I first watched this back in the early, maybe mid-1980s...not long after it had been released in theaters (and then later on VHS) and at the time, I thought this was absolutely the coolest horror movie ever produced. Forty-five (45) years later, however, this is so awful it could _almost_ be considered funny…except it's truly awful. Everything from the storyline to the stiff acting (and I don't mean by the zombies, either!) to the conclusion…it's just BAD. So many things I would love to sit here and pick apart but I'm just not going to waste time. Maybe no one else will ever read this comment/review (and that's fine) but I'm mainly leaving this for myself so I will **never** be tempted to watch this again. It's just horribly, horribly bad. Even the attempt at "gore" is completely laughable: I never realized our intestines were all - every part of us - the exact same color as silly putty…and even stretched like silly putty. Wow, this was just really, really, REALLY bad. Sorry if you're a George Romero fan; this was great back in its day but by today's standards, this doesn't even rate as "scary". This is just rotten.