Archive for tag: Land of the Dead

George Romero Surveys the Dead

29 October, 2008 (00:20) | Directors, Horror, Interviews, by Sean Axmaker | By: Sean Axmaker

[I conducted this phone interview with George Romero on October 5, 2005, in anticipation of the DVD release of Land of the Dead. This is an abbreviated version of a piece that was originally published on GreenCine on October 18, 2005.]

Dawn of the Dead was a sly and very funny satire of consumer culture. [...]

The Light That Failed: George Romero’s “Dead” Rock On

28 October, 2008 (00:30) | Film Reviews, Horror, by Kathleen Murphy | By: Kathleen Murphy

[Originally published in Queen Anne News, July 5, 2005]

“Send some flowers to the cemetery,” growls the head honcho of a zombie-killing expedition at the beginning of George Romero’s Land of the Dead.

Then scarlet fireworks bloom in the sky and every shambling corpse in what used to be a Smalltown, USA—complete with rotting park bandstand and [...]