Rebirth

I'd never heard of this, but watched it hoping I had come across some indie zombie gem. Lol. Having no prior knowledge of it helped with my almost immediate surprise that this appeared to be a remake of the original Night of the Living Dead. As it turns out, it's less a remake and more a parody that doesn't work. The primary character has the makings of some fun, but it doesn't work either. Roger Conners, also the director and writer, in this role is clearly playing the Barbara character and gives a very similar lame performance as the original, which I assume was intentional?! As in the original, we have again our black hero, our basement dwellers, our sickly child, a similar dreary ending, etc., etc. What we don't have is any quality. The one key change in this rendition is that the Barbara character is now a very effeminate gay man who is called a boy throughout the film despite Connors clearly being in his 30's. As a gay man I will add that I found his depiction a bit offensive, though I will say that his take on Barbara is fairly accurate though it does not work as drama or parody. The writing is horrible, the relationship between this gay Barbara and the black hero is baffling, but it is the first zombie movie I've seen with full frontal male nudity on a hot man, so there is that if it's of interest. I did like the opening credits. This is a really bad movie.