Day of the Dead

Whoa! 25 years since this came out, it was a favourite between me and my mates back then....
`Day of the Dead` is the third film in George A. Romero`s chilling zombie series. Following on from Dawn of the Dead, Romero excelled his budget to make this for a whopping $3.5 million. 
In a world being rapidly taken over by flesh-eating zombies, a group of survivors are holding out in an vast underground complex...

The survivors consist of some particularly anti-social soldiers, a helicopter pilot and a team of civilian scientists. The scientists, led by Dr. Fisher have been studying the zombies, having corralled some in the mines. Eccentric Fisher, who I thought was played really well in the movie, has been holding some grisly experiments with his star-pupil-zombie, Bub.
Soldiers and civilians, nerves shredded and tense, are at each other`s throats. Captain Rhodes shouts and glares throughout the entire movie...
Day of the Dead, like Romero`s other zombie movies, does well to keep you watching, despite the occasional poor acting. That eerie synth-music and the claustrophobic atmosphere works well - in Dawn the survivors were in a shopping mall, in this - it`s an underground bunker. There`s a couple of good `jump` moments, weird dream sequences. The zombies are looking grislier than the ones in Dawn, now they`ve had time to nicely rot a little and, like alot of mid `80s horrors - it`s particularly gory. The final bunker scenes are especially stomach-churning...
But then...what`dya expect?
Not a bad Romero outing. If you`re a zombie-nut, this should be on your wish-list - and don`t confuse it with that bloody awful `remake` of the same name,in 2008...