Category: Night of the Living Dead movies
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Terribly acted–a combination of the script, the direction, and (mostly) the actors–post-apocalyptic zombie picture from Romero. Lacks any personality (probably because Romero had to shoot it in Toronto instead of DEAD central (Romero’s native Pittsburgh). Simon Baker’s a really, really, really bad lead. Eugene Clark’s awesome as the lead zombie (they get smarter in this…
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Dawn of the Dead is relentless and exhausting. Director Romero burns out the viewer and not by the end of the film but probably three-quarters of the way through. He establishes the ground situation with a sense of impending doom, not just with the principal cast and how they’ll fare in the zombie apocalypse, but…
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What a lame ending. If it weren’t for the sufficiently uncanny end credits, I’d finish Night of the Living Dead thinking it was supposed to be a comedy. Actually, if it weren’t for that lame ending, I’d be starting this response much differently. Night of the Living Dead has one of the most sublime opening…
The Stop Button 