Night Of The Dead
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Fri 28 October 2005 // 19:00
(George A Romero / 1968-1978-1985-2005 / USA / 96-126-101-93 mins / Cert X) (Fri 28th / 7pm / £10/8)
As Halloween looms, the Cube offers you the chance to see all 4 of George A. Romero's 'Dead' films back-to-back. Up the ante by coming dressed in your finest zombie regalia and enjoy the whole lot for a bargain 8 quid!
The phemonenon began in 1968 with his chilling debut NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, part inspired by the cult novel I AM LEGEND by Richard Matheson. Its a claustrophobic b/w yarn about a group of hapless strangers forced to barricade themselves in an abandoned countryhouse, defending themselves against a strange and brutal mob of seemingly braindead marauders.
Ten years later the story has moved into the city in DAWN OF THE DEAD as a small band flee to the reletive safely of a shopping mall filled with rotting, passive-as-ever consumers. A cameo from make-up artist TOM SAVINI (who went on to make the Thriller video, and featured in FROM DUSK TIL DAWN) is just one of the many highlights of this absurd satire cum gore fest.
In the 80's Romero delivered the bleak and outlandish DAY OF THE DEAD where the zombies have seriously begun to establish themselves! The story is set in a government facility where hordes of living dead are stored in underground caves for research, and again the heros are backed against the wall.
Nearly 40 years after the inception of Romero's zombie vision LAND OF THE DEAD promises to be a unique horror experience, where the ever increasing scale of the 'epidemic' has now trapped the only remaining humans within a single city. Boasting a great cast including Dennis Hopper (and a cameo from Simon Pegg of SHAWN OF THE DEAD fame) this is an unmissable for any gore fan.
What unites these films is a masterfully executed depiction of paranoia that inevitably grows as the prospects becomes more desperate until otherwise rational citizens turn on each other dispite the greater, outside threat, confronting the audience with an all too believable
breakdown-of-society-in-the-wake-of-a-natural-disaster senario.
As Halloween looms, the Cube offers you the chance to see all 4 of George A. Romero's 'Dead' films back-to-back. Up the ante by coming dressed in your finest zombie regalia and enjoy the whole lot for a bargain 8 quid!
The phemonenon began in 1968 with his chilling debut NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, part inspired by the cult novel I AM LEGEND by Richard Matheson. Its a claustrophobic b/w yarn about a group of hapless strangers forced to barricade themselves in an abandoned countryhouse, defending themselves against a strange and brutal mob of seemingly braindead marauders.
Ten years later the story has moved into the city in DAWN OF THE DEAD as a small band flee to the reletive safely of a shopping mall filled with rotting, passive-as-ever consumers. A cameo from make-up artist TOM SAVINI (who went on to make the Thriller video, and featured in FROM DUSK TIL DAWN) is just one of the many highlights of this absurd satire cum gore fest.
In the 80's Romero delivered the bleak and outlandish DAY OF THE DEAD where the zombies have seriously begun to establish themselves! The story is set in a government facility where hordes of living dead are stored in underground caves for research, and again the heros are backed against the wall.
Nearly 40 years after the inception of Romero's zombie vision LAND OF THE DEAD promises to be a unique horror experience, where the ever increasing scale of the 'epidemic' has now trapped the only remaining humans within a single city. Boasting a great cast including Dennis Hopper (and a cameo from Simon Pegg of SHAWN OF THE DEAD fame) this is an unmissable for any gore fan.
What unites these films is a masterfully executed depiction of paranoia that inevitably grows as the prospects becomes more desperate until otherwise rational citizens turn on each other dispite the greater, outside threat, confronting the audience with an all too believable
breakdown-of-society-in-the-wake-of-a-natural-disaster senario.