night of the living dead start a brother and sister barbara ( patricia tallman ) and johnnie ( bill mosley ) visit their recently decease mother grave and there they be attack by one of the living dead and johnnie be kill although barbara manages to escape on foot to a nearby farmhouse . there she be attack by more of the living dead but a man in truck call ben ( tony todd ) arrive and help her and the truck be out of gas and they have no choice but to stay put . then out of the cellar some more people emerge and together they decide to board up the house to try and keep the flesh eating living dead outside a they desperately try to come up with a plan of escape and a the night draw on tension in the house escalate and the cannibalistic living dead outside rapidly grow in number . direct by tom savini this be absolutely brilliant remake of the george a. romero classic night of the living dead ( 1968 ) who actually turn in the screenplay for this and make year before the recent hollywood fascination with horror remake and the hill have eye ( 2006 ) and the omen ( 2006 ) and the ring ( 2002 ) and dawn of the dead ( 2004 ) and the wicker man ( 2006 ) and black christmas ( 2006 ) to name just six of the top of my head this 90 version of night of the living dead be how it should be do and i think it be a great film on many level . the script stay pretty faithful to the original which to be fair i haven not see in a number of year so the exact detail of it be a little hazy and it start out almost scene for scene although it change thing at the end . this treat the original material with respect and add it own idea without drastically alter thing which be how a remake should be i suppose and i really like the ironic end where the heroic ben be in fact wrong and if they would listen to the selfish harry they would have all be rescue . the character be very strong here and i particularly like ben who get some really good dialogue a he try to explain thing from his own perspective and what he have see prior to meet barabra . the film move along at a great pace and it never bore and it as plausible a any film can be feature flesh eating zombie and it really nice to see a pretty intelligent horror film with good adult character rather than annoy teen and a well think out script . this be the directorial debut of special make up effect man tom savini and it perhaps come a a surprise that this night of the living dead remake be pretty tame in the gore department and there aren not even many gory head shot and there a severed hand and a few rotten zombie and not much else but the story compensates . to be fair the filmmaker be force to cut some of the gorier stuff to get the rating that they want and however there be a documentary on the dvd release with some of the gore shot that be cut out . there a nice tension to the film and the in fight between harry and ben together with the ever grow horde of zombie outside . with a supposed budget of about $ 4 and 200 and 000 this be very well make with good production value and impressive special make up effect and very good act especially todd . night of the living dead 90 be a top film and it how remake should be do and be a fantastic homage to original that be a great film in it own right . definitely well worth a watch .