Night of the living dead (1990) is better than the original!!! Master of splatter fx & gore the brilliant Tom Savini directed this BRILLIANT remake & it really is a better film in every way!!! BRILLIANTLY directed & with beautiful cinematography & a fantastic performance by TONY TODD he's excellent in this also Patricia Tallman gives a fantastic performance as Barbara who starts out terrified & useless but becomes a tough hero & that's so cool to see a strong Ripley (Aliens) type woman fight back!!! The atmosphere is scarier & darker & a better musical score!!! Romero was still producer so that's cool but Savani just made a better more exciting film a real good bit of late night entertainment!!! The zombies look much BETTER & the old farm house looks AWESOME!!! The setting is Fantastic & exciting, i remember FIRST seeing this one late night on t.v & thought it was incredible just an excellent zombie movie with good characters & drama & the whole boarding up the house scenes always stuck with me. Not only is this a much better film than the original it's also one the greatest zombie films ever MADE!!! Love this movie,TOM SAVINI you are AWESOME

Like Every Remake they usually don't surpass the original, this one hadn't. I don't have much to say but this was like watching Ringu, then The Ring where you realize they're both practically the same. The two things I liked was the ending and Barbara's character change though. 6/10.

this totally unnecessary remake of George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968) doesn't measure up to or significantly diverge from the original, but i like it. one key difference, the one that makes it worth watching, is the strong female protagonist – Barbara, who was largely useless and in the way in Romero's version, becomes the most levelheaded character in this one. she doesn't talk much after her traumatic experience in the cemetery in the opening scene, so i headcanon her as an autistic heroine with selective mutism Harry Cooper, the drunken wife beater who hides his family in the cellar, becomes the more irritating character, largely due to poor acting on Tom Towles's part: the escalating tension between Cooper and Ben that was a driving facet of the plot in the original film just isn't very effective here there are some memorable scenes and zombie designs; the altered ending is far less impactful than in the original, but satisfying nonetheless. if you're a fan of zombie films, check it out, but don't expect a cinematic masterpiece

This film really isn't a good idea. The original film is a classic, and there's very little you can do to improve it, outside of making Barbara a stronger personality, which they did. Colour and more modern effects really end up doing little benefit. Given that this film is a terrible idea, it's refreshingly okay. It adds precious little to the original film, but it also manages to do it a bit of justice without sullying its memory. Oddly enough, it's populated with better actors, but has worse acting. The fighting between Ben and Cooper is pitched to ridiculous extremes, and given some plot changes, is even more pointless than in the original film. Worth a look.