Rotten Tomatoes: 75%
Metacritic Metascore: 71
IMDB: 6.2

67/100

Spooktober 2025

Kaufman: "In a world where the dead are returning to life, the word 'trouble' loses much of its meaning."

George Romero returns to his undead playground after two decades, and the result is ambitious but messy. His social commentary's sharper than ever—maybe too sharp for its own good—but the horror takes a backseat to the message, which kinda defeats the purpose.

Simon Baker makes a solid lead as Riley, the mercenary with a conscience, and Dennis Hopper lights up his scenes as the corrupt Kaufman in the best possible way. John Leguizamo brings some fire to Cholo, though his character arc feels rushed. Asia Argento's Slack is introduced, fighting…

Hooptober 4.0 - 2017 - Film #30

Stalin, Eisenstein and Romero are seated in a drawing room on plush leather armchairs. They are enjoying cognac around the hearth of an open fire. They make small talk about the hoof and mouth disease epidemic in California, the Olympics in Paris and how absurd and profound Dada truly is.

Stalin narrows the conversation down to business, "Mr. Romero, I am very pleased to have you join our film program. It is my belief that film will play an integral role in celebrating the sacrifices and successes of the proletarian revolution. It will also continue to be an important instrument in the education of the people, to guide them on the path towards…

Can't say I loved how Romero late style + aughts sheen + (occasional) CG splatter all interacted with each other and gave this an uncanny visual flatness I associate more with Robert Rodriguez or a SyFy movie; televisual accusations not really helped by the fact that the lead of this is The Mentalist himself dripped out in H&M mannequin costumes. But on the other hand it is undeniably fun to see the last gasp of Romero being given legit studio resources to do something like this, and there's enough of pure him in here to forgive the flaws. The blatant and ridiculous Bush era satire for example is more endearingly dated (Dennis Hopper's "we don't negotiate with terrorists" still hits),…

Like the Star Wars franchise, the legendary original trilogy of the Living Dead was followed up many years later by the same creative talents that gave it birth. However you feel about Star Wars’ return with Episodes I thru III, it’s pretty much unanimous that Romero’s second trilogy of the dead is a step down. None of them are bad films but the second trilogy pales by comparison.

Land of The Dead is the first and by far the best of the 2000s trilogy. Years have passed in Romero’s dead world, zombies now have leaders, can use tools and communicate between one another. The living are hunkered down in a heavily fortified peninsula ruled by Dennis Hopper. There’s an upstairs/downstairs…

The fourth entry in George Romero's epic "Dead" series is a familiar mix of social commentary and gory zombie mayhem. This one takes place some time after Day of the Dead in a world where order has started to emerge from chaos. The rich live in a luxury apartment, surrounding slums with the zombie threat ever present outside of the city. The social commentary is more overt than ever, with the whole theme of the film being a barely disguised metaphor for how the rich take advantage of the poor. The post apocalyptic setting is really well done. The whole scene is very well realised and quite realistic - this is probably how things would turn out if there was…

"They're pretending to be alive ..."
"Isn't that what we're doing? Pretending to be alive?"

Years after the Zombie Apocalypse began, civilisation in the United States has broken down, except for a series of protected city-states. One such refuge is ruled by Paul Kaufman (Dennis Hopper) and its citizens are strictly divided, with the rich living in luxury, and everyone else in poverty. When Kaufman's heavily armed supply truck is stolen, he employs its builder, Riley Denbo (Simon Baker) to retrieve it. Meanwhile, some zombies begin to show signs of intelligence ...

I watched the Director's Cut

Land of the Dead (also known as George A. Romero's Land of the Dead) is a post-apocalyptic horror film written and directed by…