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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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