From the legendary director of Dawn Of The Dead, George A. Romero comes a new take on his terrifying world of the undead.
George A Romero is well known and respected as being the king of the zombie movie, heck he basically invented the genre and after the critically acclaimed Night of the Living Dead (1968) he revisited the genre pretty much every ten years with Dawn of the Dead (1978), Day of the Dead (1985) and Land of the Dead (2005).
Okay so the first three look hideously dated now but Land of the Dead is pretty decent. It"s not as good as Zack Snyder"s remake of Dawn of the Dead (2004) or in all honesty as good as Danny Boyle"s 28 Days Later but those films did what Romero"s Land of the Dead and his latest effort Diary of the Dead (2008) failed to do - they invigorated the zombie genre, by making the zombies faster and honestly a lot, lot scarier. Romero is still making the same films that he did in the 60s and 70s, his zombies are slow and shuffling dead creatures, they"re frankly a bit boring and you"ve got to wonder other than sheer weight of numbers, how would they ever kill anyone that could, well, run?
Romero fails to bring anything new to the zombie genre. How can that be the case? How can the audience forgive Romero for not bringing his action and scripts up-to-date? The dialogue, direction and acting are all, quite simply, very poor. The shaky handheld camerawork is irritating and vomit-inducing and the characterization is severely lacking. Romero should know better - you can"t have a good film without good characters - and I"d not believe in any audience member that made a claim to have actually bought into any of the characters in this film.
This film should mark the death of the dead for Romero.
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play When a group of film students making a horror movie in the woods discovers that the dead have begun to revive they turn their cameras on the real-life horrors that suddenly confront them creating a first person diary of their bloody encounters and the disintegration of everything they hold dear
Zombie horror movie directed by George A. Romero. Film student Jason (Joshua Close) and his crew are shooting a mummy movie in the Pennsylvania woods when news reports begin pouring in about the dead rising from their graves. Cast member Ridley (Phillip Riccio) reacts to the news by abandoning the group and retreating to his family's fortified mansion halfway across the state, while the remaining cast and crew are forced to fight for their lives despite having no weapons and only an old Winnebago in which to seek shelter. The group soon realise that there is no escape from the plague of the living dead.
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