Walking Dead: Night of the Walking Dead

Of the 3 Walking Dead edits currently available, this one is my favourite, although it is not without issues. The editor takes us on a wild ride through the first two seasons. The edit moves at breakneck speed and is a lot of fun. Just don't ask any questions about why certain characters said what they said or did what they did.

The title is a little strange. I get the reference to the classic movie, but this edit takes place over several weeks and doesn't really make sense. There are tons of little narrative issues throughout, an unfortunate effect of keeping the pace quick and chopping so much character development. That's another downfall - by keeping just the action and necessary plot points and chopping the character development, the audience ends up not getting invested in the fates of any of the characters. By the end of it, I didn't care whether anyone lived or died - everyone, even Rick, was expendable at that point. The ending isn't really an ending. We've survived the swarm at the farm and there's a far-away shot of.... some big institutional-type building. Having watched the show, we all know that this is the prison, but in the context of a stand-alone movie, it means nothing.

Having said all of that, this is certainly a fun ride and recommended for fans of the show. Just don't think about it too much.

This is a great type of show to edit. There's a great premise, a lot of good plot and action - but even more garbage. I still watch Walking Dead when new seasons come out, but I'm always disappointed. This edit did a great job of providing the good stuff at a reasonable pace and cut out most of the bad. True Blood is another show that could benefit from this type of edit, where parts of it are really good, but its just impossible to suffer through all the bad to get to it.

There were a few things plotwise that didn't make sense because of scenes that were cut. Glenn getting called walker-bait didn't really make sense in this version where he doesn't get lowered into the well. There were a few other things like that I noticed while watching, but forget now. They did not significantly lower my enjoyment.

At 3 hours, this edit is very long, but there aren't really any slow spots so it doesn't feel overlong.

I didn't see or hear any audio/video issues.

Enjoyment:
Original - 7
Fanedit - 10

This was a very impressive fanedit! I'm amazed you pulled off condensing 19 episodes into a coherent 3 hour storyline. The plot moved fast while retaining key character development. At some points however it felt a little too fast; for example, Carl is shot and they immediately find the farm and a couple scenes later, oh he's better now.

Overall, highly recommended for Walking Dead fans. I'm looking forward to the next installment.

"Night of the Walking Dead" is a great experience and I assume it's going to win Favorite Edit of the Month Award.

You managed to tell a decent and strong story with characters that we all care about. But told from different perspective. Till today I'm impressed how you managed to create the best possible plot staying true with "TWD" essence.

Still, I think next time you shouldn't start the movie within the first 10 sec. Try at least to add some credits like "Fanedit.Org & Ranger present" or something. And to make a proper credits opening. Yeah, I know I'm nitpicking but it's good to have a climatic build-up :).

Hmm, and it's strange to see randomly put end credits with Jimmy and Patricia actors names only. Next time create your own so that you can put the whole song ;).

I'm looking forward to see "Dawn..." And again, feel all these emotions.

In short, f-n kick ass job! We thoroughly enjoyed it :)

It's been a while since I've seen the original 2 seasons on TV, so some of the more creative cuts and reworking went over my head. Which is a good thing, as that means the editing was done very well. My wife who is an avid fan noticed the reworks much more and thought they were done very well. We both felt the start of the love triangle sequences was a bit tangled and didn't transition as smooth as the rest of the edit. I imagine editing season 2 was much more difficult since they focused so much more on the drama and not action. Perhaps chopping a bit more out of it, especially season 2, would make it 10s across the board.

Thank you, great job, and looking forward to your next one!