Read about 14 minutes of Land of the Dead

Mr. Teatime · Post by **Mr. Teatime** » Mon May 16, 2005 8:20 pm

[Film & TV -> Preview] - More info on <a href="http://wikipocalypse.duckandcover.cx/in ... title=Land of the Dead">Film & TV: Land of the Dead</a>

George Romero showed 14 minutes of <a target="_self" href="http://www.landofthedeadmovie.net/">Land of the Dead</a> at the Cannes Film Festival, and <a target="_self" href="http://www.aintitcoolnews.com/display.c ... 0230">Aint It Cool News have written up their report on the footage</a>. In short, they loved it and think it's going to be an all-time classic.
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It starts with a nice slow shot of a wedding gone bad: all the
people are zombies. The first thing that i noticed were the
absofuckinglutely creepy masks. Damn, they were the best zombie masks I
have ever seen. The makeup is so good, makes you wanna slap your mamma.
You have never seen something like this before. Fuck 28 Days Later,
fuck Dawn Of The Dead, this is the real deal. They're bad and hungry,
and you can see that. Anyway, after that sweet zombie shot we see
Leguziamo and a team drop two wooden boxes with zombies in them at some
trashpoint with lots of trash around. Suddenly they see an alive zombie
near them on the ground, and BLAM there you have your first headshot
from Leguziamo. 2 minutes runnning, one down already.
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Makeup so good you want to slap your mamma? When a film inspires
metaphors that don't make sense, you know it's got to be good. 

Spotted @ <a href="http://www.bloody-disgusting.com">Bloody-Disgusting.com</a>

XIT WOUND · Post by **XIT WOUND** » Mon May 16, 2005 8:59 pm

That expression is from the movie Friday After Next. It was in Day-Day's fathers commercial for his rib shack. "Rib's so good, make you wanna slap your mamma!" He then proceeds to slap his mother in the face.

Ernesto · Post by **Ernesto** » Mon May 16, 2005 10:04 pm

It still needs more cowbell.

SuperH · Post by **SuperH** » Mon May 16, 2005 10:09 pm

The issue I see here is that the makeup looked very bad in the shots so far.

They look like they just have wrinkly faces. Real gay.

satanisgreat · Post by **satanisgreat** » Tue May 17, 2005 2:51 am

My prediction: this movie will beat the shit out of any other horror movie released in the past five years, but I'm still going to hate John Leguizamo.

Blargh · Post by **Blargh** » Tue May 17, 2005 4:16 am

Zombie films aren't particularly horrible, perhaps it is the failing of atmosphere, but they are frankly similar to the same old tripe such as (for example) the Scream series - tepid and unsatisfying. One would need be quite sheltered to consider such to be both. Horror as a genre is dying. Unhuzzah.