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ay of the Dead is the third and final installment in George A. Romero’s cherished ‘Dead’ trilogy being preceded by ‘Night of the Living Dead’ and ‘Dawn of the Dead’.
It has been five years since the dead first walked. Hidden away in an underground storage facility are the last remnants of human society. A group of scientists and military officers are seemingly the only survivors, and they now search for a cure... or something else. One of the scientists, Dr. Logan, has begun training the zombies, starting with one particularly responsive subject, 'Bub'. But all goes to hell when the psychotic Captain Rhodes finds out that Logan has been using his own men as rewards, and decides to put an end to his experiments, by some very radical means.
Day of the Dead may be the weakest in the Dead series, but it is still one of the best zombie movies of all time. Many people were disappointed with Day, because it’s predecessors were such incredible films. The terrifying and claustrophobic ‘Night’ and the exciting cult classic ‘Dawn’. This film also suffered due to budget constraints. Romero refused to make an R-rated picture, so the production company forced Romero to cut his budget down to 3.5 million. Because of this, Romero was forced to make drastic changes to the script, leaving this movie as nothing but a shell of the original story.
This movie’s terror is derived from its tense, dark atmosphere. The characters become trapped underground as the dead congregate outside the base. There is also a general feeling of hopelessness for the characters, from what the audience can tell they are the last people on earth, and it doesn’t look like they’re going to survive. However, this feeling of hopelessness is countered by the fact that you really aren’t lead to care about most of the characters. All the characters that did die you either wanted to see die, or you could care less either way about.
This movie contains one of the most spectacular death scenes in movie history, masterfully created by Tom Savini. Because of this scene and scenes like it, this movie remains unrated, which is one of the aspects which hurt this movie’s success along with the simultaneous release of "Return of the Living Dead".
As you might assume from the fact that this movie is unrated, the gore is extreme at times, so be forewarned...
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I really enjoyed this movie and if you avoid comparing it to the previous films you will too. It’s scary and gory, just don’t watch it if you have a weak stomach.
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George Romero makes a small cameo in this film, he plays a zombie pushing a cart near the end of the film. 
The book Logan gives to Bub is Salem's Lot by Stephen King.
Greg Nicotero (Johnson) used his realistic animatronic severed head to play a practical joke on his mother.
Joe Pilato also has a role in Dawn, he plays a renegade officer at the police docks.
Lori Cardille (Sarah) is the daughter of Bill 'Chilly Billy' Cardille who played a journalist in both the original and remake versions of Night of the Living Dead.
John Amplas (Fisher) played the lead role in George A. Romero's vampire classic, "Martin", and makes a cameo in Dawn as a shooter on the roof.
On the commentary of "Day of the Dead", Tom Savini mentioned that the newspaper titled "the dead walk" (at the beginning of the movie) is the same paper that was shown on Resident Evil. -Thanks to Jon
The Marvel comic character Wolverine's name is "Logan", and he always uses the phrase "Bub". -Thanks to Sanityisoverrated
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When Captain Rhodes (Joe Pilato) gets pulled in two, you can clearly see that the organ that gets yanked out by a zombie is actually a rubber chicken covered in red goop. -Thanks to Sheriff Bat
At the begining of the movie, you can see that the alligator's mouth is straped up with tape. -Thanks to Rogério Barbosa
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Real pig intestines were used in the death scene of Rhodes, but someone unplugged the fridge two weeks before the shoot and the guts became rotton. Preparing to shoot the scene took several hours and Joe Pilato (Rhodes) was stuck in the floor the whole time. By the time the shoot was over everyone was running away gagging.
All the zombie extras received one hat with 'I was a zombie in Day of the Dead' written on it, one autographed copy of 'The Dead Walk' newspaper featured at the beginning of the film and one dollar.
Although this film was set in Florida, most of it was filmed in a salt mine outside Pittsburgh PA.
Lori Cardille said on TV that, in the scene where all the hands are coming through the wall (the second picture on your Day of the Dead page), her real life husband's hand was protecting her stomach and breasts so that the other 'hands' would not touch her. -Thanks to David Nicholas
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The film was mostly shot at the Wampum Industrial Storage Facility in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. Like a hollowed out mountain with a labyrinth of tunnels, the facility was previously a cavernous salt-mine that is now used for all kinds of government and civilian storage. The facility, near Pittsburgh, PA. doubled for the interiors of the underground missile/storage facility.
Exterior scenes of the base and the elevator were shot at the Manor Nike Missile Site, New Texas Rd in Plum Borough, northeast of Pittsburgh and immediately north of the borough of Monroeville, PA.
Ft. Myers Florida-downtown. I was about 14 years old - although I never saw the actual filming (perhaps because it was at night), I remember the overturned cars and the "redecorating" of my hometown for a "Big Movie." [Thanks to James Clouse]
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This soundtrack consists mostly of the wonderful synth background music from the movie composed by John Harrison. It was released in 2002 as a Limited Edition of 3000 copies.
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| | "The darkest day in horror the world has ever known..."
| |  | | In an underground facility full of Zombies... |
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| 1985 | Studio:
| Laurel | Director:
| George A. Romero | Starring:
| Lori Cardille,
Terry Alexander, Joe Pilato, Richard Liberty, Howard Sherman,
Jarlath Conroy, Antone DiLeo, John Amplas | | - | - | Genre:
| Horror | | | | + | Amazing gore and make-up effects, frightening atmosphere, one of the best zombie movies of all time. | - | Slow-paced, characters are uninteresting for the most part, the predecessors were far superior. |
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