Land of the Dead (Blu-ray)
The dead shall inherit the Earth.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 37 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 30, 2008
- Originally Released: 2005
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Simon Baker, Dennis Hopper, Asia Argento, Robert Joy, Eugene Clark & John Leguizamo | |
Performer: | Tony Nappo, Jennifer Baxter & Peter Outerbridge | |
Directed by | George A. Romero | |
Edited by | Michael Doherty | |
Screenwriting by | George A. Romero | |
Composition by | Reinhold Heil & Johnny Klimek | |
Cameo: | Tom Savini, Simon Pegg & Edgar Wright | |
Produced by | Mark Canton, Bernie Goldmann & Peter Grunwald | |
Director of Photography: | Miroslaw Baszak | |
Executive Production by | Steve Barnett, Dennis E. Jones, Ryan Kavanaugh & Lynwood Spinks |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3.5/5 --
George A. Romero's Land of the Dead is a decent follow up to his classic "Dead" trilogy, delivering compelling characters, a thrilling narrative, and plenty of zombie action/gore.
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The Blu Spot
Rating: 5/5 --
With a master's control, Romero sets his characters in motion and against each other.
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eFilmCritic.com
Rating: 4/5 --
There's a knowing intelligence at play as Romero peppers his script with spiky humor and references to mass consumerism and the nature of freedom.
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The List
Rating: 7/10 --
Romero's zombie movies have always been about people, not zombies. That's what makes them work so well and Land of the Dead is no exception.
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ComingSoon.net
This is zombie infestation writ large, hundreds lurching through a nocturnal wasteland, photographed in an impressively desolate palette.
Uncut
Paradoxically, this is the most hopeful film in the series, in that it presents a genuine movie-style hero in Simon Baker's handsome and compassionate Riley...
Sight and Sound
Rating: B+ --
Land of the Dead may be the baddest genre film this side of Y2K.
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Product Description:
Zombie movies slip in and out of fashion, but it's always a special occasion when the man who helped turn the undead into a worldwide phenomenon decides to add an installment to his ongoing saga of flesh-eating films. George A. Romero's zombie movies have all appeared in different decades, beginning with NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD in 1968, DAWN OF THE DEAD in '78, and DAY OF THE DEAD in '85. Romero skipped the '90s, but a zombie renaissance in the early 21st century (28 DAYS LATER, SHAUN OF THE DEAD) finds him back in the directors chair.
Often seen as allegories for their times, Romero's films have been connected to societal events such as the consumerism of the '70s (DAWN OF THE DEAD) and the spread of the AIDS virus in the '80s (DAY OF THE DEAD). With 2005's LAND OF THE DEAD, Romero positions the bulk of his story in a giant skyscraper which houses the last humans left on the planet; although his intentions are foggy this time, LAND appears to be Romero's commentary on the post-9/11 political landscape. The zombies only bother crews who venture outside the makeshift city for supplies, but the people are kept sedated by their leader, the irascible Kaufman (Dennis Hopper), who exaggerates their threat. What Kaufman doesn't realize is that the zombies are learning skills they half-remember from their old selves, leading to some impressively blood-soaked scenes of tumult. In an unusual move for Romero, Hopper is joined by name actors such as John Leguizamo and Asia Argento. The film greatly benefits as a result, successfully portraying an atrophied civilization that has regressed to a primitive state, allowing its undead tormentors to sense that a free lunch may be just around the corner.
Often seen as allegories for their times, Romero's films have been connected to societal events such as the consumerism of the '70s (DAWN OF THE DEAD) and the spread of the AIDS virus in the '80s (DAY OF THE DEAD). With 2005's LAND OF THE DEAD, Romero positions the bulk of his story in a giant skyscraper which houses the last humans left on the planet; although his intentions are foggy this time, LAND appears to be Romero's commentary on the post-9/11 political landscape. The zombies only bother crews who venture outside the makeshift city for supplies, but the people are kept sedated by their leader, the irascible Kaufman (Dennis Hopper), who exaggerates their threat. What Kaufman doesn't realize is that the zombies are learning skills they half-remember from their old selves, leading to some impressively blood-soaked scenes of tumult. In an unusual move for Romero, Hopper is joined by name actors such as John Leguizamo and Asia Argento. The film greatly benefits as a result, successfully portraying an atrophied civilization that has regressed to a primitive state, allowing its undead tormentors to sense that a free lunch may be just around the corner.