A World On Fire – A Zombie Blog

I was stumbling around the internet tonight when I found this article recently posted on the Huffington Post. In it, blogger Alex Remington wonders out loud why Hollywood fails on a consistent basis to make movies as good as George Romero’s films. He then goes on to wax philosophic about Land of the Dead which made me wonder out loud if he managed to get the movie confused with Survival of the Dead. Nope. Alex just recently saw the film and here’s what he has to say about it: It certainly isn’t a perfect movie, but it’s barely an hour and a half long, which makes up for a lot of flaws. The plot has a couple more threads than it needs, as Baker’s pursuit of Leguizamo … Read entire article »

By all accounts, when Land of the Dead appeared in theaters in the summer of 2005, it was met with a warm reception from film critics. Michael Wilmington of Chicago Tribune awarded the film four stars, writing, “It’s another hard-edged, funny, playfully perverse and violent exercise in movie fear and loathing, with an increasingly dark take on a world spinning out of control.” (from Wikipedia). Yet the film received with a resounding meh from zombie fans. Maybe it was the twenty year gap between Romero’s original dead trilogy and the latest release, building up an enormous amount of hype that needed to be overcome. Or maybe Romero lost his touch. I’m not sure I have the reason, but I know don’t want to see this … Read entire article »