{"id":9138,"date":"2010-03-16T15:50:09","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T15:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=9138"},"modified":"2012-07-06T00:00:41","modified_gmt":"2012-07-05T23:00:41","slug":"blu-ray-review-day-of-the-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/reviews\/blu-ray-review-day-of-the-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Blu-ray review: Day Of The Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Day_Of_The_Dead_8_dead.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9140\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"Day_Of_The_Dead_8_dead\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Day_Of_The_Dead_8_dead-1024x691.jpg\" alt=\"Day_Of_The_Dead_8_dead\" width=\"500\" height=\"337\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"large_4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/large_3.gif\" alt=\"large_4\" width=\"144\" height=\"27\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Romero\u2019s Dead trilogy was always marked with social commentary, itself commented on much by the media<\/strong>. Night Of The Living Dead glanced on race relations in the United States, Dawn Of The Dead was a send-up of American materialism, and the final act, Day Of The Dead, was a thinly-veiled comment on the military mindset, not unlike Romero\u2019s previous film, The Crazies.<\/p>\n<p>In the third part of the story, the dead have overwhelmed civilisation and outnumber human survivors by a factor of several hundred thousand to one. A group of scientists and soldiers have holed up in a bunker where they attempt to survive the apocalypse, experimenting on zombies with one notable success in a quasi-intelligent specimen named Bub.<\/p>\n<p>The concept behind Day Of The Dead is its strongest aspect, as well as the infamous opening sequence where the female lead is grabbed by arms that burst through the wall behind her. The rest of the film, while decent enough, fails to retain the presence that these aspects deliver. The performances are woefully laughable, to the point of almost being satirical in themselves, while the production value isn\u2019t exactly something to write home about. A clear exception, of course, is the makeup work of Tom Savini, which remains at an incredibly high standard throughout the film\u2019s 97-minute runtime.<\/p>\n<p>The film is harrowing at points, with the smart zombie Bub\u2019s reaction to Ode To Joy being one of those moments, as well as the underground sequences. Romero\u2019s zombies, arguably, are still the most effective by virtue of their unstoppable nature. However, the social commentary is patchy, and while the nature of the film as more of a character study is laudable, when taken in context with the other two films in the series, it\u2019s slightly disjointed. It\u2019s easy to see why it\u2019s divided fans, but equally, it\u2019s easy to see why it\u2019s Romero\u2019s favourite out of the three. For us, it\u2019s a fun zombie film with a few iconic sequences, a small amount of post-Vietnam angst and some fantastic prosthetic work, but not much more.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Day Of The Dead is high-concept, but budget execution, to its tremendous detriment. Still, it\u2019s a worthy entry in the series.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Day_Of_The_Dead_Day_exploded_rgb.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-9139 alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 10px;\" title=\"Day_Of_The_Dead_Day_exploded_rgb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Day_Of_The_Dead_Day_exploded_rgb-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Day_Of_The_Dead_Day_exploded_rgb\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a><strong>Day Of The Dead<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Director:<\/strong> George A Romero<br \/>\n<strong>Starring<\/strong>: Joe Pilato, Lori Cardille, Richard Alexander<br \/>\n<strong>Certificate<\/strong>: 18<br \/>\n<strong>Price<\/strong>: \u00a324.99<br \/>\n<strong>Released<\/strong>: 29 March 2010<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every (undead) dog has its day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2617,8],"tags":[1360,1144,59],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}