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Land Of The Dead/The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (DVD)
Horror - Director: Tobe Hooper, George A. Romero - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring: John Leguizamo, Dennis Hopper, Asia Argento more
Includes the horror films LAND OF THE DEAD and THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE. With LAND OF THE DEAD, director George A. Romero positions the bulk of his story in a giant skyscraper... more
Production Year: 1979 - Horror - Director: John Carpenter - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: John Houseman, Janet Leigh, Hal Holbrook, Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Atkins, James Canning
Plot: Includes the horror films LAND OF THE DEAD and THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE.
Release details
DVD Region: DVD
Studio(s): UNIVERSAL PICTURES UK; UNIVERSAL MUSIC OPERATIONS
Release date: 14/08/2006
No of Discs: 2
Catalogue No: 8245148
Barcode: 5050582451481
Languages
Main Language: English
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DVD Description
Includes the horror films LAND OF THE DEAD and THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE. With LAND OF THE DEAD, director George A. Romero positions the bulk of his story in a giant skyscraper which houses the last humans left on the planet; although his intentions are foggy this time, THE FILM appears to be Romero's commentary on the post-9/11 political landscape. The zombies only bother crews who venture outside the makeshift city for supplies, but the people are kept sedated by their leader, the irascible Kaufman (Dennis Hopper), who exaggerates their threat. What Kaufman doesn't realise is that the zombies are learning skills they half-remember from their old selves, leading to some impressively blood-soaked scenes of tumult. In an unusual move for Romero, Hopper is joined by name actors such as John Leguizamo and Asia Argento. The film greatly benefits as a result, successfully portraying an atrophied civilisation that has regressed to a primitive state, allowing its undead tormentors to sense that a free lunch may be just around the corner. In THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, a quiet summer drive through rural Texas ends in violent tragedy when several youths encounter a chainsaw-wielding psychopathic killer and his demented family. Tobe Hooper's gruesome tale of terror is loosely based on the Ed Gein killings, which actually occurred in Plainsfield, Wisconsin. Shot in a neo-documentary style, this incredibly influential horror film spawned numerous sequels and imitations.
Advantages: Ed Gein Documentary DVD extra Disadvantages: Only moderately scarry
...So Hallowe'en night, the obligatory somewhat pathetic partying has ended it's about 1o'clock in the morning so decide to put this on and live the Hallowe'en atmosphere.
THE STORY
It's 1973 and the film starts with a filmed walk through of the crime scene of the ChainsawMassacre and before it can really get started we are thrown towards the past and 5 young people coming back from partying in Mexico to go see a Lynrd Skynrd concert somewhere in Texas, when suddenly they meet a young female hitch hiker who keeps crying and is more than abit erratic. They pick her up and start driving in the direction she came from which made little sense to me but hey. She starts screaming your going the wrong way (why did they pick her up if they weren't going to go her way? Why?). She then gets over excited pulls a gun from the heer groin...
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Advantages: the guy playing the sheriff Disadvantages: too many plot holes
...! the fact that leatherface doesn't kill the final girl right away is also a give away that she's going to live.
the 2nd boy on the meat-hook could have put his feet on top of the piano and pushed himself off the hook. we weren't shown the piano earlier, mistake/goof? You can't tell if Jedadiah is trying to help her and Morgan or suckering them into another trap (which it seems like to me). Them running into an abandoned house like place where he carves an X in the door (a reference to Freddy or Jason?) and she hides him in a closet and hides in a crawl space herself.
Oh, and how can a chainsaw keep running when it's dropped (I'd have assume the engine would stop right away). leatherface kills the boy after hanging him from a chandelier (again, you see nothing you just think you do) and of course it's the final chase of the last living girl...
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Advantages: Scary from the beginning Disadvantages: The cute guy dies!
...The TexasChainsawMassacre follows a group of teenagers taking a road trip through Texas in the 70's. However, when they come across a young woman walking along a deserted road and pick her up, they soon realise something is wrong with her. Not long after, she shoots herself, leaving the group scared and confused to say the least, but little do they realise, their ordeal has only just begun.
Coming across an isolated house seeking help, the group think they have found help, but they have actually just walked into a massacre scene. One by one, the youths suffer horrendous deaths in this gruesome remake of the classic horror movie that was origionally banned from cinema in the 70s.
I absolutely loved this film, it was a true horror story that was well acted by a young cast. This film had some of the most brutal death scenes i have...
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