Classic Movie Review: Night of the Living Dead (1990)

Adam's thoughts:
4 pops

For me this set the standard for traditional Zombie movies. It was low budget and yet you felt like you were watching a truly good cinema. Now don’t get me wrong, at this point in the present movies made back in 1990 can seem cheesy, especially the horror movies. Director Tom Savini did an alright job and writers John A. Russo and George A. Romero were a great team. Actress Patricia Tallman was about the only really good thing to see in this movie. Tony Todds acting was a bit over played and dramatic but you still ended up liking his character. The movie zombies were the best. The classic moaning and slow walking undead you expect. They looked dead too and for a movie that doesn’t have any cgi or crap in it, that is a major accomplishment.

About the only thing I can say badly about this movie was the damn screaming! Katie Finneran is in this movie playing a character named Judy Rose and the chick screams every 5 seconds! It gets to the point where you are wincing and holding your ears. That's about the only bad thing I can say about this movie. The rest of it is just plain classic. If you’ve never seen this movie and you enjoy the classics, go see it. It’s not overly scary but it has its moments. Mostly it’s just a good old zombie flick.

Jessie's thoughts:
3 pops

So... this was pretty classic, I'm not gonna lie. I agree with Adam that the zombies were amazing. They looked so real and were actually what you think of when you think of zombies - the walking dead. I'm so sick of how people now-a-days try to explain why the zombies are the way they are - there was an infection that got loose, some sort of chemical warfare, no one knows exactly but we think it's because of blah, blah, blah. Zombies are supposed to be the walking dead, does there really have to be a reason that they've come back to eat people? I think not! In that sense, this movie was awesome. Nobody knew why there were zombies that were trying to eat people, they just knew that they had to kill the zombies before the zombies could kill them.
However there were a couple of things that I didn't like, but I think that's mostly because this was made in 1990 and I'm just used to movies now. The first thing was what Adam said - the screaming. I mean, come on chick, there are flesh eating zombies everywhere and you're gonna scream every two seconds so you can attract even more of them to you? Really? You're an idiot. The second thing I didn't like was that at first all the women were portrayed in the stereotypical, early 90's way of being helpless and only being good for screaming and running. But, that later turned to something that I liked with one of the women because she became pretty badass as the movie went on. The movie was also very low budget and it shows. But, I think that knowing that this was an independent, low-budget film made in 1990 actually made me appreciate it a little bit more because you can see how much they were able to do with the little that they had.
Overall, I definitely think this is a classic horror movie that you must see if you like horror movies at all. It began the whole zombie craze, and who doesn't love zombies? I mean, really, zombies make the best villains. So, on one of those nights when you really don't have anything to do and you're in the mood for a cheesy, classic horror movie, you should for sure watch this one.