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Harry insists that everyone retreats to the cellar and hunker down to wait for the authorities. Ben disagrees believing that the cellar is a "death trap" and they would be better off fortifying the house and fending off the horde. Noticing the zombies' limited mobility, Barbara suggests that they leave the house on foot. The discussion quickly turns hostile as tensions flare between Ben and Harry. A scuffle ensues that leaves the Coopers in the basement to tend to Sarah, while the other survivors continue reinforcing the doors and windows upstairs. The loud construction attracts a mob of zombies to the farmhouse. It doesn't take long for the infected to hem in, leaving the group trapped with nowhere to go.
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a group of hillbillies drunkenly antagonizing a small group of captured zombies, she comments on the similarities between the living and the undead (apparently suggesting that we are no better than these ravenous cannibals). She returns to the farmhouse to find Ben, who is now zombified; he gazes at Barbara before being shot. When Harry emerges from the attic alive, Barbara kills him in a fit of rage and retribution for causing Ben's death, and turns to leave the house, telling the vigilantes they have "another one for the fire." Barbara watches grimly as the bodies are burned on a pyre.
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killed while Barbara flees the cemetery and discovers what appears to be an abandoned farm house. She seeks shelter there, only to find another pack of zombies. Shaken and disturbed she tries to fight them off. Shortly after, a man named Ben (who fled Evans City) arrives and helps Barbara dispatch the zombies. The two quickly form a bond and clear the house of the undead and begin barricading the doors and windows as night falls.
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trying to protect themselves. Both Ben and Harry are badly wounded, and Barbara shoots Sarah. Harry retreats upstairs to the attic, while Ben staggers down to the cellar, where he shoots a reanimated Helen. Ben gradually goes into shock, and after realizing the gas pump key has been in the cellar the entire time, he laughs mindlessly at the irony before dying from his injuries.
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the truck and is left to defend himself. To their horror, the key to the gas pump is not among the set they brought with them. Realizing they are out of time, Tom shoots the lock off, causing gasoline to ignite a burning torch in the cargo bed. The truck and gas pump explode, killing both Tom and Judy.
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Savini often screens an uncut work print VHS copy of the film at conventions. According to Savini, "Years later I was at a midnight showing and did a Q&A before the movie, and I wasn't going to sit down and watch it, but I did...And it was the first time that I saw it objectively, and it's good!"
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not to be included, caused Romero to see little in the way of profit. Romero's production company, Image Ten, eventually won the lawsuit, but the distributor went out of business before they could collect any money. Another issue was the fact that the filmmakers were worried that someone else might
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Meanwhile, Barbara leaves the farm house alone and attempts to find help. She eventually joins a group of countryside locals who are clearing the area of the undead, and awakens the next day in a makeshift camp surrounded by the safety of the media and townspeople, led by Sheriff McClelland. Noticing
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The group devises a plan to escape using Ben's truck, which is out of fuel, by refueling at a locked gas pump nearby. They find a set of keys in Uncle Rege's corpse (the farm's owner) and proceed to drive up the hill toward the gas pump, but their plan begins to unravel when Ben falls from the bed of
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They soon discover other survivors holed up in the cellar: a man named Harry Cooper; his wife Helen; their daughter Sarah, who was bitten by a zombie and has fallen seriously ill; and teenage lovers Tom Bitner and Judy Rose Larson. The group is divided over what their next course of action should be.
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One idyllic August afternoon, siblings Barbara and Johnny visit their mother's grave in a remote cemetery in rural Pennsylvania. An elderly man with blood on his forehead bumps into them there, garbles something and bolts in terror. While offering to help him, they are attacked by a zombie. Johnny is
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Unbeknownst to the survivors upstairs, Sarah has succumbed to the bite on her arm and has transformed into a zombie; she attacks and bites her distraught mother. When Sarah makes her way upstairs, she triggers a shootout between her father, who is trying to protect her, and Ben and Barbara, who are
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Ben has no choice but to make his way back, only to find things beginning to dissolve into chaos. Harry has wrestled Barbara's gun away from her and is now armed while the horde has burst their way in. The house is now completely overrun with the exits blocked off and the barricades torn down.
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The production was not easy for Savini, who described it as "the worst nightmare of my life". Savini said that only 40% of his ideas made it into the final film. Without Romero on set, he clashed with the producers, who did not allow him to explore his vision for the film.
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rated it four-and-a-half out of five stars and wrote, "This film works on so many levels. Normally, remakes are horrible, and diverge so much from the original film. This one is so close to the original it's scary." Reviewing the Twilight Time Blu-ray, Adam Tyner of
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version was released in a limited edition of 3,000 on October 9, 2012, by Twilight Time. Australian film distributor Umbrella Entertainment released a special edition of the film featuring a restored print, alongside the 1968 original on Blu-ray on April 6, 2016.
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rated it three out of four stars and wrote that although Savini's direction is a bit too literal, the film "contains some intriguing further development of the ideas of the first film, as well as some mistakes corrected and dramatic relationships tightened."
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wrote, "There was no real need to remake a film that lives on the campy cult appeal it has acquired over time. But as B-movies and remakes go, this one knows how to bring tired zombies back to life."
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in the United States on October 19, 1990. The film received negative reviews upon initial release and grossed $ 5.8 million against a $ 4.2 million budget. Modern reviews have been more positive.
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team intentionally kept the effects restrained, as they felt that excessive gore would be disrespectful to the original film. To keep the effects realistic, they used as inspiration a real
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was initially hired to perform the special effects, but was persuaded to direct by Romero. Savini was drawn to the remake because he was unavailable to do special effects on the original.
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of the remake. Freeland concludes that the original film's depiction of Barbara makes for better cinema, and the more feminist-friendly update of Barbara is too derivative of standard "
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rated it 3.5/5 stars and wrote, "We'll never get a chance to see the remake that Tom Savini set out to direct. Still, despite the many missteps of this severely compromised version,
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awarded the film one star out of a possible four, writing, "The remake is so close to the original that there is no reason to see both". Caryn James of
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was taken by some to be a statement about the Vietnam War; this one isn’t about anything larger than Romero’s desire to make a buck." Writing for the
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rated it D+ and wrote, "In the history of bad ideas, George Romero's decision to produce a color remake of his disturbingly frenzied 1968 zombiefest
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Like the original, the film follows seven strangers as they meet and survive in a rural farmhouse, following the awakening of cannibalistic
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doesn't quite reinvent the original's narrative, but its sleek action and amplified gore turn it into a worthy horror showcase." On
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hasn't the chilling, almost cinema-verite credibility of the original, it is certainly a well-sustained entertainment". In
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manages to distinguish itself as one of the more effective horror remakes out there." Reviewing the same disc at
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coming out after, as a result of the source material's lack of copyright ownership (resulting in being in the
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The initial response and critical consensus among both audience members and critics was generally negative.
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it has a score of 54 out of 100 based on reviews from 18 critics, indicating mixed to average reviews.
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footage. Savini said that he wanted to keep the film artistic despite his reputation as "the king of
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Night of the Living Dead: Behind the Scenes of the Most Terrifying Zombie Movie Ever
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said that the remake came about in part because of issues over profits of the
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as Sheriff McClelland (uncredited). Streiner played Johnny in
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compared the racial politics of the original film and the
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Modern criticism has been more appreciative. As of 2023,
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called it "a crass bit of cinematic grave-robbing".
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Index


Tom Savini
George A. Romero
Night of the Living Dead
John Russo
Russell Streiner
Tony Todd
Patricia Tallman
Frank Prinzi
21st Century Film Corporation
Menahem Golan Productions
Columbia Pictures
horror film
Tom Savini
directorial debut
Tony Todd
Patricia Tallman
remake
George A. Romero
1968 film of the same title
John A. Russo
zombies
"unofficial" remakes
public domain
Columbia Pictures
Tony Todd
Patricia Tallman
Tom Towles
William Butler
Katie Finneran

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