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Summary: The darkest day of horror a bright spot for Romero.
Review: Romero's maligned third Dead movie [following Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead] suffered from both fans high expectations for another Dawn like action epic and the then popular comedic slant in horror [i.e Return of the Living Dead and Re-Animator] is, in my opinion, the best movie in the series. The world has now been overrun with zombies and the last vestiges of humanity are hidden away in an underground bunker, slowly going stir crazy. This is grim, dark stuff far closer in tone to Night of the Living Dead than the comedic cult classic that was Dawn of the Dead.Anchor Bay has done an almost perfect job restoring the movie. The picture is gorgeous, the extras a delight, and the packaging sweet. But the audio, oh the audio. There are six little alterations that, for someone like me, who knows the movie by heart, can irritate (it just sounds 'off'). So I dock the DISC a star, the movie itself retains a five star rating, but this edition would get 4 and a half stars. Nonetheless, fans of Romero, or of intelligent and darkly serious horror movies, need this in their libraries. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Failure to finish up
Review: With visceral grit and gore turned up Day of the Dead finishes the original Romero trilogy. Completely outnumbered by the flesh eating zombies, a small band of scientists and military personnel hold up in an underground cavernous bunker. The overworked and overwrought scientists try to make headway with 'specimens' harvested from up ground sorties. While this would have stood on its own merits; I think it pales in comparison to the original film and its place in the trilogy. I have such a respect and affection for the original this just seems a disjointed tack-on, I didn't care for Dawn of the Dead much either. Too much self referential humour, it's missing the chilling and serious aspects of the original. While it was mildly amusing to see Bub do his thing, and interesting to note the pathos when he finds his doctor in a heap, it wasn't enough of a saving grace.
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Summary: dawn > night > day > all other zombie movies
Review: As said many times this movie is the worse of the three. But it is a good movie that just seems worse cause the first two movies were perfect. should you buy? well if you liked movies like 28 days later or other types of zombie movies you need to pick this up now. btw dont listen to someone who tells you to wait for dawn of the dead remake in 2004. it is a disgrace that they are remaking one of the greatest horror movies of all time. makeup? well it was filmed back in 70's. so duh! buy dawn of the dead before this if you can find a good price on in. also has anyone heard about a re-release of the dawn of the dead dvd?
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Summary: The Ultimate Zombie Movie!
Review: George A. Romero's DAY OF THE DEAD proves once and for all that when it comes to making horror movies about the dead coming back to life and chowing down on the living, Romero is the best there is. Hell, DAY OF THE DEAD makes all other zombie movies, especially Lucio Fulci's excellent zombie movies, look like child's play. My favorite character was Bub, played to perfection by Howard Sherman; his moments, including his discovery of Beethoven, are the best moments in the whole movie. Isn't that interesting, having a zombie as my favorite character in a zombie movie? Yet that makes sense considering most of the other characters in the film; however, Joe Pilato was great as Captain Rhodes, and the late Richard Liberty stole it as Dr. "Frankenstein" Logan. I also liked John the Jamaican helicopter pilot, played by Terry Alexander, who is the most sympathetic human character; his speech to Sarah (Lori Cardille, daughter of the reporter in the original NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, Chilly Billy) about the zombie situation is the most intelligent moment in any horror movie. Gary Klar also steals the show with his performance as nasty Private Steel.
Ah, but the gore in DAY OF THE DEAD is the real meat of this grue sandwich here! Tom Savini really poured himself into the effects (along with Greg Nicotero, who appears in the film as Johnson), and it shows. The scenes involving intestines sliding out onto the floor are guaranteed to upset your stomach. I really can't say enough about the climax that hasn't been already expressed; simply put, it's the greatest instance of gore ever filmed in movie history! Truly disturbing what happens to those unfortunate to cross paths with these zombies; it all makes Fulci look like Walt Disney! Savini won a well-deserved Saturn Award for his effects on DAY OF THE DEAD, the culmination of his awesome makeup effects work in all those splatter films he did in the late '70s and early '80s!
Anyway, this 2-disc set rocks! Stunning picture quality, like it was filmed yesterday! The extras are really awesome, especially the documentary "The Many Days Of DAY OF THE DEAD" featuring interviews with Romero, Savini, Nicotero, Cardille, Sherman, Pilato, production designer Cletus Anderson, assistant director Chris Romero (George's wife), and co-producer David Ball; their anecdotes on the production are really interesting and informative. There's also 2 commentaries, one with Romero, Savini, Anderson, and Cardille, and the other with director and Romero fan Roger Avary; a radio interview with Richard Liberty (shortly before his death in 2000); behind-the-scenes gore footage; photo gallery; trailers; and TV-spots. Oh, and I love the little booklet that looks like a legal pad with notes by Dr. Logan which contains liner notes from Michael Felsher on his view of DAY OF THE DEAD. A groundbreaking yet underrated horror movie whose reputation is steadily increasing, DAY OF THE DEAD is a definite must-watch!
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Summary: Awful
Review: This film doesn't even belong in the same genre as "Night of the Living Dead", let alone the same series. "Night" still stands up today with its eery scenery (in some ways the daytime scene in the cemetery was the most depressingly, cillingly frightening of the entire film), wonderful lighting, and suggestions of hopelessness. "Day of the Dead" is an orgy of excess fit only for adolescent boys.
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Summary: George A Romers. 3rd and Final Zombie masterpiece.
Review: What can i say George A. Romero is the zombie man. No one can create a zombie movie like him. The trilogy follows As night of the living dead then dawn of the dead then day of the dead. Some say this is the worst in the series, so do I. But it dosent mean its a bad movie. In this movie a single woman and about 30 other men are in a bunker. The acting is very strong, many actors feel the terror of the world coming to an end. Plenty of brain munching and good fx by Tom Savini. Overall great zombie film by George A. Romero. 4 stars being the worst in the series
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Summary: DAY of the DEAD, the best of the triology.
Review: I have been a huge fan of zombie films ever since my childhood years, and I couldn't wait for Day's re-release. I can't understand all the negative feedback this film has received. Night is awesome, and I recently made a mistake of purchasing "Dawn of the Dead" off e-bay, brand new for $50. I heard reviews saying it was such a masterpiece, man was I suckered. The story line was cool, but the movie was too dragged out, not enough action, and the make-up on the zombies was pathetic. ( Some reviewers will make excuses for the make-up being bad because it was made in the late 70's) It looked fake.(Wait for the remake or something similar to it in 2004) There's nothing wrong with paying homage & remaking a classic, in the case of "Dawn" it needs a facelift.
Anyways, "Day" rocks the make-up(best of the triology) and story setting is realistic and disturbing. They did a tremendous job with the remastering of the sound and picture quality. Colors were very vivid and detailed. My Klipsch speakers and sub rocked.
The quality is top notch and the extras are great, definetly worth the money. Your collection will never be complete if you don't have this one, Buy it!
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Summary: zombie fun!!
Review: this movie is very fun to watch.
a small band of people are holding out in an underground facility in south florida. they fly out in a helecopter to find any non-zombie survivors but come to the conclusion that they are all that is left.
there is a doctor among them that is performing experiments to find the why's and what's of the zombies and an over excited military guy who wants to "kill-em all and let god sort it out" as well as others who's own feelings about their situation help the viewer feel as abandoned and scared of what awaits them as they do.
the story here is strong with good character interaction.
the zombie fx's are just in your face gruesome! all the zombies are the good and rotten flesh kind hungry for your brain.
lots of blood squirtin ,flesh rippin,body eatin fun!
they do not make movies like this,which is why GEORGE ROMERO is the master at this genre.
LOOK OUT,BEHIND YOU - ZOMBIES!!!!
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Summary: Dinner is Served---with this extra-tasty Divimax DVD!
Review: Treat that flesh wound, make sure your M-16 is locked and loaded, and gas up the helicopter---it's time to gather up your buddies and fellow zombie survivors to enjoy the goriest, goopiest, sleaziest and most nihilistic of George Romero's ground-breaking, intestine-chewing Living Dead trilogy. "Day of the Dead" has never gotten much love from zombie aficionados, and some blast it as the weakest of the three. If you hear a critic say that---take the man's gun and bullets away, chances are he's already infected by the zombies! With this gorgeously remastered and fully loaded Divimax Special Edition from the zombie-lovin' folks at Anchor Bay, "Day of the Dead" takes its rightful place as a fitting capstone to Romero's legendary, sanguine trilogy. Never mind the chiaroscuro nastiness of "Night of the Living Dead", for my money "Day" is the most disturbing of the bunch. It works on so many levels. For starters, humanity is now truly under siege by the implacable plague of flesh-eaters, as a handful of soldiers and scientists take refuge from legions of zombies in an underground military base/missile silo deep beneath the Florida Everglades. Not surprisingly, this deranged little society of survivors is breaking down. Headed up by the crumbling Dr. Logan (played to twitchy-eyed perfection by Richard Liberty), the scientists, including heroine Sarah (played by former soap-opera maven Lori Cardille) and Doctor Fisher (a brief but chewy little role by John Amplas, who played a modern-day bloodsucker in Romero's "Martin"), are working against time to find a 'cure' for zombism. Just what the Dr. Logan's methodology for arriving at the cure is, or how well the research is going, is unclear, but Logan is awfully good at having the soldiers capture a zombie or two, and then going to work on the addled flesh-eater in the lab: we see a zombie with electrodes hooked up to its brain stem (the only part of its head that remains), a writhing but animated torso, and the severed head of one of the soldiers, a victim in a zombie attack now playing a bit role in Logan's "research". None of this seems to do much for a cure, but Logan seems to get a kick out of it---that and using simple stimulus to train his new zombie protege "Bub". On the other hand, the military---well, it's not clear what the military guys are doing, other than drinking, smoking, cussing, leering at Sarah, pushing the scientists around, and otherwise displaying bad manners. Oh, and letting off a clip or two in some hapless zombie's face---YEE-HAW! The point is that things in our cozy little bunker are quickly falling apart, and the military base's opposite centers of gravity---the giggling, google-eyed Dr. Logan for the scientists, and the snarling, trigger-happy Captain Rhodes (played to the hilt by Joe Pilato, who would be rolling ball bearings between his fingers if he had 'em)for the soldiers---are none too stable themselves. Something's gotta give! "Day of the Dead" has never looked so good with the new Anchor Bay transfer, and as a result the work of two Masters---Romero and special effects artist Tom Savini---is on display. Romero keeps the pacing crisp, offers some genuinely creepy shots, and plays around with colors (especially in the climactic silo sequence)in a way that would make Dario Argento proud. Tom Savini keeps the carbonara sauce in ample supply: blood flows like cheap merlot, so this is not a movie for the squeamish---but it's a feast for a gorehound, from the jawless zombie in the movie's haunting opening sequences to the---erm, "dishonorable discharge" of Captain Rhodes in the film's final moments. Rotting, groaning flesh-eaters have never looked---or sounded---so good. Gorehounds dig in! Romero has never been much of a stylist, preferring no-frills shots that keep the movie rolling, but in "Day" he surpasses himself with some truly stark and haunting imagery, from the ghoulish establishing shot in a Florida town overrun by the dead, to the long shots of the undead 'corral'. The acting is a bit raw across the board, but nobody hurts for enthusiasm, and everybody gets the job done. Richard Liberty, Joe Pilato, Howard Sherman (Bub) and Gary Klar (the shoot-first, don't bother about questions Private Steel) all chew scenery while the zombies chew flesh. It's all good fun. Two morals to this story: MORAL #1: While it's an OK idea to teach a zombie to appreciate Beethoven (hey, it worked for the little droogies in "A Clockwork Orange"), it's probably *not* such an OK idea to teach him how to shoot. MORAL #2: If the star-pupil Zombie Bub wants to salute you, then it's probably best to be a sport and play along.
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Summary: THE BEST OF THE TRILOGY!
Review: I don't know what Romero fans were thinking! This is by far the best of the three. It, however, has been ridiculed by Romero fans as the worst of the series. That is not true. Night of the living Dead was good, but pretty slow. Dawn of the Dead was an improvement in pace and thrills, but some parts were so slow they left me bored to living death. Day is a great improvement on both, although the other two are cult phenomenons. Day offers way better zombie makeup and special effects. The first scene in the film of a zombie with a missing jaw prepares you for the gore to come. While some characters are interesting, some are flat out boring. However, one character fascinated me in a way which no character has ever fascinated me before. The funny thing is he isn't quite human. This character is nicknamed Bub by the scientists and he's a zombie. But no ordinary zombie. For Dr. Logan has taught this zombie not to attack humans and how to use tools like tape players and telephones. Howard Sherman's performance as Bub is absolutely fantastic. The empathy for Bub's childlike innocence created by Howard Sherman is amazing. This is the only movie that you will actually root for a zombie. After I watched this movie, I absolutely loved it. If you love horror movies this movie is a must. Period.
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