YMMV / Night of the Living Dead (1990)

• Anvilicious: Barbara watches members of the posse torturing some zombies, then all but literally turns to the camera to say "They’re us. We're them and they're us."
• Broken Base:
  • Barbara's change in character from the original film. Defenders of her original characterization stress that the point is for her to become the Decoy Protagonist, and that her going catatonic is an entirely realistic reaction. The opposite side state that such a thing was more fitting with the values of the time, and Barbara becoming an Action Girl was more appropriate for the remake. Helping matters was Barbara being planned to survive the original as well at some point.
  • The remake versus the original. As this is considered to be one of the better horror remakes, the split lies in whether it's better or on-par with the original in any areas.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Ben’s introduction scene. He steps out of his truck, and you see the hooked end of the crowbar he’s holding come into frame. Two years after this movie, Tony Todd would land his Star-Making Role as the hook-handed Candyman.
  • Patricia Tallman lampshaded this in an interview. Years later, she would end up being the stunt double for Katie Finneran (Judy Rose) in the film Bewitched. And that was their first time seeing each other since working on this.
• Iron Woobie: Barbara. Especially in the scene when zombies eat a corpse, she is pretty disgusted, horrified, and with a realization of Squick, enough to feel sorry for her. Especially towards the end when any signs of idealism she maintained from the start of the movie vanished.
• It's the Same, Now It Sucks!: Roger Ebert hated it because he felt that Romero had just made the same movie a second time. There is actually some merit to this if you check the Trivia page. Tom Savini had several more ideas for how the film should go, but only about 40% of his ideas made it to the final cut thanks to a pair of incompetent producers.
• Narm: Cooper calling the rest of the group "yoyos." The word is goofy enough on its own, and then it's made worse by him saying it three times within a few minutes.
• Narm Charm: Tom Towles is going out of his way to make Cooper a Hate Sink - far more than the original - and his performance should be ridiculous (and in a couple of places it is). But it just works because you end up hating him that much more.
• Nausea Fuel: The effects team used inspiration from autopsies and Nazi death camp footage, so the more gruesome effects are grossly realistic. Especially that autopsy zombie Barbara encounters in the graveyard.
• Never Live It Down: Judy Rose tends to get held up as The Load or a Screaming Woman. She admittedly does spend a lot of time screaming - but she still carries on with her work. And she gets over her fears quite soon too, calling Ben and Cooper out for their arguing. She also proves more useful than she did in the original - volunteering to drive the truck to the gas pump.
• Retroactive Recognition: Patricia Tallman was much more a stuntwoman than an actress at the time, but is now well known to Babylon 5 fans as Lyta Alexander.
• Special Effect Failure: While the special effects were overall a major improvement over the original, the film seems to have a problem with using convincing-looking dummies. In the first 20 minutes alone, we have Johnny transforming into an obvious dummy when he falls onto the gravestone (complete with a fairly noticeable jump cut mid-fall). Then the shambling zombie that Ben runs over with his truck suddenly becomes motionless in-between shots. And then the big bald zombie that Barbara encounters shortly after entering the house seems to have an unnaturally stiff neck when its head is smacked around.
• Tough Act to Follow: Duane Jones is considered the strongest cast member of the original - not least because he was the rare thing known as an African-American lead - so the actor filling the role of Ben had a very hard act to follow. Luckily that actor is cult favorite Tony Todd - who is generally considered a good choice and at least a worthy successor.
• Vindicated by History: For the most part, anyway. It was poorly received when it was first released and didn't do too well at the box-office. While opinions are still split, the film is largely regarded nowadays as a good film in its own right and one of the better horror remakes in general.
• The Woobie:
  • Judy Rose is left a Nervous Wreck from the whole situation, more than once devolving into mindless screaming. For the majority of the runtime, she's left confused and scared at what's happening. She eventually does grow out of it, reprimanding Harry and Ben for arguing, and helping drive Ben's truck to the car.
  • Helen Cooper is forced to obey her husband with every decision he makes, and whenever she doesn't, it usually ends in an argument, and to top it off, she's eaten by her own daughter, while being aware of what happened to the poor girl.