Benefit for the Living Dead (2005)
A re-tooling of 'Night of the Living Dead' designed to generate royalties for the "survivor's" who are responsible for the creation of the 1968 film.
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Great Film overall
A different way of telling a story
It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.
It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny
The "Survivors Cut" aka Benefit for the Living Dead was favorably reviewed by Cinescape, Dread Central, Creature Corner, MoviesOnline and websites globally.I worked with the remix-artist Lachiusa, and his intent was only to demonstrate his editing abilities. Tom Savini enjoyed the remix.The 72 minute Survivor's Cut was never meant to challenge the Romero work, rather it augments the original by providing a contemporary re-imagination.It was offered for free by Prelinger's Archive website and over 3,000 copies were downloaded in a few weeks. The film was removed (May 2005) because the Archive audience asked for a higher resolution version and something other than a Real Media file. Lachiusa asked Romero's agent and then later writer John Russo to pick up the task of re-mastering and distribution, but this never happened.To this date: Lachiusa's "Neo-Cine" remastering features more saturated colors and highlights digital-dolly-moves and new camera angles, but this version has never been distributed.
I have several renditions and versions of this film, colorized, 25th and 30th anniversaries but this is by far the worst attempt at a remix. This films tries to hard to be on the verge of "artsy". Watching it gave me headaches and trauma that I'll never get over. First let me start about the intro. The guy that remixed it gives an intro on how the probe was launched into space and how it was destroyed. Anyone with half a brain cell can figure that out and thats part of the mystery. How did the zombies come back to life, where did they come from, who is behind it? Second, the same guy adds some psychedelic crap and makes it seem like your on a bad acid trip. Then we have the "NEW!!!" camera angles. All that consists of is taking parts of the film and flipping them around. This remix is a joke and I really recommend staying FAR away.