Land of the Dead (2005) tells the tale of Riley Denbo (Simon Baker), a decent enough and tactically minded guy who is in charge of assembling goods for the inhabitants of an unspecified city, which has a shanty town of sorts surrounding a skyscraper, Fiddler’s Green.

This was something different (for him), and it would kick off a second trilogy of Dead films for the finale of his career as filmmaker. Not quite the Anubis project he’d put together on paper after seeing success with Night of the Living Dead (1968) or Dawn of the Dead (1978). Not the lauded Twilight of the Dead, which was mostly a joke title to coincide with the previous ones. Then, 20 years after Day of the Dead (1985), he got a chance to direct the first new Dead flick. Yet his name was not appearing on a feature film treatment of the subject. However, as the millennium switched on over, the originator of this particular genre was being aped like crazy in various media. He wrote the introduction to Skipp and Spector’s first Book of the Dead anthology and even gave the project his blessing, allowing stories set in the universe he created. That’s not quite true, since he directed the occasional Resident Evil commercial, had his name tied to the Resident Evil film adaptation, and was tied to some comic books and other projects over the years. At least, so far as the filmgoing public was aware, he did. Romero left the zombie apocalypse business behind. Priscilla Bettis on A Cautionary Tale From The Cry…Īfter making the rules and constructing three brilliant movies, George A. Putting Your Soul At… on Movie Mondays: Color Out of…ĭanielRobichaud on A Cautionary Tale From The Cry…

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Putting Your Soul At Hazard: No Country For Old Men.

Shake The Trees and Create A Little Chaos: Sicario.

I Don’t Want To Die in Laguna Beach: Savages.

All Bad Things End Up Lonely, Little One: Gilda.

Special Delivery: The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946).

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