Zombie fans everywhere that have seen all of Romero’s movies tend to rank ‘Day of the Dead’ as one of his 3 best works. It’s often overshadowed by the importance of ‘Night of the Living Dead’ as well as the fame of ‘Dawn of the Dead’ (and it’s later remake.)
It doesn’t help that a ‘remake’ of ‘Day of the Dead’ was quite horrible and had nothing to do with being based on the original film.
Still, it’s a classic. It’s Romero’s first big take on zombies becoming more intelligent with the introduction of Bub which is something that has been echoing through all of his movies and pushed the idea of intelligent zombies into novels such as ‘Breathers’ and ‘The Dishonored Dead’ as well as novels turned movies such as ‘Warm Bodies’.
At one point though he was driving his kids around in a van and they were watching the film in the backseat. Only being able to listen to his work he came to the realization that the film really would work as a radio show.
In the front seat, I’m driving and listening to it. You know what, it works as a radio show. I was cracking up
So next time you have a hankering for some 80’s zombie classic action maybe you should consider giving ‘Day of the Dead’ not a watch, but a listen.
In this the third film in the continuing saga of the undead from writer/director George A. Romero (Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Land of the Dead, Diary of the Dead, Survival of the Dead), a small group of scientists and soldiers have taken refuge in an underground missile silo where they struggle to control the flesh-eating horror that walks the earth above. But will the final battle for the future of the human race be fought among the living or have they forever unleashed the hunger of the dead? Lori Cardille, Joe Pilato and Richard Liberty star in this controversial classic with groundbreaking gore effects by Tom Savini.
Source: USA Today.
