Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #48578 in DVD
• Released on: 2004-05-31
• Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
• Formats: Box set, PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 4
• Running time: 337 minutes

DVD Description
DVD Special Features:

Night Of The Living Dead
"Behind The Scenes Featurette"
Trailer
Photo Gallery
Scene from the Bill Hinzman film "Flesheater"
"Dance Of The Dead" Music Video

Dawn Of The Dead:
Exclusive Audio Commentary from Tom Savini
Stills Gallery

Day Of The Dead
Widescreen Presentation (1.85:1)
Behind The Scenes Footage
Trailers
Biographies and Filmographies
Photo Gallery

Bonus Disc:
"Document of The Dead" Documentary
"Night Of The Living Dead" Documentary
New Photo Gallery From all 3 Films

Screen Fullscreen 4:3
Languages English Dolby Digital 1.0 Mono
Subtitles: Day Of The Dead Only: English, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish

Synopsis
This undead collection presents the entire classic zombie trilogy from director George A. Romero: NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968), DAWN OF THE DEAD (1978), and DAY OF THE DEAD (1985). The set also features two documentaries, DOCUMENT OF THE DEAD and a NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD documentary.

Customer Reviews

Terrible treatment to the first film but a reasonable boxset
Finally Romero's zombie trilogy has been released as a box set. Presented in an attractive foldout box, this four-disk edition really does look attractive on the shelf. The box set includes a brand new black and white version of NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, the director's cut of DAWN OF THE DEAD, DAY OF THE DEAD, an extras disk containing roughly two and a half hours of documentary footage and a booklet summarising each film's plot and production.

DISK ONE - It is here that the slip up to the box set has occurred. I'm not an expert on DVD technicalities, but the picture and sound quality on my system is great. However, the movie itself has been practically destroyed by the needless bookends that have been added, which are, quite simply stated, a travesty to Romero's vision. Not only that, a new musical soundtrack has been added, totally destroying the impact that the original film had. The special features reflect the film, with a music video containing the all-new soundtrack, and a clip from a film called FLESHEATERS (I've never heard of it and I don't particularly care). I've said it but it needs repeating, this 30th Anniversary Edition is a travesty to the cult status this film has achieved.

DISK TWO - DAWN OF THE DEAD is the quintessential zombie movie, a startling social commentary and a gore-filled horror express. The director's cut, running at 139 minutes, is the best version. Again, good picture and sound quality, the film comes with an exclusive commentary by effects maestro Tom Savini (who also acts in the film as Blade, the head of the biker gang) and a stills gallery.

DISK THREE - DAY OF THE DEAD is the weakest of the series, and even Romero himself says he would have produced a better film if not for budget limitations. Still, it's reasonably good, and is by far the most violent and goriest of the trilogy. The features include a 20-minute behind the scenes featurette, a stills gallery, biographies of George A. Romero and Tom Savini and trailers for all three Zombie film. Digitally remastered and presented in widescreen. Good picture and sound quality apply.

DISK FOUR - It is four this disk that the box set is an essential purchase. Two long documentaries provide extremely interesting looks at the productions of NOTLD and DOTD, entitled NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD documentary and DOCUMENT OF THE DEAD respectively. Also contains biographies.

Overall, it's a reasonable buy, but I think I'll find myself going out and buying the original version on DVD as well.

DAWN IS CUT.
I'm not going to bang on about what these excellent films are about, just to tell you good and bad points about them.
Night, 3 stars. It is the massivly criticised 30 anivesary edition. It fetures 15 miniutes of additional fotage which would have been acceptable, if it hadn't have replaced some of the original film.
Dawn, 4 stars. Why didnt I give this film 5? Well for 2 reasons. 1 because mid way through the film, the film plods and is quite boring and for the second reason THE EXPLODING HEAD HAS BEEN CUT OUT. Along with a zombie eating someone and zombie kids being shot. A picture of the exploding head is in the book so why not in the film.
Day, it is uncut and it deserves 5 stars.

What have they done!!!
Thoroughly bad show!
What a terrible mistake, They have taken three excellent films and ruined two of them. As a horror movie fan in the UK I have learned to live with the disappointment provided by poor BBFC edits, DAWN suffers badly from this (No exploding head!)
DAY remains reasonably intact, But oh dear, oh dear what has Bill Hinzman D.O.P done to NIGHT it's a shambles. What we are promised is a remastered print of the film (Which is very nice) Remastered audio (Which is very nice) And 15 extra mins of footage, What I expected was an original Romero edit, What I got was Night of the living dead with some muppets (Hinzman) home video tagged on to the beginning & end. We get a brand new intro which is rubbish and a brand new ending which is also rubbish. The new sequences are poorly shot, acted and edited, starring Bill Hinzmans friends & family and some Anton La'Vey alikey Vicar (What where they thinking!)What is with the new evangelical twist has Bill Hinzman recently found the light? The first zombie is an executed murderer brought back to life as a punishment from god (Ok it's getting fluffy now Bill)The new ending has the slap-headed Vicar bitten by a zombie and then saved by washing in holy-water & the will of Lord, in a sort of "Mean while, 1 year into the future" bit. (Utter nonsense!) To compound the insult a large portion of the original music has been replaced with nasty synthersizer music that grates along in an anachronistic derge. This boxed set is worth buying if you are a collector or fan of Zombie-allia as the documentaries & commentaries are very good, If you have never seen the film or are thinking of buying this for a fan of the films, DON'T!, Buy an older version as this one is sadly flawed.