A stand-up remake of George Romero's 1968 original classic. Beginning in a cemetery, the dead return to life - nobody knows jack shit why - and attack the living. One woman escapes these zombies to take refuge with 5 other people in a abandon farmhouse out in the middle of nowhere, as every dead person for miles prey on their flesh.
After all these years, this movie still creeps me. Probably because it was the first zombie movie I saw as a kid and it freaked me to pieces. It's like having a bad experience with clowns as a kid and now that you're an adult you get the bubble guts everytime you order a Big Mac.
Tony Todd proves his greatness, pre Candyman, and Patricia Tallman is good in her role as the damsel in distress turned Red Sonia. The major reason I love this franchise and have tremendous respect for Mr. Romero is because he had the guts to star a black guy in a horror movie in 1969 and show the world that great actors and great concepts pack theaters, not their race. It's almost 2010 and I can count on 1 hand and a couple fingers how many horror films have starred a person of any color other than white. Funny thing is Tony Todd's been in 4.
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