3/4  Day of the Dead Quick Review
Though not totally up to par with it's predecessors, it's a solid horror outing that far exceeds the majority of today's efforts.

3/4  Day of the Dead Quick Review
Not quite up to the standard of Romero's first two dead films, Day of the Dead still has enough punch to make it interesting. This time Romero takes on the military-industrial complex as soldiers and scientists square off.

3/5 Annoying Characters
  by Peter A. Schade
I really do love most Zombie movies, really. What made Day less than appealing was the horrible, horrible characters. There were the good guys and the bad guys, and the bad guys were so excruciatingly annoying that I could hardly watch when they disgraced the screen. Bad-acting, overacting, underacting...jheesh. These characters are downright annoying to watch - so much so that this is one of the few Zombie movies that I am reluctant to watch twice. One dose of those baddies left such a dead taste in my mouth, I dare not tread again. I just couldnt wait til they were dead so I wouldnt have to hear their incessant yelling at ev-er-y-thing EVERYTHING!. Ugh! And the deadening did not come nearly soon enough. I wanted to puch each and every character in the friggin FACE! (and I'm a pacificst, by golly!)

Good Zombies. Bad bad people.

1/5 Day Of the Dead.
  by Jose Lopez (Miami,Florida USA)
Plain and simple Shock movie, nothing about Horror in it,Zombies,Sensationalism, body parts,eating people . How's this intelligent? or even tasteful, it's good to watch if nothing is on at all.

5/5 Cheesy, but awesome...
  by Denvas (Henderson, NV United States)
Liked the retraining of a zombie...
Has lots of potential for zombie movies - even though this idea's never been taken further.

Special effects are awesomely nasty!

I LOVE Zombie movies, and this one is without a doubt a classic.

I've bought all the originals and the remakes, except for this one.
I heard the remake of this one is just dumb - so I'm not bothering.

Definitely recommend if you're a fan of the genre.

5/5 Underrated and Completely Stepped on, but to me a Classic.
  by JT (Odessa)
Day of the Dead is probably considered by most the worst of all the Romero films prior to Land of the Dead and Diary of the Dead, as it fell incredibly short of it's epic potential. Rumored to be the "Gone with The Wind" of all zombie films, Day of the Dead was to be a grandiose dream that will never be due to budget constraints and an "R" rating, which would have broken the unrated zombie film tradition of his soon-to-be triology.

Despite it's shortcomings, Day of the Dead is far more unique than it's predecessor's "Night of the Living Dead" and the original "Dawn of the Dead". Featuring the realistic special effects of Tom Savini and a Calypso-laden soundtrack which harkens back to the Haitian Days of the zombie ancestory, Day of the Dead dares to stand alone from the pack.

The story revolves around a scientific team hidden away during the zombie outbreak to find a cure sometime during the events of Dawn of the Dead. Isolated from any major populous (an all-you-can-eat buffet for zombies), the team struggles in claustrophobic confines to answer the major question: Why won't the Dead stay dead?

The story opens after the world above has gone quiet and the human-to-zombie ratio is far outnumbering the folks lost in this neck of the woods. The government no longer exists and any hope of finding a living soul in a zombie polluted world dwindles by the day. Hidden in an underground bunker, everyday is a fight for survival as ignorance, paranoia and despondence infect the survivors despite the looming zombie threat above. What begins is the biggest question, who really is the enemy, the zombies or us?

When I first popped this video into my VCR a little over a decade ago, I was stunned by how well it looked. The zombies rotting under a hot Florida sun and the humans duking it out an isolated cave, coupled with Tom's best effects yet made it all the more worth while. Granted it's chatty and sometimes over the top, but the zombies make their move, you know all hell's about to break loose. What I found to be most disturbing was the decaptitations throughout the film, which were the best of Tom's gags. Lol. Gags, *gags*. Get it? Ok. I'm being cheesy....mmmm cheddar.

Cofounder of KNB effects, Greg Nicotero (the "N"), loses his head at the opportunity to be Tom's Protege and 20 years later on Land be his makeup artist. Quite literally, you can see it later in the film. In all it's quite a deeply disturbing and thought provoking film that will grow on you the more times you watch it. Nowadays, people expect the zombies to be munching on people, but that's not what Romero films are all about. If you're really looking to get into metaphors for how down and out the eighties were, this is the film. In all, it's still my favorite film but as to an exact reason, I can't really tell what draws me back again and again. Maybe it's Bub, or Dr. Logan who can talk circles around Capt. Rhodes, who hands down is the most hated (expletive deleted) in my book, better than Robert De Niro's character in Cape Fear in that he attacked you more psychologically than physically.

Even after some twenty-plus odd years since it's release, Day of the Dead's strange mystique continues to pull quite a following despite it's intent naysayers. All I know is that's it's got a special place in my movie library and my crumbly zombie heart.

Cheers.

4/5 Day of the Dead
  by W. Kuschke (Buda, TX)
I'm not a huge horror movie buff, but I always did like this movie due to the Zombie character on the front cover. Most zombie movies just have lots of people getting eaten by undead, but this one features an interesting zombie who is being 'trained' to try and make it human again. The movie has an array of interesting characters, and a bad guy you really learn to hate. Excellent special effects for its time, especially with the gore.