Romero’s Land Of The Dead: Unrated FanCut

Review by Regicidal — November 23, 2008 @ 1:15 pm

Like other Romero fans, I was somewhat disappointed by the original version of Land Of The Dead. I own all the originals many times over and Romero’s version of this never felt right sitting next to the others.

Then I saw Mollo’s FanCut, which corrects Romero’s various missteps and somehow opens the world of the film up, thus making this film so much more epic than it had previously been.

The film is now so much more watchable and seems to be truer to Romero (or at least the things we like about Romero’s films) than Romero could achieve.

I do miss the puppet zombie at the film’s opening (and to a lesser extent the Savini zombie), but that’s a small price to pay.

Awesome work Mollo!

Review by Istvan6 — May 24, 2009 @ 3:09 pm

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Review by Human Shield — May 26, 2009 @ 6:41 am

Much better retelling. Now fiddlers green feels like an arcology with a dictator like it should instead of the film whining about rich white guys. Cholo has a huge turn around and works as an interesting main character now. Great new opening and ending.

Still has the same problems of unprepared characters but the timeline feels more compressed, like the rising didn’t happen so long ago and excuses some of the poorly designed defenses (and makes the city population feel much lower). Theater release should have been much closer to this version.

Review by thetome — December 5, 2009 @ 7:03 am

Incredible work! Both me and my roommate watched this and loved it! And neither of us were fans of the original at all, so kudos. You’ve taken a film that I felt was unwatchable, and turned it into something I watch with people when they come over!

Review by r8s8fr8 — November 27, 2009 @ 8:11 pm

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