I'm intending to review some of the better films on the telly over Christmas, and I thought I'd begin with perhaps one of the more festive family films on offer over Christmas week - George A. Romero's blood-spattered horror classic, 'Day of the Dead', winner of the George Lazenby Award for best Decapitation Sequence in cinema history. This is on Channel 4, Saturday 22nd December at 1.15am (if you're being picky, this is actually very early Sunday morning). This really isn't an acessible film, it's for people with very strong stomachs who have seen both previous movies. In a stroke of scheduling genius, the first of the three Dead films is  Read the complete review

This is a decent film in it's own right & stands up well against the other Romero films too. It's quite good start to the film with the fake scare before the opening credits have even rolled & a group of civilians with 1 soldier looking for survivors in what seems to be a ghost town but is full of the living dead. With the return back to the compound you see the civilians are in the minority in an underground military bunker where research is being done on the undead by a crazed scientist called Logan. There is definitely a big divide between the military & the civilians & quite a lot of animosity and frayed nerves of those living on the ...  Read the complete review

Introduction --------------- In 1985, George A Romero followed up his seminal zombie films Night of the Living Dead (1968) and Dawn of the Dead (1978) with Day of the Dead. The zombies are winning the battle and the cities have been abandoned, with survivors left to fend for themselves. This film concentrates on a small band of scientists and soldiers holed up in an underground bunker, trying to find a cure for the zombie curse. The Characters ------------------ Unlike previous Romero films, which concentrated on just a few characters (both Night and Dawn had just 4 key characters), Day introduces us to a group of 12. This marks a departure ...  Read the complete review

Just as the horror genre had degenerated into a series of crappy slasher ripoffs, and his own career had dwindled to the twin plodding misfires of 'Knightriders' and 'Creepshow', George A. Romero returned to the story of the developing zombie holocaust with 'Day of the Dead', a sickening and brilliant study of the aftermath of social collapse, and a demonstration of what real horror looks like. From an absolutely stunning opening sequence on the zombie-filled streets (an abandoned newspaper, caught in the wind, screams 'THE DEAD WALK'), the action retreats to an underground military bunker where the survivors of humanity are ...  Read the complete review

As the saying goes all good thing must come to end and that is exactly what happens in Day of the Dead, George A. Romero’s truly sublime Dead trilogy closes it’s doors. Set around two years after the events of Dawn of the Day, the whole world is affected by the disease and most of the world’s population are now zombies with only a small piece of humanity remaining. This film is very different to the last two, zombie attacks are kept to a minimum, only really happening in the last half and hour, most of the film is character driven and full of dialogue, dissecting the human response of what would occur if they were actually put in this situation. Gone is  Read the complete review