Rebirth

Me it is stupid movie .you will lose your time watching this kind of silm.

I'd never heard of this, but watched it hoping I had come across some indie zombie gem. Lol. Having no prior knowledge of it helped with my almost immediate surprise that this appeared to be a remake of the original Night of the Living Dead. As it turns out, it's less a remake and more a parody that doesn't work. The primary character has the makings of some fun, but it doesn't work either. Roger Conners, also the director and writer, in this role is clearly playing the Barbara character and gives a very similar lame performance as the original, which I assume was intentional?! As in the original, we have again our black hero, our basement dwellers, our sickly child, a similar dreary ending, etc., etc. What we don't have is any quality. The one key change in this rendition is that the Barbara character is now a very effeminate gay man who is called a boy throughout the film despite Connors clearly being in his 30's. As a gay man I will add that I found his depiction a bit offensive, though I will say that his take on Barbara is fairly accurate though it does not work as drama or parody. The writing is horrible, the relationship between this gay Barbara and the black hero is baffling, but it is the first zombie movie I've seen with full frontal male nudity on a hot man, so there is that if it's of interest. I did like the opening credits. This is a really bad movie.

...when folks who don't really know how to make movies make a movie. They end up Dunning-Krugering themselves into producing messes like "Rebirth," a scratch-and-dent remake of the seminal zombie classic, George A. Romero's "Night of the Living Dead." It's tone deaf in almost every respect, sad to say, and I have to put it on the quaking shoulders of faux auteur Roger Connors, who in writing/directing/co-producing and starring in the benighted project, has mystifyingly chosen to put a gay slant on things that plays poorly and adds nothing to the story. I'm not going to pick at the corpse; others have already done that here. I simply mean to caution potential viewers against any expectations of quality filmmaking, because you won't find any. "Rebirth" is as pure an example of Sturgeon's Revelation as you might ask.

TL/DR: Low return entertainment even if you don't value your precious, irreplaceable time.

I stumbled upon the 2020 movie "Rebirth" here in 2021, and with it being a zombie movie, of course I needed no persuasion to sit down and watch it. I should, however, perhaps have read the movie's synopsis prior to watching it.

Why? Well, "Rebirth" turned out to be a remake or reinvention of the classic George A. Romero's "Night of the Living Dead"; a movie that have been remade a couple of times already before. So this 2020 remake was fully and utterly unnecessary. Yet, I still sat through it.

I must say that "Rebirth" from writer and director Roger Conners was a bitter pill to swallow. First of all, the fact that it was a remake of a movie that had already been remade before was just pointless. And then Roger Conners went and opted to replace the Barbara character from the original movie with a gay guy named Adam. What? Seriously? Yeah, that was just utter rubbish. This whole political correctness that sweeps through Hollywood is just laughable.

Then there were the thing with the glowing eyes of the zombies. What was that all about? It just made no sense, and it just made the movie come off as being more rubbish and as a joke. It was so hard to take it serious with this. And the fact that the zombies were making growling noises that no human would be able to vocally produce just didn't help to sell the movie either.

The acting in the movie were sort of adequate, for the most parts. Mind you, you are not in for amazing performances here, nor will you see any Award winning performances in the midst of the performers here either.

Visually then the movie was sort of a swing and a miss. The majority of the zombie make-up and effects was just barely passable, so there wasn't much of any meat here for us gore fans, pardon the pun.

While I managed to sit through this ordeal, then "Rebirth" is a movie that came and went without as much as a groan or a bite. And it failed utterly to leave a lasting mark on the zombie genre at large. I am not going to be sitting down to watch "Rebirth" a second time, nor is it a movie that I would recommend any zombie fan to rush out and get their hands on.

My rating of "Rebirth" lands on a three out of ten stars. It was a completely unnecessary remake, and one that failed to deliver much of a bite at that.

HEY EVERBODY ITS ME, (4) and today we review ..... night of the living de ....???? Rebith of the living dead .....

SSOOOOO theres this whole thing about night of the living dead where its copyright is now up ...and its in public domain SO anyone can use the name and remake the movie etc .... so TONS of remakes and retellings and just out right films using the name etc have happened ...okay cool ...

SO this .....is one of those it seems .... only instead of barbara we have .....a gay dude ..... so i guess they are trying to bring the classic to a more modern PC era .... okay .... instead of becoming comatose however this guy just whines and cries and screams at everything ...so ....opositsies lol.... also ...annoying-isies ..... but its reall runs along the same basics as night of the living dead over all .... similar situations .... similar story .... similar characters ..... only some exagerations to them here or there ... like DR ANGRY BEARD lol..... taking the place of the angry dad from "night of" ....

being honest here i only watched about half way through before i started skipping around .... i realized .... "hey ive seen this before " and i just didnt want to waste another 45 minutes ....

from a technical standpoint ...everything seems pretty well done ... their lighting for a indie was on point ..the acting wasnt bad .... so good job ....

the FX were good EXCEPT the glowing eyes ?!?!?!!??!? Why ??????why did you feel that was needed ..... who was sitting there editing ....thinking ..and said " you knw what this needs .... REALLY terrible glowing eye FX , yea thats the ticket !!!" .... lol... NO shame on you ..and who ever greet lit it after seeing it ...slap your own hand ....shame on you as well .... the zombies would have been fine .....didnt need flashlight eyes .... like some kind of lo pan from big trouble in little china cos play tryhards ....

also the brothers in the beginning ...lol.. great omage to the original .... but jesus man ... casting the newest indie rapper "lil jonny" there ....lol.... bro ... your face got more tats than a biker rally ........ i hope your sound cloud career go good for you because man ..if it dont ..... jeez ...lol

so ...sorry gang but unoriginal gets you beat down ...underservingly though because you did a decent job BUT should have just called it for what it was ....rebirth of the living dead ....

3/10

EDIT: upon minor research ...... this is in fact a remake of the original night of the living dead and is also in fact being updated to a newer generation ... LOL ... wow ... i called it on accident .... so now how do i feel about my score is the question .....