Land of The Dead (2005)

It had been 20 years since Day of The Dead was released, one wonders what took Romero so long to release another zombie movie :'(   This film could run parallel with Day of or Dawn of as it follows a separate group of survivors. This takes the mall to your self concept and multiplies that by a whole city....

 Yes that's right... The survivors have built a wall across the city on one side and the other three sides are protected by the river, that is unless zombies learn to swim... but then can the dead drown?

 The city is known as Fiddlers Green and is run by Kaufman (Dennis Hopper)  He lives high in the tower and makes people work for their right to live in the city.

 He thinks money will one day be worth something again...

Dead Reckoning

 Taking trips outside the confines of fiddlers green safely tucked inside of   "Dead Reckoning"  a rolling fortress designed and built by Riley Denbo (Simon Baker) Denbo has been working for Kaufman for a few years & with also building the truck has pretty much bought him self a retirement in fiddlers green. An eager replacement is hot on his heals for the job "Cholo DeMora" (John Leguizamo) The thing is Kaufman has no real plans to let Denbo retire and allow Cholo to take over because Denbo gets the job done & Cholo is still to immature to be in charge of an operation that keeps food and other crucial supplies flowing into the city. Infact its not long before Cholo gets a rookie killed on his first night out, and then lacks any remorse or accepts any responsibility for it.

That level of maturity can't be trusted to co-ordinate raids on towns and keep the raiders alive...

Let alone feed a city of people.

Zombies Captivated by the Sky Flowers

They raid small town's at night using fireworks to distract the walkers. Zombies seam besotted by the bright coluorful patterns they make against the black night sky, this gives the raiding party plenty of time & cover to enter buildings and take what they want. This sort of job is what keeps fiddlers green going & is an unstable job that takes skill and a lot of thought, something cholo lacks.

Fiddlers Green

They use the old train tracks under the river to enter the island, using the tunnel system as a bottleneck to control it if zombies get in & gives them the ability to blow the tunnel as a last resort.

makes the city pretty secure. Problem is this isn't a productive city, nothing is produced here. People with money get to live a normal life & people with no money have to travel out to support the rich.

Denbo & The Rookie

Denbos last night out takes them to a new town for supplies, but there's something different about this town... The zombies seam to be pretty much acting like people... the towns band are in the bandstand at the local park, the petrol station attendant comes out to gas up a car, a security guard is even hiding behind the counter in a local 7/11.

They picked the wrong town to rob & the wrong town to shoot up, one of the zombies wants revenge, and this zombie is smarter than your usual walking sack of puss. Infact this zombies possibly smarter than "Bub" from "Day of The Dead" one thing's clear, someone is going to pay for invading his town & killing the towns folk.

Leaning towards a concept in the "I Am Legend" book and "The Omega Man" movie, we get another glimpse into the fact The Undead now consciously see the living as a threat & have an additional reason to destroy us, besides the fact we are food. Their coming to the city and with conscious thought, what can stop them?

Cholo really thought the likes of him could get a place within the city for him self, but Kaufman sets high standards at the green and theirs no place for cholo. With that in stone cholo steals Dead Reckoning and demands his money be delivered to a designated location.

Meanwhile.. Zombies are approaching the city intent on killing everyone inside

Kaufman plans to use Denbo to recover
Dead Reckoning and kill cholo, but Denbo just has plans to get Dead Reckoning and head for Canada, with or without cholo, because just like cholo, Denbo knows he to has no place at the green.

Denbo wants to live were theirs NO People...

Zombies break through the outer perimeter and just need to cross the water to reach the island were they can feast in the city, like they haven't been able to feast in years...

And with the only vehicle that can stop them missing, its down to Denbo to choose whether to fight or flee...

 Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright from "Shaun of The Dead" both appear briefly in Chihuahua's club. They are the two zombies on leashes having their photos taken with survivors. You can also find them on the poster and the DVD cover. Wright is on the left, next to Big Daddy (Eugene Clark); Pegg is off to the right.



This was thought to be the final chapter in Romero's Living Dead Saga, yet this film was later followed up with Diary of the Dead in 2007, and then again with Survival of The Dead in 2009,


Some Screen Shots:

DVD Menu Examples:

DVD Main Menu IS Animated

Chapter Selection Menu Example

Chapter Selection Menu Example

Chapter Selection Menu Example

Chapter Selection Menu Example

Bonus Material Screen 01

Bonus Material Screen 02

NOTE: 1

 There is a "Land of the Dead" PC & xBox Game
people have also made modifications for it, such as "Dawn of the Dead" mission's & some map mods for playing in New Locations..

Here are some walk through clips from a guy playing the PC game.
     The videos are hosted on YouTube
(01) ; (02) ; (03) ; (04) ; (05) ; (06) ; (07) ; (08) ; (Review)

You'll notice the game is a "First Person Shooter"
To be honest the games not very PC intensive, so it will work on a lot of computers (compared to a lot of modern games that wont)

Its also a lot of fun going round shooting them in the head...




NOTE: 2

Still From "When Shaun Met George"

One of the extra features on the DVD Is 2 of the creators of "Shaun of the Dead" on set with George A, Romero

Its a pretty detailed in-depth little clip behind the scenes & after the shoot.

Also features the make up department work.







Desk Top Wallpapers:

Dennis Hopper as Kaufman

Simon Baker as Riley Denbo

John Leguizamo as Cholo DeMora

Asia Argento as Slack

Eugene Clark as Big Daddy

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The Last Train (1999)

What a classic bit of television, It has an awful start as though the beginning wasn't really thought out for continuity, and i am sure that probably made a lot of silly people turn it off, luckily i stuck with it and once it got going it was really cool. Continuities? oooo go on then, police car comes screaming in and a guy turns round (suited and booted with gold everywhere) looks at the police car and legs it? 


Yes granted the plain clothes copper had to get the train, but he would of so shouted, i gotta get the train. Go..Nick Him!!!  so they kinda murdered that character introduction because he was clearly one thick copper, yet his character was such a stand up nice guy and came across as that salt of the earth C.I.D, which a few of them were back then.





So what happens then?
well its interesting you should ask...

Ok so everyone's gotta be somewhere and taking the train seamed like a great plan, only theirs a crazy lady on the train with a canister of Liquid Nitrogen (but like a Viagra version)  ooo come on.. it made them all stiff didn't it?, and they were all stiff longer than most people?  never mind.. moving on... :P

So back to the crazy lady.. Harriet Ambrose, played by (Nicola Walker, who consequently was recently in "Being Human" as the woman from social services visiting the house) anyway she has to be somewhere fast so she gets the train to (hard to believe a bank robber is getting away on a train, a copper is rushing to the hospital on a train, and a scientist with the M.O.D is going to out run a meteor on a train) Anyway this meteor is coming and only a hand full of people know about it, there is no time to tell the world and cause a panic. So while the best of the best get frozen under ground to sleep through a time were theirs no sun for years, shes racing to meet them (on this British rail train lol, sorry i can't help it, i mean come on)

Ok so she knows its coming, luckily the train is actually slower than she needs it to be (British Rail, say no more) So just before this meteor hits the earth, the train enters a tunnel, derails and ends up setting off her canister of Liquid Viagra.. *Nitrogen,  and it freezes everyone in the rail car,  car?, *carriage, horse? never mind...

Many years later the frozen ice appears to melt & the passengers are instantly back alive (no one snapped while the world fell to bits, or oddly had a hand or foot broken off, oops i would of gone their for sure)

Now the robber being smarter than the copper noticed the canister before he became a Rob'sicle, so he (when the Cop'sicle, *copper says hes not going to nick him) the Rob'sicle gives the canister to the former Cop'sicle. When they escape the collapsing train tunnel they come out into a world that's changed a lot since they've been frozen. Their are species of plants from all over the world growing in the UK (the weather hansn't changed but their still growing, well somethings changed, check out the rain... although the plants seam to be doing well from it, i never noticed any cannabis plants thrown in, would of made a good touch the old dear stealing a few leafs on the way past it)

So they question Harriet and she explains what happened, but Ber in mind they were frozen at the moment of the impact, so to them only a possible hour has passed while they were thought to be only knocked out from a train crash... (see i don't always go their lol)

 She explains who she is and that theirs some guy in a bunker, shes was going ditch them at first and was trying to contact him with a radio, but when that fails IE, no limo will be sent, she decides to tell them and travel with them. They find the bunker (after stylishly updating their Sheffield AtoZ) but no ones home, just some pipes, one with water in and one with...****  in
And a room with a view (of a nutter on a pc monitor)

 
"I don't want to give to much away" but clearly they don't die, theirs 5 more episodes scheduled to air and their in the credits, way to go tv & radio times for spoilers.

So they have access to a working sat nav and the last one and only working satellite & a mercedes van that mick uses to rob banks, its the Ice Cream.... i mean the I-Cream (well stop it with the Niagara), or is that the Ice-Team... gawd rambling again sorry...

So their out and about riding along and they no theirs other people out their because she saw her and he saw him.

So their heading for an ARK in the middle of Scotland, where Harriet says they use Magic Fairy Dust that puts people to sleep (for a scientist who has an M.O.D Pass who was trying to out run E.L.E "Extinction Level Event" on a British Rail train, i wouldn't help her find a pen let alone an ark with fairy dust) But anyway off they travel in the van with a plan (and micks friends dust, which they say doesn't smell like the Arks dust)

  When your chasing a pig round a factory that's now part of a mountain & a big scary black panther is chasing you and the pig.. your bound to loose one along the way (well you have to, shes not credited for the following episode, maybe she was just tryna teach the pig how to fly)

As the series rolls along over 6 episodes, they make friends & enemy's along the way, such as life, and mick the robber does kinda get nailed at some stage but you'll be surprised how...

Their are a lot of locations from the show still around and WiKi has a prity detailed page of locations, names which you can then Google Search & hit "Images" to check them out.

Its not a bad tv series, in fact its not bad at all, it's just kinda holy plot setup in places, a bit like micks nailing session. I know i have ripped into it a bit, but I do really like this show.

The Composer for the series "Christopher Gunning" is still out their composing today, sadly you can't buy the music from the last train, nor can you buy it for the BBC 6 part "Day of the Triffids"  1981 tv series, which he also composed the score for.

The Last Train has never been Legally released on DVD anywhere in the world, their are some sites that sell boot-leg versions, but most are low quality with TV logos on and are not legal sales, so getting your purchase in the mail isn't guaranteed.....

NOTE:
The DVD cover at the top of the page is MINE, i DON'T and i WON'T sell it, so don't ask, its against the law, I just made the cover simply because i like the show and im not bad with photo shop.

NOTE 2:
I may do an extended improvised cover version of the theme tune one day (i am a composer to)
You will have to check back on this page one day

NOTE 3:
I may also do 3 Separate DVD covers for a 2 on each set with varied artwork to

But for now, here is some examples of the rest of the DVD art i made

Desk Top Wallpaper

Original Tv Channel Bumper

The Last Train FaceBook Fan Page here
(Its PACKED with Screen Shots from the Episodes)

 

Filming Locations

Manchester Mayfield train station  "was used for Sheffield station"
Pontin's holiday camp in Prestatyn, North Wales "Tower Beach Holiday Camp"
The little village of  Mareby in ep 5 is Wardle, in Manchester near  Littleborough / Rochdale
The Ark from ep6 is Thorpe Marsh Power Station, about 5 miles north east of Doncaster

Last but not least.. Air Dates

Episode number: 1x01
Airdate: Wednesday April 07th, 1999

Episode number: 1x02
Airdate: Thursday April 08th, 1999

Episode number: 1x03
Airdate: Thursday April 15th, 1999

Episode number: 1x04
Airdate: Thursday April 22nd, 1999

Episode number: 1x05
Airdate: Thursday April 29th, 1999

Episode number: 1x06
Airdate: Thursday May 06th, 1999

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