One idyllic August afternoon, siblings Barbara and Johnny visit their mother's grave in a remote Pennsylvania cemetery. An elderly man with blood on his forehead bumps into them there, garbles something and bolts in terror. While offering to help him, they are attacked by a zombie. Johnny is killed while Barbara flees the cemetery and discovers what appears to be an abandoned farm house. She seeks shelter there, only to find another pack of zombies. Shortly after, a man named Ben (who fled Evans City) arrives at the scene and helps Barbara dispatch the zombies. The two quickly form a bond and clear the house of the undead and begin barricading the doors and windows as night falls.
Meanwhile, Barbara leaves the farm house alone and attempts to find help. She is horrified and sickened after witnessing the charred corpses of Tom and Judy being savagely devoured by the zombies. She eventually joins a group of countryside locals who are clearing the area of the undead, and awakens the next day in a makeshift camp surrounded by the safety of the media and townspeople, led by Sheriff McClelland. Noticing a group of hillbillies drunkenly antagonizing a small group of captured zombies, she comments on the similarities between the living and the undead. She returns to the farmhouse to find Ben, who is now zombified; he gazes at Barbara before being shot. When Harry emerges from the attic alive, Barbara kills him in a fit of rage and retribution for causing Ben's death, and turns to leave the house, telling the vigilantes they have "another one for the fire." Barbara watches grimly as the bodies are burned on a pyre.
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Barbara, as played by Patricia Tallman in Night of the Living Dead 1990, starts off as a scared survivor, but quickly gets herself together, and before long she's just as capable at zombie killing as anyone else. She's portrayed as an equal to Ben (Tony Todd), and perhaps smarter than him even. By the end, she's become a stone cold badass, opting to shoot Cooper - who survives the night in this version - and pretend he was a zombie to the rescuers who've shown up. Romero said publicly that this was all very much on purpose, and was intended as a way to make amends for how flawed Barbara had been the first time around.
The "living dead" in the movie were zombies who lurched about the landscape, their bodies decaying, their eyes blank, attempting to feed on human flesh. They had been dead, but their motor impulses and animal needs had somehow brought them back to a sickening parody of life, and now the only way to kill them was to destroy their brains.
In the 1968 version of Night of the Living Dead, Barbara goes to the cemetery to visit her mother's grave with her insufferable brother Johnny, who resents the time it takes from his apparently riveting life and teases her throughout the opening scene with his famous line, "They're coming to get you, Barbara!" Barbara barely survives a zombie attack that sees her brother dead and flees to a nearby farmhouse. This is where she meets Ben, the film's protagonist, who helps her keep her cool and tries to turn the house into a small fortress in hopes of lasting through the night. Other characters show up, including well-meaning teens Tom and Judy and the much less well-meaning Harry Cooper, along with his wife Helen and soon-to-be-zombified daughter.
Two siblings are attacked by zombies when they go to visit their mother's grave. The survivor of the duo, Barbara, makes her way to a farmhouse that starts housing others like her. However, their solace is only temporary, and they are are soon besieged by the living dead.
The zombie apocalypse has crept up on Barbara and she has taken refuge inside of a farm house. One by one, more of the living arrive, adding to the group of trapped survivors. They frantically board the windows and doors as an onslaught of the living dead attempt to consume them.
Every remake has its work cut out for it and this particular one had some extra big shoes (or coffins) to fill. Is it possible people were extra biased because they figured special effects guru SAVANI would deliver the ultimate gorefest? Well it just so happens, I like my undead like I like my everything- and that's on a small scale and in a very limited space. SAVINI cut his directorial teeth directing TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE episodes and that could explain part of my mad devotion; something about that series singularly scratches a psychological itch for me. SAVINI's take almost feels like an extended DARKSIDE episode and that's so up my nightmare alley. I'm not the type who thinks SAVINI walks on water but I have to say whoever is responsible for this particular end product has got some serious chops. The score even has that strange minimalist keyboard routine going on and the meager budget insures everything remains looking backyard regional and lived in. The atmosphere is so convincingly nihilistic and morbidly depressing that the entire excursion acts as a cathartic purging of negative vibes. And how can anyone look a gift horse in the mouth when its front teeth are genre legends TONY TODD and BILL MOSLEY? Meanwhile, a motion picture is worth more than a zillion words and you can check this fine flick out for FREE thanks to super cuddly CRACKLE right abouts HERE!
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