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Living Dead Collection
When there’s no more room in HELL, the dead will walk the EARTH!
During an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia SWAT team members, a traffic reporter, and his television-executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.
Filipe Manuel Neto
Mar 14, 2024 · via TMDB
**This must be some kind of joke, right?** Firstly, allow me to clarify: I am not a fan of “zombie” films, although I understand very well the interest that, in recent years, there has been for this material. I totally respect those who enjoy it. But let's be honest: a film has to have some aesthetic quality and some good taste to become “digestible”. And, well, I just finished watching this film, and I honestly can't understand how it has survived without ending up in the vault of oblivion. There are incredibly better films that have been forgotten as the years pass, but a certain type of crap, purely and simply because it's bad, lives on. The plot is essentially based on a moment of chaos in which the USA (the rest of the world does not exist) is taken over by zombies and no one knows what to do or where to go. Everyone thinks of themselves, saves their own skin and that's it. In the meantime, the usual opportunists take advantage of the situation as they see fit, and a small group of “surviving heroes” look for somewhere to take shelter. It's the plot of this film and a dozen other disaster films (zombies, volcanoes, wars, earthquakes, alien invasions, you name it). The level of originality is below zero, and the situations are all predictable and highly cliché. We know who is going to die and who is going to be saved by a whisker, and the fact that the film starts without any kind of introduction is just confusing and a little stupid. Directed by George A. Romero, a man who must have suffered from some bizarre sexual fetish with dead people and zombies (look at his filmography!), the film is absolutely trash and could compete in poor quality and bad taste with all of Ed's films Wood and with the historical rigor of Ridley Scott's period films. I lost count of the script problems, continuity errors and gross editing errors. The cinematography is ugly, there is a blatant exaggeration of the sets and the zombies' makeup is so obviously fake that they look like what we did at fifteen in school plays. And we'd better not even talk about the cast: I have doubts whether those people were actors.
JPV852
Dec 16, 2020 · via TMDB
Been a while since I last watched this one, but with the new 4K UHD out, decided to give it another watch going with the Extended Cut. Still very well made with some great zombie effects and really liked the characters, Peter (Ken Foree), especially. I'm not a big fan of the zombie horror genre but this is one of the exceptions. **4.0/5**
Wuchak
Aug 22, 2018 · via TMDB
Romero’s imaginative and thrilling zombie sequel A decade after the excellent “Night of the Living Dead” (1968), writer/director George Romero offers up this exceptional sequel. The plague of reanimated corpses with a hunger for warm flesh is now global and society is increasingly breaking down. A television exec (Gaylen Ross), her helicopter-reporter beau (David Emge) and two SWAT officers (Ken Foree and Scott Reiniger) take refuge in a suburban mall. Unfortunately for them, a veritable army of biker-raiders wants the mall for their own. One of the main reasons this film is so iconic is because Romero seriously considered what it would be like after a ‘zombie apocalypse’ and came up with an inspired story. While the bleakness of the situation is addressed there’s also a sense of adventurous freedom; for instance, the protagonists having an entire mall to themselves. The movie’s disturbing, ghastly and gory, but also action-packed and sometimes humorous. The zombies make for good bullet fodder while, at the same time, satirizing consumer society. The creative score is varied and I’m sure it was cutting edge at the time, but it’s very dated today, although you’ll probably find yourself acclimating to it. The no-name cast is convincing with the towering Foree standing out while Emge comes across as a poor man’s Donald Sutherland. The movie runs 2 hours, 7 minutes with the longer version running 2 hours, 19 minutes (the one I watched). It was shot in Monroeville, Pennsylvania, and nearby Pittsburgh. GRADE: A-
talisencrw
Jul 3, 2016 · via TMDB
This is one of the finest sequels ever, in that it's both of comparable quality with the original, yet is fundamentally different from it at the same time. Marvelous stuff, with aspects copied thousands of times over the past two generations, with no end in sight. This and 'Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom', from about the same time frame, would make one of the best double-bills ever on the evils of consumerism gone rampant...
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David Emge
Stephen "Flyboy" Andrews
Ken Foree
Peter Washington
Scott H. Reiniger
Roger "Trooper" DeMarco
Gaylen Ross
Francine "Fran" Parker
David Crawford
Dr. James Foster
David Early
Sidney Berman
Richard France
Dr. Milliard Rausch
Howard Smith
TV Commentator
Daniel Dietrich
Dan Givens
Fred Baker
Police Commander
James A. Baffico
Wooley
Rod Stouffer
Roy Tucker
Jese Del Gre
Old Priest
Clayton McKinnon
Officer in Project Apt.
John Rice
Officer in Project Apt.
Randy Kovitz
Officer at Police Dock
Patrick McCloskey
Officer at Police Dock
Joseph Pilato
Officer at Police Dock
Pasquale Buba
Motorcycle Raider
Tony Buba
Motorcycle Raider
Tom Savini
Motorcycle Raider
Larry Vaira
Motorcycle Raider
Marty Schiff
Motorcycle Raider
Taso N. Stavrakis
Motorcycle Raider
Sharon Ceccatti
Lead Zombie (Nurse)
Mike Christopher
Lead Zombie (Hare Krishna)
Clayton Hill
Lead Zombie
John Amplas
2nd Guy on Roof (uncredited)
Christine Forrest
TV Producer / Zombie / Mall Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
Debra Gordon
Red Turtleneck Sweater Zombie (uncredited)
George A. Romero
TV Director / Biker (uncredited)
Warner Shook
Security Guard Zombie (uncredited)
Sara Venable
Leotard Zombie (uncredited)
Jeff Paul
Biker Who Shoots Flyboy
Tommy Lafitte
Miguel, The Zombie
'Wild Bill' Laczko
Head Bandage Redneck
Jeannie Jefferies
Blonde Zombie Who Attacks Roger in Truck
Jon Hayden
Featured Zombie
Adolph Caesar
Narrator of Theatrical Trailer
Ben Barenholtz
Cowboy Hat Zombie Hit by Sledge
Clayton McKinnon
Grip
Jeannie Jefferies
Assistant Makeup Artist
John Amplas
Assistant Makeup Artist
Joseph Pilato
Assistant Makeup Artist
Randy Kovitz
Assistant Makeup Artist
Tom Savini
Makeup Artist
Tom Savini
Special Effects Makeup Artist
Billy 'Silver Dollar' Baxter
Presenter
Taso N. Stavrakis
Stunt Double
Tom Savini
Stunt Double
Marty Schiff
Stunts
Taso N. Stavrakis
Stunts
Christine Forrest
Assistant Director
John Rice
Continuity
George A. Romero
Director
George A. Romero
Editor
John Amplas
Casting
Dario Argento
Co-Producer
Claudio Argento
Producer
Richard P. Rubinstein
Producer
Dario Argento
Music
Don Harper
Music
Agostino Marangolo
Original Music Composer
Claudio Simonetti
Original Music Composer
Tony Buba
Sound
Tony Buba
Sound Recordist
George A. Romero
Screenplay
Dario Argento
Script Consultant
Apr 7, 1979
USA Film Festival
Apr 13, 1979
Pittsburgh, PA
Apr 20, 1979
New York City, NY
May 11, 1979
Los Angeles, CA
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