Video. The picture quality is pretty solid, not outstanding though. At times the transfer seems a bit soft and undefined, mainly during some of the darker scenes. The transfer also seems a bit dark. I chalk this up the fact that it is a region 4 PAL formatted disk being played on an inexpensive box that was hacked to be region free, and is doing PAL to NTSC conversion, so I will give it the benefit of the doubt. I have seen much, much worse from region 1 disks.
Audio. Sound is solid as well. My only problem was that sometimes when there were multiple characters yelling at the same time, I had a hard time separating what they were saying, but that was more to do with the accents than any fault in the audio mix.
Extras. This disk has a nice selection of extras.
-Two commentary tracks, one with the crew and one with the cast, I haven't sampled these yet.
-A nice 30+ minute making of documentary, this gives us a nice look into this low budget feature. -Footage from a screening at the Toronto Film Festival.
-A featurette with zombie test film. This was pretty cool watching the zombie movements at different frame rates.
-A bunch of deleted and extended scenes.
-An animatic of the last 12 minutes of the film.
-All of the trailers, the internet teaser, theatrical teaser, and theatrical full.
-Finally there are production and still galleries and artwork.
Bottomline. Excellent movie, great extras. This is a fun zombie movie which is right up there with the greats. It plays the fine line between homage to those of the past, and forging its own original path to cultdom. It plays that line like a fine instrument, successful at all turns. If you have a region free player, or have thought about getting one, it is worth it. For all zombie fans.
Recommended.
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