For the disambiguation page on anything else on this topic, come here to Land of the Dead . Land of the Dead is a 2005 horror film written and directed by George A. Romero; the fourth of Romero's six Living Dead movies, it is preceded by Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead, and succeeded by Diary of the Dead and Survival of the Dead. It was released in 2005 and became a success, grossing over $40 million, and had a budget of $15 million, the highest in the series. The story of Land of the Dead deals with a zombie assault on Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where a... feudal-like government exists. The survivors in the film have fled to the city. The city is protected on two sides by rivers and on the other by an electric barricade. Released in North America on June 24, 2005, Land of the Dead received mostly positive reviews from film critics. Three years ago an unknown global phenomena occurs which causes any recently deceased person with an intact brain to reanimate into a zombie to feed on the living, effectively causing the Zombie apocalypse.
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| Release date: | June 18, 2005 |
| Directed by: | George A. Romero |
| Runtime: | 93 Minutes |
| Producer: | Mark Canton, Bernie Goldmann, Peter Grunwald |
| Editor: | Michael Doherty |
| Music by: | Reinhold Heil, Johnny Klimek |
| Cinematography: | Miroslaw Baszak |
| Screenplay by: | George A. Romero |
| Estimated budget: | $16,000,000 |
| Genre: | Action, Science Fiction, Thriller |