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Initial Thought: Night of the Living Dead was my introduction to zombies. Of course it was. From then on I have loved them endlessly. I will watching anything with zombies in it. So I had bought a DVD with the final three Return of the Living Dead films, the last two of the Reanimator trilogy, and this. So I decided to watch this one first.
Characters/Acting: So Sid Haig is the only recognizable face and name for me. The other people I was familiar with were more by the movies I've seen them in. Good lord the acting here was dreadful! Sure Barbara was kind of lame in the original, but in the first remake the made her better. Here she went back to lame as hell again. Johnny didn't even do the infamous line! That pissed me off that he sort of texted it to her in a way. It was lame. Owen was the most annoying pothead ever. He was just plain boring. Where the hell is the correct Ben. Being white really made him an ordinary dude I couldn't care less for. Sid Haig even sucked here. I think the only people I actually liked here were the daughter and father. They were both still kind of obnoxious, but way less than the rest of the characters.
Story: Both an homage to and a re-imagining of the original 1968 film, this update follows a group of survivors trapped in a farmhouse battling a siege of undead zombies! This was a horrible homage! The only part I liked was when they showed them playing Night of the Living Dead on the TV. Other than that this was pure low budget garbage. The zombies really sucked here. The makeup effects looked more like paint than anything gross. They dumped some nudity into this that wasn't even good enough for this to be any more likable. The twist was so stupid and completely unnecessary. The ending was pathetic as well. I just really despised a lot of things here.
Directing/Writing: Jeff Broadstreet and Robert Valding ruined George A. Romero and John A. Russo's classic zombie film. If you pay homage to something please don't shit on it. It looks as if they tried again with a sequel and still failed. I will end up watching it for the Andrew Divoff, but I will not be expecting much from these losers.
Final Thought: This was complete garbage. The acting sucked. The characters were boring and lame. The effects were pathetic. The zombies were unimpressive. It was just a waste of time. I don't understand how a legend like Romero could let someone butcher his idea like this. Do yourself a favor and let it collect dust in the bargain bin. It isn't worth a penny!
