This novel was fast paced and action packed, it was definitely a page turner but I didn't feel that the characters were developed enough for me to care if the lived or died. I think if the novel was slightly longer and it gave more of a background of each character I might have felt more suspense and fear for their lives. Still an enjoyable read though and I would recommend for all Zombie lovers.

NOTE: This is a review for the Abridged Night of the Living Dead fully dramatized audio narration.

As a fan of the original movie and the 90's remake, I can say this "dramatized" audio narration is an incredible departure from the source material. I'm not actually sure if the intention of the audio production director was to make this as silly and as campy as possible to make it comedic or if this was a serious attempt at producing a work based upon Night of the Living Dead.

If it was meant to be comedic, they certainly succeeded. If it was meant to be serious, oh boy, did they miss the mark. I certainly hope it was the former because if it was the latter, Simon and Schuster needs to fire some people and enforce better quality control on their releases.

Assuming this was meant to be comedic, the actors took the campiness to whole other level. The actress for Barbra was completely over the top and grating on the soul in her performance. Her screaming was so irritating it made my ears hurt. Not to outdone, the actor who played Ben took all the likability, leadership qualities, and rationality from the character and left him seeming like an angry black man bullying everyone else into doing what he wanted. Considering these were the main roles, they were responsible for carrying the story. The other actors were forgettable in their roles which ends up being more of a compliment to them since they weren't memorable for being as terrible as the main characters.

Once again, if they were going for comedy, they certainly succeeded because I laughed entirely way too much at this audio production. The reasons above would outline why this is.

If they were going for a serious adaption, the reasons above would outline why this was one of the worst attempts at adapting Night of the Living Dead ever. For the sake of everyone involved, I pray this wasn't the case.

Finally, there are two main differences in the story which one didn't make sense and the other which could have been a somewhat creative difference which would have been fine if it didn't stomp all over the impact of the ending. The first difference is most likely a massive error or oversight. Throughout the whole story, we're being told the undead have no human qualities like speech, compassion, recognition of their loved ones, ect. These are fresh eating corpses. Near the end of the story, a zombie speaks...

The other major difference is the fate of the last surviving member of the group.

Overall, since I don't know the intention of the producer on this, I cannot give it a bad rating. If it was supposed to be comedic and campy, I'd give this four stars for managing to make me laugh more than I ever thought I could at people being eaten alive. If this was supposed to be serious, I'd give this two stars, only because it would fall into the category of being "So bad, it's good."

Escalofriante, hace honor a la película, si quieres pasar miedo, éste es tu libro.

A noite dos mortos vivos - 04.10 - 05.10 - 3 estrelas
A volta dos mortos vivos - 06.10 - 10.10 - 3 estrelas

Very awesome.
Novelisation of one of my fave zombie films, much better than the Dawn of the Dead one

Although the writing wasn't the best, I really enjoyed this book. I grew up with the movie, so I was pleasantly surprised with the additional scenes and events that were in the book. Overall it was really fun, a lot more than I anticipated.

Poiché mi sono appassionata al genere alla veneranda età di trentadue anni, ho cominciato solo di recente a esplorarne i classici; e questo vecchio racconto, firmato John Russo, non delude: datato nello stile, complice anche il filtro della traduzione, porta in scena paure e topoi compositivi che avranno poi una lunga e fruttuosa vita editoriale.
Fin dalla scena d'apertura la tensione narrativa è altissima e il sentimento di tragica ineluttabilità che pervade i protagonisti è trasmesso al lettore con apprezzabile efficacia.

Great Airplane Book. Very much read like the George Romero film

Una maravilla de historia, un clásico del terror contemporaneo, que no puede faltar entre las lecturas obligatorias del género del terror.
El bajo nivel literario del libro no merma el interés de la narración, llena de tensión, claustrofobia, miedo y escenas espeluznantes.
El libro engancha mucho y la tensión va increscendo hasta llegar al final, un final brutal!

Un buen libro cortito perfecto para iniciarse en esto del terror sin agobiarse!

I don't normally read novelizations, but when I saw that this was written by the man who wrote the original movie, I couldn't resist. Although it clearly follows the story of the movie, it is much more fleshed out and adds to the orinal movie. I have always loved this movie and am really glad I found this book!

Night of the Living Dead is one of the most celebrated films of all time. I'll be honest I didn't realize this was a based on a book until I caught it on my Hoopla app. Russo creates compelling characters that slowly converge into a beautiful storyline aligned with tremendous dread. The grounded approach only adds to its intesntiy. Though, this version of the story features a subplot featuring vigilante cops and citizens hunting the zombies (or as they're called here, ghouls). This takes away from the story so much. It got to a point where every other chapter is back and forth between the cops and our main cast of characters that Iegitimately stopped caring about the characters. It started off with such promise. Guess the ghouls got a hold of the ending.

Meus filmes favoritos da vida, mas confesso que zumbis funcionam melhor na tela.