Night of the Living Dead: Reanimated (2009)

Taking about making something scary look very ridiculous. They keeping go back and fourth with definite styles of animation. Play the soundtrack from the original. Cartoon mice are in this movie. So are puppets. There is ever footage from the original with weird images flying around there heads. Come on this is not a 4.6 it is just overrating it. I give this 4 out 10. Because it is pointless movie. Do not bother with it and just see the original. It is one of the scariest movies made in the 60's. And this does nothing for it. I wasted my time with this believe me. Do not wast your time with this. Do not send money on this. It is a rip off.

Let's face it, folks. The zombie horror sub-genre has really been done to death (pun intended), what with all the sequels, remakes, and shoddy straight-to-DVD crud that delivers little to nothing new. So it's really saying something to note that this particular reimagining of Romero's 1968 classic is anything but another dreary run-of-the-mill rehash. Almost 150 artists from all over the world pay affectionate tribute to their favorite scenes and the picture's most iconic moments using all different styles of animation that include oil paintings, comic book panels, acrylic, CGI, legos, stop-motion animation, rotoscoping, Claymation, and even sock puppets (!). Some approaches are serious and respectful, others more comic and irreverent, all are impressive for their admirable sense of bold go-for-broke imagination alone. Granted, the broad assortment of wildly contrasting styles occasionally threaten to cancel each other out, but fortunately director Mike Schneider keeps it all cohesive and compelling throughout. Wisely retaining the original score and voices of the cast members, this film does a surprisingly sound job of recapturing the stark terror and grim humor of this groundbreaking fright feature without ever diminishing its impact or importance. Best of all, this movie offers one the rare opportunity to see the living dead premise from a fresh and unique perspective. Proof positive that there's still plenty of life left in the moldy old zombie horror sub-genre.

I will keep it very short.It's not the animation that an average joe like.. As the plot summary says"The mixed media featured include puppetry, CGI, hand-drawn animation, illustration, acrylics, claymation, and even 'animated' tattoos, just to name a few"To be honest, I had an headache after watching this one.. too much mixture of everything.. and now I can't sleep :(Do watch it's trailer if you're planning to see this, the "Artistic" people might like it.

Having to sit through NOTLD: 3D was one of the worst experiences I have had in this age of taking a Romero classic and sequeling or pseudo-remaking the damn thing. That, the recent Day of the Dead "remake", and the worst of the bunch, Day of the Dead 2 – Contagium make me wish Romero was already dead so he wouldn't have to know about them. Actually, I almost wish he didn't have to see Survival of the Dead either.. Anyways, if you're a huge NOTLD fan like myself, you're going to find a lot to like with NOTLD: Reanimated. What they did here was take the original 1968 version and keep all of the audio intact, so the only changes come from the imagery, which, as the title hints to, are a few dozen interpretations of the story from various animators. The styles of animation vary from CGI, to hand-drawn animation, illustration, acrylics, claymation and even sock puppets. Each snippet could run from a few seconds to a few minutes of footage – enough for the viewer to become comfortable with the variation of the segment, but interested in what else is coming. Obviously, the film makers have a lot of respect for the classic and this version really works as an "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" type of experiment. The version I received has V3 on it, so there are a few different versions floating around with different scene variations. I may just put this on as often as the original, as it is a great companion piece and warrants repeated viewings.