Johnny Canuck3
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The Groke said:
Day has to be my favourite.
It has the barking, cut-in-half demonstration dog.
Pure genius.
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Day has to be my favourite.
It has the barking, cut-in-half demonstration dog.
Pure genius.
Day of the Dead
BBC 2 Tonight
(100 min., 1985, USA, 18 Science fiction/Fantasy/Horror)
Zombies threaten the future of humankind in the conclusion of George A Romero's gruesome Living Dead trilogy. Trapped in a missile silo, a small team of scientists, civilians and trigger-happy soldiers battle desperately to ensure the survival of the human race, but tension inside the base is reaching breaking-point, and the zombies are gathering outside. Definitely not for the squeamish.
BBC 2 Tonight
(100 min., 1985, USA, 18 Science fiction/Fantasy/Horror)
Zombies threaten the future of humankind in the conclusion of George A Romero's gruesome Living Dead trilogy. Trapped in a missile silo, a small team of scientists, civilians and trigger-happy soldiers battle desperately to ensure the survival of the human race, but tension inside the base is reaching breaking-point, and the zombies are gathering outside. Definitely not for the squeamish.
Spandex
A crazy bulbous punchbag of sound
I'm going for Night. A film where I wouldn't change a thing. Which is why I hate the re-edit where they changed it.
Dawn is pretty fucking good too though, although I think the Blazing Saddles style ending lets it down.
Day was a loads better than a lot of people say it is.
Haven't seen Land yet.
Dawn is pretty fucking good too though, although I think the Blazing Saddles style ending lets it down.
Day was a loads better than a lot of people say it is.
Haven't seen Land yet.
scumbalina
Scummy Mummy
Virtual Blue
ready
No The Return of the Living Dead?
Dawn of the Dead it is then. Brings back memories that film.
Dawn of the Dead it is then. Brings back memories that film.
bouncer_the_dog
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Stolen from IMDB ... sorry ed for C&P
Trivia for
Day of the Dead (1985)
Real pig intestines were used for the scene where Rhodes gets ripped apart in the hallway. Unfortunately, someone had left the guts out of the freezer over the weekend, and after the scene was shot the cast and crew ran away gagging.
The book Dr. Logan gives to Bub is Stephen King's "Salem's Lot."
George A. Romero had originally planned for all the zombies to perish in a massive explosion when they stumbled across explosive chemicals in the laboratory. Meanwhile, one of the crew members who had died during the attack was to have stayed dead and not come back as a zombie, thereby giving hope to the survivors.
The original script, for which George A. Romero couldn't get budget for, involved the scientists living over-ground in a fortress protected by electrified fences and the military living safely underground. It also involved a small army of trained zombies, and the conclusion to the trilogy more brutal than the current version.
All the extras who portrayed zombies in the climax received for their services: a cap that said "I Played A Zombie In 'Day of the Dead'", a copy of the newspaper from the beginning of the film (the one that says THE DEAD WALK!), and one dollar.
The first scene (abandoned city) of the movie was filmed in Fort Myers and Sanibel Island, Florida.
The budget for George A. Romero's original script was estimated at $7 million, but he would only be given the money if he could film an R-rated film. He was told that if he went ahead and shot an unrated film with no limits on gore, the budget would be split in half to $3.5 million.
In the opening dream sequence, in which zombie hands burst through a wall to grab Sarah, one of the hands touches her breast. This zombie arm was actress Lori Cardille's husband.
The lowest grossing film in George A. Romero's "Dead" trilogy. Nonetheless, it's gained a cult following over the last two decades, and the director himself has stated that he considers it his best film.
The underground facility was not on a soundstage. It was shot in the Wampum mine, a former limestone mine near Pittsburgh, that was being used for a underground storage facility. The 2,500,000 square foot mine is now operated as the Gateway Commerce Center who now called it a "subsurface storage facility".
The only movie in George A. Romero's "Dead" series where a zombie has a line of dialog (Bub says, "Hello Aunt Alicia.").
In the scene change right after Logan tells the zombie that it needs to sit in the dark and think about what it did, and punishes it by turning off the light, a little bit of the "Zombie March" music from Dawn of the Dead (1978) can be heard in the scene change.
In the cafeteria scene, William McDermott (Jarlath Conroy) says that "All of the shopping malls are closed." This is a clear reference to the film's predecessor Dawn of the Dead (1978), which is set in a shopping mall.
There is a debatable scene in the film where Bub the zombie may or may not have another line of dialogue. When Sarah enters Logan's lab, she is startled when Bub emerges from the shadows behind her. After this, he moans something that some fans believe is, "I'm sorry."
Most of the zombie extras in this film were Pittsburg residents who volunteered to help in the film.
The word "zombie" is never used.
During the scene of Miguel's sedation, Lori Cardille told Anthony Dileo Jr. to actually slap her to make it look more authentic.
Cameo: ['George A. Romero' ] As a zombie pushing a cart in the foreground during the final zombie feast, seen from the waist down and identified by his trademark plaid scarf wrapped around his waist.
During a holiday break in filming, makeup artist Gregory Nicotero used the realistic and gruesome model of his own head (as seen in a laboratory scene in the film) to play a practical joke on his mother.
Joseph Pilato (Rhodes) line "Choke on them" as he's being ripped apart by zombies was ad-libbed by the actor.
Trivia for
Day of the Dead (1985)
Real pig intestines were used for the scene where Rhodes gets ripped apart in the hallway. Unfortunately, someone had left the guts out of the freezer over the weekend, and after the scene was shot the cast and crew ran away gagging.
The book Dr. Logan gives to Bub is Stephen King's "Salem's Lot."
George A. Romero had originally planned for all the zombies to perish in a massive explosion when they stumbled across explosive chemicals in the laboratory. Meanwhile, one of the crew members who had died during the attack was to have stayed dead and not come back as a zombie, thereby giving hope to the survivors.
The original script, for which George A. Romero couldn't get budget for, involved the scientists living over-ground in a fortress protected by electrified fences and the military living safely underground. It also involved a small army of trained zombies, and the conclusion to the trilogy more brutal than the current version.
All the extras who portrayed zombies in the climax received for their services: a cap that said "I Played A Zombie In 'Day of the Dead'", a copy of the newspaper from the beginning of the film (the one that says THE DEAD WALK!), and one dollar.
The first scene (abandoned city) of the movie was filmed in Fort Myers and Sanibel Island, Florida.
The budget for George A. Romero's original script was estimated at $7 million, but he would only be given the money if he could film an R-rated film. He was told that if he went ahead and shot an unrated film with no limits on gore, the budget would be split in half to $3.5 million.
In the opening dream sequence, in which zombie hands burst through a wall to grab Sarah, one of the hands touches her breast. This zombie arm was actress Lori Cardille's husband.
The lowest grossing film in George A. Romero's "Dead" trilogy. Nonetheless, it's gained a cult following over the last two decades, and the director himself has stated that he considers it his best film.
The underground facility was not on a soundstage. It was shot in the Wampum mine, a former limestone mine near Pittsburgh, that was being used for a underground storage facility. The 2,500,000 square foot mine is now operated as the Gateway Commerce Center who now called it a "subsurface storage facility".
The only movie in George A. Romero's "Dead" series where a zombie has a line of dialog (Bub says, "Hello Aunt Alicia.").
In the scene change right after Logan tells the zombie that it needs to sit in the dark and think about what it did, and punishes it by turning off the light, a little bit of the "Zombie March" music from Dawn of the Dead (1978) can be heard in the scene change.
In the cafeteria scene, William McDermott (Jarlath Conroy) says that "All of the shopping malls are closed." This is a clear reference to the film's predecessor Dawn of the Dead (1978), which is set in a shopping mall.
There is a debatable scene in the film where Bub the zombie may or may not have another line of dialogue. When Sarah enters Logan's lab, she is startled when Bub emerges from the shadows behind her. After this, he moans something that some fans believe is, "I'm sorry."
Most of the zombie extras in this film were Pittsburg residents who volunteered to help in the film.
The word "zombie" is never used.
During the scene of Miguel's sedation, Lori Cardille told Anthony Dileo Jr. to actually slap her to make it look more authentic.
Cameo: ['George A. Romero' ] As a zombie pushing a cart in the foreground during the final zombie feast, seen from the waist down and identified by his trademark plaid scarf wrapped around his waist.
During a holiday break in filming, makeup artist Gregory Nicotero used the realistic and gruesome model of his own head (as seen in a laboratory scene in the film) to play a practical joke on his mother.
Joseph Pilato (Rhodes) line "Choke on them" as he's being ripped apart by zombies was ad-libbed by the actor.
bouncer_the_dog said:
i think there's a bit of a tribute to day of the dead at the end of resident evil. i seem to remember when mila whatsherface gets back out of the laboratory and onto the street at the end of the film there's a copy of 'the dead walk' paper fluttering around.
couple of saddo continuity things to watch out for in day. in the mass zombie attack scene one of their hats nearly falls off and the actor puts his hand up to straighten it. also in the cave scene u see a zombie's head lying on the ground. a few minutes later another actor passes by the same area and the head has disappeared.
saw day last year for the first time since it originally came out. think it's one of those films that has got better with age. people who only saw it in 85 and remember it as nothing more than a gorefest may be pleasantly surprised.
akirajoel said:Day of the Dead is a lot better the second time around...
15th time round for me - probably - for a while it was the only one I had on tape, so if I was in the mood for a zombie-fest and the video shop was closed, then I watched "Day".
Amazingly, even though I have it on tape, I still stayed up and watched it the other night. It's addictive.
It's a bit shit the way the 'heros' don't really do anything at the end... they just climb a ladder and escape.... but still, that bit when the one-armed crazy guy gets on the big lift and goes down is well cool.
Was reading stuff about how in the original draft there was gonna be a massive war between two different types of zombies. Sounds pretty neat. If only they gave him more money. And better actors. With better accents.
Gonna go out and buy the Dawn of the Dead remake... best zombie film I reckon. Best start and ending anyway...
Was reading stuff about how in the original draft there was gonna be a massive war between two different types of zombies. Sounds pretty neat. If only they gave him more money. And better actors. With better accents.
Gonna go out and buy the Dawn of the Dead remake... best zombie film I reckon. Best start and ending anyway...
bouncer_the_dog
Well-Known Member
I went to see it twice! I may have to go and see land again as well... The DVD has a really gung ho american survivalist 'how to shoot zombies' extra 
Major Tom said:
definitely return of the living dead (1985). the one with the two bumbling employees who set off the gas at the medical supply film that knocks them out and brings the dead back to life. when they wake up they hear the dog barking, turn it over and then see it's been cut in half and mounted on a display plinth type thing. think they give it a beating with a baseball bat then
Termite Man
zombie flesh eater
bouncer_the_dog said:
Fast zombies are shite . The whole point of zombies is the slow moving mass , which appear pretty crap and inescapable but the relentless onslaught will eventually get you !
bouncer_the_dog
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Fast or slow a zombie is a zombie. As long as its a re-animated corpse driven to feed on the flesh of the living. Fast or slow, they are still . I liked the fact the 28 days later deliberatley attempted (and suceeded IMO) to change the genre. Infected, fast, in the uk, a taxi rather than a tank, nasty soldier = changing genre. It would seem that Romero backs playing with the genre too. So fast zombies work for me, they are a little extra scary. If you want to get extra Nerdy I think that the remake of Resident EVil on the gamecube had a good idea. If you took a zombie down and didnt burn the corpe it would come back AGAIN as a double hard super fast zombie. This led to a whole thing of trying to work out the best order to burn the corpses in given limited lighter fuel. Which , in game terms, is too!. Dont get me wrong, I like slow zombies, but I ALSO like the fast ones toO! (more of a challenge to wip out the shotgun and decorate the wall with their undead brains).
. I liked the fact the 28 days later deliberatley attempted (and suceeded IMO) to change the genre. Infected, fast, in the uk, a taxi rather than a tank, nasty soldier = changing genre. It would seem that Romero backs playing with the genre too. So fast zombies work for me, they are a little extra scary. If you want to get extra Nerdy I think that the remake of Resident EVil on the gamecube had a good idea. If you took a zombie down and didnt burn the corpe it would come back AGAIN as a double hard super fast zombie. This led to a whole thing of trying to work out the best order to burn the corpses in given limited lighter fuel. Which , in game terms, is too!. Dont get me wrong, I like slow zombies, but I ALSO like the fast ones toO! (more of a challenge to wip out the shotgun and decorate the wall with their undead brains).Similar threads
