Day of the Dead (also known as George A. Romero's Day of the Dead) is a 1985 horror film by director George A. Romero, the third of Romero's Living Dead movies. It is preceded by Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead. Steve Miner directed a remake which was released on February 15, 2008. Director George A. Romero describes the film as a "tragedy about how a lack of human communication causes chaos and collapse even in this small little pi...
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Day of the Dead (also known as George A. Romero's Day of the Dead) is a 1985 horror film by director George A. Romero, the third of Romero's Living Dead movies. It is preceded by Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead. Steve Miner directed a remake which was released on February 15, 2008. Director George A. Romero describes the film as a "tragedy about how a lack of human communication causes chaos and collapse even in this small little pie slice of society".
Taking place some time after the events of Dawn of the Dead, the film opens with a woman named Sarah sitting in an empty room, staring across at a calendar mounted on the opposite wall. As she gets up and touches the calendar, hundreds of decomposing hands break through the wall and grab at her. Sarah then awakens inside a helicopter, realizing it was just a bad dream. She and her other companions—John, Bill and Miguel—land their helicopter in the deserted streets of Fort Myers, Florida and begin searching for other...
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