![]() ![]() Romero here, and while he doesn't hit as much as he should, he still hits his occasions in which he does hit, with intriguing atmosphere and some interesting themes that may get to be pretty unsubtly overemphasized, yet still stand, and firmly enough for you to undeniably walk away with a reasonable bit to ponder upon. Of course, the action would have nothing to rack up if tension wasn't already established, because although intrigue is limp consistently enough for the film, as a whole, to go limp, we're still talking about George A. George Romero falls short on his standards time and again, with even the nasty not even being delivered as much as it usually is, yet make no mistake, when things go down, they still get pretty good and messy, and whether it be a scythe suicide-homocide or something pretty cool and messed up involving acid, expect the violence to stick with you as not only the makings of nifty set pieces, but something to rack up tension and a sense of consequence. The film isn't quite as gooey-rific as other "Livng Dead" installments, yet when things get messy, they get good and messy, with the gore concepts being rather unique and nifty, as well as brought to life by quite a few pretty impressive effects. What further momentarily wakes the film up at times are, of course, the moments in which intrigue comes to a head in the form of action sequences, which are limited, yet well-concieved in their staging and tightness, as well as complimented by the gore. This film didn't make its true major release until 2008, so yeah, I reckon 2008 wasn't too good of a year for "Living Dead" films, which isn't to say that this film is as much of a mess as Steve Miner's "Day of the Dead", but it is to say that this film disappoints, yet not so much so that it doesn't go saved by quite a few factors.īeing a found footage film, the film is technically without cinematography, but as "The Bland Witch Project" taught us, if you're gonna bring some bums video camera to the silver screen, then you better have an inexplicably highly professional camera, and sure enough, the camera quality absorbs much depth from the color, and with lighting being handsomely bleak, we get quite the eyeful of striking imagery with dark depths to supplement intrigue. Actually, forget that idea, because an feature-length montage of bumbling around and groaning doesn't sound terribly exciting, and this film is bland enough as it is. Wait, hasn't George Romero, most people who have done a zombie film and nearly every person who has done a found footage film already done this over and over again? So yeah, this film isn't too terribly original, neither as a zombie film nor found footage film, which is a shame, because I was sure hoping that they were going to go further with the whole zombie rehumanization concept, and now feel that even more so after seeing this film, as things would be a whole lot more unique if this footage was shot by an intelligent zombie that was learning to use a video camera. the first night, where zombies are just starting to spring up, limp around and eat people until they get shot in the head, except this time, it's all in a. ![]() "Dear diary, uuuuuuuuugh!" Didn't Arvin Brown already do this back in 1976? Oh no, wait, this isn't another neo-noir adaptation of "One Across, Two Down", this is one of the latest installments in George Romero's classic "Living Dead" saga that resets everything back to. ![]()
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