Starring Tony Todd, Patricia Tallman, Tom Towles, Bill Moseley, and William Butler

George Romero re-wrote the screenplay for his 1968 classic and had Tom Savini direct this underappreciated remake. So what was different? Not very much, except in the character department. Barbara is no longer the snivling little wimp she portrayed in the original. Instead she is a strong, resiliant woman who demands that the others take on the slow-moving living dead. Plus, she looks really good in that white tank-top!

The story remains the same. Johnny and Barbara are driving in the Pennsylvania country side on their way to putting flowers on their father's grave. Suddenly, a strange man (one of the living dead) attacks Barbara and Johnny in the cemetary. Johnny is killed, but Barbara runs away and ends up hiding in a lonely farmhouse.

Despite her cries and pleas, no one but zombies answer her calls for help--until Ben drives up in a small truck that is running out of gas.

Together the two begin a meager attempt to board up the farmhouse. All the while he tells Barbara what he has seen in city. The recently dead are coming to life and they are attacking the living. No one knows why, or how, and the entire country thinks someone is playing a bad joke.

Eventually some characters empty out of the basement. Harry Cooper and his wife, Tom and Judy, and of course the Cooper's little girl, Sarah. When Helen, Harry's wife asks why they don't drive out of here, Harry replies with the best line in the whole show: "NONE OF THEM YO-YO'S HAS A CAR!"

Once everyone is on the main floor, all hands work together in order to secure the building, except for Harry, who believes everyone should stick to the basement.

The tension between Ben and Harry continues to rise throughout the film and finally climaxes when Harry and Ben fight over a television set.

The chemistry between Towles and Todd never does click in this film. I would have liked to seen Duane Jones and Towles fight it out for I thought those two men gave superior performances.

Well, as more and more zombies surround the house the shit starts to really fly. Tom and Judy make a daring attempt to get the truck to a close by gas pump. However, the pump is locked, and in a fit of fear and frustration, Tom shoots the gas pump with his 12-gauge, effectively blowing him and Judy to bits. Ben can only watch the flames boil up as more zombies lurch closer and closer.

More dead people are trying to get into the house and Barbara decides she is going to out run the zombies on foot to try and see if she can get help. She leaves Ben, Harry, Helen, and their little girl behind.

Inside the house we find out that the little boards placed across the windows and doors are no match for the dozens of dead trying to get in. And in the midst of all the madness, Sarah, the Cooper's little girl dies and becomes a zombie. Sarah kills her mother and trys to attack Ben. When Ben sees that Harry won't shoot his own daughter, Ben does it for him and the two men get into a shoot out while zombies are rummaging through the house.

Ben, mortally wounded by Harry's gunfire, retreats to the basement. Harry finds refuge in the attic.

Barbara DOES find help. A group of hicks have been wandering the countryside with their rifles and shotguns hunting down zombies. The next morning, Barbara returns with the rescue party to the farmhouse only to find Ben has joined the ranks of the living dead. The hicks make quick meat of the man and blast him to bits.

Oddly enough, Harry has survived the night and greets Barbara on her return. Outraged at Harry's earlier behavior, Barbara puts a bullet in Harry's head.