Day of the Dead [Collector's Edition] [Blu-ray]

Overview

Day of the Dead, the third and concluding chapter in George Romero's zombie trilogy is the most distinctly 1950s-style science fiction version of the lot. Set in Florida, as the film begins the dead have taken over the world, outnumbering humans 400,000 to one. The handful of surviving humans have taken refuge in an underground missile silo and argue and yell at each other like players in a Rod Serling Twilight Zone episode. Among the survivors are Sarah (Lori Cardille) -- a scientist who is trying to reverse the process whereby the dead turn into flesh-eating, irrational zombies -- and Dr. Logan (Richard Liberty) -- an out-of-his-mind psychologist who wants to capture the zombies and turn them into domestic help. Things heat up when the military tries to take over the scientific experiments.

Product Details

Release Date:	09/17/2013
UPC:	0826663142853
Original Release:	1985
Rating:	NR
Source:	Shout Factory
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Language:	English
Time:	1:41:00
Sales rank:	5,233

Special Features

New high-definition transfer; New documentary - World's End: The Legacy of Dawn of the Dead; Audio commentary with writer/director George A. Romero, special makeup effects artist Tom Savini, production designer Cletus Anderson and actress Lori Cardille; Behind-the-scenes footage from special makeup effects creator Tom Savini's archives; Photo galleries; Theatrical trailers; TV spots; And more...

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Lori Cardille	Sahra
Terry Alexander	John,Actor
Joseph Pilato	Rhodes,Actor
Jarlath Conroy	McDermott,McDermott
Antone DiLeo Jr.	Miguel,Miguel
Richard Liberty	Dr. Logan
Howard Sherman	Bub
Gary Howard Klar	Steel,Actor
Ralph Marrero	Rickles
John Amplas	Fisher
Phillip G. Kellams	Miller
Taso N. Stavrakis	Torrez
Gregory Nicotero	Johnson
Don Brockett	Featured Zombie
William Cameron	Featured Zombie
Deborah Carter	Featured Zombie
Winnie Flynn	Featured Zombie
Debra Gordon	Featured Zombie
Jeff Hogan	Featured Zombie
Barbara Holmes	Featured Zombie
David Kindlon	Featured Zombie
Bruce Kirkpatrick	Featured Zombie
William Andrew Laczko	Featured Zombie
Susan Martinelli	Featured Zombie
Kim Maxwell	Featured Zombie
Barbara Russell	Featured Zombie
Gene A. Saraceni	Featured Zombie
John Schwartz	Featured Zombie,un zombie
Mark Tierno	Featured Zombie
Michael Trcic	Featured Zombie
John Vulich	Featured Zombie
R.H. Martin	Featured Zombie
Sherman Howard	Bub le zombie
George Romero	Zombie with Scarf (uncredited)
Antone Dileo	Actor
John Harrison	Composer

Technical Credits

George Romero

Salah M. Hassanein	Executive Producer,Producer
Steve Kirshoff	Special Effects
Mark Mann	Special Effects
George Romero	Director,Screenwriter
Richard P. Rubinstein	Producer
Tom Savini	Special Effects
Taso N. Stavrakis	Stunts
Gary Alexander	Sound Effects
James Beshears	Sound Effects
Tony Buba	Sound Effects
Christine Forrest	Casting

Editorial Reviews

It doesn't quite live up to the legacy of its predecessors, but Day of the Dead is still a wild ride with equal shots of drive-in cheese and horror flick gore. This third and final entry in George Romero's low-budget zombie series (after Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead) finds the world overrun by Romero's rigid-limbed posse of the posthumous, who now outnumber the living by 400,000 to 1. A surviving military science unit in Florida continues its studies on zombies to figure out how to either control or stop them. The team members are constantly at odds over the issue of military might vs. scientific right: While the army marches in lockstep behind the hotheaded tyrant Capt. Rhodes (Joesph Pilato), the scientists are disorganized, with feisty Sarah (Lori Cardille) battling both Rhodes and Dr. Logan (Richard Liberty), a.k.a. "Frankenstein," who tinkers with captive flesh eaters, domesticating one creature (Howard Sherman), and dubbing him Bub (a sentimental touch that, in a Romero movie, can only foreshadow ironies yet to come). Once the opposing sides have finished yelling and tension is raised to a fever pitch -- which is pretty far into the movie -- everything thankfully devolves into a zombie attack of gooey proportions. This is when the movie finally does the series justice. The bloody "no way out" scenario is a blast of a climax; the carnage is gleeful, and Tom Savini's makeup effects have only grown uglier since '78's Dawn of the Dead. In due course, Day of the Dead rounds out the trilogy, though it is best appreciated when watched after the previous two films -- and maybe with some lights on.

Barnes & Noble - Tony Nigro

The last, to date at least, of George Romero's living dead films is in many respects the least interesting, although it's not for a lack of ambition. Set in a claustrophobic underground missile silo long after the zombies have taken over the surface, it populates its creepy milieu with two competing factions: soldiers and scientists. One party seeks a logical solution to the zombie problem, even going so far as to attempt to domesticate a soulful-looking walking corpse. The other seeks only survival. The most blatantly allegorical of the Dead films, it's also the muddiest and least resonant, with its attempt to connect its story to Reagan-era America coming off as too self-conscious when compared to its predecessors. Too talky by far, it comes alive in a gory finale, and while still memorable than most horror films, Romero fans have come to expect more from the director and his signature series.

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