Shot in Wales, this ultra-low budget reimagining is the fourth or fifth remake of Night of the Living Dead and by far the cheapest. As a sufferer of NOTLDitis, I knew it would cross my path at some point and I was honestly hoping to get a UK take on the world's most famous Night. Unfortunately, co-writer/director James Plumb doesn't have the budget to do much else as he tells his story of 7 people trapped in a rural home. To give the film credit, it does do something early on that I thought was absolutely brilliant in terms of NOTLD lore. But the rest is filled with dumb people making dumb decisions. Example: At one point the patriarch Gerald goes out in the car to find help and runs into a group of surviving teens with weapons. He just sits there in his car and waits for them to attack. If only he had some kind of heavy metal machine that could, ahem, reverse his bad luck. I also got a kick out of a dying grandfather quoting the Bible to his kin and a granddaughter replying, "How is it you can remember quotes from the Bible, but you can't remember my birthday?" As 2020 has taught us, pandemics don't dull the edges of everyone.
Review of Night of the Living Dead: Resurrection
