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Night of the Living Dead 3D
DVD/APPROX. 80 MINS/2006/USA R18+
DVD/APPROX. 80 MINS/2006/USA R18+
Barb (Brianna Brown) and her brother Johnny (Ken Ward) arrive late for the burial of their mother (Marcia Ann Burrs) at the towns local cemetery,
only to find that hordes of the undead have risen from their graves to once again feast on human flesh. While Johnny battles off the zombies, he
quickly makes a dash towards his car to escape, leaving his sister Barb behind in a cowardly act. Barb terrified for her life, finds herself running for
her life, while the hungry zombies presume her every move. She finally makes it to the nearby mortuary and runs into Gerald Tovar, Jr. (Sid Haig)
the mortician who warns her to run for her life and don't look back, while he bashes the zombies with his shovel. Barb is now all alone once again.
The sun begins to fall, and she tries one last time to contact her brother by phone only to receive a message "They are coming for you barb".
Before she knows, zombies begin to surround her like prey and just in the nick of time Ben (Joshua DesRoches) races in to save the day on his
motorbike and takes her to his friends farmhouse nearby to gather their thoughts. While Ben and Barb explain to the Cooper family what is
happening, the farm is overrun by the undead. By the time they decide to call the local authorities, it’s too late, the phone lines have been cut. As
they huddle in the dark, terrified of what to do, time becomes precious and valuable, while the zombies grow in numbers outside the farmhouse,
they sooner or later have to fight to survive.
Back in 1968, George Romero's zombie classic Night of the Living Dead wasn't copyright protected, which allowed other filmmakers pretty much to
do spin offs of his film. Over the years we have seen so many films, similar to Night of the Living Dead that never succeed quite like Romero's film.
Now nearly 30 years later, filmmaker Jeff Broadstreet brings us Night of the Living Dead in 3D, which is similar to Romero's original meets Tom
Savini's 1990's remake, but this time with a twist here and there. Like both earlier films, the character Ben was always played by a strong African
American, this isn't the case with this film, he is now played by a skinny white guy (Joshua DesRoches). As you can remember the Cooper family are
now replaced by marijuana growing righteous hippies (which is probably why the zombies are so hungry, after walking though their plantation)
who are so stoned, Harry Copper (Greg Travis) keeps on forgetting about the guns and is too stoned to board up the doors and windows. This is
kinda interesting and good to see the film isn't a step by step, frame by frame remake of the two earlier films. Tom (Max Williams) and Judy (Cristin
Michele) are now sex crazed drug fucked hippies, who spend most of the time on screen, smoking blunts and screwing their brains out in the barn,
well that’s until the zombies rock up to the party. And not to mention Barb (Brianna Brown) character was played as a terrified, scared women in
the original, where in Savini's remake we saw her as a tough female. In this film she is a mixture of both characters from both films, at the
beginning she is fragile, scared and then slowly she becomes tough and a leader towards the very end of the film. But apart from all the cheesy
acting, and corny drug related script, unlike the previous two films Night of the Living Dead 3D does explain how exactly the zombies began to
rise from there graves, thanks to our trusty mortician (Sid Haig) who never believed in cremation due to a fear of fire, so he stored the bodies in
the mortuary, but over the years he was also told to cremate body parts of experiments gone wrong. One day the fluids of one of the experiments
accidentally dripped into the embalming machine, which slowly returned those fresh corpses back to life. Well that’s basically it in a nutshell, the
family spend most of their time screaming, discussing who to call and what to do, and smoking a few joints. Though it was cool to see that the
movie they were watching on the TV, while choofin up was in fact the original Night of the Living Dead, while Barb and Ben explain what’s going
on.
Now for the 3D effects, well to tell you the truth it fucking sucked the big one. The only 3D effects that actually looked 3D was when they passed
the joint around and when blowing smoke rings, apart from those two scenes the rest weren't even 3D at all. They should of pissed off with the
3D effects and focused more on the comedy side of things, kinda like a Half Baked meets Night of the Living Dead, then director Jeff Broadstreet
might of got better results. Apart from seeing Sid Haig in action, this film is borderline for me. I did enjoy the storyline, the twists here and there,
and now knowing how the whole zombie thing began, but apart from the 3D side of things, this movie isn't at all in 3D and if I was Jeff
Broadstreet, I would be getting my money back from whoever was involved in doing the 3D effects. But honestly I think the 3D days are over, yeah
it was big in the 70's and 80's with certain films, but sitting in a theater with blue and red glasses on throughout the whole entire movie just
doesn't do it for me now days.
The gore factor was pretty lame also, not much happened in the film. You seen a few headshot's, a bunch of zombies swarm a few victims, a little
bit of blood splatter, a few bite marks, Sid ramming a shovel in a zombies mouth, and most of all a tire iron sticking though someone. That’s about
it really, nothing too much for any gorehound to get a hard-on over.
If you are a zombie fan, or a huge fan of George Romero, well you have to check out this film at least once in your lifetime. Don't believe too much
what you read on the internet, this film doesn't come anywhere near Romero's and Savini's films. Though knowing how it all began in the first
place, is probably what I enjoyed the most about this film, plus seeing Sid Haig on screen (roughly 15 to 20mins) was a real treat, but not enough
to save the film. So if you want to take a chance and order this film on DVD go ahead, and those who are not too sure, well you can always wait
until it hits the video shelves and then rent it.
only to find that hordes of the undead have risen from their graves to once again feast on human flesh. While Johnny battles off the zombies, he
quickly makes a dash towards his car to escape, leaving his sister Barb behind in a cowardly act. Barb terrified for her life, finds herself running for
her life, while the hungry zombies presume her every move. She finally makes it to the nearby mortuary and runs into Gerald Tovar, Jr. (Sid Haig)
the mortician who warns her to run for her life and don't look back, while he bashes the zombies with his shovel. Barb is now all alone once again.
The sun begins to fall, and she tries one last time to contact her brother by phone only to receive a message "They are coming for you barb".
Before she knows, zombies begin to surround her like prey and just in the nick of time Ben (Joshua DesRoches) races in to save the day on his
motorbike and takes her to his friends farmhouse nearby to gather their thoughts. While Ben and Barb explain to the Cooper family what is
happening, the farm is overrun by the undead. By the time they decide to call the local authorities, it’s too late, the phone lines have been cut. As
they huddle in the dark, terrified of what to do, time becomes precious and valuable, while the zombies grow in numbers outside the farmhouse,
they sooner or later have to fight to survive.
Back in 1968, George Romero's zombie classic Night of the Living Dead wasn't copyright protected, which allowed other filmmakers pretty much to
do spin offs of his film. Over the years we have seen so many films, similar to Night of the Living Dead that never succeed quite like Romero's film.
Now nearly 30 years later, filmmaker Jeff Broadstreet brings us Night of the Living Dead in 3D, which is similar to Romero's original meets Tom
Savini's 1990's remake, but this time with a twist here and there. Like both earlier films, the character Ben was always played by a strong African
American, this isn't the case with this film, he is now played by a skinny white guy (Joshua DesRoches). As you can remember the Cooper family are
now replaced by marijuana growing righteous hippies (which is probably why the zombies are so hungry, after walking though their plantation)
who are so stoned, Harry Copper (Greg Travis) keeps on forgetting about the guns and is too stoned to board up the doors and windows. This is
kinda interesting and good to see the film isn't a step by step, frame by frame remake of the two earlier films. Tom (Max Williams) and Judy (Cristin
Michele) are now sex crazed drug fucked hippies, who spend most of the time on screen, smoking blunts and screwing their brains out in the barn,
well that’s until the zombies rock up to the party. And not to mention Barb (Brianna Brown) character was played as a terrified, scared women in
the original, where in Savini's remake we saw her as a tough female. In this film she is a mixture of both characters from both films, at the
beginning she is fragile, scared and then slowly she becomes tough and a leader towards the very end of the film. But apart from all the cheesy
acting, and corny drug related script, unlike the previous two films Night of the Living Dead 3D does explain how exactly the zombies began to
rise from there graves, thanks to our trusty mortician (Sid Haig) who never believed in cremation due to a fear of fire, so he stored the bodies in
the mortuary, but over the years he was also told to cremate body parts of experiments gone wrong. One day the fluids of one of the experiments
accidentally dripped into the embalming machine, which slowly returned those fresh corpses back to life. Well that’s basically it in a nutshell, the
family spend most of their time screaming, discussing who to call and what to do, and smoking a few joints. Though it was cool to see that the
movie they were watching on the TV, while choofin up was in fact the original Night of the Living Dead, while Barb and Ben explain what’s going
on.
Now for the 3D effects, well to tell you the truth it fucking sucked the big one. The only 3D effects that actually looked 3D was when they passed
the joint around and when blowing smoke rings, apart from those two scenes the rest weren't even 3D at all. They should of pissed off with the
3D effects and focused more on the comedy side of things, kinda like a Half Baked meets Night of the Living Dead, then director Jeff Broadstreet
might of got better results. Apart from seeing Sid Haig in action, this film is borderline for me. I did enjoy the storyline, the twists here and there,
and now knowing how the whole zombie thing began, but apart from the 3D side of things, this movie isn't at all in 3D and if I was Jeff
Broadstreet, I would be getting my money back from whoever was involved in doing the 3D effects. But honestly I think the 3D days are over, yeah
it was big in the 70's and 80's with certain films, but sitting in a theater with blue and red glasses on throughout the whole entire movie just
doesn't do it for me now days.
The gore factor was pretty lame also, not much happened in the film. You seen a few headshot's, a bunch of zombies swarm a few victims, a little
bit of blood splatter, a few bite marks, Sid ramming a shovel in a zombies mouth, and most of all a tire iron sticking though someone. That’s about
it really, nothing too much for any gorehound to get a hard-on over.
If you are a zombie fan, or a huge fan of George Romero, well you have to check out this film at least once in your lifetime. Don't believe too much
what you read on the internet, this film doesn't come anywhere near Romero's and Savini's films. Though knowing how it all began in the first
place, is probably what I enjoyed the most about this film, plus seeing Sid Haig on screen (roughly 15 to 20mins) was a real treat, but not enough
to save the film. So if you want to take a chance and order this film on DVD go ahead, and those who are not too sure, well you can always wait
until it hits the video shelves and then rent it.
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