Making of Land of the Dead

[animateddave]

That was some cool stuff, especially that headless priest. Can't wait to see the movie this weekend.

[sketchguy]

Thanks for posting that link, it's a great read.

I saw the film last night and loved it! I'm a huge George Romero fan and love his indie roots and visionary storytelling.

It's great to see that George embraced his first time use of digital effects that complemented the action as opposed to becoming an "FX shot" for the pure sake of it.

You know the movie is gonna be cool when it starts out with an homage to the 1950s Universal logo. One of the problems I had with last years "Dawn of the Dead" remake was it had that studio sheen/veneer to it. Kudos to Universal for letting George keep his imprint on this one, and also for adding more $ to the budget when they realized some of the shots on the wish-list could benefit from a little digital magic.

There are quite a few new inventive ways that the zombies meet their end. Keep your eye out for the wickedly genius priest zombie sequence.

It does have some VERY gruesome scenes that made even me wince a bit. My date actually loved the film, but she nearly crushed my hand from squeezing so hard at various moments throughout.

I must've been one out of at least 5 people in the theatre who shouted out "Tom Savini!" when recognizing him during his cameo. Sadly, I didn't recognize Simon Pegg nor Edgar Wright's cameos!! (grrr, they are billed as Photo Booth zombies and I think I now remember which sequence it was, but at the time didn't pick up on it right away)

Another cameo was Bub, from Day of the Dead. [EDIT - I was just perusing the IMDB message boards for "Land" and see that, in fact, it was Simon Pegg dressed up to RESEMBLE Bub, his favorite zombie from George's films!]

I loved the cinematography in this one and there are some truly amazing shots that will stick with you. Keep this in mind during the water sequence. Truly eerie, and evocative of the now famous Martin Sheen scene in Apocalypse Now, but expanded upon here. The overhead views of the city with the zombie masses are extremely well executed green screen shots composited with digital elements.

The story moves pretty fast, which is contradictory to the traditional Romero pace, but he does linger on a few key sequences to rein us back in a bit. This film feels the most disconnected from the first three, but it still is a great Romero zombie flick nonetheless. I'm so glad that he decided to do another one 20 years after "Day."

[rogfa]

Great article but beware, there's one spoiler in it. I quickly moved on so I don't know how many in total.

[TETRAGRAMMATON]

This is a priceless article.:thumbsup:

[victor throe]

im really glad zombie films are back in flavour

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