Land of the Dead (2005)
George Romero certainly kept going with the zombie cycle. There would still come a 'Diary of the Dead', but this is probably the biggest budgeted of the entire series and it shows: it is slick, the effects are top notch and it just looks more polished than ever. Which might also be why this one feels a little less than the previous ones. Or it might be that the story takes an unexpected turn and despite all the carnage is even uplifting in a way. Could be a nice counterpoint to the bleakness of 'Day of the Dead', though. Just like last time, the undead have pretty much taken over the world and small pockets of humanity try to survive by hiding behind walls and fences and occasionally raiding villages for supplies. We are transported to Fiddler's Green, a city on an island where the regular folks live in slums and the rich live in a luxurious highrise, pretending that the outside world and all its zombies does not exist. But when a disgruntled employee steals the m...
