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LAND OF THE DEAD - Unrated Director's Cut
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Romero unrated

By: BRIAN THOMAS
Date: Friday, October 07, 2005

On Tuesday, October 18, our DVD Shopping List column will of course be including the new unrated version of George Romero's gorefest LAND OF THE DEAD, plus there'll be giveaway copies available. But for those fans who just can't wait, Universal Studios, Fangoria Entertainment and National CineMedia will be holding special screenings across the country the night before. The exclusive one-night only screening will take place in 36 Regal, United Artists and Edwards movie theatres across the country on Monday, October 17 at 8:00 p.m. local time.

LAND OF THE DEAD Unrated Director's Cut will be presented in high-definition and cinema surround sound in markets nationwide including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Dallas, Washington DC, Atlanta, Houston, Seattle, Tampa, Minneapolis, Phoenix, Cleveland, Miami, Denver, and Pittsburgh among others. T

Tickets are available online at www.Fangoria.com or at participating Regal, United Artists, and Edwards movie theatre box offices at the standard movie ticket price (prices vary by theater location.) For a complete list of theatres, please visit http://www.fangoria.com/lotd/

Here's a special trailer describing the event:

Windows Media
universalpictures.com/asx/landofthedead/lotd_30_wmv.asx

QuickTime
landofthedeadmovie.net/media/lotd_30.mov

Downloadable
WM (zipped)
specialopsmedia.com/LOTD/Landofthedeadtrailer.zip

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Questions? Comments? Let us know what you think at DVDShoppingList@cinescape.com.

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Comments/Responses

• Oct 07, 2005, 09:58am •

This one screamed for an extended cut. It seemed cut short & muted. Anyone hear how much more is in this?

• Oct 07, 2005, 01:09pm •

I'd have to agree with you joey. Though I'm not sure if an extended cut can fix the problems with this film. It's almost blasphemous to say, but the "Dawn of the Dead" remake really puts this Romero effort to shame...

That being said, I'll buy the Unrated Cut version - but I kind of doubt it'll be a cure-all for what was a rather limp theatrical edition. :\

• Oct 07, 2005, 03:25pm •

Follow me carefully here.. zombies... do... not... run!

• Oct 07, 2005, 04:23pm •

I don't think I'd go so far as to say the Dawn remake was better. But I know how long Romero wanted to get another Dead movie made, and to do it his way, and it looked like he still had his hands tied.

• Oct 07, 2005, 07:00pm •

Follow ME carefully here...slow moving zombies...against faster humans with guns...do...not...take...over...the...world!

• Oct 08, 2005, 08:14am •

Romero is a one trick pony whose career is DOA.

• Oct 08, 2005, 10:54am •

While an extended cut is cool, why waste money to see it on a screen (yes I know the feeling of the big screen is different than the small) one time when you just buy the same thing on DVD the next day and watch it as many times as you want?
I could see if the DVD is still a while off...

• Oct 08, 2005, 05:38pm •

for people in CHICAGO it is in LINCOLSHIRE which bites cause that is suburban I: will buy it tho-top movie of the summer with batman and layercake and wotw

mckracken • Oct 12, 2005, 09:08pm •

I for one didnt want another Dawn of the Dead '78 (which was Day of the Dead, handfull of rouge survivors trying to survive with very limited supply of ammo)
Land of the Dead is, for lack of words, what Aliens was to Alien. An "upgrade" from a plot recycled twice before. Romero knew it was getting old retelling the same survival story...yet again!
The changes?
the smart Zombies were.. well.. too smart in certain scenes, but apparantly in Romero's world dead rotting corpses would naturally evolve and learn to think and shoot machine guns... right? (well no.. I dont think they would) but they did anyway. ;)

And in Romero's little zombie utopia, Dennis Hopper would still be a fat cat, rich dickhead asshole. Its nice to see the human race really hasnt changed all that much after being brought to its knees by a living dead zombie infestation!

Heavily Armed munitions brigade, well I could see this happening slowly over time, a lot of people would have to be sacraficed needlessly for all that massive munitions, weapons cache to be rounded up (thats the movie I wanted to see)

and I guess in Romero's vision of the future, we would rebuild a utopia and once again live under "The Man" because we're stupid and dont know any other solution... oh, well we could always trek off to Canada in a big fortified truck with firecrackers on it.

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