Warner Bros. Home Entertainment is gearing up for the home release of Night of the Animated Dead, an animated remake of George Romero's 1968 classic Night of the Living Dead. Today, the company announced its home release dates while sharing some a first look at the gruesome box art for the Blu-ray Combo Pack & DVD.
Night of the Animated Dead will arrive on Digital on September 21, followed by the Blu-ray Combo Pack & DVD release on October 5. The box art shows two of the film's characters fending off a horde of swarming zombies.
Directed by Jason Axinn, Night of the Animated Dead is a recreation of Romero's 1968 classic which saw a group of strangers trapped in a farmhouse as they try and survive a horde of swarming zombies. Although Romero's film didn't specifically refer to them as zombies, the film sparked an entire of films and led to Romero directing five more zombie flicks, including Dawn of hte Dead (1978), Day of hte Dead (1985) and Land of the Dead (2005). Here's the official synopsis for Night of the Animated Dead.
In Night of the Animated Dead, siblings Barbara and Johnny visit their father’s grave in a remote cemetery in Pennsylvania when they are suddenly set upon by zombies. Barbara flees and takes refuge in an abandoned farmhouse along with stranded motorist Ben and four local survivors found hiding in the cellar. Together, the group must fight to stay alive against the oncoming horde of zombies while also confronting their own fears and prejudices.
Night of the Animated Dead features the voices of Josh Duhamel as Harry Cooper, Dulé Hill as Ben, Katharine Isabelle as Barbara, James Roday Rodriguez as Tom, Katee Sackhoff as Judy, Will Sasso as Sheriff McClelland, Jimmy Simpson as Johnny and Nancy Travis as Helen Cooper.