Rating: 3/5
I think it's safe to say that every horror fan loves, or at least appreciates, the original Night movie. It was, to me, the original zombie movie. I know there were others before it, but none that made quite as much of an impact. It was a wonderful movie, and it will always be one of the greatest horror classics. So, of course, people feel the need to do it all over again. I've known about this remake for a while, but I didn't know that there was another in 1990 directed by Tom Savini. Apparently there will be another this year (or maybe it's already done, I'm not sure). Apparently no one's ever heard of the phrase, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." Anyways, this one was on Fearnet On Demand. The description said something about it being better because it was filled with gratuitous nudity. I saw one set of tits, so that hardly qualifies as gratuitous. Even if it did, it wouldn't make it better than the original. Sid Haig is in this one, so that's good. He actually plays a big part in the new story line, which is kind of interesting. But it doesn't make up for the fact that the whole thing fails to live up to its name. They call it a re-imagining, which is just a way for them to say, "I remade this movie, but it's still original, guys, 'cause I put some new shit in it." It's still a remake, you just decided to fuck it up even more. Okay, so it does follow a woman named Barbara, but she's just annoying. She and her brother Johnny take a trip to the cemetery. In the original, I believe Barbara and Johnny were there to put flowers on their father's grave. In this one, they're at the cemetery for their aunt's funeral. When they get there, though, the place is deserted. They're attacked by zombies, of course, and Johnny drives off and leaves Barbara to fend for herself. She runs and finds herself at the mortuary,
The interesting part of this one is the explanation of why the dead are returning. Mr. Tovar is a bit of a whack job. His father died two years ago, he brought it back to life and keeps him tied up in his house. He's been busy for the past two years, bringing bodies that were supposed to be cremated back to life. Apparently he's afraid of fire, and he just couldn't bring himself to burn them. He feels like he's giving them a second chance; letting them be "reborn." He acts like they're his children and he loves them. So he's creating zombies just because he likes zombies, it seems like. Of course, zombies don't have emotions, so they don't give a shit that he created them. That's kind of interesting, and I think it would have been good in a different movie, rather than one that was trying to live up to a classic title. Since they slapped the Night of the Living Dead title on it, and called it a re-imagining, it was doomed to be compared to the original--and not positively. People just don't seem to realize that, if they remake a great movie like this, it's just not going to live up to it. As a remake, it's a piece of shit, honestly. As a movie on its own, it's just okay. So, classic title or not, it's really not that great of a movie. The acting was pretty bad,
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