À la fois un hommage et une ré-imagination du film original de 1968, cette mise à jour suit un groupe de survivants pris au piège dans une ferme, luttant contre un siège de zombies morts-viv... Tout lireÀ la fois un hommage et une ré-imagination du film original de 1968, cette mise à jour suit un groupe de survivants pris au piège dans une ferme, luttant contre un siège de zombies morts-vivants et en 3D !À la fois un hommage et une ré-imagination du film original de 1968, cette mise à jour suit un groupe de survivants pris au piège dans une ferme, luttant contre un siège de zombies morts-vivants et en 3D !
- Réalisation
- Scénario
- Casting principal
- Hellie Cooper
- (as Johanna Black)
- Tom
- (as Max Williams)
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I think the producers realized that they had a crap script so they tried to save it by making the film 3D. The 3D does absolutely nothing for this film. The story is ridiculous and goes no where, The acting is miserable with the exception of Sid Haig, and there wasn't even one memorable scene in the entire film. The only reason it doesn't get a 1/10 is because of Sid Haig.
Don't see this movie. It's not worth your time or your attention. If you've blind bought it, do yourself a favor and throw it away without watching it.
The story diverges little from the original, except to introduce an extra, extraneous character – played by B-movie stalwart Sid Haig. The zombies are so ineffectual here and the gore so tame that two things happen: first, an extra villain is introduced to little end, and secondly, their origin has to be explained in depth. Both take away from the eerie impact of the Romero original, where the horror came from the fact that the world ended abruptly with the 'what if?' scenario of zombies arriving at your door.
The film's hook is the 3D, but anyone going in looking for guts and entrails flying out of the screen (a la the MY BLOODY VALENTINE remake and the latter FINAL DESTINATION movies) will be disappointed. A 3D spliff and subsequent smoke ring are all you're going to get (way to take advantage of the technology, huh?). Speaking of spliffs, the awful dialogue is loaded with stoner jokes and a far cry from the terse exchanges we all remember from Romero's classic.
The acting is terrible, aside from Haig, an actor who always seems to be enjoying himself (complete with ghoulish chuckle) in his recent B-movie outings. The story is so slim that at one stage we take a softcore detour to the barn, where a sex scene between two unappealing characters plays out in all its nude detail. Incredibly, the end result is a film that feels more dated and less grisly than the film that inspired it, made all those years ago; making me appreciate Romero all the more is the only thing this movie does right.
Yes, they added nudity but was that remotely necessary?
The ending was also very weak with Barb just standing there even though she was holding a gun and could have run. They had a perfectly good movie from which to base this movie on and they still managed to botch it up. I really do wonder about all these direct-to-DVD horror movies that have no reasons for being made and can only trick people into buying because there are no reviews.
That said, I simply had to rent this. Only when I started the movie I noticed that this was NOTLD 3D, as it was just labeled "Night of the living dead" here. Even though the notion of "3D" implicated that this one would be a pretty awful remake, I simply wasn't prepared for this. It's pretty damn courageous to begin and end your film with the the opening scene of the original and also have the original running on TV during the movie when the remake is such a pile of garbage. From terrible acting over just plain awful special effects and missing wounds, everything here. The worst thing though is that the script only bears a slight resemblance of the original's story. True, it begins at a graveyard. True, at some point in the movie some guys are trapped in a house. The names of the main characters are the same. That's it. All the other things that were good about the original (and even about the first remake) are gone and replaced by a completely generic "horror" story, centered around Sid Haig. There is no reason why this movie should be called "Night of the living dead". It has nothing to do with NOTLD... well, about as much as any other zombie movie has.
Problem is: Even most really, really low-budget zombie movies I've seen were far more enjoyable than this one. Simply stay away from this one. And if you're like me and simply can't stay away from it, don't say you hadn't been warned.
On a scale of one to ten, -200 would seem a fair score, but I feel IMDb needs a more quantitative rating system for films that defy rating - The Gigli Scale. The higher a film rates on the Gigli Scale, the more soul-sucking, time and space fabric ripping it is. While only Gigli currently scores a perfect ten on the Gigli Scale, Night of the Living Dead 3D certainly is a worthy contender to dethroning the current world champion of suck.
Le saviez-vous
- AnecdotesDirector Jeff Broadstreet wrote the Gerald Tovar, Jr. part specifically for Sid Haig. He didn't let him in on this fact until after filming wrapped.
- GaffesWhen Sid Haig's character enters Henry's house, Henry appears to be fine, despite just being bitten by his daughter. In the very next shot he has bandages over his neck which were not in the shot before.
- Citations
Henry Cooper: This is not happening. These are not fucking walking corpses.
Ben: Hey man, this is fucking happening.
Barb: Call the freaking cops.
Hellie Cooper: We have to baby.
Henry Cooper: Yeah, call the cops. When the dead walk, you gotta call the cops.
- Crédits fousThe background for the end credits is the same b&w version of the road from the original Night of the Living Dead that is shown at the beginning. Except that as the credits are rolling to an end, what seems to be the first zombie from the original appears, getting closer and closer to the foreground. At the very last instant, an image of the present film's heroine, looking scared, flashes on screen in the foreground.
- ConnexionsFeatured in Phelous & the Movies: Night of the Living Phail 3D (2010)
- Bandes originalesPerfect World
Written and Performed by Softcore
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Détails
- Date de sortie
- Pays d’origine
- Site officiel
- Langue
- Aussi connu sous le nom de
- Night of the Living Dead 3D
- Lieux de tournage
- Fillmore, Californie, États-Unis(farmhouse)
- Sociétés de production
- Voir plus de crédits d'entreprise sur IMDbPro
Box-office
- Budget
- 750 000 $US (estimé)
- Montant brut aux États-Unis et au Canada
- 271 000 $US
- Week-end de sortie aux États-Unis et au Canada
- 215 300 $US
- 12 nov. 2006
- Montant brut mondial
- 1 657 729 $US