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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 8500870" data-attributes="member: 27780">Polyhedron Issue 85: July 1993part 4/5Into The Dark: Fittingly for the column's title, James decides to do a whole bunch of night themed movies. No matter how many electric lights we fill our cities with, night remains scarier than day for humans. Who knows what could be lurking out there, just waiting for us to venture beyond our small circle of carefully constructed safety?Night of the Living Dead is the OG of this naming convention. As usual for originators, it's one of the best, really putting man's inhumanity to man over the monsters in focus. Some of the things that really made the atmosphere great may have been lucky accidents or working around budgetary limitations, but it's the results that really matter and it's still well worth rewatching. NotLD's 1990 remake gets scored just a fraction of a point lower, as while it improves on the original in quite a few technical areas, just outright showing what was merely implied before is actually less atmospheric. Still a good movie, but couldn't they have spent the time and energy on an all new one?Night of the Demons is your basic slaughterfest where a bunch of dumb teenagers free a demon and suffer the consequences. The effects are decent, but the writing is incredibly cliched and the human characters mere cutouts which you won't get particularly attached too before they die. Night of the Lepus is less cliched, but considerably more silly and less technically adept. A plague of giant man-eating rabbits? Run away! Get the holy hand grenade! You can't take it seriously, with both the acting and special effects barely above school play levels. Unless you have an unwanted vengeance demon hanging around, this can stay unwatched for now. Night of the Seagulls is not actually about evil seagulls, which would be considerably less silly than evil rabbits because even regular seagulls are loud, bullying, thieving bastards. Instead, it's a particularly silly zombie movie, as the undead are not only slow moving, but blind as well, so only the utter idiocy of the human cast makes them any threat at all. How anyone could be scared of that is pretty baffling.</blockquote>

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