Land Of The Dead (2005)

Night Of the Living Dead, Dawn Of The Dead, Day Of The Dead, three classics of the horror genre and now 20 years later George A Romero brings us his forth installment of the series, the eagerly awaited Land Of The Dead.

Land is set in a world of have and have-nots, the rich live in a luxury skyscraper, the poor in the fortified shadow of the tower, outside the dead roam the 'ghettos'.Here you can see Romero's social conscience, so evident in Dawn and Land, sadly that is where the comparisons end.The Whole film has nothing new to say, mercenaries run missions, popping zombies who get in their way, zombies feast on human bodies ripping necks, arms and pulling out intestines, people get bitten then blow their brains out rather than go to the 'other side', we get the sympathetic zombie who displays human trait's-the trouble is George it's old hat, we've seen it all before.

So, after a 20 year wait, Land Of The Dead turns out to be a disappointment, it's not a bad film it's just that expectation's were so, so high.

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