Night of the Living Dead 30th Anniversary

Night of the Living Dead 30th Anniversary

Written by Phelous Saturday, 22 January 2011 22:16

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01.22.2011 - 23:02 | the_sparkle

Wow!... What a shit pile! I really mean it, this movie is an embarrassment. There are no redeeming qualities whatsoever. Terrible. How did you manage to watch it, Phelous? I could barely tolerate the 15 minutes or so of footage in this review. Ugh! You've got balls.

01.23.2011 - 11:30 | ggbhtg

Oh look, I've needlessly edited myself into this page and replaced your silence with more annoying and awkward silence!

"Silence will fall!"

01.23.2011 - 11:46 | REVIEWER RICK

9:20 Nice Converse shoes!

Why did they have to go back, and ruin this classic?!

01.23.2011 - 21:31 | montanker

No, don't bring the silence! You'll open up cracks in the fabric of the universe!

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Oh crap, see what you've done!

(Are you ever gonna use the 2005-2010 Dr Who intros Phelous?)

01.24.2011 - 03:33 | BIRA

I love you phelous you are the most resonable critic here. Thanks God you are around.

01.22.2011 - 23:01 | ChrisR2131 - Oh lord....

this movie is so fucking horrible. Great Review once again Phelous!

01.22.2011 - 23:39 | Lotus Prince

You know what pisses me off the most? The fact that the movie gave the zombie an origin story. The Night of the Living Dead is about human interaction, and the zombies are a vehicle for that - they're almost secondary. We're not supposed to know why they're coming alive, because it DOESN'T FREAKING MATTER.

Way to miss the point of your own god damn movie, Russo.

01.22.2011 - 23:52 | Taufiq91

This is a joke right?

Seriously, first 3D NotlD, and now this?

No, seriously this has got to be a joke. Like a bad "Ricky Gervais at the Golden Globes Shocker Joke "Gone Wrong. I mean, seriously.

Oh, and you should have Lupa or MarzGurl or Roses as your companion ala Karen Gillan. Mmm, Karen Gillan.

01.23.2011 - 00:02 | KingNothing

I love that your acting is actually much better than that of the priest. Anybody else think he looked a bit like the Critic?

This was just laughable, both the review and the movie (for all the wrong reasons). Loved it!

01.23.2011 - 00:35 | Alfred Mordeir

Well it sure is a good thing they added those extra scenes establishing the origins of the first zombie. You know because him being a zombie wasn't bad enough, he had to be the zombie of a rapist pedophile.

01.23.2011 - 00:35 | FullmetalNinja25

This movie is a literal raping of a classic horror movie, John Russo should be eviscerated, castrated, tared, feathered, set on fire and thrown off a fucking cliff.

Great video Phelous. :)

01.23.2011 - 00:38 | ionpath

Seriously, though not a big fan of the original, this bastardized re-release looks absolutely terrible. What was the point of making these new scenes or even redubbing and creating a new score for the movie? If they wanted to make it to more appealing for the younger generation to watch the old classic, they certainly failed. If anything they pushed people away from the movie. What were they thinking?

01.23.2011 - 00:54 | ralphy8663

in the george lucas version you forgot to add a shit load of pointless cgi

01.23.2011 - 01:51 | mumbls

did you notice that he misspelled George as Geroge?

01.23.2011 - 12:17 | Ding Dong Doorknob

@ralphy8663

Yeah cgi of little rats doing some stupid thing before panning to the original shot

01.23.2011 - 00:57 | sickdog1028

Yet another movie to destroy one of Romero's classics "good job Hollywood" X(

01.23.2011 - 01:14 | Deimos1984rd

It would of been nice to oh I don't know leave the classic alone... but no we gotta have a sequel.

01.23.2011 - 01:46 | e33laf

I just love how the priest has late 90's Boy Band style facial hair in what is supposed to be the late 60's.

01.23.2011 - 02:01 | Angel71090

Actually I thought that the Priest looked oddly like the guy who played Kain in the CNC games. Nice review Phelous, Who the freaking hell thought that would be good!?! And a Sequel.....REALLY!?! By the way...Thats the Third Doctors Sonic Screwdriver right? Oddly enough I got that one for Christmas....go figure. One more thing, nice use of the 2nd Doctor's intro, That was well done......UNLIKE THIS CRAPFEST OF A MOVIE!

01.23.2011 - 02:12 | Grafenburg

what the hell was the point of this? you might as well just watch the original movie. It has better acting a better story, and it wouldnt have the stupid annoying priest. Don't even get me started on that priest. What does the fire of hell have to do with cremation? someone should just smack the shit out of the priest. Yeah of coarse you shouldnt spit on a rapist murderer, because clearly they should hold a lot of respect.
there wasnt even a burial. They didnt even dig the hole. By the the time the body gets to the cemetery there is already a 6ft hole waiting for the coffin.

01.23.2011 - 02:17 | EarthboundXE

Hmm, were you coming off of being sick Phelous? You sounded congestive. Hope ya feel better.

01.23.2011 - 02:35 | Themonsean

Yes cry...your tears taste like candy...

01.23.2011 - 02:45 | malhex

if that preacher turns out to be tarman i am gonna be soooo pissed.

01.23.2011 - 03:36 | SpotTheShingo - Geroge Lucas? Must be related...

I know. Dick maneuver on my part. Sorry man.

But am I the only one who thinks that the so-called preacher resembles Anton LaVey? From the Church of Satan? Would explain a lot, I think...

(Now I'm wondering if LaVey had a little dog named Mushu too!)

01.23.2011 - 04:06 | brick mooncode

If the new scenes were made with any more effort than just giving a bunch of film students $800 to write and produce them in two weeks, I'd be very surprised and amused. Your scenes were so close in quality that it's literally not funny, if you hadn't turned up the sarcasm so high I could have mistaken you for an actual star in the movie.

01.23.2011 - 04:09 | JimmydelaKopin - Why tamper with greatness?

The original movie is good enough. Why tamper with it with new scenes that add nothing of any real value?
(Why, of course, is because they can, since the original movie is public domain.)

Really, the only good modern revamp of the movie is the Rifftrax version.

01.23.2011 - 04:12 | Charred Newt

This video was great, I absolutely loved when you bursted into the movie and the "Shotgun, shotgun" part. :D
A sequel of an Anniversary Edition. What new spore of madness is this?

01.23.2011 - 04:32 | HedonisticActor

So wait a minute. That loop music, which I thought wasn't that bad, the first zombie's rising from his coffin and the scenes with the priest were never in the original Night of the Living Dead?

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THAT JUST BLOWS MY MIND!!?!?!? :O I saw this about seven or eight years ago and all this time I have thought I saw the original version from 1968! And what even more shocking I still thought it was one of the greatest horror films I've ever seen in my life! I didn't even have any problem with the priest as I just thought him to be one of those ordinary religious crazies these type of films sometimes have and therefore I found his ramblings amusing instead of annoying. And for me the ending added more depth to the film: is the zombie epidemic a mere virus or an actual divine punishment?

Now I just have to see does the original one work even better for me, although what I noticed from the clips in the review was the typical horror music of that time that doesn't follow any clear path, has no subtlety and which I just can't stand. If I've understood correctly the movie is public property so it's okay to watch it online for free, right?

01.23.2011 - 16:46 | mrskippy

No, it's not OK if you watch it online for free when there is a Rifftrax version that you can easily download for about ten dollars.

01.23.2011 - 05:11 | Mitchy D

KANE LIVES!...and he's in a shitty anniversary remake!

01.23.2011 - 05:21 | Shinigami

Thats just horrible what they did to classic movie that is Night of the Living Dead. Added new pointless scenes and character amd changing exelent music to new worse onces. This could almost be considered blashemy.

01.23.2011 - 05:29 | jalford

Hokey religions & Galifreyen hardware are no match for a good blaster by your side!

01.23.2011 - 06:16 | andyflange

OMG... 'Children of the Living Dead' makes this movie look like the original 'Dawn of the Dead'... granted it was a student movie but even Tom Savini's presence couldn't make that pice of crap watchable... also... Abbot Hayes?!? WTF?!?!?! Don't do it to yourself Phelous!! lol

Also, why did this 'priest' not become a zombie after his little altercation? Aren't they the rules?? :/

01.23.2011 - 12:16 | Evil_the_Nub

Yeah, the sick girl was bitten and then became a zombie. Did they even watch the movie before they added more scenes to it?

01.23.2011 - 06:16 | projoe719srise

Is the justin credible from wwf playing the priest?

01.23.2011 - 06:52 | Iamclaudius - That version was first version I saw of this movie

I didn't really find a whole lot problems with this versions as it the copy we had when I first watched this movie. I guess sometimes people really do loss the plot and try too hard to add stuff when it's not necessary.

01.23.2011 - 07:09 | Daemon25

How many more basterdised versions of the 'Living Dead' series are there? Or do people actually think these are 'Improvements'?
Besides, why add modern elements to a classic horror film, when most modern horror films A) are completely differnt in tone, B) generally don't focus on social commentary and C) generally aren't that great?
It kinda removes the point of the film being a classic if it's a modernised version.

01.23.2011 - 07:25 | futuro

the zombie shot first!

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