Zombie 101
Filed under: Horror
George A. Romero's fourth living dead film Land of the Dead opens nationwide this Friday. Those of us who have been waiting since Day of the Dead came out in 1985 will be chewing our fingernails --until we gnaw through the bone and eat our entire hand-- in anticipation. Then all of us handless freaks will sit back and enjoy the kind of thinking man's zombie movie only Uncle Georgie could conceive. However, if you're someone with only a mild curiosity about Land of the Dead, or any other living dead flick, Chuck Ulie wrote a great piece for the Chicago Sun-Times about the history of the zombie movie, using Romero's seminal contribution as the key focus. It's entertaining, and a nice little history lesson.
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6-22-2005 @ 8:03AM
mick du russel said...
It's hard to believe that it's been 37 years since Romero's first zombie flick, the classic "Night of the Living Dead". Just goes to show you that you can't keep a good dead person down...they just keep coming back for more.
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6-22-2005 @ 1:21PM
Tyler J. Smith said...
This is one of the movies that you have to see on the big screen. I absolutely can't *wait* to see this one, especially since it's been getting stellar reviews (see aintitcoolnews.com). I do hope it's better than the re-release of Dawn of the Dead from a few years ago.
This is my movie of the summer, right here!
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