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from: Universal
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Binding: DVD
Brand: Universal
EAN: 0025195043908
Label: Universal
Manufacturer: Universal
Publisher: Universal
Sales Rank: 97268
Studio: Universal
Editorial Review:
Description:
Packed with more heart-pounding and blood-curdling thrills than any theater could show, this special Unrated Director's Cut unleashes the ultimate vision of George A. Romero's latest living-dead shock-fest! Starring Simon Baker, Dennis Hopper and John Leguizamo, Land of the Dead finds humanity's last remnants battling to survive the unspeakable truth: The ravenous zombie hordes besieging their fortified city…are evolving!
Amazon.com:
Bolstered by the success of 28 Days Later, Shaun of the Dead, the Resident Evil movies and the hit remake of his own Dawn of the Dead, George A. Romero returns to the horror subgenre he invented with Land of the Dead. The fourth installment in Romero's zombie cycle (and the first since 1985's Day of the Dead) presents a logical progression of events since 1968's horror classic Night of the Living Dead: Zombies (also known as 'stenches' for their rotting odor) are the dominant population, and they've begun to show signs of undead intelligence and gathering power. The wealthiest survivors live comfortably in a luxury high-rise within a barricaded safe zone, ignoring the horrors of the outside world while armed scavengers stage raids in the zombie-zone to gather much-needed food and supplies. Simon Baker and John Leguizamo play mercenaries-for-hire; Dennis Hopper is their nefarious boss; and horror favorite Asia Argento (daughter of Suspiria director Dario Argento) plays a former hooker recruited into Baker's scavenger squad. While none of this seems particularly fresh or inspired, Land of the Dead benefits from hints of the social satire that made Romero's earlier zombie films so memorable. Not so much funny as gruesomely peculiar, Romero's plot isn't as inventive as it could've been, but as a big-scale B-movie, Land of the Dead delivers a handful of shocks and horror-celebrity cameos (including gore-masters Tom Savini and Greg Nicotero) that should keep horror buffs happy until the next zombie opus comes along. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Worth the price of admission
Overall, I thought this was a good film. The writing was good, it had a decent plot, lots of scares, and an interesting twist on the genera. So, it's good entertainment. But from the social commentary standpoint, I think Romero is slipping.
The zombies in this film are compared - by Romero himself - to Islamic terrorists. George Romero tried to make this utterly twisted comparison between people behaving badly and the zombies. The profundity at the end, where they claim that the ... Read More
Rating:  - Ok
While speed zombies have become the rage, in such films as the recent remake of Dawn Of The Dead and 28 Days, in Land Of The Dead- the fourth of what is now a tetralogy of original Dead films by George Romero- we are back to the slow moving ghouls of old, although they are showing signs of evolving intelligence, if not fleetness. That said, it is clear that Romero has run out of ideas, and his attempts at social commentary in the original Night Of The Living Dead and original Dawn Of The Dead (both ... Read More
Rating: - Romero at his worst is still leagues above every other director who takes a stab at the zombie genre.
Not the best of the series, But still a Romero flick. Romero at his worst is still leagues above every other director who takes a stab at the zombie genre.
Great gore, great action, and an awesome continuation to the "Zombies are learning" plotline from "Day of the Dead."
Plus, I mean, Asia Argento isnt someone i'd throw out of bed for eating cookies.
7/10
Rating:  - Another Romero Triumph!
Following the events of George Romero's beloved Living Dead films, "Night of the Living Dead", "Dawn of the Dead", and "Day of the Dead", in which the bodies of the recently deceased returned to life and began feeding on the living and increasing in number, "Land of the Dead" takes us to a walled-off community where a society of human survivors live as two distinct social classes: the wealthy, who live in a luxurious building called Fiddler's Green, and the poor, who live everywhere else. The big man ... Read More
Rating: - George Romero had no chance here
Poor George had to face 20 years of unrealistic expectations, and had a hard time telling the story he wanted to tell. There's no possible way he could have pleased everyone, and "Land Of The Dead" has an unnecessarily bad rep among genre fans.
It's fun - from the old-style Universal Logo to the opening credits montage all the way to the end. The world has suffered from the living dead plague for years, and what few human survivors remain live in a walled off enclave. Within this group, ... Read More
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