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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 444491" data-attributes="member: 57984">I&#039;m trying to watch George Romero&#039;s color remake of his classic NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968).It&#039;s just horrendous, the remake, and in a very &#039;80s sort of way (technically released in 1990). So far, it&#039;s a shot-for-shot re-do, only with a &quot;knowing&quot; tongue-in-cheek tone... Why do they bother to do this?? Money, one supposes. But remakes nearly always miss what made the original film so compelling -- only this one is helmed by Romero himself (as producer). And it doesn&#039;t help.The original was a low-low-budget period piece, shot in B&amp;W in Pennsylvania in 1967. And it has that deeply forlorn, third-quarter-of-the-&#039;60s post-apocalyptic (literally, in this case) vibe about it. It&#039;s truly creepy, and the non-existent budget just enhances the Godforsaken mood... A wildly neurotic blonde watches her brother murdered by a zombie in a graveyard, and she rushes to a nearby farmhouse where she&#039;s temporarily rescued by an &quot;articulate&quot; black guy who later made everyone think of Barack Obama... There&#039;s a body upstairs, but it turns out there are people in the basement and they&#039;re mostly a carnival of creeps barely worth saving... Eventually, they&#039;re not saved, devoured by their undead assailants one by one.&nbsp;&nbsp; It&#039;s wonderfully dystopian. And Romero was often praised for its social commentary likely unintentional. I recall a later interview with him discussing his numerous sequels, and his fumbly assertion that those sequels were addressing &quot;what ever was going on at the time.&quot; Heh.The 1990 remake is the worst of the bunch. Of course, the heroine now has a butch, auburn haircut and is coldly tougher than her hysterical predecessor. The opening cemetery scene has &quot;Mom&#039;s&quot; headstone with a cameo photo which strongly resembles Nancy Reagan. Oh, ha-ha.Not that I expect much from these things, but one wonders why people lose the will to live and then choose to become a zombie instead.Even the hunky body-builder in the original, the one who blows up in the pick-up truck with his girlfriend, later became a doctor and then committed suicide. For all that factoid is worth.Ugh on the soulless remake. If I didn&#039;t make it clear.<img src="https://static1.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Tony-Todd-in-Night-of-the-Living-Dead-Cropped.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 444491, member: 57984"] I'm trying to watch George Romero's color remake of his classic NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968). It's just horrendous, the remake, and in a very '80s sort of way (technically released in 1990). So far, it's a shot-for-shot re-do, only with a "knowing" tongue-in-cheek tone... Why do they bother to do this?? Money, one supposes. But remakes nearly always miss what made the original film so compelling -- only this one is helmed by Romero himself (as producer). And it doesn't help. The original was a low-low-budget period piece, shot in B&W in Pennsylvania in 1967. And it has that deeply forlorn, third-quarter-of-the-'60s post-apocalyptic (literally, in this case) vibe about it. It's truly creepy, and the non-existent budget just enhances the Godforsaken mood... A wildly neurotic blonde watches her brother murdered by a zombie in a graveyard, and she rushes to a nearby farmhouse where she's temporarily rescued by an "articulate" black guy who later made everyone think of Barack Obama... There's a body upstairs, but it turns out there are people in the basement and they're mostly a carnival of creeps barely worth saving... Eventually, they're not saved, devoured by their undead assailants one by one. It's wonderfully dystopian. And Romero was often praised for its social commentary likely unintentional. I recall a later interview with him discussing his numerous sequels, and his fumbly assertion that those sequels were addressing "what ever was going on at the time." Heh. The 1990 remake is the worst of the bunch. Of course, the heroine now has a butch, auburn haircut and is coldly tougher than her hysterical predecessor. The opening cemetery scene has "Mom's" headstone with a cameo photo which strongly resembles Nancy Reagan. Oh, ha-ha. Not that I expect much from these things, but one wonders why people lose the will to live and then choose to become a zombie instead. Even the hunky body-builder in the original, the one who blows up in the pick-up truck with his girlfriend, later became a doctor and then committed suicide. For all that factoid is worth. Ugh on the soulless remake. If I didn't make it clear. [IMG]https://static1.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Tony-Todd-in-Night-of-the-Living-Dead-Cropped.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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