"listen to this"! ). The effects, again done by Tom Savini are simply amazing, with faces being torn apart, heads flying off, and intestines spilling everywhere-every single death scene is a masterpiece of gore. Although many horror fans do not like this, it portrays a horrifying situation like no other movie. Perhaps not even the most hardened fan can bear the grimness of what is happening, subconscious fears making them hate it???
Finally a decent DVD version of Day Of The Dead is released- the first disc is a crisp cut of the film in all it's bloody glory. The second disc has good extras- a solid documentary, and a behind the scenes feature, as well as the usual trailers, filmographies. If you don't have the Trilogy of the Dead box set, this is a must.
FANTASTIC SPECIAL EDITION OF A FANTASTIV CLASSIC !! !! !! !! !!.......2006-04-23
George A Romero's zombie films are probably the most famous of all the zombie flics and are for good reasons. Day of the dead is the third in Georges line-up and now there is this amazing 2-disc special edition version.
The first thing you notice is that the sleev for the dvd is very cool and catches your eye immedietly with the bold 'day of the dead' title.
The first disc includes the film (obviously) and the other usual additions that you will find on every other dvd really. The second disc has all the extras on and these include filmographies for george romero and tom savini, behind the scenes, a new documentary called ' the many days of the dead' (wich is just over half an hour long), trailers, photo galleries and some more i think.
The film itself is a masterpiece and has some of the best blood/gore special effects i have ever seen on a film before!!!! The infamous scene where a man is ripped in two looks almost what you would expect to be real!
The story goes on the simple lines of a group of solders and a couple of other people, including a scientist, who are trying to survive in an underground bunker. Meanwhile the scientist is experimenting on zombies and learning lots, he is also training a zombie to do things and has desensatised him to attacking humans! Although the soldiers dont agree with his experiments and kill him. After that things go to hell and the zombies break into the bunker, killing the soldiers in their usual manner. The survivors of this event must find their way out of the bunker and safely flee the site.
Dont be expecting any award winning acting though, as this doesnt have it. But to be honest, this is a zombie film, and does a zombie films need great acting....NO. If anything the aweful acting has a good effect on the film. There is lots of annoying shouting and swearing in this too, which does get on your nerves, but that makes it all the better when you see the annoying soldiers get eaten alive!
Over all, this is a must see for the zombie films fan, and if you have aleready seen it: Buy this edition of the film immedietly. Anfd if your havent aleready seen it, buy this dvd anyway, its worth what you pay.
Enjoy
The Day Never Looked so Good!.......2006-04-01
The moment this DVD was released I could not help buying it... mainly because I'm a sucker for the two words Special Edition (and Extended Edition). The quality is good and the sound is nice and clear, the only draw back is the annoyingly cheap music.
Day of the Dead is far darker, gritty and claustrophobic than Romero's previous comic-book-style Dawn of the Dead and Night of the Living Dead. The heavy amount of swearing (some, I have noticed, has been dubbed over) just makes the scenes more real and more intense. The effects are the best I've seen (the tearing flesh effect is gross and a little too real at times) and the characters are very three dimensional, even the villain of the picture (played, with great malice, by Joe Pilato) is cruel and unpredictable. The highlight of the film has to be the zombie, Bub. He is sweet and probably my favourite zombie of the whole quadrilogy (ever really felt for a rotting flesh eater, you will with him).
As for the bonus disc, the extra features are good and the 37 minute documentary gives great insight into the feature, especially Howard Sherman (Bub) revealing how he went about playing his role. But I still feel it could have gone a bit deeper into the making - I wanted to know all about the effects from the jawless zombie you see in the beginning of the film. Although Day (after a few viewings) has now become my second favourite and has an epic opening scene in a (un)dead city, I still can't shake the feeling that it could have been much more. But don't let that dissuade you from getting it. Day of the Dead is a real treat for your blood lust and need for Romero zombie movie.
Day of the Dead is great, BUT...............2006-03-28
On the new U.K. double-disk Special Edition of "DAY OF THE DEAD" (which is the best of Romero's 4 zombie flicks, IMO), in the filmography section for George Romero, they've got the terrible "Contagium"! This upset me as a huge fan of Romero's and I'm sure if he knew about this he would be heartbroken.
And the worst thing about this? They put "Contagium" in his filmography and NOT Creepshow (my all time fav. movie). Grrrr.....
Other than that, the new UK edition of Day is decent, and the picture is top-quality (best I've seen).
The picture is very clean, hardly any grain at all. The audio is also improved.
Extras:
Feature-length Audio Commentary with Special Effects Team: Greg Nicotero, Howard Berger, Everett Burrell & Mike Deak. (EXCLUSIVE TO THIS UK EDITION)
"THE MANY DAYS OF THE DEAD" - Brand New Documentary [39 mins]
"DAY OF THE DEAD - BEHIND THE SCENES" - Behind-the-scenes footage.
FILMOGRAPHIES FOR ROMERO AND SAVINI
PHOTO/PUBLICITY GALLERIES
TRAILERS - NIGHT, DAWN & DAY.
I recommend it if you're a fan of the film. Hope this helps!
Customer Reviews:
One Of The Best.......2004-11-02
Along with Dawn of the dead i think this is one of the best zombie movies around. The movies still portray zombies as slow idiots who walk around making aimless noises which i believe is the best thing anyway. In the movie "Day of the Dead" the zombies are quite scary but still quite slow although they do kind of have a bit of thinking brain left, whereas in "Dawn of the Dead" the zombies are very slow and very weak and get tricked easily (its a classic) If you like shopping malls and gore then "Day of the Dead" and "Dawn of the Dead" are the films for you, great price for great classic zombie films
UK DVD:
- Dead Silence [2007]
- Doctor Who - Robot [1974] [1963]
- Don't Look Now - Special Edition [1973]
- Dreamcatcher [2003]
- Final Destination 1 - 3 Box Set [2000]
- Final Destination 1 - 3 Box Set [2000]
- Final Destination 2 [2003]
- Final Destination 3 [2006]
- Flight Of The Living Dead [2006]
- Friday The 13th [1980]
UK DVD List
UK DVD
![Day Of The Dead [1985]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/316JZ4W5K9L.jpg)
All Horror
|
Horror
|
Categories
|
DVD
|
Video
![Dawn Of The Dead [1978] [1979]](http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B0002WYROQ.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg)
Dawn Of The Dead [1978] [1979]
![Night Of The Living Dead (Special Edition) (Two Discs) (DVD) [1968]](http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B0009YVCV8.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg)
Night Of The Living Dead (Special Edition) (Two Discs) (DVD) [1968]
Land of the Dead (2005)
Night of the Living Dead (1990)
![Night Of The Living Dead [1968]](http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B0000649KM.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg)
Night Of The Living Dead [1968]
![Day Of The Dead [1985]](http://www.bill88.com/buy.gif)
![Day of the Dead [1985] (REGION 1) (NTSC)](http://www.germanelectronics88.com/noimage.gif)
