Columbia Pictures Corporation | Release Date: October 19, 1990 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 18 Critic Reviews
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Tampa Bay TimesJean Carey
Don't waste time by drawing comparisons between Romero's black-and-white original and Savini's spoofy vision. Romero's work, shocking at the time mostly because of its extreme gore and bleak finale, seems dated and narrow when viewed now. Savini's Night of the Living Dead, with its phosphorescent colors and loopy, frenetic pacing, is vastly more entertaining. [19 Oct 1990, p.12]
50
Particularly because Savini obviously feels a responsibility to the original, it's impossible for this new film to unfold with any sense of discovery or surprise. It's almost all just at the level of dutiful replication. [19 Oct 1990, p.35]
50
It's still a sick kick to see the little girl (with braces, no less) sink her teeth into her own mother. But doing a Sunset of the Dead might have been a more appetizing idea. [23 Oct 1990, p.6D]
50
NewsweekPeter S. Prescott
Romero's remake jettisons just those qualities that lent class to the 1968 original. [5 Nov 1990, p.79]