There IS a fate worse than death.
A ragtag group barricade themselves in an old Pennsylvania farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls ravaging the Northeast.
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Classical in form, grave, intimate and bleak.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- warmbleak
- contemporarynostalgic
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- John Chardon TMDB · Oct 20157/10
We are them, they are us etc... The original creators of the seminal Night of the Living Dead (1968) reconvene 22 years later to, well, make some money! The original creators of the seminal Night of the Living Dead (1968) reconvene 22 years later to, well, make some money! It was a compromised production, with director Tom Savini announcing that the finished cut is not half the film he set out to make. Surprising, then, to find it still works to the point of being viable. It's a very effective zombie pic, one performed with quality by the cast, with the concept of a group of people holed up in a house - under intense attack by the walking dead - still terrifying. It helps to cast Tony Todd in a reimaging of a horror classic, while Patricia Tallman is a fine spunky lead lady horror protag. Group dynamics again explode, heroes and villains are born, and the creatures are high grade in scary construction. Caveat, though, is that although it's a faithul(ish) remake, where with the new tools to hand it's understandable why the makers thought they could create another horror classic, but one for the 90s horror hordes, it still remains that it's utterly bloodless. While the finale is a bi
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Cast
- Patricia TallmanBarbara
- Tony ToddBen
- McKee AndersonHelen Cooper
- Bill MoseleyJohnnie
- Heather MazurSarah Cooper
- Tom TowlesHarry Cooper
- William ButlerTom
- Pat ReeseThe Mourner
- Katie FinneranJudy Rose
- Stacie FosterDoll's Mom Zombie
Crew
- Tom SaviniDirector
- George A. RomeroScreenplay
- Frank PrinziDirector of Photography
- Paul McColloughOriginal Music Composer
- Tom DubenskyEditor
- Russell StreinerProducer
- John A. RussoProducer
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