Two siblings named
Barbara (Patricia Tallman) and Johnny
(Bill Mosley) travel up to a graveyard to
visit their mother's tombstone and Johnny
keeps taunting Barb that the dead is
coming to get her but suddenly they see a
sick old man walking by them and then a
zombie attacks Barbara and Johnny battles
with the zombie but he is knocked
unconcious so she reuns down to a
farmhouse but it looks deserted. However,
a zombie farmer is in the house and
nearly attacks Barbara.
Then a black man in a truck named Ben
(Tony Todd) enters the farmhouse and
helps Barbara out as a few more zombies
enter the house as well.
While they try to board the house up they
encounter a couple of the residents named
Tom (William Butler) and his girlfriend
Judy (Kate Finneran) as they brought
along a family who decides to stay in the
basement to hide out as the parents
daughter was bitten by a zombie.
Meanwhile, the little girl who got bitten
awakens and is turned into a zombie
Afterwards, Tom and Judy die from an
explosion while trying to get gasoline
nearby and to Barbara's surprise the dead
starts to eat their corpses after she
finds out what caused the explosion.
This
remake was poorly made as it was way too
rushed with the events happening.
There are some interesting touches a
quarter way through the film with the
classic battles etc but really this one
was a total failure.
The acting isn't as
convincing but it still pulls through. I
must say that actress Patricia
Tallman really stole the show with
her performance as Barbara outbeating
Judith O'Dea. She was great with her
intensity after encountering the zombie's
for the first time and was super at being
tough while shooting the zombie's from
the famrhouse too. This gal has got it.
Tony Todd is not too bad himself
as a tough guy and delivers his lines
alright but does better when he is
aggressive. Of course he is remembered to
millions as the Candyman.
William Butler however seems a
little too comedic with his role as he
was meant to be serious.
Wait, we have horror veran Bill
Mosley as the mocking brother of
Tallman's who does great with his work
and it's a shame that his role was small.
There are a couple of naked
zombie's showing their butt
A cut off hand
falls from upstairs in a farmhouse.
The remains of a farmman is revealed with
his cut off wrist and bloodily shot head.
A zombie is stabbed in the head
There are body pieces.
Tom Savini is
better off as a make up wizard for gory
flicks but does show some interesting
moments to this film like the classic
battle with Tony Todd and Patricia
Tallman's roles with the three
zombie's in the farmhouse.
Plus the zombie's outside in the woods
looked great too as well as the
explosuion with the truck and the
zombie's coming towards it.
Savini made sure that Tallman
showed great aggression when needed
especially towards the end of the film.
The music is very cheesy
with a synthesizer playing by Paul
McCollough and sounds nowhere near
as good as from the original film but
however there's great guitar playing
during the closing credits.
[first
lines]
Johnnie: They're coming to get
you, Barbara!
Harry:
A way out is a way in.
Ben:
You know what, Cooper, I've only been
around you a minute or two, but that's
enough time for me to decide that I don't
like you very much.
Ben:
You're boss down there. I'm boss up here.
Ben:
Cooper, I've got a shotgun out here. Open
this door, you motherfucker, or I swear
to God I'll blow it to shit.
Ben (Looks
at a thin closet door): No good
Tom: Better than nothing
Ben
Ben (Punches through
the closet door): No good.
[on
the zombies approaching the house]
Barbara: They're so slow. We could
just walk right past 'em and we wouldn't
even have to run. We could just walk
right past 'em. We have the guns. If
we're careful we could get away.
[she looks at Ben]
Barbara: You told me to fight,
well I'm fighting, this place is not
safe, not upstairs or down. We should
leave before it's too late.
Harry:
You can't get any reception in the
basement, dickhead.
Ben:
You are losing it girl, you are losing
it.
Barbara: You think so?
[Barbara shoots an approaching zombie
in the face]
Barbara: Whatever I lost, I lost a
long time ago and I do not plan on losing
anything else. You can talk to me about
losing it when you stop screaming at each
other like a bunch of two-year-olds.
Hondo:
[after almost killing Barbara thinking
she is a zombie] Jesus, Goddamn,
holyloving, shit! What in the name of
Jupiter's balls are you doing out here
alone little lady?
Harry:
[discovering Barbara as she returned
to the house the next day. Harry had
cowered to the attic and left her for
dead] You came back!
[pretending to be sincere]
Harry: You... Came back.
[Barbara glares at him and then shoots
him in the head]
Barbara:
That's another one for the fire.
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