Land of the Dead (2005) (1 Viewer)

[Todd H]

Latest interview with George Romero is here .

 

[Todd H]

There's a new trailer out that includes gore! Be warned...
Click here!
Edit: Site appears down, must be getting hammered.

 

[Rich Romero]

Any early reviews yet?

 

[Kevin M]

The year old link to the interview above has a great quote from George (in highlights from me) that I wanted to share:

 

[Todd H]

Site's back up.
Click here.
I like the part where the zombie reaches down the guy's throat for a bite.

 

[Shawn_KE]

Looks like they removed the original Dawn and Day material from the trailer. The first trailer had parts from those movies in it, now it just shows Night scenes.

 

[Rich Romero]

http://www.landofthedeadmovie.net/me...ibute_300k.mov
New video.

 

[GuruAskew]

Looks like they removed the original Dawn and Day material from the trailer. The first trailer had parts from those movies in it, now it just shows Night scenes.

This was done immediately. All the theatrical prints of the trailer were sans-"Dawn" and "Day" footage but the internet version that was released at the same time had the footage, probably mistakenly. They apparantly never had the rights. "Night" is public domain but the other two aren't. I know Anchor Bay owns the home video rights but I don't know exactly who owns the rights to the footage in other cases. Anyways, can a mod change the title of this thread? The film has been known as "Land of the Dead" for a long time.

 

[Tino]

I just watched a trailer last night on HDNET and it still had scenes from all three Dead films.

Can't wait for this one.:b

 

[Inspector Hammer!]

I saw my first two glimpses of this soon to be rockin' film during Family Guy and American Dad of all things!
The funny thing was I instinctively knew what film the previews were for before I even had enough visual information. I just sort of knew.
I love the one shot of the zombie's head slowly popping up out of the water, it was a nice little tip of the hat to Carnival of Souls on Romero's part I thought.

 

[Kevin M]

Yeah, Carnival of Souls or Apocalypse Now or....Tarzan or Godzilla or...

 

[Inspector Hammer!]

Are you following me? Kidding.
Yeah, I thought of a couple of those too, but I thought that the parralel was appropriate between 'CoS' and 'LotD' because of the whole 'dead people' motif.

 

[Andres Munoz]

Oh God, this is going to kick major ass! I've been waiting for this for a long long time!

 

[Inspector Hammer!]

Yes it is, Andres, I can't wait, either!
I've been thinking about it, and there hasn't been a single film that portrays the walking dead in some capacity that I haven't liked and enjoyed on one level or another, I even liked the two Resident Evil films.
I guess I just love the whole apocolyptic flavour that all these films share, the idea of a human being still walking around and attacking people after the soul has departed it is both terrifying and sort of insulting to the whole idea of humanity to me.

 

[Kevin M]

....or Johnny Quest or Esther Williams or...

 

[Colton]

Woo hoo! Got my Advance Screening tickets for Monday, June 20th @ 7:30pm! I'm SO there!!!

- Colton

 

[Inspector Hammer!]

Gotcha, pretty much any film that shows a guy stick his head up out of a body of water.

 

[Kevin M]

You know, the clip of the bald Zombie sticking his head up above water also resembles the trailers from DOTD with that films titular bald Zombie "rising" up across a landscape (well...a strait line anyway) like the sun to signify the Dawn Of The Dead.
....or The Creature From The Black Lagoon or....

 

[Stephen Gladwin]

The homage to CARNIVAL OF SOULS may hold more water than you may think, considering Romero admits that CARNIVAL's ghouls were a source of inspiration for the look of his zombies.

 

[Inspector Hammer!]

It definitely shows, too. The ghouls in CoS, although done on a budget equal to that of the loose change most people have in their sofa cusions, are still among the most nightmarish looking spectres i've seen in a film.