Everyone’s making zombie films these days. From Paul W. Anderson’s cack-awful Resident Evil (DVD) to Simon Pegg’s (DVDs) actually-quite-wonderful Shaun Of The Dead (DVD), it would seem that the world and his wife are picking up a camera and getting in on the flesh-eating action.

Lest we forget, then, the bearded grandaddy of them all: Mr. George A. Romero (DVDs), the man whose original zombie trilogy (Night Of The Living Dead, Dawn Of The Dead, Day Of The Dead) redefined American horror cinema and injected a hefty dose of social commentary in among the blood’n'guts too.

So. We officially have a reason to get excited. George has given birth to a new monster, you see … and it’ll be hitting our cinema screens very soon indeed.

Land Of The Dead features the luminous Asia Argento (DVDs), John Leguizamo (DVDs) and everybody’s favourite lunatic Dennis Hopper (DVDs) as inhabitants of a walled-off city, outside the perimeter of which shambling zombie-blokes are simply dying (again) to get in and nibble frantically at the human buffet.

A team of heavily-armed mercenaries are then dispatched to take on the ever-evolving beasties.

Two fantastic possibilities spring to mind. On the one hand, this will be Romero’s post-9/11, post-Iraq, post-Dubya’s-inevitable-apocalypse snapshot of America, replete with all his trademark sly humour (Simon Pegg is making a cameo appearance) and bleak unflinching overview.

On the other hand, this should be coupled with the sort of ultra-violent, Boy’s-Own comic book splatterfest that hauls out the sherbet-snorting nine-year-old boy inside every single viewer and leaves them shivering like the Rapture is coming.

The kids over at Ain’t It Cool are already getting giddy about this (although, to be fair, they’d get excited if the third-Wookie-from-the-left in Return Of The Sith sneezed into a tissue and ‘allowed’ them to purchase it for the bargain price of $3,500). You can check out the trailer for yourself over at Yahoo.

Best not to do it on a full stomach, though …

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[story by C J Davies]