Retro Spooktacles continues Rich People Are F’n Evil with Mitcz’s pick, Land of the Dead, George A. Romero’s 2005 return to his zombie universe. Twenty years after Day of the Dead, the wealthy are still living comfortably behind the walls of Fiddler’s Green while everyone else struggles to survive. Apparently, even the apocalypse can’t kill the class divide.

Dennis Hopper plays Kaufman, the ruthless businessman ruling this fortified city. Simon Baker stars as Riley, who designed the armored Dead Reckoning, while John Leguizamo plays Cholo, a hired gun whose dangerous work can’t buy him a place among the elite. Outside the walls, an increasingly intelligent zombie horde led by Big Daddy begins exposing just how fragile that supposed sanctuary really is.

Mitcz and Teddy question why money still matters after civilization collapses, unpack Kaufman’s terrible treatment of the people protecting him, and debate whether the zombies are evolving faster than humanity. They also discuss Hopper’s performance, why the movie feels more like action than horror, and whether Romero leaves too much of this fascinating world unexplored. Plus, where Land of the Dead lands on the Zeitgeistometer.

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