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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.
Posted By: YoungHorror at 8:27pm, September 12, 2009
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.
Posted By: Chadinator92 at 8:17pm, September 8, 2009
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!
Posted By: nkyphantom at 10:35pm, September 6, 2009
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.
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!
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.
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
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 :D!!!!! 9/10!
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.
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.
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!
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Posted By: Protecious at 11:39pm, September 30, 2008
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
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.
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.
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.
"'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&pwarder@gbd.com), imdb.com
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.
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.
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