Night of the Living Dead (also known as George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead) is a 1990 American horror film directed by Tom Savini (in his feature directorial debut) and starring Tony Todd and Patricia Tallman. It is a remake of George A. Romero's 1968 film of the same title; Romero rewrote the original 1968 screenplay he had originally co-authored with John A. Russo. Like the original, the film follows seven strangers as they meet and survive in a rural farmhouse, following the awakening of cannibalistic zombies. It is the only "official" remake of the 1968 film, with other "unofficial" remakes coming out after, as a result of the source material's lack of copyright ownership (resulting in being in the public domain). Night of the Living Dead was released by Columbia Pictures in the United States on October 19, 1990. The film received negative reviews upon initial release, but gained warmer reception in years since. It grossed only $5.8 million against a $4.2 million budget. Plot In August 1989, Siblings Barbara and Johnny visit their mother's grave in a remote Pennsylvania cemetery. During their visit, an elderly funeral hearse driver, who is in shock and has blood on his forehead, bumps into them and flees in terror. They offer to help him, but they are attacked by a zombie. Johnny is killed and Barbara attempts to flee the cemetery in their car but can't start the engine because Johnny had the keys. She sees a man in a suit walking to her car and calls out to him for help, but it is revealed to be a funeral corpse reanimated, the same one the hearse driver was fleeing, and in an act of desperation she pulls the parking brake of the car, rolls down the hill only to crash into a tree and she flees on foot and discovers what appears to be an abandoned farmhouse. She seeks shelter there, only to find another pack of zombies. Shortly after, a man named Ben arrives after fleeing from a diner near Evans City, that was attacked by zombies. Ben suggests they can't take a chance driving in the middle of nowhere and that they should clear the house of the dead and begin the process of barricading the doors and windows and hope that help comes. They discover other survivors hiding in the cellar of the house: Harry Cooper, a