The cannibal classic cannibalized. Why? How come? What for? The foremost answer that comes to mind (nudging out the goes-without-saying answer: "Money") is that it's for the generation we could diagnose as black-and-white-blind: the generation that can't or won't see, look at, focus on, a movie made in black-and-white; the generation that needs, wants, insists upon, color. But George Romero had already provided that, and a good deal more, in his own two sequels to his 1968 original. He has here cooperated in its remake to the extent of writing the script himself, and the storyline follows the original one — minus most of the Action News satire — almost to a point of creepiness. (A point far exceeded, and by a completely different route, in the original.) The upshot: what was once a nice little landmark on the horrorscape has now been converted into just another slab in the cemetery. Tony Todd, Patricia Tallman; directed by Tom Savini. (1990) — Duncan Shepherd
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