PART II: THE REMAKES - A9

The sound was quite recognizable, someone was getting whacked by an axe. The only real question at the moment... is the recipient alive or dead?

You have made your life in zed world as an isolationist. Not so much by choice, but as a necessity. Greater evils are committed by wicked people using the planetary reset as an excuse to do all their darkest wanton desires. Messed up people who in the last world - would've been locked up. Now they run free. Worse yet, they're thriving.

More wet thumpings.

You peek over the wooden fence of this once nicely kept lake shore home. Okay, it's a dead person getting the blade.

That's good.

A bit more extension - there's a large man, shirtless in what appears to be solely dressed in blue overalls. He's living the redneck dream fashionwise.

More whacks. That's ghoul is most certainly dead-dead. This is way overkill.

Then sh!t hits the fan. You pull back and snap a twig as you make an exit. A hoped quiet exit, fails. Big guy heard it. You know since there was a loud grunt and the thumpings ceased.

You just wanted to see if this house had any worthwhile supplies, not to be caught in drama. So begins a slow game of chess about the large backyard. Behind trees, long dead cars and anything that could be large enough to conceal your frame. What pops in your mind is Chaka Chan's "Ain't Nobody". This is so damn stupid.

Why can't things be all nice and easy?

'Bobby Boy' as you call him has laser focus; trying to find out what or who made that noise. Choices are fading as you exhaust them rather quickly. But there's an odor in the air, nauseating. Salvation or more woes? Where is that zombie? Can you use him/her to be your surrogate?

Better the dead guy than you; somebody is gonna get the axe - Lizzy Borden style. And from the looks of it, it will be forty whacks too.

As promised a few weeks back, I have the data...



"Night Of The Living Dead" 1990 streeted on October 23rd, 2018 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (UPC# 0 43396 54634 9) for $24.99. It's SKU is 34331424. The region A/B/C (1080p) came in a common BD case.

The Blu-Ray streeted against "Mamma Mia!: Here We Go Again - Sing Along Edition" and "Disney Jr.: Holiday".

No slipcover or insert was issued. And this did not come with a Digital Copy. No idea how many chapters; can not find that info online.

The motion picture is eighty-eight minutes long.

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Extras:

* Commentary: director Tom Savini
* "The Dead Walk: Remaking A Classic" making-of featurette (full screen, 24:52 minutes - upscaled)
* Theatrical Trailer (in HD, widescreen)

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Audio:

* 5.1 DTS-HD MA
* Dolby Digital 2.0 (French)

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NOTES/RANT

There are subtitles in English.

While this is part of Sony's MOD program (Manufactured On Demand), a burned BD. This release is a genuine pressed Blu-Ray.

None of the extras produced for the Umbrella Entertainment, Australian release carried over. You can read about them - click here.

What we have is an HD release of the 1999 DVD.

This does fix the visual woes with the previous U.S. Blu-Ray, the 2012, Twilight Time, debacle.



Anyhow, there have been various remarks that the 2018 release is struck from a new master. A mixed bag over picture quality. It is darker than the Umbrella release, but has more color. And the Sony title has far better audio.

That's about it. Not much really to write about. Spent more time researching, than on writing or images. Indeed.