"Zombies... they freak me out"

Land of the Dead turned out to be a satisfyingly gory zombie flick combining elements of Shaun of the Dead and Resident Evil (humour and lots of guns respectively) with a featherweight plotline that came as some relief given the potentially portentous title and stodgily worthy tone of Day of the Dead.

Crucially Romero has kept up with younger turks in the visuals department. The zombies are top notch, as are the numerous gruesome deaths (though nothing's quite up there with "choke on 'em!" from Day...). It also carries on the satiric commentary of his earlier movies with swipes at class divisions in America and, inevitably, post September 11 politics, though thankfully more in the form of punchlines than preaching.

Oh, and there's a great joke about Samoan car theft as well. What more do you want?