Day of the Dead
1985 Dir. George Romero In the wake of the zombie apocalypse, only small pockets of humans survive. A small group of scientists and soldiers are holed up in an underground missile silo. As the scientists experiment on forcibly captured zombie specimens to try and find a way to control them, the soldiers become increasingly impatient with the lack of results and are eager to wage an all-out war on the undead. Soon, the tension between the two camps erupts into a violent situation that is only overshadowed by the vicious zombie slaughter that surrounds them. When George Romero wrote the original treatment for Day of the Dead , he intended it to be on a much grander scale, a ‘Raiders of the Living Dead’, if you will. Or as Romero once described it – ‘the Gone with the Wind of zombie movies’. Allegedly he and Dario Argento had planned to team up again to helm the project, however the funding from European investors fell through and Argento regrettably had to pull out of the project,...