Land of the Dead (Unrated Director's Cut) [Blu-ray] | ![Land of the Dead (Unrated Director's Cut) [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/514gz%2Bc9pzL._SL500_.jpg) | Director: George A. Romero
Actors: Asia Argento, Eugene Clark, Phil Fondacaro, John Leguizamo, Dennis Hopper
Studio: Universal Studios
Category: DVD
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Rating:  384 reviews
Sales Rank: 14436
Format: AC-3, Color, Director's Cut, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: Unrated
Media: Blu-ray
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 97 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.3 x 0.5
MPN: MCABR61105469
UPC: 025195045650
EAN: 0025195045650
ASIN: B001CW7ZVC
Theatrical Release Date: 2005
Release Date: September 30, 2008
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Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 09/30/2008 Run time: 97 minutes Rating: Ur
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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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 Fun But Full Of Flaws February 22, 2010
The Zipper
I think Land of the Dead ranks a close fourth in all four of the Romero zombie films. We had high hopes for this movie. The budget was obviously there, the acting was better and so were the effects and the pacing. What went wrong?!? Well, the characters were morons again and Romero is still pushing his outdated Sixties message of power to the people, capitalism is bad, and so forth. The group mind zombies were presented as the real good guys. At one point, they have the leader zombie dead in their sites, they can kill him, but they decide no, he's too noble, let's just let him go!!! We totally didn't believe that!!! Then the big bad guy decides to run away with a bag of cash instead of taking any food or guns!!! Why!?!?!!! Even with all of these flaws, though, this is a fun and scary movie and a good addition to the Romero library.
 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 .
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