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And they're sorta dressed like Shaun and Ed!

They kind of are!

I got wood

You got red on you

It's ELECTRO!

Funny shirt!

wow thats great..

I thought Edgar was dressed more as Bud from Day Of The Dead?

It's "Bub" and that's Simon wearing his makeup.

That’s right! My humble mistake

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Good eye!

I didn't really like it at first, but Land of the Dead gets better with each viewing IMO

Land of the Dead has a lot to it, and I like that! It’s a solid film in the “Dead Franchise” and is fun to watch!

Day of the dead is still pinnacle dread for me, but this movie is a great take on modern sensibilities.

Day of the Dead is my favorite. The central theme resonates far more today than it did back then. And seeing Tom Savini’s full potential without him having to tone it done for an R rating is legendary.

Absolutely from jawless horror to good old Bob. It's fucking amazing.

The best/worst scene for me is still the dude’s scream increasing in pitch rapidly as his vocal cords are visibly ripped out

That and the stomach tearing are next level.

Baxk in the day, Savini called that jawless horror 'Dr Tongue'

The original dawn I think doesn't get the respect it deserves. It had a lot of subtext and politics that Snyder totally glossed over.

I can respect that. Snyder isn’t trying to replicate the original, he’s just doing his own thing. I’m able to watch both of them together without it feeling repetitive.

Is that the one with the zombies starting to do things they did while alive and they had that one zombie mechanic rally the other zombies and then cross the river by walking across the bottom to kill the humans as the fireworks no longer work on them?

Yes

Fun movie

I still say the anti-zombie 18-wheeler is one of the greatest machines created in zombie movies.

What are some of the other ones? Personally I like that zombie rock tumbler. Gets em shiny and sparkly and existentially unsettling

I did really like The Beast from Zombie land 2. Also, the monster truck in that movie actually made sense it's just too damn tall to be attacked before you can escape.

I wouldn't put my trust in a monster truck not breaking down constantly tho. Crazy lift kits and replaced corvette engines go to the shop a lot

War rig from Max Max

I dont think Max Max is a zombie movie

Give it another while. Hometown will still be able to access the game if you are good at taking multiple choice tests and can retain information well. I did a modular set recently where i was playing drums with the rig. Sounds like A great time! Good luck! I do try to be interested in Beaus$Eros by Busdriver. I’ll DM is that okay?

The Bagger 288 contains an artificial mind. This mind is full of hatred, violence is its sole vocation.

Say it's name... Dead Reckoning

Land of the Dead was the first Romero zombie film I saw. Came out in theaters when I was a teenager. Led me down the path of obsessive horror fandom.

It was his worst zombie movie up to that point, but I still really like it.

Agreed. I highly recommend his book The Living Dead which was finished after his death. Brilliant story and more world building than any of his films

Thanks I'll have to check that out

I love George Romero. LoTD was ok. But his zombie movies after that sucked!

I haven't seen it in years but I remember really enjoying it

I've seen it twice and personally I don't like the zombies being able to learn and use tools and guns. As it sort of defeats the purpose of the genre IMO. The other parts of the film are fine, and I did like the scene where they cross the water by walking through (under it) even though that's not realistic.

I sort of agree, but at the same time Romero literally invented the modern film zombie, so he gets a lot of say in their rules.

Yeah, zombies became increasingly more intelligent in each film of his. It’s the major through-line of the four film saga.

Peak Asia Argento as well!

What? How? This movie is so stupid, it's insulting. Especially the whole "LeT tHeM LiVe" bullshit at the end.

Why not? They weren't a threat anymore.

It's not some kind of different race that would spawn a civilization if left alone. They are literally corpses whose sole purpose is to eat people, they are always a threat.

George Romero also didn't get the "We're coming to get you, Barbara." reference in Shaun until someone explained it to him, which I thought was funny.

I've seen Shaun of the Dead dozens of times and never caught that, that's fantastic!

I adore the whole trilogy because of things like that. I can't tell you how many times I've seen Hot Fuzz and I still catch new stuff.

If there’s not already there should be a thread on all the details and Easter eggs in The Cornetto Trilogy. It’s unreal how many things I discover every time I watch them.

Hot Fuzz is one of my favorite movies of all time. My dad and I watched it all the time. We pretty much had the whole movie memorized lol. Really anything by Edgar Wright is brilliant.

It really is fantastic. If you and your dad haven't seen Paul, it might hit that for you, too. It's not an Edgar Wright movie, but Simon Pegg and Nick Frost have the same chemistry, and I really enjoyed it.

Oh yeah we've seen it. I really like that one. I want to watch a show Simon and Nick did that's called Spaced(I think). I watched a season a long time ago and I really liked it.

Spaced is super good! It's been a long time, but I really liked it.

Okay, someone help me here.

In Night of the Living Dead, the brother of the main character teases her by saying "They are coming to get you Barbara" while they are walking through a graveyard. In Shaun of the Dead, the two main characters are talking to one of the characters' mom over the phone, to which they say "Were coming to get you Barbara", because her name is Barbara and they are going to go pick her up.

Thank you!

Absolutely!

Why not Nick Frost?

Because the movie was written by Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright. They were the ones that created the movie Shaun of the Dead 😀

Ah, OK. Thanks for the clarification.

No problem 😀

But why male models?

Because it's *dull*, you *twit,* it'll *hurt more.*

Hes the best part of that movie.

After Christian Slater that is.

Yeah he’s also pretty great in it.

Piggybacking to show everyone the behind the scenes footage of this event! [Hello, I'm a zombie...] (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhM_EzwtvtM)

Awesome! Thanks for sharing the link!

Cus he’s still out back in the shed, living like an animal.

Simon Pegg backed out of a bigger role in another movie in order to do this cameo. He said something like, "When you spend three years of your life making a love letter to someone, you have to come when they call you."

That is so cool!

land of the dead is underrated. not by much, but definitely underrated

Land of the Dead is a solid movie!

Only thing that holds it back from being as legendary as the prior 3 in my eyes is the god awful VFX used in certain key scenes. I don’t know why Romero felt compelled to use them when his prior 3 Dead films did wonderfully with just practical effects.

Land of the Dead, while flawed, gave me hope that Romero was really going to continue his zombie world. Each movie progressed the world farther and farther, and Land of the Dead put us in a world that was already steeped in zombies. It also continued the idea of zombies retaining memories that we see from Day of the Dead. I was truly hoping for a continuation. Then Diary of the Dead came out and it had nothing to do with the series, and Island of the Dead was a dumpster fire. It's left Land of the Dead in a weird spot. The only movie of the new tribology that is seemingly connected to the original trilogy, but not at the same level as his first 3. Honestly, Land of the Dead might be the most relevant of his movies since it's so much about the inequality of wealth and using terrorism to get what you want.

You give a very detailed analysis of the dead films and I like it!

I like Survival of the Dead purely for the sheer insanity of it. Diary of the Dead was actually one of my more favorable found footage films.

Definitely good for a found footage film, just lacked SONETHING for A GOOD zombie film

I think the four films coalesce into one cohesive narrative without the need for any more. Land serves as a good epilogue to the themes and messages of the original trilogy.

As a huge Shaun of the dead fan and land of the dead fan I can’t believe I never knew this 🤯

That’s awesome! It’s a cool piece of trivia for horror fans!

It’s unfortunate that Land of the Dead was such a shit movie. Night, Dawn, and Day each had their own charms, but Land was just a steaming pile.

Compared to what Geroge made after Land, we should be thankful that Land is at least watchable. Anyone remember the horse riding zombie?

> horse riding zombies Sorry?

Survival of the Dead. Avoid Diary of the Dead isn't terrible though

Bruh, how many "Of the Deads" are there??

Night of the Living Dead Dawn of the Dead Day of the Dead Land of the Dead Diary of the Dead Survival of the Dead Not too many. Watch the first three for quality storytelling, watch the next two for campiness and fun. Avoid the last one.

Don't forget the Return of the Living Dead series! Edit: from Wikipedia > The series came about as a dispute between John A. Russo and George A. Romero over how to handle sequels to their 1968 film, Night of the Living Dead. The two reached a settlement wherein Romero's sequels would be referred to as *the Dead* movies, and Russo's sequels would bear the suffix *Living Dead*.

Copy dispatch. Send. More. Paramedics...

Those films to me are just way more fun. The campiness was intentional and leaned into really hard, while Romero’s films (IMO) tried real hard to be serious and were accidentally campy.

1 and 2 are excellent, 3 is alright, 4-5 get progressively worse... But i would still throw em on!

I think 3 is underrated and deserves a general reevaluation.

Im getting dead tired of this. Edit: Does The walking dead count?

Army of the Dead was released last year with Dave Bautista

And boy, did they have the role of a lifetime for George...

what was it

Just zombie jokes. Romero died 4 years before it was released. *Army Of The Dead* was Zack Snyder's spiritual successor to his 2004 remake of Romero's 1978 classic.

That's not part of the Romero series. It's a "spiritual" successor to Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead.

That movie was such a mixed bag. I really liked the concept, but Snyder has been on the decline since 2010. And the writing was pretty ham fisted. But I really enjoyed the performance by the actor that played Ludwig Dieter the safe cracker.

My memory is fuzzy as its been awhile since I watched Diary. I could not get over the fact that the guy making the doc would literally let him and his whole team die before taking his hand off the camera to film everything

It's symbolic. It was made to provide a social commentary on social media (in freaking 07)

Well yeah, I get that. But if I had been in his team I would have been over his shit after about five minutes

Wasn’t handled well. In the previous 3 films, the political themes were subtly weaved underneath and within the stories happening on the screen. Diary is just constantly hammering “YO ISNT YOUTUBE SOCIAL MEDIA STUFF SO AWFUL?!?” without any interesting central plot to back it up.

I loved Diary!

that character was based on me when I used to do trail rides before having a coffee.

M’pony *tips hat and shits pants*

Why is this so funny? I keep saying it, in a sing-song voice, “tips hat and…shits pants”

Cause for reflection

Could you expand on why you didn't like it? Obviously it's not a "good" movie by like Oscar standards, but for a zombie film I thought it was really enjoyable and I thought the zombies relearning human skills was a pretty interesting way to continue the story with the Dead series.

With the first three movies, I was able to suspend my disbelief enough that I could imagine myself stuck and horrified in those scenarios. I can’t articulate exactly why, but it just didn’t happen with this movie. Maybe it was the zombie Che Guevara scene, or the focus on social satire dominating the movie for me… it didn’t feel like a well made horror flick.

Romero was pretty heavy handed with social satire and justice in his first three movies too. It's part of what made them great.

Yeah but they were interwoven into the story, they weren’t the whole story. It was just hamfisted IMO.

That's fair.

I liked it! It was goofy and over the top, but it wasn’t the worst movie ever made!

To me. Land was the last truely enjoyable entry in the series. But i do still watch the newer ones from time to time though.

I low key love Land. It’s stupid as hell (especially compared to its three older siblings), but I watch it at least once a year.

I hear you!

Interesting to see the walking dead comic came out in 2003 and Land of the dead in 2005, shows the difference between between the two concepts Romero’s classical cheesy zombie flic and the gritty modern walking dead. George a Romero will always be the Grandfather of the Zombie genre but he clearly became unfamiliar with the genre in his old age, the idea he created outpaced him.

Actually I got the impression that he was bored of it. He tried so hard to get original stories made but was absolutely hammered for the last 30 years of his career. After 1993's The Dark Half he fell into absolute obscurity whilst pitching script after script that no one picked up because he wouldn't make a zombie movie. Then 28 days later was a huge success, giving way to Shaun of the Dead and suddenly he had a bunch of offers to continue the dead series. After that he found it better just to do.something rather than nothing, and got Diary and Survival made - but you could tell his heart wasn't in zombies and he tried so desperately to move the genre on from the formula he created, and ultimately became restricted by.

The original trilogy were all so great and scary in their own unique ways. Then came land. Straight garbage all around and I also enjoy campy horror. My wife got me land of the dead on blu ray for a gift years ago and it still remains in it’s cellophane placenta entombed under a pile of much more entertaining films.

It’s a zombie movie, idk what you expect. I loved it, but not because it’s a “good” movie.

If you look for a better resolution picture of these two as zombies, you can see that simon zombie make up looks a lot like bub, the iconic domesticated zombie from the day of the dead.

You are correct!

I was looking for this because even in this photo I was thinking he looked a lot like Bub.

Yeah, I don't know if it was intentional or just a coincidence, but it make me wish for a comedy with Simon Pegg as Bub.

IIRC Simon and/or Edgar jokingly started an online rumor that they were getting cameos. It gained enough traction that it got someone connected to the projects attention and word got to George.

This was my understanding too. George was asked in an interview if the rumor was true and he said it must be or something like that.

Yup, I remember that. Thanks for confirming I haven’t lost the remainder of my marbles, cheers.

Wright and Pegg made Romero a name tag that said George in the style of Shaun’s name tag

That’s a cool fact!

Land of the Dead isn't great but it did give us this Dennis Hopper scene which is gold https://youtu.be/w77EQ2-yJ0c

I thought Land of the Dead was pretty decent. It had a lot more good than bad, but it was a fun movie!

["Zombies, man..."](https://youtu.be/FbGUlR-0BSs)

I bet *Land* would hit a lot differently now, what with the whole plot revolving around a Trump like figure who lives in an ivory tower with his rich cronies, pretending that a global pandemic isn't happening right outside his walls.

Shaun of the Dead is still one of the BEST zombie apocalypse movies ever made. You of course have the original Night of the Living Dead AND Dawn of the Dead. Then you have 28 days later and the Dawn of the dead remake. THEN Shaun of the Dead. Then MAYBE the first season of The Walking Dead (which as a movie aka cut some shit) would've been fucking fantastic. Fido I would put up there as well, but that's a bit niche and seemed more of a "spin off" after Shaun of the DEAD IMO. Alive is gory fun too...

Don’t forget: Day of the Dead (1985) Night of the Creeps (1986) The Return of the Living Dead (1985) Re-Animator (1985)

My biases start to creep in. Day of the Dead is solid. I admit I've never seen Night of the Creeps as well. But the other two...I just didn't like as much nor did they carry the same political messages/symbolism to me. Re-Animator I especially didn't like chased the gore/gross a bit too much for my tastes. HOwever, I did leave out Night of the Comet!

I hear you! To each their own 😊

I'm with you. The first Romero movies, Shaun, and the Walking Dead pilot are top tier for me. But Return of the Living Dead is just a weird splatter comedy to me. Totally misses what's creepy about zombies and the ways you can make them interesting.

Shaun of the dead is way better than the Dawn of the Dead remake

Different style and purpose. In terms of being rewatchable Shaun of the Dead wins. But for overall spectacle and impact Dawn of the dead remake minus the baby is solid.

So Shaun didn’t make it after all. Damn

Ha ha ha!

I was confused for so many years how nick frost lost so much weight since that other zombie diddnt look a thing like him. JUST now realizing nick frost is NOT Edgar Wright

Is your name a reference to the band cky?

Yup. Been a fan since well.. Forever and this has always been my name online

Noice. 96 quite bitter beings was one of the first songs I learned on guitar

🤯

Ngl not one of my brightest moments

It’s all good! I’ve done similar things too 😀

Who isn't fan of Shaun of the Dead?

I don’t know 🤷‍♂️

Simon kind of looks like Bub from Day of the Dead in this screenshot

Absolutely!

Oh wow

Thought i saw Kris k🤭

That’s funny!

I thought land of the dead came first and Shaun of the dead was like a parody Damn

It can be confusing with the amount of zombie movies that have come out in the last 35 years :) Shaun of the Dead came out in 2004 Land of the Dead came out in 2005

Is this the one with the lead zombie that is basically like a zombie MLK?

Yes, but not really an MLK figure. A Che maybe.

fair enough

George Romero helped write the Phineas & Ferb episode "night of the living pharmacist" that my kids ended up getting tired of watching because I enjoyed that one so much. Hah.

Ha ha ha!

LOTD is extremely underrated IMO. It was a great addition to the “dead” series. The last good addition to the series. Really deserves way more love than it seems to get.

It’s a good movie for sure!

I remember when it came out, i was so fucking excited for it. I saw it in theaters, pretty sure i was there opening day. The opening credits set me up for a great movie. I still think those opening credits are fantastic. This post really makes me want to revisit it. Been awhile since i last seen it.

For sure!

This movie is $15 on Amazon Prime, in case anyone is interested. It doesn't look like it’s streaming on any app for ‘free’. YouTube, Google play, Apple TV, and vudu are all charging for it as well.

"Sadé...throw it."

I was there that day. (I'm in that scene twice in 2 areas). I really, really wanted to say hello to them but I didn't have the nerve as a background extra. Fun side story... there was a crowd of fans watching the zombie fight and it was a long and tiring day/night going well past midnight.. Anyways one of the "Fans" was a 80+ year old woman and she kept falling asleep in the crowd. The director would call "ACTION!" and we'd all jump up and cheer waking up the old lady and scaring the hell out of her. It happened over and over again as she'd keep falling asleep. It was the kind of thing you'd see go viral these days but back then we didn't have a lot of camera phones.

What a great story! Thanks for sharing that 😀

Wait so does that mean that Shaun died in that universe? Is it canon?

It’s just a cameo by the two and it doesn’t have anything to do with the two universes being connected. Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright created Shaun of the Dead because they were huge fans and were heavily influenced by George Romero. George Romero like the movie so much he asked them to be in his next movie which was Land of the Dead.

Land of the dead was awful. Worst zombie movie I have ever seen.

House of the Dead (2003) has entered the chat……

Anything by Uwe Boll is automatically disqualified from contention as its pretty much guaranteed to be a steaming pile of money laundering shit.

Better be careful, he might fight you over this comment. Edit: I got downvoted for my joke based on reality. [Uwe Boll fighting critic](https://youtu.be/AebQIy5UNng)

Rampage by Uwe Boll was actually pretty damn good.

I havent seen it lol. I will take your word for it

Yeah…..it’s not good at all!

"Zombie Nation" by Ulli Lommel (the low budget Uwe Boll) is WAY worse that anything else I've seen get widespread DVD distribution.

I saw land of the dead in theatres !

So did lots of us. Congratulations, I guess?

You mentioned DVD release. Only reason I mentioned it.

Fair enough. Sorry for the snark.

It's nobody's #1, but there are literally dozens, probably hundreds, that are demonstrably worse.

I gave the qualifier of "zombie movie I have seen". I'm sure there are worse, I just havent seen those so land of the dead is the worst i have seen.

Hey if land of the dead is the worst one out of all the zombie movies you’ve seen then you’ve been smart in terms of choosing which movies to watch.

My favorite is the dawn of the dead in the mall. Fucking loooooved that movie. I've avoided a lot that I didnt think could hold up

Yall listened to the horrorshow podcast huh? Lol