George A. Romero’s Day of the Dead poster
In July of 1985 George A. Romero released Day of the Dead. Romero describes the movie as, “tragedy about how a lack of human communication causes chaos and collapse even in this small little pie slice of society.” The film is about an underground bunker (like you see in the movies) inhabited by military and scientist when the world is inhabited by zombies. The film stars Lorie Cardille, Terry Alexander, Joseph Pilato and Sherman Howard as Bub.
It was Romero’s intention to make a big budget epic zombie movie but his budget was cut from 7 million to 3.5 million after arguing the need to release it unrated. Mr. Romero was forced to rewrite and scale back to fit the budget. Day of the Dead was filmed in Florida and Pennsylvania. One interesting thing I read was that zombie extras were paid $1 and given hats that said, “I was a Zombie in Day of the Dead.” Another interesting fact is that Greg Nicotero played Private Johnson in the film. He was also Tom Savini’s assistant.
Bub in Day of the Dead
Hey look it’s Tom Savini and Greg Nicotero
More Savini…talks about Dr. Tongue.
Here is a Bub clip.
Here’s some of Day of the Dead.
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