Thread: Night of the Living Dead
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Old 04-14-2007, 09:11 AM   #14
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The original. It pretty much created the modern zombie movie, and the remake pretty much takes the original and...well, tells the same story over again. If it weren't for the greatness of the original, the remake wouldn't have been able to serve up any of its own (which it does have).

I think the remake just owes too much to the original to really surpass it. It is success homage, though. It's kind of interesting that George Romero's films have inspired two successful remakes. I would say that has more to do with the simplicity of zombies than successful film-making, but Dawn of the Dead was pretty damn brilliant.
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