Day of the Dead
| release date | July 3 1985 |
| studio | Anchor Bay |
| director | George A. Romero |
| writer | George A. Romero |
| starring | Lori Cardille, Terry Alexander |
| rating | R |
| tagline | First there was "Night of the Living Dead" then "Dawn of the Dead" and now the darkest day of horror |
| site | amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/6305223343 |
| trailer 1 | Trailer #1 |
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My personal Fav. Of all George A Romero’s films.
A true classic. The characters are written to perfection and the acting is pretty good. This film just sets a really rare vision in the over-populated genre of zombie horror.
My Fav Movie of All Time… Possibly the Holy Grail of Romero’s Zombie Saga…. Day of the Dead is a Must see for gore Fans!
Not as good as DAWN…but still an amazing film.
So moody and dark. Love it!
I recommend it all the time!
I honestly was not too impressed with this. I was a huge fan of ‘Dawn’, and even ‘Land’, but this just didn’t do it for me. I’m not sure why.
One of Romero’s Best.
Tom Savini at his absolute finest in this movie.
A little grim even for ROMERO but still one of his best film to date!!! I love BUB he steels the show in this movie, and thats so awesome!
This film was terrible. Despite some of the best gore in history and an interesting premise of “educating the dead”, it’s a utterly visually ugly borefest with only a few redeeming features. Was not impressed or entertained at all.
“‘Day of the Dead’ is a film that is an unfortunate sufferer of the ‘Alien 3 Syndrome’. And, no, I don’t classify those that are affected by the syndrome to be disappointing final entries in a trilogy. To suffer from ‘Alien 3 Syndrome’, you must follow two exceptional films, and the entry that has preceded you must be so exciting and action-packed that when you dare take a grimmer, more deliberately paced approach to your material, you will become universally reviled, with many people failing to notice that you have more than your fair share of merits on your own. In fact, ‘Day of the Dead’ has a LOT of merits – even more than the film that its syndrome is based on. While it doesn’t quite approach the greatness of “Dawn of the Dead”, it is still an intelligent, first-rate horror effort and stands as one of the best genre films of the 80s.
In this final entry of George Romero’s ‘Living Dead’ trilogy, the walking dead supposedly outnumber the humans by a ratio of 400,000 to 1. Twelve people who have devoted themselves to studying and wiping out the zombies hole up together in an underground missile silo, and for all we know, these could be the last twelve living humans on the face of the planet. Most of these people don’t capture our sympathy like the foursome who holed up in the shopping mall in “Dawn”. Half of them are gung-ho soldiers who seem to take great pleasure in threatening the scientific team, and Romero spends much of the first half focusing on the bickering and intense conflicts between these people. In fact, for over an hour, the hordes of living dead get very little screen time, as the story focuses on the tension between the characters, and the efforts of an off-the-wall scientist to train a captured zombie named Bub to act human. Compared to its predecessors, this long section of the film may seem slow and talky, but it is always interesting and, for the most part, effectively performed by its unknown cast. Besides, it all eventually leads up to a corker of finale when the zombies finally invade the compound, and most of the humans become showcases for the brilliance of Tom Savini, who outdoes even himself in the gore F/X department.
While most of this material is very grim, ‘Day’ ironically has the most hopeful, upbeat conclusion in the trilogy – which, alas, is its only major shortcoming. The quick transition to the final scene is so abrupt and unexpected that the audience feels cheated, leaving the impression that the production ran out of money before the whole climax could be filmed. Indeed, Romero has often expressed his unhappiness about being underfunded for this project, which prevented him from creating a truly definitive final chapter for the trilogy. But while ‘Day of the Dead’ may not quite be the ultimate finish to one of the greatest trilogies of all time, it is still a very satisfying conclusion… It may not be popular among everyone, due to many unfair comparisons to its superior predecessors, but on its own, it is about as good as horror films get.” –Robin Warder (r&[email protected]), imdb.com
Wonderful movie. Well done by Romero again. The make up was great for its time. The plot line was great. Everything is wonderful. It still doesn’t compare to Night though. A definite movie to own.
My favorite of Romero’s “Dead” series, and my favorite zombie flick of all time. This is the movie I compare every zombie flick I watch to. The scene where Rhodes has his head torn off is one of the best scenes in any movie ever.
One of Romero’s best. The remake just plain out sucked. The acting was good, the cinemetography was also good, and the music was great. The plot was really good. This was one of the best zombie movies I have ever seen. Romero at his absolute best.
although it’s the weakest of the original romero trilogy (night, dawn, day) it is still a very good interesting zombie film that very much differs from teh first two. interesting ideas, a slower pace than expected, but great stuff
This movie had the best gore effects for the zombie movie far superior to any other zombie ever made – past or present. Such a shame that George Romero was under-financed. Otherwise it could have been the greatest zombie movie ever made.
Story was little slow and there wasn’t any one actually infected and turned to zombie in this movie. However, there was plenty of gore and blood. Although considered as weakest in the trilogy, I find it better all three. There is however a lot of unrealised potential and hopefully someday George Romero himself will undertake the project to remake this movie.
Personally I find this movie better than Night of Living dead, Dawn of the Dead and Land of the dead.
To me this is the film all zombie films are judged by. I watch this one the most. Bub is also my favorite character. This movie has really everything, humor, great gore(Awesome gore to be exact)great social commentary and cool zombies. It has a lot to say about=t paranoia and what happens to people when they feel a lost of power. In the end if things go to shit. People will act just like this, while some of us will do what we can to goon.
I didnt like this movie at all. Horrible acting, and pretty bad special effects. The story was decent, but was a sharp decline from the first two Romero films.
It’s an ok movie with a some extreme gore in the end, which make up for some slow , boring parts . Special effects were good for the movie’s time, and the zombie’s makeup wasn’t perfect but a great improvement over the terrible makeup of dawn. Bub the zombie was cool.
this is one of my favorite films of all time! i saw this movie when i was 8 and it shocked the hell out of me i had never seen such realist gore!
this is where my zombie love began =]
i do admit the scene with Torrez and the guy who flys the helicopter and Sarah are talking about how they’d like to go to an island is a very boring scene but to me that the only boring part
Fine addition to the Dead series. Has that great nihilistic 80′s horror atmosphere I love so much, and some of my favorite gore scenes ever. I don’t like it quite as much as Night or Dawn, but still, a zombie classic for sure!
Awesome zombie movie. One of my all time favoirtes
not as good as those before it but still good!
The master of the zombie genre, everyone bow down to George A. Romero. I have tons of respect for George’s films for I love zombie flicks. I started watching George A. films in reverse starting with Diary of the Dead ultimately ending at Day of the Dead. Maybe I became used to today’s computer effects and such but Day of the Dead seemed dull.
Day of the Dead seems to move along at a snails pace, eventually revealing some great zombie goodness. Day of the Dead puts together a great peace on how man reacts with man in a dreadful circumstance. I think this was a good film, but it relied heavily on blood and guts to keep the audience captivated in its expanded periods of “down time.”
It’s hard to say how I feel about this picture; for it has many great ideas and objectives but they are spread far apart, thus failing to keep me enthralled. Shave off a half hour of people fighting and complaining a few hundred feet below the surface of the earth and things could have been easier on the eyes. I do want to point out that the end of the movie is great! Many of the slow dull parts that seem senseless come together to give you the light bulb effect in conclusion.
At the end of the day, Day of the Dead is one of the must see zombie films. George A. Romero set the stage for the 28 Days/Weeks Later and Dawn of Dead films. Get your Aretha Franklin on and pay some R-E-S-P-E-C-T to the zombie king in watching his flick Day of the Dead.
-Zombie
not as good as Dawn but still awesome. The gore is sweet and Bub rules!
Somehow this comes off as even more dark, more depressing than Night. As a follow up to Dawn, it’s mildly disappointing.
The Year I was born. This film was released. I think that has significance. There isn’t too much to say, Except its Romero’s followup to Dawn of the Dead. And this film only falls slightly under its predecessor. Its fantastic, and action packed and focuses on a small group of military underground, against the zombie horde. Full of the gore, experiments, political attacks, and Zombie training that made the film loveable in the first place. a must see.
not as good as the first two but still better than the majority of stuff you see
A more thought provoking of the other two Romero Zombie films, this one takes you underground at a army bomb shelter or whatever and asks the question, Can zombies retain/remember their past lives? Can they learn? Can they become Non-Violent? These answers are answered, in a way, in the movie and you will notice some of this stuff in the later Land of the Dead movie when the zombies are using guns and knives and sh**. This was a very well done movie, The gore is excellent and very realistic, TOM SAVINI FTW, and I would recommend this movie to all horror/zombie film fans. Bub is da best
!!!!! 9/10!
Classic, this movie brings another tail of zombie horror and personally I love the idea of tinkering with the soulless zombies… When I first saw this movie many years ago I was in heaven and then recently rewatched it still this movie is a well done Romero classic…. It was my favorite zombie film until recently, Dr. Frank is twisted and the dickheads that pop up during hell on earth is unreal… A must see for real zombie fans
I was probably seven when I first saw this movie at the drive in with my parents. They let me sit on the door hanging out the window opening and I got freaked out and had to climb back in and roll up my window. Some bad acting but great gore and some of the best looking zombies ever.
The 3rd in Romero’s “Dead” films is accused of being too talky & it’s true it is. But there’s some great ideas going on (ideas that would be more realized in “Land…”) & when the gore turns up it doesn’t stop & it’s some of the best there’s ever been!
My personal favorite out of all of the “of the dead” films. This is because of the leading zombie. They have basically the same type of zombie in the Lad Of The Dead, but this is the original Zombie with feelings.
you already know what ima say it’s a ten
Choke On EM!!! I love this film! It’s my most favorite Romero film next to Dawn of the Dead. I just want to say Rhodes is one awesome dude!
I LOVED this movie. I have even come to like it more than Dawn. It has extremely well done gore effects, likeable/hateable characters, and pretty good acting. I fell in love Bub, and actually cried during the movie, as pathetic as that is. Amazing.
Some of the best gore effects ive ever seen in a horror film. The atmosphere was tense and creepy. Easily one of the best zombie films out there.
Loved it. Excellent gore effects and atmosphere. Zombies looked way better in this then the original Dawn Of The Dead.
Every zombie genre fan should have this in their collection.
I prefer Dawn Of The Dead but they definitely upped the special fx in this one.
Maybe not as much a classic as Night or Dawn of The Dead but Day of The Dead was very enjoyable. The special effects were definitely upgraded. Tom Savini did an excellent job. The acting was so-so but the zombie carnage made up for it. All in All, Day of The Dead was highly enjoyable and I recommend it.
My personal favorite ‘of the Dead’ films, probably zombie films altogether. Very ugly and dark movie. Best gore out of any zombie movie I’ve seen.
Romeros third movie is weaker then the first two but it is still a really good movie with memorable characters like Bub the zombie and Captain Rhodes.
another awsome entry in the Dead series.Romero kicks ass!
Use to hate this movie but it really grows on you.
Love this movie. Probably the best zombie effects of all-time: the feasting scenes at the end are EPIC.
The acting is over-the-top, but in a good way. You don’t feel embarrassed for the actors while watching this one, rather you just feel they’re over-doing it a bit. I wouldn’t call it ‘bad’ acting, especially not compared to some other zombie flicks I’ve seen. (Actually, there was one really bad actor…the guy that lets the zombies in at the end of the movie. He sucked, but the rest were good.)
The locations are awesome in this one. I kinda wish the introduction to the movie (you know, when the main protagonists of the film are traveling by helicopter to see if any cities aren’t overrun) should have been 20 minutes to a half hour long.
Anyway, I dug everything about this movie.
The best of the Dead series for me. I love the darker tone and more realistic characters and gore this time around. The annoying characters get their justice, but not without the loss of some cool characters along the way; all in all, it makes for a damn good zombie ride.
I still like “Dawn” a tad bit better cause I think it had better characters. But thats not to take away from Romero’s third “dead” film. “Day” lacked in characters but made up for it with gore. I think this is my second favorite out of the series. And as much as I hated Capt.Rhodes, I agreed with him concerning killing the zoms instead of trying to train them. I think trying to teach a zombie is pointless, great you train ONE zombie woo hoo!!But now what the fuck r u gonna do with the other billion zombies, just doesn’t make sense to me. Newayz great zombie flick and probably the last of Romero’s REALLY GOOD “dead” films.
Fantastic. It took a while for me to truly appreciate it but oh man, it’s amazing.
one of my fave dead movies.ALOT of gore and decent acting and storyline.if u havent seen it,u totally need 2
Good gore and story.
Easily my favorite zombie movie. Romero really showed what he was capable of doing with this movie.
The clausterphobic feeling is in it from start to finish and it really just does wonders for the horror genre.
Not forgetting to mention that it is really a pure blood bath movie
A pure classic.
Dawn of the dead is awesome so I expected more from this film but to be honest it was to boring. Great gore though.
This is George Romero milking his cash cow. Redundant to say the least. Gory, but you can watch “Dawn of the Dead” instead for better f/x.
Watch this if you must, there are waaaay better zombie movies than this (from the same time period, too).
Just awesome. This zombie movie is almost as good as Dawn of the dead. It takes the story a step further by setting it some time after the outbreak. Civilization has collapsed and the survivors try to find some sort of cure while tensions rise. As fore the gore, it rocks! This film has everything from zombie autopsies to flesh eating and more.
While not Romero’s best, this is definitely one of the top zombie films of all time and a must see.
Super underrated third installment from Romero! My personal favorite of the first three, simply because of the claustrophobia and bleak outlook. The characters were over the top, but to me it suited the film. The gore was and is a standard of savini’s that is still not topped to this day! A must own!!
In the past few weeks (well, during the Halloween season), the lovely people at the BBC (i’m one of those English people
) have been playing George A Romero’s legendary ‘Living Dead’ movies on tv.
I got my boyfriend to sit down and watch them with me just to show him how influential they were and still are to all horror movies, not just the zombie sub-genre.
The main thing that seperates this installment from the previous two would be the ultimate question: Can zombies remember their past lives? Who they once were?
I thought this was a really cool element to add to the film. How the scientist (nicknamed Dr. Frankenstein by the obnoxious military guys) puts all his focus on trying to get what essentially is a zombie to remember his life before he was turned.
Saying this, there were parts I thought were a little cringeworthy including some acting (although most of it is really well done if over-done) and certain parts of the ending.
The gore and special effects were awesome considering the times it was made. There’s a scene in the underground military base where two of the survivors get locked on the side where all the zombies are. It’s completely dark, there’s zombies everywhere, they have no weapons. Just plain scary! Kinda reminded me of the scene in 28 Days Later minus running zombies and the taxi.
I have to say though, the characters in ‘Dawn’ were more likeable although the girl in ‘Day’ is kick-ass.
If you haven’t seen this series of movies, you simply MUST. They’re just awesome and have aged just as awesomely. :]
Not as good as Dawn but still a pretty great zombie film by Romero. I felt that the film would’ve been better if it just had more zombie action in it, most of the film was filled up with lots of dialogue and it was just too talkative. Luckily the dialogue was quite interesting and it really helped to develop the characters so that when they die you actually care. The final half hour or so was fantastic though with all the zombies and great B-Movie type gore.
Overall Day is one hell of a lot better than Living but not as good as Dawn but still check this out if you haven’t yet seen it.
this movie is fucking great!!!! pass the bong, drink some beers, and get ready to have a great time!!! thats all you need to know before watching this!!
It was good i saw this on sci-fy on cable
I did not like opening scene in this movie as they were trying to scare us with false scary to early on.
There were some scary zombies in this movie which looked more angry in this movie then the others. Then for really long time this movie get bit boring, not much happens in this movie but then about hour into it start to get going again and action dose not stop until the end. last part of the movie was really good as it had lot of good and nasty gory deaths. The acting in this movie was so bad, it’s was laughable
I really liked the night of the living dead and I think Dawn of the Dead was great, I didn’t not enjoy this movie like enjoyed the other two movies.
This is NOT the worst zombie movie in the series
There’s still no more room is hell…
Day of the Dead tells the story of 12 survivors who are held up in an old abandoned missile silo somewhere in Florida, who for all they know as the last survivors of the human race. What makes this film so great is gore is excellently done, the script is very good and the atmosphere is very tense.
The basic premise of the film is that these 12 people made up of scientists and soldiers believe they may be the only 12 people left in the world. The world is completely overrun by zombies (the battle was lost somewhere in between Dawn and Day), and they have had no contact with anyone for months or even years. As claustrophobia and stir craziness sets it they all begin to fight and lose sight of what they are actually doing. The scientists are looking for a cure and the military just want to kill the zombies but they are low on ammo and are outnumbered 400,000 to 1!. With no clear idea of how they are going to get out of the mess they are in tensions rise between the group…
One of the scientists (Doctor Logan) believes that he can control the zombies and he teaches one to not see him as food and learns it tricks, however as you may have guessed this does not go down with the soldiers who constantly threaten the scientists for action. All of this builds up to a very violent bloodbath ending.
This film is quite tense and has a dark and claustrophobic feel to it throughout. It truly is one of my favourite films and in my opinion is both better than Night and Dawn of the Dead. Day is most certainly an overlooked classic. Although the acting is a bit dodgy and over the top at times this is a great movie and remains a classic is the zombie field to this day.
I give this 10 out of 10 because it probably is one of, if not the ultimate zombie movie!
This is the greatest zombie movie ever.The characters are great.The dialoge is so freaking sweet!”Yes sir!,F#%k you sir!”AND the Effects!!I remember walking in on my parents watching(you thought I was gonna say f#%kin)this film when I was way too young.I had nightmares for years.Mostly of being eaten.Perfect Zombie Film.
While I’m partial to ‘Dawn’, many argue that ‘Day’ is the best of the zombie flicks. Every time I watch this film I’m tempted to switch sides. While most of the action/gore doesn’t occur until near the end of the film, it’s some of the best in any movie ever. The scenes building up to the conclusion are haunting, claustrophobic, and insightful meditations on the human condition. This is a thinking person’s horror film. Plus, Bub is the best zombie ever! An essential film that only gets better with repeat viewings.
some of the best gore ever and Bub all in one movie = great! i remember being blown away by just how nasty this movie was when i was a kid and still to this day think this movie has some of the best practical effects work there is.
The weakest movie in the original Living Dead Trilogy, but still an enjoyable zombie movie with a lot of social commentary and gross gore.
Bub is the greatest Zombie of all time.This had some awesome gore.Acting was a little weak but passable.The Military lair is another cool setting.Plot was well done too.A must own!