Episode 339: Night of the Living Dead: Darkest Dawn (2015)

With the upcoming gender swap Vivica Fox version of Night of the Living Dead coming up in November, I thought I would have the NOTLD league table in place before then, but with the title and story now in the public domain it means any twonk with a camcorder can make a version.

This version from 2015 is the CGI animated version aka Night of the Living Dead:Origins and Night of the Living Dead:Origins 3D and stars Tony Todd reprising his role of Ben from the Tom Savini 1990 version, Captain Rhodes himself Joe Pilato as Harry Cooper, Bill Moseley as Johnny, and scream queen Danielle Harris as Barbara, and is set in a modern NYC over the winter.

A few really odd nods to the original, with the old truck, TV and radio, and the building, all look out of place for NY compared to the other locations, but some excellent additions, with the flashbacks to Ben and his wife and son dying in the diner, and Tommy and Judy, as well as Johnny's demise by getting a plane in th face.

The one thing that you will notice is the poor quality of the CGI characters, who don't blink, and look like the actors but with a stocking pulled over their head, squishing their face, ears and nose. Given this is 2015, that is only real negative.

5/10 for me. The action scenes were decent, the tension, but the animated characters were just poorly created.