Dawn of the Dead/Shaun of the Dead

Starring:Universal 2pak
Studio: Universal Studios
Product Type: DVD

Average customer rating:

Diverse, Enjoyable Zombie Package
Very Funny

Dawn of the Dead/Shaun of the Dead
Starring: Universal 2pak
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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28 Days Later (Widescreen Edition)
Land of the Dead (Unrated Edition)
Day of the Dead (Divimax Special Edition)
Dawn of the Dead (Ultimate Edition)
Night of the Living Dead (Millennium Edition)

ASIN: B0009UVBNQ
Release Date: 2005-08-02

Customer Reviews:

Diverse, Enjoyable Zombie Package.......2007-05-18

I really enjoyed both of these movies. They satisfy different kinds of urges for zombie movies but I certainly consider them both satisfying and being able to get them at a reduced price as a package was nice. Remakes like "Dawn of the Dead" always live in the shadow of the original but this one holds up pretty well and has some of its own flavor. As I write this, I sit a couple of miles away from the shopping mall where the original was shot so I have a pretty high standard! "Shaun..." is funny but without being too far over the top. It never completely abandons its roots as a zombie flick though it does have laughs. That's not an easy balance but it walks it beautifully.

Very Funny.......2005-08-21

shawn of the dead is a funnier version of ''Dawn Of The Dead''In this movie they hide behind cars and other places from zombies.They act unlike in a regular movie,How u and i would react to zombies chasing us.They are both scary but funny.

Dawn of the Dead (2004) & Shaun of the Dead (2pc) Rated

Average customer rating:

Dawn of the Dead (2004) & Shaun of the Dead (2pc) Rated

Manufacturer: Universal Studios
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The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead

ASIN: B0006SSOSQ
Release Date: 2005-01-25

Dawn of the Dead (2004) & Shaun of the Dead (2pc) Unrated

Average customer rating:

The best Zombie Flick ever
Dawn of the Best Damn Zombie Movie Ever
Dawn of the Dead v. Shaun of the Dead
Good remake, good scares, but lost the point.

Dawn of the Dead (2004) & Shaun of the Dead (2pc) Unrated
Starring: Kate Ashfield , Tim Baggaley , Nicola Cunningham , Sonnell Dadral , and Lucy Davis (II)
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
ProductGroup: DVD
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Land of the Dead (Unrated Edition)
Sin City - Unrated (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
Dawn of the Dead (Ultimate Edition)
The Devil's Rejects (Unrated Widescreen Edition)
Day of the Dead (Divimax Special Edition)

ASIN: B0006SSOT0
Release Date: 2005-01-25

Customer Reviews:

The best Zombie Flick ever.......2006-03-27

This is by far the best Zombie movie of the genre. Great pacing, amazing effects, and a really good cast. Number one in my top 5 Zombie Movies of all time.

Dawn of the Best Damn Zombie Movie Ever.......2005-12-03

Although I've seen both movies, I'm only going to comment on the former.

Dawn of the Dead 2004 rules. Best zombie movie ever. Best movie ever.

Within the first 20 minutes of the movie, there's already action, unlike most zombie movies where it takes at least 40 minutes to get to the good stuff (assuming that there is such to be found.) This movie has lots of memorable action in it, such as babies getting shot, hot girls getting chainsaws ripped through them, zombies getting impaled through the head.

Also, the zombies run, which makes them scary for a change (not like the pre-school inspired retard zombies of most other movies who can barely not walk into a wall.)

The movie is also laden with humor admist the zombie-scourging frenzy, which makes this movie not only an excellent action entertainer, but a comic one as well.

The only bad thing is that there is the usual hollywood unrealism, but the movie is designed to entertain so that's to be expected. Plus, how realistic can you get when you're talking about zombies running around eating people?

Dawn of the Dead 2004 is a damn good remake and worthy of you buying 500 copies. Now.

Dawn of the Dead v. Shaun of the Dead.......2005-09-01

"Dawn of the Dead" is a violent, bloody zombie movie. If blood and guts is your taste, you'll love this movie. On the other hand "Shaun of the Dead" is the funny, witty British version of "Dawn of the Dead." I definitely preferred the British version the best!

Good remake, good scares, but lost the point........2005-06-03

This review is only for the new Dawn of the Dead, haven't seen the parody yet,(Shaun of the Dead) but heard its entertaning.The new dawn of the Dead is fast paced, gorey, entertaining, and enjoyable. But it lost the point of the original. Consumerism gone bad. The original had more of the survivors enjoying the FREE access to the mall's kingdom, and even constructing a home amongst the mall. Everything was at their fingertips, clothing, food, ice rink, tools and weapons, but not once did they over splurge, they jokinly checked pricetags and weighed their food. The point, Zombies taking over, no one really knows what the hell is going on, but yet a group of bikers, non Zombies invade the mall because Steven,(a survivor in the mall) is apprensive to let them join and spoil there good fortunes. Greed, greed, and greed. The bikers break in, spilling the Zombies in and snatching everything up in their hands as possible. Now it is survivors fighting survivors instead of the zombies. Pure greed. like a kid running amuck in a candy store. This film shows how people can act with wants and dreams instead of looking at the whole picture, brilliant. None of this occurs what so ever in the remake, just more action and gore. The original is a classic and will forever make studios try to copy and immulate without even getting close. Buy the original and enjoy what George Romero intended.

Average customer rating:

Truly execrable...
Could Of Been Better
Excellent version of the classic film
A legend in their OWN mind!
This version is an exercise in what not to do with public domain films...

Night of the Living Dead SURVIVORS CUT

Manufacturer: CustomFlix
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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Land of the Dead (Unrated Edition)
Day of the Dead 2 - Contagium
The Devil's Rejects (Unrated Widescreen Edition)
Undead
Sin City - Unrated (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)

ASIN: B000ATUK6A
Release Date: 2005-12-16

Product Description

Night of the Living Dead SURVIVOR'S CUT by Dean Lachiusa is a fast-paced, contemporary revision of the classic horror film that has generated a flurry of attention. Here's what the critics are saying: Creature-Corner(Dave Dreher) "...Lachiusa also applies an interesting use of color to enhance the story ...it is almost like watching a different film ...It really is worth your time."Cinescape Magazine (News Editor) "...Lachiusa has added a new beginning and various new elements including flashbacks to show more about Barbara and Johnny, along with some radio broadcasts to flesh out the story a bit more." Diabolical-Dominion (Steven ReAnimator) "...Earlier today I stumbled across an amazing piece of 'history' as it were ...with a new begining, flashbacks of the story of Johnny and Barbara, addition of color to enhance certain scenes ...it really is quite a sight..." Dread Central (Ryan Rotten) "...I know you savvy Romero completists out there will be interested in checking this out..." Product Description. Night of the Living Dead SURVIVOR'S CUT by Dean Lachiusa is a fast-paced, contemporary revision of the classic horror film that has generated a flurry of critical acclaim. With 72 minutes of face-paced thrills, the film is digitally enhanced with NEW footage and special effects. Lachiusa digitally created new camera-angles which provide perspective and abstract-color that is used to flesh out the mood of the film at just the right time. Night of the Living Dead Survivor's Cut is a unique edit of the classic horror film that documents the events that took place during this most infamous and gruesome record of human reanimation. The "Survivors Cut" is a must see for any movie lover, especially classic-film, horror, goth, gore and drive-in movie fans. If you enjoy movies like Evil Dead or George Romero's NOTLD Millennium Edition, then you'll appreciate this salute to the classics. A great Zombie flick for Halloween too!

Customer Reviews:

Truly execrable..........2007-04-24

I don't care if what Dean Lachiusa did to "Night of the Living Dead" is considered perfectly legal because it's a public domain film...it is still a CRIME against cinema and humanity, and an insult to the intelligence of all fans of the original film.

First, he destroys any tension or mystery about the origin of the ghouls with a completely unnecessary new introduction featuring the Venus probe (pieced together from NASA stock footage and animation that has obviously seen better days). This is amateurishly done (you can even see the pixellation on some of the animation where it had to be blown up--possibly from an MPEG-1 video?), and along with the annoying narration it grates against the rest of the film like fingernails on a chalkboard...far worse than even any of the much-maligned added scenes in the 30th-anniversary edition of NOTLD.

Then he takes a film that was shot in black and white and was meant to be viewed in black and white and adds color tints to numerous scenes. Now, back in the silent era, tinting scenes was a common practice, primarily to differentiate between times of day, as there was much day-for-night shooting at that time...but here, all it does is get in the way and cheapen Romero's efforts to create an atmosphere of fear and hopelessness within the black-and-white medium. In the summary for this version listed at the Internet Movie Data Base, Lachiusa boasts that he has also "digitally enhanced" the film with "new camera angles." Bull. If it's digitally enhanced, then why is the picture quality slightly lower than that of a bargain-basement VHS copy of the film? I'll also let you in on a little secret--flipping the picture upside down and backwards and doing awkward and repetitive close-ups does not qualify as "new camera angles." We're not morons, Mr. Lachiusa. Please do not treat us as such.

The next faux pas is the complete removal of the television from the film, accompanied by an at-best clumsy attempt to gloss over the TV footage by trying to make the audience think that Tom and Ben lugged the radio into another room, and replacing any scene of the TV with repetitive close-ups of the radio...makes me wonder how one can explain how the radio magically returns to its original spot in the scenes during the final zombie attack. This then created the necessity of cutting the footage of that introduces reporter Bill Cardille, the sheriff played by George Kosana, and the rest of the ghoul-hunting posse, not to mention one of my favorite lines of the film: "Yeah, they're dead, they're...all messed up." By the time we do meet the hunting party at the end of the film, they're essentially strangers, deprived of the introduction the original version gives through the TV coverage. Once again, our intelligence is insulted...those who have seen the original film will see right through this hack-job, and those who have not will likely be left scratching their heads.

Speaking of hack-jobs, a great deal of dialogue and supporting footage is excised from this version; while the original clocks in at about 96 minutes, this version is chopped down to 72 minutes; most of this is done little by little throughout the film. The biggest cut (and the only one that makes any sense) is when Barbara starts to tell her story and the film flashes back to the original beginning in the graveyard (which had been pulled out of its rightful place to make way for the Venus probe intro). Right before this, however, Ben's dialogue about his first encounter with the ghouls is severely truncated, leaving out some of the best acting of the whole film. The cuts left me a bit disoriented as I kept thinking of scenes that weren't there anymore or moved around...

Finally, the DVD presentation itself is just laughable...there isn't even a proper scene selection menu--just the option to either play the movie or play the trailer. Any kid with a mastery of Nerovision Express or some other DVD-authoring software could have done a better job!

Now, there might be those out there who can appreciate the artistic license taken in the making of this edition of NOTLD. If you are one of those people, I take my hat off to you. However, I can't help but view this treatment of a film that created an entire genre as disrespectful--to the story, to the audience, and to the genius of George A. Romero. This movie was fine in its original form; the "Survivor's Cut" is a prime example of what happens when you try to fix what isn't broken. View this one at your own risk.

Could Of Been Better.......2005-09-27

I love the original "Night of the Living Dead", this version, I'm not so sure. I like the idea someone else re-edittng the movie and making it their own, but this movie could of been re-editted better. I am thinking that this is done with a movie editting tool like "After Effects", "Premier", or "Final Cut Pro". I know a lot of the tricks used to re-edit this film. The color transitions is a really easy trick to use in "Final Cut Pro", as well as the cutting of the film and transitioning it to other scenes. He even used footage from other sources to tell the story of how the zombies came about. I really think this could of been better. I was expecting better, and was really excited to see this version of it, therefore I was somewhat disappointed in this version. My advice is to see the original first, then see this one.

Excellent version of the classic film.......2005-09-27

Professional critics from sources like Creature Corner and Dread Central have given this film a fair shake. The Survivor's Cut is well done and does justice to Romero.

I'm not ignorant or close minded, and I do not listen to the people that have written hateful critiques. I think that an objective film audience will appreciate this version. It's contemporary and fast moving while it also preserves GAR's vision.

This is not exploitation like what you see in Anniversary, or Colorized versions -- or the many poor-quality prints on DVD and VHS. Lachiusa obviously has put many man hours into this edit and I think he must have respect for the art of filmmaking to do such a fine job.

Without spoiling the film: Check out the cool tinted scenes at just the right time...and Barb's shocked state of mind is well illustrated in a really cool "magical box" scene. The colors grow more dynamic as the film moves on, it's really well done.

A legend in their OWN mind!.......2005-09-07

"CUT" denotes the awful re-editing of this film, crappy monochromatice overlays, and use of cheesy filters to add atmosphere. The added scenes (claiming to enchance the background of the story) are entirely [...]! *read my reviews of other films, you'll see that I tend to be tolerant. THIS film was a complete trashing of the original and went into the garbage the same moment I finished it. It was NOT worth taking up what little shelf space it had been slated for. For the love of GOD, don't [...] on this - buy a powderpuff girls video or anything else, but this pile of grbage.

This version is an exercise in what not to do with public domain films..........2005-09-06

Save your money and buy the real black and white, un-re-edited original. This version misses out on the crumbling humanity of Romero's film by cutting most of the pertinent scenes. A terrible waste of effort.

The Night of the Living Dead disc from Elite is a good buy.

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