a review of 活死人之夜

Probably the only one of the Living Dead remakes, that you should watch. As dark, atmospheric, deep and thought-provoking as the original. Tom Savini even held back on gore in order to stay true to the spirit of the original. For those, that don't know, he was responsible for special effects in Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead, and those films had a lot of very well-made death scenes, where people get literally torn apart by the zombies. Well, here you wouldn't find it. Instead, at its darkest, you see shots of zombies slowly eating away at corpses and stumbling around. Just like in the original, images, that really get under your skin and make you question the human nature. Towards the end though, it gets really melancholic. Something you don't see many horror films do. The last few scenes ilicit some kind of existential dread, the feelings of hopelessness, doom. I personally like this ending almost as much as the original's. Yeah, it's not as important socially or politically, but philosophically its effect is much stronger.