I'm watching Day of the Dead (1985) in honor of the great, George Romero

I can't remember it but I am pretty sure I saw it.

The shirtless marine watering the weed at the beginning is hot.

Miguel pinged to me.

So, what. So, FUCKING what.

Miguel is my favorite character because he's so sassy. I loved him. I thought George Romero was brilliant for creating a gay marine back in 1985.

The music is fantastic. Haunting.

Throwbacks all have big dicks!

Why THIS one OP? Why not Night or Dawn?

I love the acting, R7. This film focuses more on the humans this time-the satire is with them. They humans are the monsters in this one. Love Captain Rhodes.

Ebert didn't like this one as well as Dawn or Night but I think it was fantastic. I don't agree this one is not as good as the others.

I really thought rhodes in this, also played larry underwood from the stand but then I realized he would be too old. I still think they look alike though...

Joseph Pilato is a great actor. He should have had a bigger career.

Dawn was filmed at our local mall

Cool!!

I was just thinking how fun it would have been to be an extra. I know they cast Pittsburgh locals.

Joe Pilato looks kinda like Tyler Posey. I can visualize what Tyler will kind of look like when he's older.

"Don't shoot em. We need his ass".

That's a hot line.

Sherman Howard as "Bub", the captured zombie that they try to civilize, is one of the greatest performances I've ever seen. It's scary, but also hilarious and genuinely moving. The scene where he shoots Captain Rhodes and as the horde of zombies pull him to pieces, Bub salutes is such a great moment.

I liked both Dawn's better

I just watched this tonight for the first time. I wasn't expecting to like it that much; I don't watch a lot of zombie movies, and the horror podcast I was listening to today mentioned in passing that this was a more grim story. I have seen the original Dawn of the Dead and Zombi 2. However, I actually liked this one a lot more than expected. I enjoyed the fact that it was more about the people hiding out underground than continuous jump scares and gore. I mean there was definitely enough gore and I had to look away at times, but it didn't follow the stock standard plot that I can imagine a film like that would follow today. So I didn't already know what was going to happen before it did, if you get me. Everytime I thought: "and now this will happen", it didn't.

The version I watched had to have been remastered because it looked amazing. I love the music, I loved the atmosphere, I thought the performances were good, the story interesting and I was glad to have watched it. Also I find it refreshing that it was a movie where the American military are all cunts and we want revenge on them. I feel in most movies made, they would've been the heroes. It kept it more interesting and unexpected for me.

As for Miguel pinging, mentioned above, well, he did for me too, very much. For some reason, I imagined the two guys living in the trailer together to be a couple as well.

2020 be like:

If memory serves this wasn't exactly the movie Romero wanted to make, but budget issues resulted in him downsizing the scope of the production.

I saw this in the theaters when it first came out. At the end one of the characters wakes up on the island they escaped to, and a guy in the theater jumped up and yelled "Damn! It was all a dream!"

R21, I was doing some reading up on this last night after I saw the movie and I think I read something about him wanting it to be the Gone with the Wind of zombie movies. I believe the original script is online somewhere, it'd be interesting to see what was intended. As disappointing as that must've been for him, I thought the end result was really great.

I really liked that this was so focused on the characters, and reminded me that the other zombie movie I remember enjoying was 28 Days Later, which similarly focused more on how people were behaving. It's even more scary than flesh eating monsters roaming about, because humans can be awful. I liked that both these movies kept the tension there with the idea that the surviving women were in danger of sexual violence, but that we never actually see anything like that, cause I really don't like watching that kind of thing. And anyway, the tension of what could happen is much stronger than showing every terrible thing under the sun happening.

I almost think I enjoyed watching Day more than Dawn, but I might watch Dawn again to see. It's slightly unfair beause before I watched Dawn I was reading up on how many different versions of it there were, and wanting the most 'complete' I watched a 2 and a half hour version on YouTube that I think was put together by fans to be as comprehensive as possible, but I probably should've just watched the original Romero version. Anyway, I still really enjoyed that too, but I think Day edged it out slightly for me.

I loved Dawn when it came out (I was 14 and snuck in) but was underwhelmed by Day because it was so unpleasant. It just seemed like a lot of nasty people yelling at each other. Put some of the gore was fabulous...especially when they pulled that guy apart "Choke on it!" "

Classic film.

I was listening to the Evolution of Horror podcast about this movie the other day, and they were saying that your feeling R24 was pretty much most people's at the time. The tone was different and it didn't focus as much on zombies. That's actually what I really enjoyed about it, but I can see the other side too. I think the movie has aged really well and now people generally think more highly of it.

I really wasn't expecting to like it at all, and was very pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed it.

I'd discovered 'Night' and 'Dawn' on VHS back in 1983, so I was caught up, as it were, and primed to see 'Day' in the theaters when it came out in 1985. Of the three, 'Dawn'78 is still my favorite. But for me, 'Day' is haunted by a sense of doom that the previous two films lacked. It's sort of the way I feel about 𝐎𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 (1959) which really made me loathe that film; to this day, I still cannot bear to watch it (but then again, I was exposed to it during a really bad patch in my life, in '76, and it scarred me). The soundtrack score to 'Day' also reflects this sense of hopelessness. It's not at all as playful and fun as the score to Dawn'78 (American theatrical version, the one with all the library cues).

So, although I can still watch 'Day' and enjoy it, it's not really my favorite of the trilogy.

[quote] I was doing some reading up on this last night after I saw the movie and I think I read something about him wanting it to be the Gone with the Wind of zombie movies.

R23, not knowing anything about Romero's take on GWTW, I can't imagine what that might have meant. What do you suppose he meant in the context of a zombie film?

This is my favorite Dead I think because the villains in this were the humans and I sympathized with the zombies (Bub) and the abuse they experienced from Rhodes and sometimes Dr Frankenstein.

Plus the fantastic score.

[quote]This is my favorite Dead I think because the villains in this were the humans

The villains have always been the humans, R29. In 'Night,' it was Harry Cooper downstairs in the basement and his struggles with Ben over who was going to be in charge. In 'Dawn,' it was the biker gang who spotted the helicopter on the roof and decided to take the mall for themselves, and Steven, who began weapons fire upon them.

The threat represented by the zombies is incidental, and could actually be anything - the breakdown of social order and the resulting fascism, the struggle for resources, a pandemic - anything. Have you ever seen George Romero's 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐫𝐚𝐳𝐢𝐞𝐬 (1973)?

R28, yeah I'm not 100% sure what he meant by that either. I assumed it was to be a much longer, more expansive look at what was going on, different locations, perhaps different groups of people? Over a longer period of time? Perhaps the final film was just the final act of his original idea? I haven't read the original script, but the one thing I did hear was that one of the changes would be to have the zombie corral located above ground somewhere else.

The score is atrocious!

I don't mind the score in this one. However, no zombie movie score can compare to Fabio Frizzi's for Zombi 2, in my opinion.

Day of the Dead’ Actor Gary Klar Has Passed Away

Sad news! He still had many more years in him. I thought he was great in Day of the Dead; a horrible character, but great at portraying him and memorable.

Well—R36, cause you of death was not mentioned so, I’m assuming COVID. It’s sad.

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