Zombies, reclaimed and reimagined by the guy who helped perfect them. A way smarter redux than most give it credit for, flipping images and playing with our knowledge of the original while simultaneously leaning into the social commentary Romero more or less stumbled upon. The makeup here is just gnarly, too; all Civil Rights and Vietnam era atrocities filtered through a monster that’d been popularized and parodied by 1990. Really impressed by how well this holds up.

It’s weird: I used to get so bored by this, but now the moments that previously lulled me to sleep are now the most interesting. Maybe it’s due to watching way too many slashers, but all the earnest teen melodrama and vigorous disco dancing are mesmerizing, while the actual slasher/whodunit portions are mostly uninteresting (save for the last 20 or so minutes). Maybe I’ll just never watch this movie again so I don’t see-saw back to thinking it’s super dull? Probably not.

Alejandro Jodorowsky‘s GHOST RIDER, scored with dronecore stoner metal. Paint this whole movie on the side of a fucking conversion van.

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