Land of the Dead (Unrated Edition) |  | Director: George A. Romero
Actors: John Leguizamo, Asia Argento, Simon Baker, Dennis Hopper, Robert Joy
Studio: Universal Studios
Category: DVD
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Format: AC-3, Color, Director's Cut, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Italian (Original Language), Polish (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 93 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.7
MPN: 025192870224
ISBN: 1417068728
UPC: 025192870224
EAN: 9781417068722
ASIN: B00005JO16
Theatrical Release Date: June 24, 2005
Release Date: October 18, 2005
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Product Description
The living dead have overtaken the world and the few remaining human survivors have barricaded themselves in a city hoping to survive the zombie onslaught and unrest within their own ranks. Fourth installment in Romero's \Night of the living dead" series.
Genre: Science Fiction
Rating: NR
Release Date: 22-AUG-2006
Media Type: DVD"""
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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
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 Undead Gore Rocks the Casbah in this Hardcore Zombie Flick January 9, 2010
A.P. Fuchs / Canister X
One day, they rose.
The next, the world fell.
Now, humanity barely survives.
And the undead have gotten smarter.
Zombies abound in this recent blockbuster by George A. Romero and, as always, the man who invented the zombie genre shows us he still has what it takes to turn out a good flick.
Simon Baker does a great job playing the hard-edged yet soft-hearted hero, while John Leguizamo steals the show as a kind of crooked hero-turned-bad guy.
What I enjoyed about this flick was the idea of a walled-in society, a city-turned-world of its own, with its own hierarchy, running down from rich to poor. I suppose that even if the dead walked the earth, we'd still have the same problems we have today with the rich getting richer and the poor poorer.
Blood and guts fill the screen of this feature: graphic, wet and sloppy. There's no shortage of stomach-turning moments here.
I liked the idea of some of the zombies getting smarter instead of just roaming around looking for folks to eat, and the idea of them trying to regain their former humanity was well done. However, the "human-hearted" zombies also made the creatures feel a bit too human, for my taste and the undead lost their edge as a result.
The story was simple, but fun.
Not a bad effort, this one.
Language warning: Cursing and blasphemy
A.P. Fuchs
Canister X
 Romero...Legacy Lives on!!!! December 28, 2009
Leto Concepcion (New Nork, NY)
When it comes zombie horror flicks....All hail george romero...one thing he does and does well is the exploitation of blood and gore...and thats a good thing..although "Land of the Dead" falls short of a believable story...its all made up to you with the excessive brutally and havoc that Romero knows all to well how to put together.
PRO: More than Enuff Zombies, Blood and Gore, excessive brutality...and more stuff to make your stomach quench.
CONS: The movie is fairly short with a Run time of about Hour and a half.
Zombies get smarter... December 20, 2009
R. hewitt (Maryland)
Keeping up with the zombie story line since Night of the living dead and Day of the dead etc. The zoms are getting smarter and looking for their place in the world. One for the shelf.
very good and fun horror pic November 28, 2009
B. Lafave (lakeland , fl)
while not quite on a par with NIGHT and DAWN , "LAND OF THE DEAD" is smart and fun . a solid cast and typically good writing and direction by ROMERO make this outing pretty much comperable to the very good DAY . don't know why this one devides folks so ? (the zombies can reason ?) . it's a "talkie" for goodness sakes . get over it .
As A Zombie O.K. But Also With Some Loopholes As Well November 27, 2009
Rich (CA)
This was one of the standard George Romero zombie movies with the usual shambling somewhat slow zombies that in the movie would eat living humans in very gory and bloody ways to satisfy any longtime zombie fan but some of the storyplot is pretty weak as well. The one part I felt was a little weird was when you had the group of disgruntled scouts who when one of them is denied a position in the upper echelon of the cities important class decides to steal the armor vehicle and try and blackmail the leader of the isolated city into giving him money was somewhat idiotic, yes for an isolated city surrounded by the walking undead there has to be some way to maintain a sense of trade an commerce between the living people in the city for certain possessions but come on. I mean even if the people trying extort the money get away where are they going to go and spend the money on in a world almost completely taken over by the undead? The acting from the main characters is very decent though and Dennis Hopper as always gives a great show in his movies but at the end it's pretty much what anyone who looks at the cover knows, and that is it's a flesh-eating zombie movie for anyone who wants to see the blood and gore of people been eaten an the like but don't expect to much more from the movie itself such as a great storyline or the like...
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