Posts Tagged ‘ Zombies ’

The Blind Dead Collection (1971)

For less than fifteen quid, I picked up Anchor Bay’s R2 box set, The Blind Dead Collection, which covers Amando de Ossorio’s 4-film series made in Spain in the early 70s. These must have been inspired initially by the success of Night of the Living Dead, and are not without their attractions: the blurb claims ‘a relentless onslaught of creepy atmosphere, shocking violence, forbidden sexuality, and the still-chilling icons of Euro Horror: the eyeless undead who hunt by sound in their quest for human flesh’. For once the blurb isn’t far off, though it fails to mention the terrible...

With very little fanfare, George Romero‘s Survival of the Dead has arrived on UK DVD and BluRay. I assume the low-key release is down to the generally indifferent welcome for his last zombie movie, Diary of the Dead. As one of those disappointed with the last entry, I approached Survival warily. Well, the good news is that it achieves its objectives a whole lot better than Diary. The hand-held gimmick is gone, and Romero gets a chance to show once more his compositional talent, with lots of images based on western iconography. The bad news is that it still...

Shaun of the Dead (2004)

Without the expectation set up by a huge budget or recognised movie stars, Shaun of the Dead was a massive success in all ways, despite having a plot and a load of in-jokes apparently tailored to a niche audience. Simon Pegg stars as the eponymous hero, Nick Frost plays his slobbish friend and George Romero loves this movie so much that he’s just filmed Pegg and Wright in a cameo in Land of the Dead. So anything I might say is redundant. Get it and you’ll enjoy it. Mild Peril Rating:

Resident Evil (2002)

Resident Evil is more or less a prequel to the original Capcom game, and shows how Raccoon City got into such a mess. As you’ll know, it owes a lot to George Romero’s zombie movies, and he was originally engaged to direct, but was sacked when he turned in a script meant for grown-ups. In stepped Event Horizon director Paul Anderson, who is in no risk of over-estimating his audience. Milla Jovovich keeps up her remarkable run of turkeys (5th Element, The Messenger and this, and she’s still young), and doesn’t even dress properly for the occasion. There’s a...

There’s only one movie that you’ve been waiting for if you’re in the know: George Romero’s 4th in his zombie trilogy, Land of the Dead. It was rushed out to a summer deadline when Doom fell behind schedule, but now the director’s cut is out on R1 DVD, a few minutes longer than the cinema release. There’s only one significant added scene, and the rest of the changes consist mainly of added gore effects. The whole movie is still too short and too glossy (particularly in comparison to the previous entries in the series), while not quite upbeat enough...

Posts Tagged ‘ Zombies ’

The Blind Dead Collection (1971)

Survival of the Dead (2009)

Shaun of the Dead (2004)

Resident Evil (2002)

Land of the Dead (2005)

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