Night of the Living Dead (1990)

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"In the history of bad ideas, George Romero's decision to produce a color remake of his disturbingly frenzied 1968 zombiefest Night of the Living Dead has to rank right up there with New Coke. - Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly This "Night of the Living Dead" is resurrected, but it's never brought to life. - Richard Harrington, Washington Post"

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" REMAKE "

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" Ben: This is something no one's ever heard about, and no one's ever seen before. This is hell on earth. "

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"The only literal remake I ever saw. Why bother even making it at all?"

Interesting film facts (365 movies items)

"Tom Savini's originally wanted to start the film in black-and-white, then slowly add color. Laurence Fishburne and Eriq La Salle both auditioned for the role of Ben. Russell Streiner who appeared in the original Night of the Living Dead as Johnny, appears in this movie as Sheriff McClelland, who comments about the zombies, "Yeah, they're dead, they're all messed up." As is tradition with most zombie films, the word 'zombie' is never once used in this movie to describe the Living Dead. "

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" Society is collapsing, so you'd better get a gun quickly, right? Let's assume for a second you know how to use one well enough to aim at a reeking flood of corpses and shoot the parts that are faces. Now you're stuck with a couple of problems: Your noisy gun is calling more things than you kill, and given the nature of this zombie-horde problem, you will always have more enemies than bullets. But maybe you should stop fussing over all these tiny details. You're planning a zombie apocalypse, no"