History Film / LandOfTheDead

* Fingore: Unsurprisingly, given the subject matter. Some examples:
** Two zombies grab the fingers of a soldiers hand and pull in opposite directions.

''Land of the Dead'' (2005) is the fourth movie in the ''Film/LivingDeadSeries'' written and directed by Creator/GeorgeARomero.

* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler: Cholo]]. declining a MercyKill, quipping that he's always wanted to see how the other half lives.

* ATeamFiring: For trained soldiers and scavengers, they sure do waste a lot of ammo firing at the Stenches when one well aimed shot at the head would do the job fine.
** Defied by Charlie, who turns down a submachine gun, said to fire 14 rounds per second, because he doesn't "normally need that many".
* AWorldHalfFull: Interestingly, humanity and civilization survive in this zombie film.

* CannotCrossRunningWater: Subverted. Initially Pittsburg is one of the last human cities defended from the zombie hordes because it's protected by rivers on two sides (the third being a fortified perimeter), which zombies are afraid to cross. Eventually an intelligent zombie named Big Daddy dares to take the plunge and leads the rest across the river by [[WalkDontSwim walking on the bottom]].

* EatTheRich: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]]. George A. Romero's zombie flicks tend to have an underlying social message, and in the case of this film, it concerns how the wealthy poorly treat the lower classes. When the flesh-eating undead horde siege the Fiddler's Green colony, although both rich and poor die in the onslaught, the more intelligent zombies' main targets are the upper-class establishment. Once they're wiped out the zombies withdraw, and the class system ceases to exist. It's revealed afterward that ''the majority'' of Fiddler's Green other residents have survived the zombie attack.

* ItCanThink: The zombies are shown to have somehow become sentient enough to form a coherent group and fight against the human survivors.

* CitadelCity: The center of Pittsburgh has been turned into a fortress in the midst of the ZombieApocalypse, being surrounded by water on three sides ([[CannotCrossRunningWater which zombies are averse to]]) and an electrified fence on the only overland side. [[spoiler:The city is later overrun when the zombies learn to walk across the river.]]

** There is a mentally challenged man named [[FlowersforAlgernon Charlie]]

* CoolCar: Dead Reckoning. A mobile train/rig hybrid with rocket launchers, machine guns, gatling guns and even countermeasures. Also its well armored like a tank on wheels.

* CannotCrossRunningWater: Subverted. Initially Pittsburg is one of the last human cities defended from the zombie hordes because it's protected by rivers on two sides, which zombies are afraid to cross. Eventually an intelligent zombie named Big Daddy dares to take the plunge and leads the rest across the river by [[WalkDontSwim walking on the bottom]].

''Land of the Dead'' (2005) is the fourth movie in the ''Film/LivingDeadSeries'' written and directed by George A. Romero.

->'''Mike:''' ''"They're pretending to be alive..."''
->'''Riley:''' ''"Isn't that what we're doing? Pretending to be alive?"''

''Land of the Dead'' is the fourth movie in the ''Film/LivingDeadSeries'' written and directed by George A. Romero.

** Subverted with [[spoiler: Cholo]]. He refuses to be killed before becoming a zombie because he, [[IronicEcho "always wanted to see how the other half lives."

--> '''Charlie:''' Are you any good with that kid, 'cause I'm real good with mine.

** Big Daddy performs two: First on a zombie that has been reduced to a severed head (he smashes it), and then on a flaming zombie, who he shoots with a machine gun.

** Subverted with [[spoiler: Cholo]]. He refuses to be killed before becoming a zombie because he wants to see what it's like "on the other side".