Day of the Dead (1985)
Directed by George A. Romero
As the world is overrun by zombies, scientists and military personnel in an underground Florida bunker must decide on how they should deal with the undead.
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There’s also a bit of the “Road Warrior” films, a hefty dose of Stephen King’s “The Stand,” and even more of George A. Romero’s “Living Dead” trilogy, specifically the underrated third entry “Day of the Dead,” which is so closely emulated here that parts of “28 Days Later” feel like a shameless rip-off.
28 Days Later is like all three George A. Romero Dead movies packed into one: Its larky shopping scene recalls Dawn of the Dead (1978), and it ends in a military compound, where much of the messed-up Day of the Dead (1985) is set.
The entire subplot featuring the crazed military and the captured zombie borders on intellectual theft, as it is nearly a duplicate of the Bud the Zombie subplot, featured in George A. Romero's Day of the Dead.
Salivation started in 1998, when George A. Romero, creator of classic zombie fare such as, Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead, plus the director of a couple of Japanese ads for the Resident Evil 2 video game, announced that he was to write and direct the Resident Evil movie.
Gore hounds will appreciate the homage to Romero’s Day of the Dead, and Marilyn Manson fans should groove to the metallic techno-industrial score cowritten by the shock-rock freak.
It draws inspiration from classics like The Shining, Hereditary, Day of the Dead, and a kind of reverse Village of the Damned.
For every gross-out Day Of The Dead moment or freaky-faced jumpscare…
Throughout, one gets a sense that the animated-minded Yeon wanted to fully blend that ever-present Akira influence with the later Romero films, specifically Day of the Dead .
It’s a staple archetype of power-mad, post-apocalypse military misogyny we’ve seen in the zombie genre a hundred times before, from Joseph Pilato’s tyrannical Captain Rhodes in Day of the Dead to Christopher Eccleston in 28 Days Later, but this time around there’s not even a basic attempt being made at a moral of man’s inhumanity to man—why bother, when you can start throwing prisoners into zombie pits to fight it out in the style of Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome?
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Movies about the dead returning to life have been around almost as long as cinema itself, but it is writer-director George A. Romero who popularized an entire subgenre of zombie films with 1968's "Night of the Living Dead" and its subsequent companion pieces, 1978's "Dawn of the Dead" and 1985's "Day of the Dead."
There’s almost nothing in this movie that hasn’t been done better by other filmmakers, including the idea that zombies retain some shards of human identity — see George A. Romero’s underappreciated “Day of the Dead” — and the walled-off human city where Julie and her hardass anti-zombie dad (John Malkovich, in his recent gettin’-paid mode) and other survivors live, as seen in almost every apocalypse flick.
Mattie's character - her head for business, her unsentimentality, her rootedness and forthrightness - are immediately established in her dealings with the Undertaker (Jarlath Conroy, "Day of the Dead").
Therefore, unlike the Romero films (notably “Dawn of the Dead” and “Day of the Dead”) there are whole countries where zombies don’t rule.
Shaun of the Dead’s grue-laden take on the horror genre (and in particular Romero’s Dawn of the Dead, recently remade stateside to fine effect by Zack Snyder) is the most faithful and interesting film about the walking dead we’ve seen since the last time we visited Romero’s besieged Pittsburgh (in 1985’s Day of the Dead) and is one of the best stand-alone horror films of the past 10 years.
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When it comes to horrors and chillers, the general rule of thumb/bum is that, with some notable exceptions - Evil Dead II, Dawn of the Dead (1978), Day of the Dead (1985), whatever you're having yourself - the sequel isn't as good as the original.
As years pass, and time forgets those less fortunate genre duds, The Conjuring 2 will continue to be mentioned in the same breath as Evil Dead II , Dawn Of The Dead and Aliens when fans debate their favorite – aka the greatest – horror sequels ever.
…a set-up that may remind some horror fans of Romero's "Day of the Dead," in which Dr. Logan tries to rehabilitate a zombie named Bub.