Day Of The Dead

Image Not Available Director: George A Romero Dvd Release: 6th September, 1999 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: PAL, Region 2 Encoding

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Day of the Dead is a horror film by director George A Romero & the third of four movies beginning with Night of the Living Dead & continued in Dawn of the Dead & completed in Land of the Dead. Day of the Dead deals with the zombie assault on a military establishment, satirizing the military mindset in the process. The film received the least enthusiastic critical review of the three films. Its production budget was severely curtailed & instead of the original $7 million budget, was completed on less than $3,5 million. The film has been widely criticized for various reasons. Many fans of the second film, Dawn of the Dead, were disappointed in this third offering, as its plot is considerably less sweeping in nature; but Romero himself calls it his favorite of the original trilogy. Fans of the film point out, however, that the iconic human characters purposefully contrast with the precocious zombie lead, Bub, underscoring that zombies & humans are not so different.

George A Romero is an American director, writer, editor, actor & composer. He was born & grew up in New York City & attended Pittsburghs Carnegie Mellon University. After graduation, he began shooting mostly short films & commercials. He & friends formed Image Ten Productions in the late 1960s & they all chipped in roughly $10,000 apiece to produce what became one of the most celebrated horror films of all time, which he had written together with John A Night of the Living Dead. The movie became a cult classic in the 1970s. Theres Always Vanilla, The Crazies, Season of the Witch & Martin. Though not as acclaimed as Night of the Living Dead or some of his later work, these films had his signature social commentary while dealing with issues at the microscopic level. & like almost all of his films, they were shot in or around Romeros favorite city of Pittsburgh. In 1978, Romero returned to the zombie genre with Dawn of the Dead. Shot on a budget of just $1,5 million, the film earned over $40 million worldwide & was named one of the top cult films by Entertainment Weekly in 2003. Posters Of Night Of The Living Dead

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