Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #44847 in DVD
• Released on: 2000-10-23
• Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English, Italian
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish, French, Italian, Hindi, Portuguese, Turkish, Hungarian, Polish, Dutch, Arabic, Czech, Greek, Bulgarian
• Dubbed in: French, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 92 minutes

Special Features
1.85 Wide Screen
DVD 5
French\Italian\Spanish
English
Region 2
Dolby Digital Surround English Italian Spanish
Dolby Digital Mono French
Dolby Digital Surround
Dolby Digital Mono
Filmographies
Theatrical Trailer
Making Of
Directors Commentary
Arabic\Bulgarian\Czech\Dutch\English\French\Greek\Hebrew\Hindi\Hungarian\Italian\Polish\Portuguese\Spanish\Turkish

Synopsis
Seven people are trapped in an isolated farmhouse and living an unspeakable nightmare. Cannibalistic zombies have been awakened from the dead and are on a relentless killing and eating binge. Re-make of the 1968 George Romero classic.

From the Back Cover
It's a new night for terror...and a new dawn in horror movie-making when special-effects genius Tom Savini (creator of the spectacularly gruesome make-up in FRIDAY THE 13TH and CREEPSHOW) brings modern technology to this colourful remake of Geoge A. Romero's 1968 cult classic.

Seven strangers are trapped in an isolated farmhouse while cannibalistic zombies - awakened from death by the return of a radioactive space probe - wage a relentless attack, killing (and eating) everyone in their path. The classic for the '90s: graphic, gruesome and more terrifying than ever!

Customer Reviews

A resurrected classic
As the dead come alive and set out to devour the living, a few people seek safety in an isolated house. Do they try to hold it against the relentless tide of the living dead? Do they make a run for it in the hope of finding a safe haven? Can they even manage to agree to work together as a team? Or will they self-destruct?

Romero's original film - made at the height of the Vietnam War and in the cauldron of the civil rights struggle - portrayed young people faced with senseless slaughter, juxtaposed the imagination of the living against the blind obedience of the dead, and made emphatic the racial and generational tensions of the plot.

From the very first, Savini's remake of this classic, groundbreaking film cranks up the tension and the dramatic quality of the original as a brother and sister argue on their way to their mother's plot in an isolated graveyard. Romero collaborated in this remake of his zombie masterpiece - working closely with Savini, the remake benefits from advances in technology and the freedom of a much bigger budget, and this is apparent from the opening shots.

Faithful to Romero's original - at least throughout the first half - this is an intensified and amplified drama. While it cannot recapture the novelty and impact value of the original, in many respects this is one of those rare events in cinematography - a remake which equals its progenitor in quality. Savini has better resources and uses them to effect. If his version has a weakness it is in its failure to capture the suffocating sense of claustrophobia Romero managed with his survivors trying to barricade themselves in safely.

Savini also loses much of the political gravitas of the original. This is a commercial remake, not a statement about political realities. But Savini does diverge from the original storyline, and, in doing so, makes his own political statements. His female characters are more independent, more assertive. And the living are shown to be just as barbaric as the dead - it's not death which has turned the zombies into mindless creatures, society has already done that to the living.

Tom Savini uses his resources with authority and perception. He takes the dynamic originality of Romero's vision and elaborates on it skilfully. The result is more visceral, more mature, more sanguine in its consideration of dramatic potential. He delivers a film which is every bit as good as the original and which is a worthy parallel to Romero's work.

And the DVD offers some interesting extras - an excellent 'making of' featurette (25 minutes) is well worth watching. As a resurrected classic, this is an excellent production, a must-see for horror fans, and a DVD you should add to your collection.

Annoyingly Cut, Grrrrrr!!!!
Excellent film. No doubt about it.
If you liked the original, which you must coz it's a classic, then you'll love this. It's a complete remake, other than a few lines and scenes,(Nothing to worry about). Savini's done extremely well with directing and with the gorefest but the only downfall has got to be that there are cut scenes of exit wound shots.
This is all explained in the 25 minute documentary added as a special feature with the deleted scenes.
I don't see why they show the deleted scenes then, but not in the actual feature film itself. I was quite dissapointed but none the less an all round excellent film for a true Zombie Flick Fan like myself.
Even still has the line "They're coming to get you Barbara". That ones a classic.

Enjoy!!!!

Top zombie flick
I bought this on impulse and expected the worse. The cover art looks like some cheapo 80's horror, but what's inside is a surprisingly good disc.

The NOTLD remake may never be the classic the original was, but it's still a fine film. Tony Todd and Patricia Tallman are good leads, with the rest of the cast generally doing a good job.

As for the DVD, the picture quality is sharp, and the Dolby Surround is clear. There's also a director's commentary and a documentary (which features alternate footage cut by the censors).

One of the best zombie films of the 90's.