Night of the Living Dead

My first review, to warn potential viewers.

As a very open-minded and experimental movie watcher (especially after a few beers) I find myself watching trash quite often. Trashy movies can be done well, unfortunately this is not.

The acting is horrible, the only one who seems like he is not just reciting some lines off of a page is Gad Holland as Ben. 1 Star for him.

The sound editing is horrible, some scenes are extremely quiet and you crank up the volume just to have your ears blasted off in the next scene by somebody screeching right next to the microphone.

Overall this seems like a project done by students of a movie academy, not an actual movie as such. I have seen better things done by hobby filmmakers. I am also very surprised by the rather positive ratings here on IMDb, perhaps only staff and relations rated this movie so far, who knows?

Recommendation: don't watch it, even Uwe Boll's movies are better than this

A Night of the Living Dead (2014) 6 out of 10.

You'll have a good time watching this remake of George Romero's 1968 Night of the Living Dead. Big thanks to Gad Holland for making the movie really enjoyable. He was absolutely hilarious. Loved the character change from the hero Ben from the original to this Ben. I really like Kayla Elizabeth and Lisa Marie as well.

Don't go into watching this, with high hopes. Don't expect high budget or the exact same movie like the original. This movie is a lot different, but in a good way. Overall, you will literally have a great time with this movie. Acting is decent, the story is compelling and keeps you interested. I really liked the zombies, it was a great throwback to the original. The makeup was on point.

I watched it online out of curiocity as there is no DVD available yet and i was glad that there was no DVD so i saved money and watched it for free online.

1) this was exactly the same as the original only it failed in every way.

the actors acted badly the music was newtral and the movie had none of the magic the original had.

2) Really when u have seen the original u have seen it all and try to make another one trying to do it like the original was done it makes no sense.

romero did a little miracle back then.

this is not easy task and i don't think anyone can make a remake as good as the 1968 original was.

Even the great savini 1990 remake was very good but still nowhere near the original and that remake was the only really worth remake to own together with the original....(1998 version is not essentially a remake)

3) this amateur effort is not worth it and is as bad as the latest NOTLD Resurrection movie was and as bad as mimesis movie also was.

Even the mediorce 2006 3-d remake was better than this crap which just tried to use the original's formula but failed in every aspect.

Conclusion

So avoid it and let's hope the new announced sequel to the romero dead movies will resurrect the franchise to it's former heights.

we don't need those cheap and bad imitators.

we want the real thing.

I was excited to finally be able to see Chad Zuver' "A Night of the Living Dead".

Up until this evening, I had only been able to view the trailer. Being a fan of the Ohio independent horror scene, this film had a couple of actresses that I'm a fan off.

A Night of the Living Dead starts out pretty strong, but goes downhill pretty fast. A family goes to the cemetery to visit their Mother's grave site. One daughter Barbra (Melissa Zahs) is attacked and killed, as is her boyfriend Johnny. The father and other daughter escape to a nearby house with a group of others to try to hold up against the zombies.

This is certainly not Chad Zuver's best effort. I'm only giving this five stars for Melissa Zahs. She did a great job in her film debut. Kayla Elizabeth is good too! Otherwise I didn't care for the movie.

Unfortunately, a long-standing grave mistake with the original Night of the Living Dead was the accidental failure to copyright the prints, thus putting the film into public domain to be remade. Fortunately, it took quite a long while before people used this as an excuse to churn out things to the general public so horrible that no one should want to see them. But it seems that beginning with the 2006 3D remake, the Night of the Living Dead story is going to become a piñata for terrible "filmmakers" everywhere to ruin.

*This* particular "film" takes that idea and doesn't just destroy the story, it runs it into the ground with poor directing, acting, writing, editing, sound mixing, etc. Now I have nothing against an amateur film company that wants to make a name for themselves by experimenting, growing, and eventually satisfying movie-watching audiences by the dozens(maybe hundreds if they can put up something that can hold with great indie-classics that never got mainstream attention they deserved). However, this film shows such disrespect for George Romero's masterpiece that everyone involved owes a written apology to everyone involved with the original, starting with Romero. They have taken a horror icon's beautifully flawed masterpiece and turned it into a steaming pile of... yeah, you know what I'm saying.

Then even further than insulting the original and it's team, people involved with this film have taken it upon themselves to write positive reviews for the film on IMDb and rate it fairly high in order to promote it as something worth watching, no, worth PAYING to watch. That should count as theft with how horrible this film is, and I am incredibly happy that I did not pay to see it. And not only do they insult the original, they insult the noble remake in 1990.

Everyone knows the Tom Savini version from 1990 was an amazing effort to add something new to the original while staying true to the spirit, the ideas, even the flaws of the original. Whether people genuinely liked it or not, it held its own as something that at least had the utmost respect for it's source material.

I sincerely hope the people responsible for this remake are not benefiting(or even making their budget back) with any amount of money. Everything they do make from selling this should be doubled from their pockets, refunded to the movie-watchers they ripped off and sent to Romero himself.

Avoid at all costs. And if you find a copy lying around somewhere, burn it.