What a complete RIPOFF.
It starts out good enough…seems fairly witty, intelligent, well-acted, well-made.
But besides (infrequent) zombies, it’s NOTHING like the original. I would liken it more to ‘Return’ but it’s NOT funny. It’s also not scary. It also gets boring about half an hour in when you begin to wonder when it’s actually going to START.
Character development is great. But only when the characters then do stuff.
It’s cleverly made in that it puts forth a good opening and since you KNOW it’s gonna eventually turn into ‘Night 2012’, you keep watching. But it doesn’t. Ever. Really. I watched the WHOLE THING.
Just cashing in on the name, basically. And except for first-time viewers who haven’t heard what a piece of sh1t it is (like me), it will attract NO type of audience. Not gore fans, not horror fans, not horror parody fans, not even die-hard Romero fans.
Upped a notch for the decent but meaningless beginning, and to prevent having to add it to my F list. I have SOME standards.
Grade: D-
3/11/13: Why didn’t I notice that this was a prequel to the cr@ppy 2006 ‘Night’ “remake” until well after I’d finished watching it? Because the 2006 version was so terrible I didn’t bother to review it. There. Accurate AND precise! Grade: D-