George A Romero’s “Day of the Dead” is a decent zombie but
is my least favorite of his original trilogy. I have to admit that I enjoy the
loose remake more than this version; this film is relatively slow and doesn’t
have much action until the end of the third act. This movie has two main
storylines, the first dealing with the growing tension between the civilian scientific
team working in the makeshift research bunker and the other one dealing with the
insane Dr. Logan and the zombie Bub who he is training to be human again. Tom
Savini does another fine job with his make-up and special effects for the
zombie genre, especially when the movie gets to the point where the victims are
torn asunder by the zombie horde.
Dr. Sarah Bowman is the main character in this film that
takes place a good deal of time after “Dawn of the Dead”. She is the voice of
reason and one of the few people who are not succumbing to the stress of the
situation although she is beginning to have dreadful nightmares. When she comes
back from a recent deployment looking for survivors and supplies, she learns
that the military CO has been killed has been replaced by the tyrannical Captain
Rhodes. All he cares about is his men, who he treats more like possessions than
as people, and is sick and tired of the antics of Dr. Logan. Captain Rhodes
doesn’t think the scientists are doing anything productive and is threating to
shut the operation down and take the helicopter and its pilot and leave. Dr.
Logan has been busy at work but not with finding the cause or a cure, instead
he has been feeding his zombie pets the dead soldiers and training them to
behave as if they were alive. Eventually one of the soldiers is bit which sets
of a chain reaction of events that causes the zombies to get what they want,
fresh meat. Sarah and the two helicopter pilots, Bill and John, manage to
escape and live to see another day.
Captain Rhodes is having a very bad day.
Dr. Logan and his test subject, Zombie Bub.
Sarah having a nightmare.
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