Day of the Dead (1985) 40th Anniversary
- Tue, Jul 1
- Wed, Jul 2
Director: George A. Romero Run Time: 101 min. Rating: NR Release Year: 1985
Starring: Anthony DiLeo Jr., Jarlath Conroy, Joseph Pilato, Lori Cardille, Terry Alexander
Country: United States
Language: English
About the film:
“★★★★★. It’s an intelligent, well-written, excellently played movie, with top flight gore/horror effects, perverse humor and a provocatively bleak vision..”
—Kim Newman, Empire Magazine
Trapped in a missile silo, a small team of scientists, civilians and trigger-happy soldiers battle desperately to ensure the survival of the human race, but tension inside the base is reaching breaking-point, and the zombies are gathering outside.
About the filmmaker:
A pioneer of zombie horror, George A. Romero helmed the “Living Dead” films, including his groundbreaking debut feature Night of the Living Dead (1968), Dawn of the Dead (1978), and Survival of the Dead (2009), which screened at Toronto and competed for the top prize at Berlin. His other projects include The Crazies (1973), Knightriders (1981), Creepshow (1982), Monkey Shines (1988), Two Evil Eyes (1990) with Dario Argento, and his long lost unreleased 1973 film The Amusement Park, which screened at the Film Center in 2019. Celebrating his legacy, Romero’s wife founded the George A. Romero Foundation in 2018 to continue championing independent horror filmmaking and preserving and documenting the genre’s history.
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