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Land of the Dead (also known as
George A. Romero's Land of the Dead) is a 2005
horror filmHorror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...
written and directed by
George A. RomeroGeorge Andrew Romero is a Canadian-American film director, screenwriter and editor, best known for his gruesome and satirical horror films about a hypothetical zombie apocalypse. He is nicknamed "Godfather of all Zombies." -Life and career:...
; the fourth of Romero's six
Living DeadLiving Dead is a blanket term for various films, series, and other forms of media that all originated from, and includes, the seminal 1968 horror film Night of the Living Dead conceived by George A. Romero and John A. Russo...
movies, it is preceded by
Night of the Living DeadNight of the Living Dead is a 1968 American independent black-and-white zombie film and cult film directed by George A. Romero, starring Duane Jones, Judith O'Dea and Karl Hardman. It premiered on October 1, 1968, and was completed on a USD$114,000 budget. After decades of cinematic re-releases, it...
,
Dawn of the Dead and
Day of the Dead, and succeeded by
Diary of the DeadDiary of the Dead is a 2007 American/Canadian horror film by George A. Romero...
and
Survival of the Dead. It was released in 2005 and became a success, grossing over $40 million, and had a budget of $15 million, the highest in the series.
The story of
Land of the Dead deals with a
zombieZombie is a term used to denote an animated corpse brought back to life by mystical means such as witchcraft. The term is often figuratively applied to describe a hypnotized person bereft of consciousness and self-awareness, yet ambulant and able to respond to surrounding stimuli...
assault on
Pittsburgh, PennsylvaniaPittsburgh is the second-largest city in the US Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Allegheny County. Regionally, it anchors the largest urban area of Appalachia and the Ohio River Valley, and nationally, it is the 22nd-largest urban area in the United States...
, where a feudal-like government exists. The survivors in the film have fled to the city. The city is protected on two sides by rivers and on the other by an electric barricade.
Released in North America on June 24, 2005,
Land of the Dead received mostly positive reviews from film critics.
Plot
In
Dawn of the Dead, a catastrophe destroyed much of human civilization, with the newly dead, for an unknown reason, coming back to life. Decades later, there are very few living humans left. Many have fled to
Pittsburgh, PennsylvaniaPittsburgh is the second-largest city in the US Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Allegheny County. Regionally, it anchors the largest urban area of Appalachia and the Ohio River Valley, and nationally, it is the 22nd-largest urban area in the United States...
, where a feudal-like government has taken hold. Bordered on three sides by rivers and on the fourth by an electric fence, the city has become a sanctuary.
Fiddler's GreenFiddler's Green is a legendary imagined afterlife, where there is perpetual mirth, a fiddle that never stops playing, and dancers who never tire...
is where the rich and powerful live in luxury, while the rest of the population subsists in pathetic squalor. Paul Kaufman (
Dennis HopperDennis Lee Hopper was an American actor, filmmaker and artist. As a young man, Hopper became interested in acting and eventually became a student of the Actors' Studio. He made his first television appearance in 1954 and appeared in two films featuring James Dean, Rebel Without a Cause and Giant...
) rules the city with overwhelming firepower.
Kaufman financed the construction of
Dead Reckoning, a heavily armored vehicle that can travel through the zombie-infested areas with ease. Armed with remote-controlled heavy
machine gunA machine gun is a fully automatic mounted or portable firearm, usually designed to fire rounds in quick succession from an ammunition belt or large-capacity magazine, typically at a rate of several hundred rounds per minute....
s and video cameras, Dead Reckoning primarily functions as a moving fireworks launch base: zombies are fascinated by fireworks and will stare at them, ignoring anything happening around them. Riley Denbo (
Simon BakerSimon Baker is an Australian actor. Since 2008, he has starred in the CBS television series The Mentalist.-Early life:...
), designer and commander of Dead Reckoning, has recently retired. Unlike Kaufman, Riley is respected for his work in protecting the city from danger, as well as bringing critical food and medical supplies which the citizens can no longer acquire safely themselves. Riley discovers Chihuahua (
Phil FondacaroPhil Fondacaro is an American actor. A dwarf actor at , Fondacaro began acting in 1981, with the film Under the Rainbow....
) entertaining his bar's patrons by trying to feed a woman, Slack (
Asia ArgentoAria Asia Anna Maria Vittoria Rossa Argento is an Italian actress, singer, model and director.-Family and early life:...
), to some zombies. Riley and Charlie (
Robert JoyRobert Joy is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his role as Dr. Sid Hammerback in CSI: NY and playing Charlie in Land of the Dead.-Early life:...
) save Slack but kill Chihuahua in the process. The three are arrested; in jail, Slack reveals she was being executed on Kaufman's orders, because she works for Mulligan (
Bruce McFeeBruce McFee is a Scottish politician. A member of the Scottish National Party he was elected to the Scottish Parliament to represent the West of Scotland at the 2003 election. McFee serves on the Scottish Parliament's Procedures and Justice 1 Committees...
). Mulligan, a former co-worker of Riley's, is trying to instigate rebellion among the poor residents of Fiddler's Green.
Meanwhile, Cholo DeMora (
John LeguizamoJonathan Alberto "John" Leguizamo is an Colombian-American actor, producer, voice artist, and comedian.-Early life:...
), second in command of the Dead Reckoning, is denied an apartment in Fiddler's Green, despite the fact that he has some dirt on Kaufman. Cholo is actually an assassin who executes anyone who opposes Kaufman, and he is now owed a considerable sum of money for his evil work. Enough that he wants to live in Fiddler's Green. Upon being rebuffed, Cholo threatens to destroy Fiddler's Green with the Dead Reckoning, which he hijacks along with Pretty Boy (Joanne Boland), Mouse (Maxwell McCabe-Lokos), Anchor (
Tony MunchTony Munch is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his roles in Land of the Dead as Anchor and in the films Cube Zero, Shoot 'Em Up and .45.-Filmography:*Red Coat Justice as Cobb...
), and Foxy (
Tony NappoTony Nappo is a Canadian actor. He is perhaps best known for his roles in Revelation, Saw II, Land of the Dead, Four Brothers, and You Might as Well Live.-Biography:Tony was born and raised in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada...
). Zombies attack as they are leaving, but Cholo orders his crew not to intervene. Kaufman turns to Riley to stop Cholo. Riley is assigned three other officers: Manolete (
Sasha RoizSasha Roiz is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Sam Adama in the science fiction television series Caprica. In addition to a recurring role in the Science fantasy series Warehouse 13, in 2011 he began a regular role in the TV series Grimm.-Early life:Roiz was born in Tel...
), Motown (Krista Bridges), and Pillsbury (
Pedro Miguel ArcePedro Miguel Arce , sometimes credited as Pedro Arce, is a film and television actor. He is known for his roles in Land of the Dead and Get Rich or Die Tryin, as well as television appearances in CSI: Miami, and How I Met Your Mother.-Early life:Born and raised in Managua, Nicaragua, Pedro moved to...
). Manolete is bitten and executed by Slack. Shortly afterwards, it is revealed that Riley has a tracking device to help locate Dead Reckoning. Against his orders, Charlie, Slack, and Pillsbury follow him but leaves Motown after Pillsbury knocks her out. Her loyalty was still to Kaufman, making her a danger to the rest of the group. When Riley finally catches Cholo, Riley is almost killed. The crew is caught in the crossfire, including Slack, who goes to help Riley. Motown arrives but is destroyed by a zombie. With that distraction, Riley manages to shut down Dead Reckoning's weapons systems. Riley then convinces Cholo to allow him to take Dead Reckoning and just drive north. Cholo takes the Woody, an old station wagon with no roof, and goes west. A short time later Cholo is bitten by a zombie. He decides to go back to the city to finish off Kaufman.
Meanwhile, zombies seem to mimic their past lives: "Big Daddy" (
Eugene Clark-Football career:Before he began acting, he played college football. He was an all-conference offensive guard at UCLA and was selected by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the ninth round of the 1975 NFL Draft...
) is an undead gas station attendant who comes out to the pumps every time a zombie causes the bell to ring. Unusually aware and intelligent, Big Daddy directs his fellow zombies to use firearms and overcome the human defenses. The zombies learn, adapt, and even communicate with primitive moans and grunts. When Big Daddy realizes the river is no obstacle, since the zombies can simply walk along the riverbed without drowning, he leads the zombies in an assault on the human city. The electric fence that once kept the zombies out now keeps the humans trapped inside. Nor does it help that those who are supposed to be controlling the fence's power flee their posts instead. Big Daddy follows the fleeing Kaufman to an underground garage. Big Daddy sees Kaufman's car next to a gas pump and pumps gas through the car's broken windshield. When Big Daddy walks out of the garage, Cholo, now reanimated, confronts Kaufman and bites him. Outside, Big Daddy rolls a burning metal can towards Kaufman's gasoline-soaked vehicle. It explodes, incinerating both Kaufman and Cholo.
Meanwhile, Riley uses Dead Reckoning to free the inhabitants of the city. At the electric fence, the crew discovers the impoverished and elite alike are now walking dead. The crew then learns that some of the city's inhabitants survived by following Mulligan, who led them to shelter elsewhere. Pretty Boy gets a clear shot at Big Daddy as the zombies, having destroyed Kaufmann's class system, leave the city, leaving a majority of the population alive, but Riley orders her to stop and tells her "they're just looking for a place to go." Riley and his friends leave the city with the Dead Reckoning, striking out for the north. As they leave, they celebrate by firing off all of Dead Reckoning's fireworks, which they no longer need since they no longer have their captivating effect on the dead.
Cast
- Simon Baker
Simon Baker is an Australian actor. Since 2008, he has starred in the CBS television series The Mentalist.-Early life:...
as Riley
- John Leguizamo
Jonathan Alberto "John" Leguizamo is an Colombian-American actor, producer, voice artist, and comedian.-Early life:...
as Cholo
- Dennis Hopper
Dennis Lee Hopper was an American actor, filmmaker and artist. As a young man, Hopper became interested in acting and eventually became a student of the Actors' Studio. He made his first television appearance in 1954 and appeared in two films featuring James Dean, Rebel Without a Cause and Giant...
as Kaufman
- Asia Argento
Aria Asia Anna Maria Vittoria Rossa Argento is an Italian actress, singer, model and director.-Family and early life:...
as Slack
- Robert Joy
Robert Joy is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his role as Dr. Sid Hammerback in CSI: NY and playing Charlie in Land of the Dead.-Early life:...
as Charlie
- Eugene Clark
-Football career:Before he began acting, he played college football. He was an all-conference offensive guard at UCLA and was selected by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the ninth round of the 1975 NFL Draft...
as Big Daddy
- Joanne Boland as Pretty Boy
- Tony Nappo
Tony Nappo is a Canadian actor. He is perhaps best known for his roles in Revelation, Saw II, Land of the Dead, Four Brothers, and You Might as Well Live.-Biography:Tony was born and raised in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada...
as Foxy
- Jennifer Baxter
Jennifer Baxter is a Canadian actress and comedian formerly based out of Toronto and currently living in Los Angeles with her husband Mike Beaver....
as Number 9
- Boyd Banks
Boyd Banks is a Canadian stand-up comedian known for doing edgy material, and actor.-Biography:Banks has appeared in such films as Bruiser , Wild Iris , Dawn of the Dead , Phil the Alien , Land of the Dead , Cinderella Man , Diary of The Dead and Pontypool...
as Butcher
- Jasmin Geljo
Jasmin Geljo is a Bosnian actor. He is best known for his roles on Cube Zero as Ryjkin and in the films Land of the Dead, Assault on Precinct 13 and The Sentinel.-Biography:...
as Tambourine man
- Maxwell McCabe-Lokos as Mouse
- Tony Munch
Tony Munch is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his roles in Land of the Dead as Anchor and in the films Cube Zero, Shoot 'Em Up and .45.-Filmography:*Red Coat Justice as Cobb...
as Anchor
- Shawn Roberts
-Life and career:Roberts was born in Stratford, Ontario on April 2, 1984. He started with playing the wolf in a school play of "Little Red Riding Hood" award-winning screenwriter Robert Forsythe and his friend's father helped him get a role in Emily of New Moon...
as Mike
- Pedro Miguel Arce
Pedro Miguel Arce , sometimes credited as Pedro Arce, is a film and television actor. He is known for his roles in Land of the Dead and Get Rich or Die Tryin, as well as television appearances in CSI: Miami, and How I Met Your Mother.-Early life:Born and raised in Managua, Nicaragua, Pedro moved to...
as Pillsbury
- Sasha Roiz
Sasha Roiz is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Sam Adama in the science fiction television series Caprica. In addition to a recurring role in the Science fantasy series Warehouse 13, in 2011 he began a regular role in the TV series Grimm.-Early life:Roiz was born in Tel...
as Manolete
- Krista Bridges as Motown
- Bruce McFee as Mulligan
- Phil Fondacaro
Phil Fondacaro is an American actor. A dwarf actor at , Fondacaro began acting in 1981, with the film Under the Rainbow....
as Chihuahua
- Alan van Sprang
Alan van Sprang is Canadian actor best known for playing Sir Francis Bryan in the series The Tudors and for appearing in the Living Dead films of George A. Romero. He has many other television and film credits.-Filmography:...
as Brubaker
- Earl Pastko
Earl Pastko an American - Canadian actor. Born December 10, 1965 in Chicago, Illinois. He stands approximately 5"9" and he's a founding member of the Remains Theater Company. He moved to Canada in 1984. He's best known for roles in as Colonel Alexi Zukhov, Highway 61 and The Sweet Hereafter...
as Roach
- Peter Outerbridge
Peter Outerbridge is a Canadian actor, best known for his role as Dr. David Sandstrom in the TMN series ReGenesis, as William in Saw VI and his role as Dan Farmer in Happy Town.-Life and career:...
as Styles
- Gene Mack as Knipp
- Devon Bostick
Devon Bostick is a Canadian actor, best known for playing the lead role in the Atom Egoyan-directed film Adoration and Rodrick Heffley in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid movies.- Life and career :Bostick was born in Toronto, Ontario...
as Brian
- Simon Pegg
Simon Pegg is an English actor, comedian, writer, film producer, and director. He is best known for having co-written and stared in various Edgar Wright features, mainly Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and the comedy series Spaced.He also portrayed Montgomery "Scotty" Scott in the 2009 Star Trek film...
and Edgar WrightEdgar Howard Wright is an English film and television director and writer. He is most famous for his work with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost on the films Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, the TV series Spaced, and for directing the film Scott Pilgrim vs...
as Photo Booth Zombies
- Tom Savini
Thomas Vincent "Tom" Savini is an American actor, stuntman, director, award-winning special effects and makeup artist. He is known for his work on the Living Dead films directed by George A. Romero, as well as Creepshow, The Burning, Friday the 13th, The Prowler, and Maniac. He directed the 1990...
as Machete Zombie
- Gregory Nicotero
Gregory Nicotero is an American special effects creator and actor. In 1988, along with Robert Kurtzman and Howard Berger, he formed KNB Efx Group, a special effects studio which has gone on to work on over 400 film and television projects...
as Bridgekeeper Zombie
Production
Earlier script titles included
Twilight of the Dead,
Dead City, and
Dead Reckoning (the same as the military vehicle used in the film). Romero said in an interview
http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=17989 that one of the first potential film studios (
20th Century FoxTwentieth Century Fox Film Corporation — also known as 20th Century Fox, or simply 20th or Fox — is one of the six major American film studios...
) wanted the film to be titled
Night of the Living Dead. He refused, wanting to use the title
Dead Reckoning, and the studio then wanted to title it
Night of the Living Dead: Dead Reckoning. It turned out that Fox sought to own the rights to
Night of the Living Dead, and Romero decided not to do business with them.
The film draws on some elements from the original script for
Day of the Dead.
Filming took place in Toronto and
Hamilton, OntarioHamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Conceived by George Hamilton when he purchased the Durand farm shortly after the War of 1812, Hamilton has become the centre of a densely populated and industrialized region at the west end of Lake Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe...
,
CanadaCanada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
.
Ratings
Land of the Dead is the first film in the series to receive an
MPAAThe Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. , originally the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America , was founded in 1922 and is designed to advance the business interests of its members...
ratingA motion picture rating system is designated to classify films with regard to suitability for audiences in terms of issues such as sex, violence, substance abuse, profanity, impudence or other types of mature content...
for its theatrical release. Romero had said for years that he would film two versions; an
R rated cut for theatrical release and first
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, and an unrated cut for the second DVD release. Both DVDs were released in the U.S. on October 18, 2005. Rumors suggested that Romero shot alternate, less explicit, gore scenes for the theatrical release, but this is not entirely accurate. The more extreme instances of gore (e.g. a woman having her navel piercing graphically torn out by a zombie) were obscured by foreground elements filmed on bluescreen, so that these overlayed elements could be easily removed for the unrated DVD. Other ways to obscure blood in order to get an R-rating were achieved by simply trimming the grislier shots by a few seconds, by digitally repainting blood so that it is more black than red, or by digitally painting the blood out altogether.
The Canadian provinces of
British ColumbiaBritish Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...
,
ManitobaManitoba is a Canadian prairie province with an area of . The province has over 110,000 lakes and has a largely continental climate because of its flat topography. Agriculture, mostly concentrated in the fertile southern and western parts of the province, is vital to the province's economy; other...
and
OntarioOntario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....
gave both the theatrical version and DVD version a rating of
18A, though it was only given a 13+ rating in
QuebecQuebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
.
In the UK, the
BBFCThe British Board of Film Classification , originally British Board of Film Censors, is a non-governmental organisation, funded by the film industry and responsible for the national classification of films within the United Kingdom...
gave it a
15 certificate for both the theatrical version and the unrated version (The UK "Director's Cut" DVD was rated
18 due to extras being rated higher than the feature itself).
In Germany, both the theatrical and unrated versions were rated
18 anyway. As such, only the unrated version was widely available in Germany.
The film was banned in
UkraineUkraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
.
Release
The film was met with positive reviews upon release. It film was released one year after the remake of
Dawn of the DeadDawn of the Dead is a 2004 horror film directed by Zack Snyder in his directorial debut. It is a remake of George A. Romero's 1978 film of the same name and stars Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, and Jake Weber. The film depict a handful of human survivors living in a Milwaukee, Wisconsin shopping mall...
was released internationally. The film grossed over $40 million dollars and is second behind
Dawn of the Dead with the highest-grossing revenue in the
Living DeadLiving Dead is a blanket term for various films, series, and other forms of media that all originated from, and includes, the seminal 1968 horror film Night of the Living Dead conceived by George A. Romero and John A. Russo...
series, the two lowest being
Night of the Living DeadNight of the Living Dead is a 1968 American independent black-and-white zombie film and cult film directed by George A. Romero, starring Duane Jones, Judith O'Dea and Karl Hardman. It premiered on October 1, 1968, and was completed on a USD$114,000 budget. After decades of cinematic re-releases, it...
(1968) and
Diary of the DeadDiary of the Dead is a 2007 American/Canadian horror film by George A. Romero...
(2008). The film opened the MTV Saturday Horror block on February 27, 2010.
Critical response
Roger EbertRoger Joseph Ebert is an American film critic and screenwriter. He is the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.Ebert is known for his film review column and for the television programs Sneak Previews, At the Movies with Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, and Siskel and Ebert and The...
gave the film three stars out of four for what he considered its skillful and creative allusions, something that he argued was pervasive among Romero's previous three installments that contained numerous satirical metaphors to the reality of American life. In this installment, Ebert noted the similarities between the fireworks mesmerizing the
zombieZombie is a term used to denote an animated corpse brought back to life by mystical means such as witchcraft. The term is often figuratively applied to describe a hypnotized person bereft of consciousness and self-awareness, yet ambulant and able to respond to surrounding stimuli...
s and the shock and awe tactics applied during the
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and the film's distinction between the rich and poor, those that live in Fiddler's Green and those that live in the slums, something he considered to be Romero's take on the rising gap between rich and poor in America. Michael Wilmington of
Chicago TribuneThe Chicago Tribune is a major daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, and the flagship publication of the Tribune Company. Formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper" , it remains the most read daily newspaper of the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region and is...
awarded the film four stars, writing, "It's another hard-edged, funny, playfully perverse and violent exercise in movie fear and loathing, with an increasingly dark take on a world spinning out of control. By now, Romero has become a classicist who uses character and dialogue as much as stomach-turning special effects to achieve his shivers."
The New York Sun declared it "the American movie of the year."
Several filmmakers including
Eli RothEli Raphael Roth is an American film director, producer, writer and actor. He is known for his role as Donny "The Bear Jew" Donowitz in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds for which he won both a SAG Award and a BFCA Critic's Choice Award...
and
Guillermo del ToroGuillermo del Toro is a Mexican director, producer, screenwriter, novelist and designer. He is mostly known for his acclaimed films, Blade II, Pan's Labyrinth and the Hellboy film franchise. He is a frequent collaborator with Ron Perlman, Federico Luppi and Doug Jones...
paid tribute to Romero in a
Land of the Dead special.
Guillermo del ToroGuillermo del Toro is a Mexican director, producer, screenwriter, novelist and designer. He is mostly known for his acclaimed films, Blade II, Pan's Labyrinth and the Hellboy film franchise. He is a frequent collaborator with Ron Perlman, Federico Luppi and Doug Jones...
said: "Finally someone was smart enough to realize that it was about time, and gave George the tools. It should be a cause of celebration amongst all of us that
MichelangeloMichelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni , commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art...
has started another ceiling. It's really a momentous occasion ..."
Overall critical reaction was mostly positive; the film received very favorable reviews from
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,
The Hollywood ReporterFormerly a daily trade magazine, The Hollywood Reporter re-launched in late 2010 as a unique hybrid publication serving the entertainment industry and a consumer audience...
,
PremierePremiere was an American and New York City-based film magazine published by Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S., published between the years 1987 and 2007. The original version of the magazine, Première , was started in France in 1976 and is still being published there.-History:The magazine originally...
,
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,
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and
Los Angeles TimesThe Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country....
. The film earned a 74% "Certified Fresh" positive rating at the
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movie-review compilation website (though the "Cream of the Crop" critics' reactions were slightly more mixed, giving the film a 68% rating overall), with the site's consensus saying "George A. Romero's latest entry in his much-vaunted Dead series is not as fresh as his genre-inventing original, Night of the Living Dead. But Land of the Dead does deliver on the gore and zombies-feasting-on-flesh action."
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