George A. Romero's Trilogy of the Dead (Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead) DVD

The original gut-munching Zombie classics!The dead will walk and the living will be eaten - alive and screaming - in George Romero's original trilogy of ground-breaking, genre defining, zombie cinema.In Night of the Living Dead, the outbreak begins as Romero mixes previously unseen levels of gore with a stark social message. Dawn of the Dead turns its camera on the audience when consumers are recast as shambling, brain-dead corpses with a taste for human meat. Then the sun rises over the undead apocalypse and the last survivors turn on each other for a frenzy of splatter... in Day of the Dead.See the films that absolutely defined modern horror, paving the way for the hard-gore of today. Get your zombie escape plan together, it's going to be messy...Titles Comprise:Night Of The Living Dead:Seven people secluded in a Pennsylvania farmhouse face relentless attacks by reanimated corpses seeking to eat their flesh. The group try to keep their sanity as the living dead try endlessly to enter the house. The only way to stop the zombies is to burn them or issue a severe blow to their heads. Radio news reports tell of the plague taking over the eastern United States while the ever-decreasing band of survivors rapidly loses ground in the battle to both keep peace with one another and stay alive.George Romero's Night Of The Living Dead is a low-budget home-grown classic that had great difficulty finding a distributor at the time of its 1968 release and has since become one of the most influential horror films of all time. Aside from its visceral impact years before realistic gore became the fashion, the film is also important for its portrayal of a black man as the protagonist during a time when race relations were an extremely sensitive issue in the United StatesDawn Of The Dead: As a blend of horror, action, tension and humour, Dawn of the Dead stands in a class of its own as the only true zombie epic of all time.A National Emergency grips the US as the zombie population grows at an inexplicable and alarming rate. Two Philadelphia Police S.W.A.T. officers, a helicopter pilot and his TV reporter girlfriend escape the city and take refuge in an abandoned, suburban shopping mall after securing it following a series of brutal confrontations with the undead. Their survival is threatened when a band of looters leave a door open allowing the zombies access to the mall once more.Day Of The Dead: In this third and final shocker in the legendary trilogy from writer/director George A. Romero (Dawn of the Dead, Night of the Living Dead), a small group of scientists and soldiers have taken refuge in an underground missile silo where they struggle to control the flesh-eating horror that walks the earth above. But will the final battle for the future of the human race be fought among the living or have they forever unleashed the hunger of the dead? Lori Cardille, Joe Pilato, Richard Liberty and Howard Sherman star in this controversial classic with groundbreaking gore effects by Tom Savini and featuring the most intense zombie carnage ever filmed. [show more]

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