NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD 1990: Tom Savini’s Forgotten Remake is a Zombie Gem

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  @MattDraper · 3 years ago · pinned

  What are your favorite zombie movies?

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• JO

  @jonathanmulondo9206 · 3 years ago

  The 1990 remake is very underrated. Tony Todd is a national treasure and one of horror greatest icons. You need to do a retrospective on Candyman

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• MS

  @ms.carriage6867 · 3 years ago

  This is another example of how you do a remake right. The improvements in the Barbara character were so good and wasn't used to over shadow Tony Todds character. They were a very compelling pair of protagonists. The bit in the ending where she shoots Cooper dead was very justified imo

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• PJ

  @pjarmitage8003 · 3 years ago

  I met Tony Todd in 2021 and told him that this movie was the first time I saw a black hero like this growing up and that he was an icon for me. He said that at the time, his son had just been born, and he had the choice between this role and another that would have had him be a villain. He said he wanted his son to be able to see him as the hero, so he chose this role. What a legend.

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• ST

  @StellarAvenger · 3 years ago (edited)

  If I'm honest, this is one of the scariest zombie movies ever. Tom Savini's makeup effects work is top notch.

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• BE

  @bensneb360 · 3 years ago

  It’s a shame Tom Savini doesn’t direct more horror movies, he’s pretty good at it

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• VS

  @vsgfilmgroup · 2 years ago

  What I loved about the remake is how fundamentally different it was. Barbara was actually worthwhile. And turning Cooper from a mildly-helpful curmudgeon into an active impediment / antagonist was a huge change. That scene with Cooper's daughter crossing the living room in zombie form while Cooper himself COVERS THE ZOMBIE from a stairwell was total brilliance.

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• CO

  @colinfitz89 · 1 year ago

  Extremely underrated horror film

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• RO

  @robertdochter277 · 3 years ago

  This is up there with The Blob (1988), The Thing (1982), & The Fly (1986) as one of the vest horror remakes ever.

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• HA

  @HankMeyer · 3 years ago

  One of the greatest remakes of all time, one of the best zombie films of all time, one of the best written zombie stories of all time, one of the best female leads in a horror film, and extremely underrated. The way Savini emphasizes the existential horror of mortality through realistic effects makeup is masterful. Death is shambling toward all of us slowly. It consumes our loved ones as it approaches. The closer it gets, the more hopeless it makes you feel. I have never seen a movie that communicates this kind of horror better than this movie does.

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• RE

  @reddchan · 3 years ago

  Love this movie, always felt like the original Resident Evil was heavily inspired by this movie in particular among many other things

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• XE

  @XER606 · 3 years ago

  My mother being a huge zombie-fan, actually let me watch the Romero Dead trilogy growing up as well as it's remakes, and I've always enjoyed the remake of Night a fair bit more and have a lot of fondness for it being one of my earliest zombie flicks, the original is a master piece that essentially created the zombies we know and love, but the remake feels like the more refined version of the story, at least for me

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