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Post by sean on Feb 3, 2008 18:13:44 GMT
This one's Sphere from 1979... i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd153/fivelittleturnips/zomdawn.jpg BLURB: "Monsters do exist - in us and among us. They walk in our shadow. They can prey on us as we fear them less. We should know. We created them. Now we try to tell them to go away. Our new and knowledgeable ways provide a certain freedom for the dark creatures..."
- George A Romero, creator of the all-time-horror-movie classic NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD and its supershock sequal DAWN OF THE DEAD
1st PAGE BLURBLE: In recent years, only a few motion pictures have acheived the status of a cult following. NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD is such a film. Made almost a decade ago, this grisly and innovative horror film still attracts cinema-goers - those that have the necessary guts, that is - today. It is now part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Now the living dead walk again. Their numbers have increased -and so has their hunger for human flesh. A handful of ill-assorted fugitives seek to escape this horrendous doom. Finally, cornered, they fight the shambling, unstoppable ghouls as DAWN OF THE DEAD hurtles to its shocking - and surprising - conclusion...
A compellingly gruesome film, DAWN OF THE DEAD is also a terrifying and gripping novel.
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Post by redbrain on Feb 3, 2008 19:38:20 GMT
When there's no more room in Hell the dead will walk the earth
That always seemed especially apt to me - because it's set in a shopping mall. I once had the misfortune to visit Lakeside - and it seemed to me very much like Hell.
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Post by dem bones on Jul 2, 2012 7:24:10 GMT
George Romero & Susanna Sparrow - Dawn Of The Dead (St. Martins Press, 1978) Blurb: "I think it's going to be the biggest cult blockbuster of all time..." - Tom Allen, Village Voice
Few motion pictures have achieved the status of a cult following. George Romero's NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD was just such a film: a grisly and innovative study in horror that shocked thousands of viewers into submission.
But nothing could have prepared America for Romero's newest nightmare. In DAWN OF THE DEAD, the ghouls have returned with a hunger that demands human flesh, and a message that haunts the human mind. Young and old, black and white, they fill the streets of our cities and walk the aisles of our shopping malls, consuming everyone and everything they touch with the curse of living death. As heroes Fran, Steve, Roger, and Peter arm themselves against the onslaught with a decadence of their own, DAWN OF THE DEAD becomes more than a bloodbath. In a world where life is a commodity, where survival is bought with guns, and happiness is having a key to the department store, the dead will finally rule us all....
George A. Romero's terrifying vision is too real to dismiss lightly. It is a movie that will become a landmark in the history of film-making, and a novel so powerful no one will be able to put it down.
With 8 color photos by Katherine KolbertMy luck has been well out in recent months but the patron saint of second-hand paperback junkies smiled on me at the local school's car-boot sale, Saturday morning, and just in the nick of time, too. Not five minutes later the playground was hit by an almighty downpour, and those titles left behind were soon obliterated to a mass of soggy pulp. So joy at landing the above, plus Will Eisner's gorgeous True Haunted Houses And Ghosts, The Book Of Horror Lists, Murder Ink: The Mystery Readers Companion (Westbridge 1977: a paving slab of a beast, "perpetuated" by Dilys Winn), and - after all this time - Theodore Roszac's Flicker is tempered by sadness as I mourn the passing of those several brave souls it was impossible to save. Anyway ... Romero & Sparrow put far more into this than John Russo did with his Night Of The Living Dead novelisation, and am looking forward to a rematch. Dawn Of The Dead - and Romero's Martin - hit the spot for then me. His gooey short story, Clay, in Frank Coffey's Modern Masters Of Horror is also well worth reading. The cheapskate Sphere edition of Dawn Of The Dead which drops the colour stills is still the "definitive" edition, mind. George Romero & Susanna Sparrow – Dawn Of The Dead (Sphere, 1979) Blurb: ‘When there’s no more room in Hell, the dead will walk the Earth’
Monsters do exist – in us and among us, they walk in our shadow. They can prey on us more as we fear them less. We should know. We created them. Now we try to tell them to go away. Our new and knowledgeable ways provide a certain freedom the dark creatures …
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