Zombie Movies » Day of the Dead http://zombiemovies.org Sat, 05 Jun 2010 00:13:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Day of the Dead http://zombiemovies.org/day-of-the-dead.html http://zombiemovies.org/day-of-the-dead.html#comments Mon, 09 Mar 2009 04:16:01 +0000 Bub http://zombiemovies.org/?p=96 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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