original. Since this one readily follows the exact same plotline as the original, from the family members driving out to the cemetery and coming across the first zombies while they hold-up inside the house causes their deep-seated racial tensions to come come boiling to the surface, there's plenty to like from the way this one turns those situations around. The opening in the cemetery where it replays the first encounter straightforward only for the film to pull two nice surprises out of the scene in who's not a zombie and how they're attacked so it plays nicely here in getting this going while their house walk-through gives them some really new and interesting discoveries which is all due to the more enhanced sensibilities to showing the disturbed bodies of the corpses. That leads into the other great aspect here in the film's high-end action scenes featured in here which are just as impressive and fun as the original, in some cases even topping it. The brawling in the cemetery works incredibly well, as does the eventual escape in the car to stumble upon the house gives this a series of solid opening scenes. The mission to board up the house before they can fully break through is quite enjoyable as it gives this some suspense with the zombies breaking in just when they seem to believe a section is fortified as well as getting the heart of the racial tensions exposed in great detail which runs rampant throughout the first half. The high-energy finale, with the tensions inside having boiled over into a series of gunfights between the last survivors in the house and the series of zombie swarms coming into the unprotected house. The zombies here are certainly far better-looking than in the original. Decayed and rotting just a tad, with the slightest amount of facial scars and wounds that give them a little edge over the zombies in the original. The Cemetery Zombie at the beginning is the best of the redesigned zombies from the original, and a rather hideously realized Autopsy Zombie looks really spectacular and it comes across beautifully in a great gag.That being said, there are a few problems with the film. The biggest one is the zombies themselves are just too slow to be threatening. Usually, the shuffling kind of zombies are what you should expect to find, but these are taken to the extreme, and at one point, one remarks that they are slow enough to walk around without getting bit yet no one takes it seriously. The lack of gore in this one is an issue as well and can be a curse as well as a blessing. This isn't something for the gorehounds out there as we do get a couple neat gags here but this is nowhere near what it could've been. The last big issue is that the gag at the end is pretty confusing. Not only are we never told what the probable cause was that lead to the creatures, nor are we told that it comes from bites which makes that fate a direct contradiction from zombie lore and is what holds this one down.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Language and Brief Nudity.

streetkittensat86 The original Night of the Living Dead was..let's face it. Boring lame the lead female character was pathetic. But this re-make...awesome!! Barbra ACCUALLY took a stand up up leading Ladie's roll. It was more tense, more unsettling and scarier than the original. Tony Todd was amazing (like he always is) and I was on the edge of my seat rooting for him and Barbra!! The original sucked (much as I love Romero) it did. The remake was awesome and got my heart pounding. The original NOTLD was good for our grandparents but as the new generation of film goers this remake ranks much much better and delivers more scares without straying too much from the original storyline

TheMovieDoctorful I'm not really a "zombie movie" guy. I was always more of a werewolf movie fan than a zombie one. However, there are aspects of the genre that do fascinate me and there are 2 zombie flicks in my top 150 favorite movies of all time. (REC) is the the first one, and this is the second. I haven't actually seen the original classic, but just on its own, "Night of the Living Dead '90" is every bit a masterpiece in its own right. This is an incredibly smart, compelling and tense thrill-ride, everything I wanted it to be and more.Patricia Tallman is outstanding as Barbara; her arc from weak victim to fearless badass is handled perfectly. Barbara goes through some pretty hellish and life-scarring situations in this movie, but these experiences only make her stronger, even downright ruthless near the end. That said, she isn't entirely cold and callous, and Tallman does a great job bringing some true emotional weight and depth to a character who very easily could have become an unrelatable hardass in the case of a less talented actress. If anything, I think that Barbara is something of a feminist icon in a movie genre that's severely lacking in pro-feminist characters.While Tallman does a fantastic job, the "Candyman" himself Tony Todd totally steals the show as Ben, a man very much thrown into a leadership position that he admittedly might not be 100% ready for. Ben becomes more and more emotive over the course of the movie as tensions rise and circumstances become more dire. Tony Todd has to get a wide range of emotional depth for this character; from hope to fear to anger to sadness to compassion. He's a character that has so much pressure on his shoulders and even when he makes the wrong decision, you can understand why he did. There wasn't a single moment where I didn't want this character to get out of this situation alive. William Butler, Katie Finneran and Tom Towles turn in fine performances as well, though admittedly Towles's character Harry was a bit of a one-dimensional whiner."Night of the Living Dead '90" is a movie that is just DRIPPING in atmosphere. From the superb, chilling musical score by Paul McCollough to the haunting and claustrophobic farmhouse set, the atmosphere truly adds to the tense and heart-pounding nature of the film.While the acting, characters and atmosphere are all excellent, my absolute favorite parts of the movie are the themes. The film touches on some very interesting themes about war and disaster in general and the affect that it can have on individuals (Such as the strength and ruthlessness gained by Barbara and the growing emotional nature of Ben) and social groups (shown by the constant feuding between characters eventually leading to outright bloodshed). The movie also has a very intelligent message about the power of fear; the power to bring strength as well as weakness, to bring unity as well as destruction. For a zombie movie, it's surprisingly deep in subtly examining these themes.As I said before, I'm not a zombie movie fan. But I don't have to be a zombie movie fan to know that "Night of the Living Dead '90" is a phenomenal movie and one of the best of the genre, if not one of the best horror movies ever. Whether you've seen every zombie movie, played every game and read every book or you're an outsider to the genre like me, I highly recommend you check this wonderful remake out.