Nearly two decades after George Romero's sadly truncated DAY OF THE DEAD (1986) apparently concluded his apocalyptic zombie series, this grim, gory fable proved there was still life in the dead. Some years after the first corpses rose up to eat the flesh of the living, the "stenches" have inherited the Earth. The living cluster in safe areas like downtown Pittsburgh, protected on two fronts by natural barriers — the Monongahela and Allegheny Rivers — and on the third by soldiers, electrified fences and makeshift barricades. The rich live in the luxury residential/retail complex Fiddler's Green, kowtowing to the despotic Kaufman (Dennis Hopper), while the less fortuna...
Released:
2005
Rated:
R
Length:
93 mins