Living Dead Collection

Lori Cardille

Terry Alexander

Joseph Pilato

Jarlath Conroy

Anthony DiLeo Jr.

Richard Liberty

Sherman Howard

Gary Klar

Ralph Marrero

John Amplas

Phillip G. Kellams

Taso N. Stavrakis

Greg Nicotero

Don Brockett

William Cameron

Deborah Carter

Winnie Flynn

Debra Gordon

Jeff Hogan

Barbara Holmes

David Kindlon

Bruce Kirkpatrick

'Wild Bill' Laczko

Susan Martinelli

Kim Maxwell

Barbara Russell

Gene A. Saraceni

John D. Schwartz

Mark Tierno

Mike Trcic

John Vulich

Terry Adams

Howard Berger

Joe Abeln

Tom Ardolino

Al Anderson

Everett Burrell

Vini Bancalari

Gary A. Jones

Michael Deak

George A. Romero

Geoff Burkman

Tom Savini

Peter Iasillo Jr.

Al Magliochetti

Gabriel Bartalos

Peter Keefer

Richard P. Rubinstein

John Harrison

Michael Gornick

Pasquale Buba

Salah M. Hassanein

Christine Forrest

Horror

Drama

Mystery

Day of the Dead

Laurel Entertainment

United Film Distribution Company (UFDC)

United States of America

CinemaSerf

We learn pretty quickly that the world has been zombified and that scientist "Sarah" (Lori Cardille) might be part of the last dozen or so people left in the world who still prefer their food cooked! They use an helicopter to get about the place then take refuge deep underground in a military bunker run by the slightly maniacal "Rhodes" (Joseph Pilato). It's fair to say that there's quite a degree of tension amongst these survivors. The military element is asserting itself over the folks who are trying to find a cause for and solution to the plague on the surface. Things come to an head with "Prof Logan" (Richard Liberty) takes his experiments trying to re-humanise these creatures just one step too far for the heavily armed soldiers, and a deadly split occurs that could spell doom for everyone! Now the acting here is pretty terrible, and the writing does little to help with that but George Romero does well to create an increasing sense of claustrophobic menace as tempers fray and the human beings factionalise into groups more dangerous to each other than their topside terrors. It's the last half hour than enlivens this, though, as the civilian conclude that they need to get airborne and head for a quiet Caribbean beach. The plot is a little more sophisticated, there is the semblance of science here, but essentially it's all about hordes of marauding corpses - I'm sure I saw a tutu-clad ballet dancer amongst them - bent of a bit of gobbling. Even when the odds are stacked against people, they can still find reasons not to trust each other!