PopHorror Let's Get Scared
I remember the first time I saw George A. Romero’s iconic film. Even people who are not into horror know Night Of The Living Dead. It is playing in any horror movie while the babysitter watches over the kids, and this film changed a lot of lives. Those who weren’t really into gore could enjoy it. Tom Savini had a new vision for this film. If you ask me on a personal note, I like the remake better.
Let’s get into the review.
Synopsis
A brother and sister Johnny and Barbara visit their mothers grave site. While the brother cracks jokes, he has no clue what is about to unfold. The night turns into complete uniformed chaos. Just wehen there wasa no hope and watching her brothers death sends Barbara to an abandoned farm house. When other present themselves, the danger increases.
Tom Savini directed the film. It stars Tony Todd, Patricia Tallman, and Bill Moseley.
The Rundown
There are so many reasons why I love Night Of The Living Dead. One big reason is the fact that so much detail was put into these zombies. Tom Savini opened our eyes to how the real terror would look when the dead take over the world. The film focuses on the survival of a group of people who don’t really get along. To me, that would be it, the end of the world as we know it. It sounds far-fetched, but movies like these have so many stories to tell. Sure, Tom crossed some lines; however, it all connects to the experience of knowing what you paid to see in the theaters.
I know there are color versions of the original Night Of The Living Dead, but seeing the place in modern times, when you didn’t have to match every single frame for colorization. The passion was there to make this film so memorable. It was almost as if it were a later movie of Romero’s true vision. In 1968, the movie industry was first starting to figure out color movies. However, the black and white make it so much more eerie. There is just something about those old black and white movies that disturbed me the most. When Tom Savini’s Night Of The Living Dead first came into my life, it wasn’t the same.
In The End
I was honestly a little frightened to go to sleep at first, due to too many zombie films and a nightmare I still see in my sleep sometimes. I told myself I could rise above it, and I did. However, it never really goes away. That is the impact of Tom’s version of the film. The biggest part was that George A. Romero could write out his true intentions, meaning his idea of the film will continue to be iconic, for all the right reasons. Sometimes things just happen for a reason, and the two men meeting was a thunderclap to the horror genre. I have all the best memories of this movie, even if it was a lot more on the scary side. I had seen much worse at that point in my life.
Tom Savini’s Night Of The Living Dead instantly became iconic in the horror genre. I’ll always be a fan, that’s the only thing I can say.
