Night Of The Living Dead: Reanimation

At some point, I expect George A. Romero to start suing anyone that uses Night Of The Living Dead in their movie title. But we'll get to that later.

This film is set in the Zombie Capital, Pittsburgh. Gerald Tovar, Jr. is a Pyrophobic (scared of fire) mortician. He and his brother, Harold inherit a funeral home from their dad after he dies. Dad had a deal with the government to burn toxic waste. Harold wants none of it, so he moves away. None of that was fully explained until the movie was at the 42 minute mark.

The movie opens with Junior interviewing a new beautician after his current one makes a client look like a "clown". Then, a state inspector shows up. He gets killed by a zombie.

Later, we see Junior watching a video of his crematory. He watches as a zombie rises. He then goes down into the crematory, and kills it. At this point in the movie, Harold shows up looking to borrow money from his brother. This is where we learn about Gerald being scared to cremate the bodies. Since the chemicals and bodies weren't being burned, the bodies were reanimating.

The brothers go back to the funeral home and find out the dead have risen and are trapped in the funeral home. Junior digs up dad and accidentally feeds his brother to his dad.

Junior and his employees fight off the zombies until he's the only one alive.

This movie sucked. I'll ignore the CHEESY special effects. Most low budget films get a pass on that. What I can't ignore was the way the story jumped around, and the terrible scene where the employees stopped to smoke weed with a dead guy that wasn't a zombie. Yes, you read that right. I can't ignore the political opinions. There's no room for that in a zombie film. I did like all the George A. Romero references. Which makes me wonder if he would sue for a filmmaker doing this to his movie franchise. In case you were wondering, this movie gets a well deserved 1.