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Land of the Dead
Land of the Dead is a zombie-splatting, entrail-yanking, intestine muncher of a movie. There is a story, but we don't care, it's all about the gore. George A Romero dishes up enough dissection to satisfy all zombie fans and repulse the rest.
Land of the Dead is a worthy fourth instalment in the zombie saga. Perhaps not the masterpiece it claims to be, but definitely worth a watch if you like this kind of thing. Better than much of today's lame dross that claims to be horror, e.g. The Cave, but not edgy enough to top The Devil's Rejects as horror of the year. I enjoyed this film: I think the average moviegoer will enjoy it: , but only if you like gory horror. Testosterone Satisfaction Rating: Very gory, some effing, brief anonymous boobs. To enjoy this film you should be: into simple gore-fests.
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Romero's zombie movies have become something of a legend, but it's been 20 years since the last outing - Day of the Dead.
Since then, the horror genre hasn't had many great successes and has remained largely static, with the only major advances
being in the area of special effects. These advances are used to great effect in Land of the Dead, with the gruesome
dismembering scenes looking more authentic, and thus more stomach churning, than ever. The plot revolves around Simon Baker,
who I only remember from LA Confidential, but was also in The Ring 2 and Red Planet. Baker, along with the other
remaining humans, live in a mini-town, protected from the zombies outside. John Leguizamo, from Spun and
Romero has created an intriguing world in which zombies and humans co-exist. Some zombies are captured and exhibited as
fairground attractions, some are hunted for sport outside the town. All the while the zombies grow gradually smarter and,
led by "Big Daddy" zombie (Eugene ClarK), they view the humans' world with envious eyes, and slowly and surely,
drew their plans against us. Or something like that. As the movie progresses, the lines between human and zombie become
increasingly blurred, within the underlying social commentary we've come to expect from Romero's movies. The stars, however,
are just a tad too pretty and Hollywoody to fit into Romero's world, and the whole experience is a little too monochrome
visually - most of the scenes look exactly the same and this drabness does infect the memory of the movie, leaving it
difficult to remember much of the detail.
