Day of the Dead
Day of the Dead (also known as George A. Romero’s Day of the Dead) is a 1985 horror film by director George A. Romero, the third of Romero’s Living Dead movies. It is preceded by Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead. Steve Miner directed a remake which was released on February 15, 2008. Director George A. Romero describes the film as a “tragedy about how a lack of human communication causes chaos and collapse even in this small little pie slice of society”.
Plot
An undead apocalypse has ravaged the Earth whilst America’s last surviving humans study them from within an underground military establishment. The survivors in the film are horrified at the prospect that they “are the only ones left”, creating a crisis within human civilization over whether or not the idea of human society should be continued or abandoned. The living characters in the film are made up of three distinctive groups, each of whom have been given a task by the government – but since the government is no longer providing oversight (and may no longer exist) each group is becoming increasingly subject to temptations that go beyond their instructions. The scientists have been ordered to find a resolution to the epidemic but are tempted to violate nature’s boundaries guarding life and death, soldiers who are assigned to protect the doctors appointed to study the zombies but are tempted to enforce fascistic martial law and destroy the specimens in an act of rebellion, and the civilians who are assigned to serve both groups with basic though necessary services like transportation and communication but are tempted to abandon the cause and, instead, live out their last days in reckless abandon.
Cast
- Lori Cardille as Dr. Sarah Bowman
- Terry Alexander as John
- Joe Pilato as Captain Rhodes
- Jarlath Conroy as William McDermott
- Anthony Dileo Jr. as Pvt. Miguel Salazar
- Richard Liberty as Dr. Matthew Logan / “Frankenstein”
- Sherman Howard as Bub, The Zombie
- Gary Howard Klar as Pvt. Steel
- Ralph Marrero as Pvt. Rickles
- John Amplas as Dr. Ted Fisher
- Phillip G. Kellams as Pvt. Miller
- Taso N. Stavrakis as Pvt. Torrez
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The description uses the word “tempted” too much lol
Comment by John — June 26, 2009 @ 2:15 am
this is my favorite zombie movie!
Comment by god free youth — August 3, 2009 @ 4:09 am
There should never have been a remake of this film. Ever. It’s such a perfect classic and they had to go and remake it. So sad. Still. We have this piece of greatness to remind us all on why Romero is the father of the undead!
Comment by Zombie News — October 22, 2009 @ 2:46 am
You know, as much as I loved the original Dawn of the Dead and much of Romero’s work, I felt this was a weak story overall. I couldn’t feel any connection to any of the survivors because they were all such extreme stereotypes, and in the end I was begging for them to be chomped on by the undead. I still see this as a classic of the genre, and one that should be watched by everyone who considers themself a zombie movie fan, but I don’t see it as perfect.
Comment by Janus — February 6, 2010 @ 12:59 pm