The best remake ever...

[ProfessorChaos]

I have been a fan of the GAR universe since I first saw Night '68 when I was seven. I was totally terrified and wouldn't leave the house past dark for nearly a week after I saw it...living within view of a cemetary didn't help much. Then when I was ten, they did the remake. No one would take me to the theaters to see it, and it seemed like forever until it came to the video store and I got to rent it. Talk about a remake! That's the style of remake they should have done to DAWN and DAY. I guess like the Stones say, "You can't always get what you want." That said, if you could get what you want, which film would you personally oversee the reproduction of and what sort of effort would you put into it? As for me, I'd do a another NIGHT film, only this time, it'd have a much larger back story, almost a prequel, or something like that, having the same characters and show how they all ended up at the house (kind of like the direction Peter Jackson took with King Kong, you know, turning it into a four hour epic)...we all know how Barbara gets there, but what about a long action sequence of Evans City with Ben, showing the carnage in a small town as things went over the brink? What about a car ride with the Cooper family? You know, being there when the radio broadcast came over the air, the car breaking down, the daughter being bitten, the mad dash for the farmhouse...Maybe a side story of the first rescue party being oraganized, Johnny's return as a ghoul.... Sorry, I could go on and on about this. If I ever become a billionaire, though, you can bet your ass that this will be a reality, along with a justified remake of DAWN and DAY. BTW, this is the first thread I've ever started. I'm sure this type of thing has been beaten to death by some of you around here, but oh well. Hope it provides (or reanimates) an interesting discussion.

[Bubdotd]

Hey welcome to the forums! I'm sure no one will flame you lol. were good people here and this is your opinion and most of us will respect that.

[The Alive Man]

I loved SAVIN's NIGHT (1990), and enjoyed it from the beginning to the end. I found it very charming, and genuinely frightening. I loved all the colorful "shades" of the movie, it's solid pacing and - above all - the acting, which was truly TOP NOTCH stuff (IMHO). The make-up was very very goood, excellent I would say. It was my second approach to GAR's universe (even if it's not a GAR movie, of course) after my early viewing of 'ZOMBI'. 'ZOMBI' (DAWN) worked on me like an epiphany, I was just 11 or even 12, don't really remember (well, it doesn't even matter). To me, the greatest segment of NIGHT 1990 is the ending. Beautiful and poetic. I loved the colorful "psychedelic-like" filters they used for the shots. I loved everything. In my mind, it's not even a remake, but a different take to the script imbued with an artistic dignity of its own... That's why Hollywood and the current trend of remaking just plain bad. They release empty simulacra.

[Philly_SWAT]

To be honest, I dont think that I would remake any of these movies. I am on record as saying how to me it is dissapointing when people remake movies, in essense trying to capitalize on past "name recognition" to make profits now, instead of coming up with new "art" for the sake of making new art. Now of course, it would be interesting to see the scenes from Night you talk about, the Cooper's car turning over, the scene at Beekman's diner, etc. I would think a movie like that wouldnt really be a remake, but a different movie. I would be more comfortable if GAR made such a movie, rather than you or me, because they were all his ideas to begin with. A couple of more thoughts....Dawn 2004 was a good movie in my opinion. I hate that it was called "Dawn of the Dead", and was called a remake. It was a good movie in its own right, but was not a remake of GAR's original. Also, Night90 was a really good, and storyine wise pretty much a remake of the original, but GAR wrote the screenplay, along with the new ending, and other Romero people were involved with the movie, so to me it is included in the "Romero cannon" of movies, whereas Dawn04 is not. If I was a billionaire, I definately wouldnt mind using some of my money to make some movies, perhaps even some zombie movies, and I would definately want those movies set in the GAR zombie universe, but I wouldnt want to be presumtive that I could do anything better than he had already done, and would try instead to concentrate on a brand new story and see what people thought of it from an artistic standpoint.

[mercurior]

long long time fan of the dead series of films first time posting, i have seen most of them a dozen times, i too prefer the 90's night, it seems so much more real, i am not sure about the dawn remake, fast zombies, it just wasnt as in depth as my very fav dawn, the 78 one. which i watch every few days. i think the prequal idea would be a good one. count me in if i get money ;-)..

[_liam_]

greetings new folk. i'm against remakes in the same way most people are against guns - ie usually a bad thing but sometimes they serve a purpose. there are some ok remakes (night90, fellowship of the ring) and even some that eclipse the originals (scarface, the thing, casino royale), but by and large they suck, using the original's name as a brand foundation. call me a movie snob, but i just wish someone would do a classy remake of one of the dead films, instead of the blood & thunder popcorn weve had so far. imagine a beautiful looking, well scripted b&w notld remake with millions of $$$ behind it...

[capncnut]

Welcome to the jolly worm pit that is HPotD.

[Deadman_Deluxe]

Velcome to ze forums yah? 1. Do not take ANYTHING i say in the literal sense . . . ever! 2. A sense of humour will be essential to your survival here, develop one now or suffer later. 3. Please be aware that 77.4% of the people you will bump heads with on these forums are ONLY here inbetween eating cereal from their own shoes and smearing their own excrement all over their apartment walls. 4. The remaining 82.6% of statistics are made up on the spot. + NOTLD 90 was pure class!!!!!!!

[Minerva_Zombi]

I don't think Night 90 was that good a remake frankly. Its cheesy in parts, the acting is bad, the directing is bad, and its very tame. It scared me as a kid, but now that im older I find it hard to take too seriously. Tom should stick to EFX. Dawn Remake was ok. I wish it would have just not used the Dawn name and went in a different direction because it has a really good atmosphere about it and the whole end of the world thing is done really well. Day, I have no hope for...

[cinezombi]

Night (1990) For Tony Todd's Performance as Ben

[EvilNed]

I'm not that big of a fan of the Remake. Infact, out of the Romero saga films, it's my least favourite film. It's just dull. It lacks in creativity, music, pacing and simply doesn't grab ahold of me and keep me interesting. It's right out dull, to me. And the music just sucks, which is a big no-no for a dead flick.

[capncnut]

I'm not that big of a fan of the Remake. Infact, out of the Romero saga films, it's my least favourite film. It's just dull. It lacks in creativity, music, pacing and simply doesn't grab ahold of me and keep me interesting. It's right out dull, to me. And the music just sucks, which is a big no-no for a dead flick. I agree with you on the music but the NOTLD remake is a hell of a lot better than the chocolate covered pretzel that is Yawn 04.

[EvilNed]

I agree with you on the music but the NOTLD remake is a hell of a lot better than the chocolate covered pretzel that is Yawn 04. Night 90 is boring, which to me is the worst crime a film can commit. To me, it's low par filmmaking from beginning to end. And at least Dawn 04 showed more creativity and had better atmosphere.

[The Alive Man]

EvilNed, NIGHT '90 had a very calibrated pacing. Really. And please, DAWN featured an hint of "atmosphere" (or at least an attempt to create it) only in the first 40 minutes or less...

[EvilNed]

Even so, during those 40 minutes the film achieved something Night could not achieve during it's entire length. Night 90 was simply not interesting. A very calibrated pacing? What do you base that on, because I find the whole thing to be sub-par.